degrix

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

No mention of the multiple award winning Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? This list is a farce!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just commenting to say I thoroughly enjoy your choice of username. Loved that little joke.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was assuming social security could share that information since now there’s a new taxable citizen. The IRS could easily prepare tax amounts assuming married filing jointly, married filing separately, and single. You would just choose one. And like it currently is, if both people attempt to claim dependency, someone gets slapped with a fine.

Tax law is absolutely complicated, and I definitely won’t deny that, but the IRS can make things easier and could do the basic filings.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

In all but the most niche cases, they do in fact know that you had a kid. That being said, most things they have a pretty good idea about (or could) and they could easily adopt the system that they do in a lot of other countries where the government sends to a tax form all filled out that says, “we think you owe this much.” Then you just provide the exemptions you listed.
This would save a considerable amount of time when I file my taxes by just being able to double check they got cost basis correct on stocks sold and applied appropriate credits for mortgage interest and what not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I remember printing out the Gentoo installation manual in the compsci lab way back in 2004. It was my first Linux distro and have fond memories of tinkering around on it. I remember leaving it a few years later for a cool new distro that was on the rise called Ubuntu. I still think portage is one of the better approaches to package management though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I think it’s a very difficult choice to navigate. The biggest example of brown/blackface where it doesn’t work I can remember is Fisher Stevens playing an Indian guy in Short Circuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Circuit_(1986_film). In that movie, he’s playing an Indian person as a stereotype to juxtapose with how white counterpart. Contrast that to Robert Downey Jr. being nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA for his blackface roll in Tropic Thunder. The way it was handled within the movie itself was legitimately a good representation of why blackface is usually on the wrong side of “is it racist?”

I think just based on the little I’ve seen without any other translation besides your edit, it looks fairly racist.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They’re a stubborn breed to train and have a generally high flight instinct so they love to run out the door without the leash.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can see the people’s republic of Boulder from my house

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lately, I’ve seen it for controller detection on PC games. Larian games like Baldur’s Gate 3 at least use it to change how they render the “Main” menu. I mean, the “Main” menu also changes if I plug in a controller so maybe it’s just an aesthetic thing held over from older video games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This game is everything I wanted Divinity Original Sin 2 to be. I’m so happy that Larian knocked it out of the park with this one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

These plaintiffs would be better off sueing the companies of these websites for ignoring privacy laws and continuing to add tracking scripts to their sites.

That’s precisely what these people are doing. They’re not suing Google because Chrome doesn’t prevent these sites from building profiles and tracking users even while in Incognito Mode, but because Google themselves are engaging in such privacy invasive tactics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We’ve been getting pelted hard in the states. Just had one hammer a town to the south before it was hit by a tornado.

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