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Ausernamegoeshere 3 points ago +3 / -0

The reason it's like this is because people whined and moaned and complained in the 80s that they had to buy ramen to get by but food stamp recipients could buy meat and vegetables and 'live like a king'. I remember someone on local TV news playing as a cashier going "oh, if they have food stamps, they buy lobster and t-bones and I think it's just a waste!"

It's the same thing I see around poor people's cell phones being subsidized. If the government pays your $70 phone line, you can drop $22/mo on the iPhone ZOMG Edition to go with it, where you get the free-phone-that-might-not-actually-be-a-phone if you have to shoulder the $70 line fee yourself.

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Ausernamegoeshere 2 points ago +2 / -0

The current problem stems from Congress passing a law that forfeits their power to the executive branch. As long as the reins act would require a majority of both houses to vote yes, it's a return to the Constitutional way of writing law.

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Ausernamegoeshere 2 points ago +2 / -0

I know a person who was pissed that the consumer protection bureau chief was kicked to the curb. Despite the fact that not once has the CFPB gotten victims money back and despite the fact that this person suffered at the hands of something that was actioned by the CFPB and basically told to take it in the shorts because the settlement didn't include restitution to the victims. And the 'penalty' fine was about 1/10th what was picked up by the financial manipulation.

'But now there's nothing protecting us!' Really? What was protecting us before?

So many people are this lost.

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Ausernamegoeshere 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm just curious about why a free filing program was shut down and/or what this was doing to us behind the scenes. There's a lot of "public benefit" programs that end up piping kids to freaks or some shit, but this was an oddball I was curious about.

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Ausernamegoeshere 4 points ago +4 / -0

I don't think we should pay when the IRS already knows how much we owe or get back. Especially with how much the tax preparation lobby has spent to keep the tax code sucking ass.

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Ausernamegoeshere 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, it's raw story. And a two line article. I was just wondering what got shut down because I didn't see much else.

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Ausernamegoeshere 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's not anons going trans, it's plants getting louder about identify politics. Same thing is happening with Jews. It's to give a traction point for counter action and resistance so they can fracture a culture. Again.

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Ausernamegoeshere 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's because you just don't get it. They need people who are different doing menial tasks for them so that they get the little dick tingle of being better than others.

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Ausernamegoeshere 7 points ago +7 / -0

A) Do you show up to work? B) As HR for the entire fedgov, how are you monitoring employees that don't physically show up for performance? C) If you are no political, why are you disguising yourself to say this? D) Precisely what changes are concerning?

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Ausernamegoeshere 4 points ago +4 / -0

Soap box, voter box, ammo box.

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Ausernamegoeshere 4 points ago +4 / -0

No, it's financial lies to make the hoi polloi not think they are being screwed. I have been able to get hotel rooms for $89.99 a night since the 00s. What were american workers in 2000 are illegal workers now.

All to make us believe that inflation and taxation aren't killing us.

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Ausernamegoeshere 4 points ago +4 / -0

Which one do you want? She accepted dark money and then pursued and signed a bill that kept it dark after criticism. https://readsludge.com/2021/02/19/noem-bill-would-make-dark-money-disclosure-illegal/

She made out with Lewandossly. https://nypost.com/2023/09/15/kristi-noem-corey-lewandowski-affair-shakes-up-trump-running-mate-stakes/

She used state aircraft for no state travel. https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-2650536372/

She's nepotistic. https://dakotafreepress.com/2018/11/25/kennedy-noem-lands-40k-year-on-moms-transition-team/

The voters approved a constitutional measure to legalize weed, no matter your views, and she spent several years overturning as much as she could from the voter amendment before implementing what was left.

And there's a lot of "you need to live there" stuff that isn't easily found online because the state isn't a huge tech center.

The one good thing she did, cancelling COVID restrictions quickly and making her a darling of Rs, was because it was affecting her budget to not have people out shopping (because the state doesn't have income taxes).

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Ausernamegoeshere 2 points ago +2 / -0

Except it doesn't work well and won't for the forseeable future.

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Ausernamegoeshere 7 points ago +7 / -0

AI is a misnomer. It is linear algebraic brute forcing of data to provide a seemingly cogent response. It is not intelligent. If you heavily constrain the context (either via data set or manually linking pertinent data), it can provide fast synthesis of data, but that's about the extent of it's usefulness.

For instance, last week I asked a recent LLM about a hypothetical place of birth. "If at the time of my birth, my mother was in Indiana and my father was in France, where was I born?" It responded that it couldn't know where I was born by what information I had provided. Upon inquiry, it said that a human's birth place had to be where the mother was physically located because of how we are born, and that a father's location had no bearing on this. I had to manually link these facts and then re-pose the hypothetical for it to answer correctly.

The human mind functions as a fact map - closely related facts are bound together and different contexts can exist together so that only the context that matters can be used when needed. This is a three-dimensional biochemical and bioelectrical process that is beyond our ability to replicate on traditional silicon.

People like to "yea, but" about quantum computers, and I have to tell them that quantum computers are 100 years away from general implementation because it's such a fundamental shift that everyone who programs will have to be completely re-trained to use properly. It's not like you'd be able to install Windows:Quantum in 5 years when we first get a system running.

Even moving from "yes, no" to "yes, no, maybe" or binary to trinary is such a fundamental shift in how we think about programming that it'll be a two generation leap to general use. And that's before we discover how to implement a qubit's total possible number of states (I think I heard up to 32 states can be achieved currently).

AI, like guns, drugs, Protestantism, and so forth before it will not bring us the darkness. Only our sullied spirits will.

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Ausernamegoeshere 3 points ago +3 / -0

I appreciate my GAW mod overlords.

Except cats5 who I believe is a flock of alien cats in a trench coat here to take us over and enslave us for alien cat overlords hiding just on the other side of Jupiter.

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Ausernamegoeshere 1 point ago +1 / -0

China owns 51% of it. But all the dummies are rallying around it to save it for some reason.

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