Chris Peel @chrisp has put together a really great history of US income tax schedules, including an animated graph of effective rates. https://github.com/chrisvwx/pub/blob/master/tax/README.md
there is only one homeland and we all share it.
the humans are a little better in person.
@Catvalente i had a friend endure it. she went to so much trouble for the privilege. but in the end it wasn't badass enough.
wreak and reek make an impressive homonym pair.
US DoJ: “As cryptocurrency markets continue to evolve, the Department will continue to root out fraud, support victims, and restore confidence to these markets.” https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-brothers-arrested-attacking-ethereum-blockchain-and-stealing-25m-cryptocurrency
so confidence in crypto markets is now a state-supported good?
this case is so weird because as i understand it was an attack on a protocol by which it’s become conventional for miners to front-run user transactions. more conventional rent extractors get protected, less conventional ones get prosecuted.
@Transportist the M&Ms do. definitely.
the ethos of the discourse has hardened; these days it’s “by any memes necessary”.
@Hyolobrika @Nerdfest @admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @fraying from what Zeus’ ear?
@fraying @Nerdfest i want entirely to agree. and perhaps i am letting myself just be fooled by the tails of a distribution. there is always some probability a rich and entirely talentless asshole gets three-times lucky in his vanity purchases and the people he hires to run them. still, i have to concede that it's unusual, whether due only a statistical artifact or more than that.
@curtosis it's a great mystery to me how despite all the predation in the world and the bursting balance sheets it yields, our most gargantuan masters manage to leave the most basic aspects of their most basic (therefore unsexy, undifferentiating i suppose) products egregiously flawed when rounding-error levels of investment could correct them.
@curtosis (i have a terabyte "free" since I pay for Office 365, and i had similar not-great issues with sync.com (path length restrictions that blocked the whole sync). so I quit sync.com. but i do kind of wonder if i'm an idiot to actually use OneDrive, given the level of attention to privacy and security consistent with barfing on question mark and quote chars.
@phillmv eventually it seems you ensure the two groups merge into one.
billionairehood is a kind of diseducation. it slowly turns grown, intelligent, capable people into toddlers. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html ht @fraying @Nerdfest
@Alonely0 @inthehands i suggest a compromise:
--> '.'
i find it rather pathetically amateurish that sync services offered by trillion dollar companies are unable to sync files that are legal on my filesystem because their name contains an arbitrarily forbidden punctuation mark. #OneDrive
i still don’t understand.
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@inthehands i didn’t want to be pedantic.