the project of trying to get economical access to tax software in order to do a trivial partnership tax return has been kind of wow nightmarish. turbotax business desktop would do it for $190, but i don’t have windows. online it’s $700+. taxact is economical online, but i’m unhappy with it. azure won’t let me spawn a windows cloud PC without affirming i have some kind of license. windows365 is $40.50 a month, and wants an annual commitment. parallels would be a $70 upgrade + Windows 11 $139. 1/
windows 365 has a one-month free trial, so I’ll do that for this year. but the overlap of two consolidated, crappy, markets — tax software, and MS’ restrictive Windows OS licensing in the cloud — has made this all stupidly expensive and hard.
partnership returns are new to me, so i have no examples, am afraid to just wing it despite very simple accounts. i suspect next year i will just end up filling out the IRS’ PDF forms, using this year as an example, and sending them in by mail. /fin
the wild year this has not, in fact, been.
A stylized cat with a bite taken out of it (Apple-logo-style) sits on a black-and-white clip-art style couch.
“Conservatives always descend from some sacred, impregnable prior truth. As Sheffield says: ‘The reasoning is about affirming the concept.’” @Rickperlstein https://prospect.org/politics/2024-09-11-zeal-of-the-convert-matthew-sheffield/
@realcaseyrollins yeah, wrinklier. but his facial expression looks a bit more sprightly today than in that older image!
@realcaseyrollins that’s who he is! i knew i kind of recognized that guy. but he looks really weird, his facial expression in this shot.
weird family photo. via https://x.com/calltoactivism/status/1833852880354267336
Photo from a 9/11 anniversary ceremony (screenshot of video) including Joe Biden & Kamala Harris, Donald Trump & JD Vance, Chuck Schumer, others.
you put it all together and it makes sense why he’s terrified about the immigrants. https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/113118632649708855
@kyozou 👍
he’s like a love child of howard hughes and henry ford.
@seachanger @inquiline@union.place at some level, i wonder if he doesn’t really think the peak of anybody’s aspirations would be to bathe in the light of his good graces and carry forward his extraordinary genes.
how does a person with that world view wield and exercise power?
@seachanger it is. and a completely unimaginable level of narcissism.
this person single-handedly controls space, communications, and defense infrastructure our nation increasingly relies upon. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1833728804579111268
Screenshot of Elon Musk tweet: “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life”
@laprice it’s aspiration under occupation.
“Students at New College are becoming more and more isolated by various actions of the administration, including…new rules that prevent ‘unauthorized’ gatherings of 5 or more students.” https://ncffreedom.org/%5B-%5D-blog/f/the-death-of-community-gathering-at-new-college
// can this be for real?
@djc it’s your 4 stars that are doing the hurting. uber taught us all that 4 stars is a failing grade.
@realcaseyrollins oh, yeah. i’m not talking about people who treat me disrespectfully. i’m talking about people doing the best they can, when clearly the systems they are working with don’t let them resolve the problem for you. so the overall experience with the company is horrible, but it’s not the agent’s fault.
@realcaseyrollins If they give me bad service because they’re doing their best but clearly have no power or resources to give me good service? Then yeah, five stars. I’m not interested in harming someone’s career to let a company know they are doing a shitty job.
I generally like to think of myself as an honest person, but I lie like crazy when presented with those “how did we do” forms after a customer service contact. I don’t blame the customer service person for the organization’s inability to address my problems, and I don’t want to harm them in their jobs. So the customer service was terrible, but everything’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ on the survey!
I clicked “Learn more”. So on-brand somehow. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-desktop/
A screenshot of Microsoft Azure marketing materials, “Explore pricing options”, “Pay as you go”, with a link, “Learn more”
Click the link and it’s “An error (500 Internal Server Error) has occurred in response to this request.”
“The international ideological aspects of the decisions taken by the US and the European Union are seldom taken into account by the domestic decision-makers because the thinking about the rest of the world and development does not loom large for the politicians who deal with China, Russia, national security and the like. But the ideological development problem will not go away.” #BrankoMilanovic https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-third-framing
@oscarjiminy often scared, often profane, but i won’t argue!