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by chowchowchow 4d ago
You could say all chaotic alignments are misalignments, but not all misalignments are chaotic.
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by chowchowchow 8mo ago
> Those who disrespect my countries law do not deserve to benefit from my great country. Why? All laws or only some? > Well they clearly aren't trying hard enough if they are in the country without a proper visa. This reads as an
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by chowchowchow 8mo ago
>This is systematically not true as citizens can not be legally deported. And yet. >If someone is not a citizen and are here illegally they should be removed, no matter their intentions. If you are willing to break the law to stay her
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by chowchowchow 10mo ago
not being motivated enough to vote against != support in terms of claiming a popular mandate. If I just don't care who wins, you can't say I support either candidate. At most you could say my inaction prevented the winner from los
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by chowchowchow 11mo ago
Eh. You can’t claim the non voters all implicitly support him though since they didn’t know the outcome ahead of time. I’ll agree they didn’t sufficiently oppose him ahead of the 2nd time to bother voting. But that’s far from support.
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by chowchowchow 11mo ago
49.5% of 65% of eligible voters voted for him.. hardly a majority any way you slice it, either of voters or of the broad population.
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by chowchowchow 1y ago
And to add: the new features are take or leave it. you're right, who cares about new features on _twitter_, it was ossified already. Becoming the worst place on earth is a far weightier outcome of the aquisition and firings.
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by chowchowchow 1y ago
I dont know; they may well have been on the ads and moderation side. And they did add the hangouts/voice calls stuff, but that may have been an acquisition, I'm not sure.
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by chowchowchow 1y ago
On the other hand while yes it's still running, twitter is mostly not releasing new features, and has completely devolved into the worst place on the internet. Not to mention most accounts now actually are bots like Elon claimed they w
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by chowchowchow 1y ago
Isn’t it to sell home currency denominated debt…?
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by chowchowchow 1y ago
I am certain you can find more than one quote of his relating to Project 2025. In any event this also doesn't disagree with what I said more broadly, which is, he was not forthright about his plan to do exactly what Project 2025 said,
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by chowchowchow 1y ago
Obviously
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by chowchowchow 1y ago
That’s exactly right and what I said. The guy above said Trump is doing what he said he would. He isn’t.
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by chowchowchow 1y ago
Actually Trump repeatedly said he didn't know about project 2025. He's so scattered in his campaigning that it's possible to pretty much justify any action as "what he said he would do." But saying executing project
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
Filing is a challenge, and the rules governing what most people pay are simple. You’re just being obtuse. We can stop now.
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
That people don’t know how to do it and thus many pay companies to do it for them. Most of these people’s taxes are extremely simple from a tax code perspective.
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
Everyone pays $1 and $1 only is not simple enough? Can’t please some people.
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
I like how the dude you’re replying to is parallelizing being wrong about this in every reply thread.
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
Thought experiment: taxes for everyone are $1 but you have to climb to the top of an icy glacier to place a single dollar bill in a collection box. Is it easy to file these taxes?
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
The people with complicated taxes are rich. Most people have dead simple taxes tax-code wise. W2, standard deduction, dependents, maybe some interest deductions. You’re just being obtuse now. Removing random capital loss carryover loopholes
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
I’m not and these tweets aren’t relevant to what I wrote.
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
They are because they have an interest in keeping tax filing difficult and unapproachable, to keep public animus against taxes at its maximum. Coincidentally this is 100% in alignment with the tax prep industry whose entire existence is bas
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
Emotional posts like yours don’t really further the discussion of whether it’s good practice for US leaders to wear an Apple Watch.
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
I agree but that’s like saying if my grandma had wheels she’d be a wheelbarrow innit? BTC is not set up to ever be a reasonable currency. Agree digital dollars is where we’re headed.
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
Is that a fact? Any substance you'd care to offer or just leaving that assertion hanging?
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
Totally. The practicalities of BTC or any crypto as currency today are also a big problem. On top of the fundamental whyyyy of it all. If you can easily convert to/from USD to crypto or other desired store of value doesn’t that provide
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
> You are conflating liquidity with deflation. To be a currency it has to be liquid, we agree. We also agree btc is not as liquid as cash. But deflation or stability is orthogonal from liquidity. I’m not; you have a limited view of what
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
More than money, yes. More than precious bitcoin? The argument simply is that exchange should be frictionless and deflationary currency will slow the velocity of money. I guess you agree this will lead to reduced prosperity and economic act
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
I notice you mentioned big ticket purchases which I specifically did not mention. Your argument looks a bit different if you replace houses and vacation with lattes and sneakers. We live in a consumer economy where a marginal drag on purcha
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by chowchowchow 2y ago
You should not sell your shares in the S&P 500 to buy pizza unless your financial situation changes drastically for the worse or I guess maybe you are near death. As I said in the other thread, the problem is that btc is too desirable i

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