Asmongold fan by typo is a cursed reality of our time.

So the thing about Evangelion…

I have to use windows 11 and teams for all my work. Teams is being utilized as the central file management system.

The benefit these days is if something doesn’t work I can shrug and say ‘must be ai’ or ‘just windows 11 things’ and generally get tacot agreement.

The party caved on asking ICE to not wear masks.

Those characterizations often seem more retrospective about the weaponization of the movement. Especially with it being so extremely lopsided. As in, those who saw #MeToo as a political opportunity absolutely did. Since it wasn’t an inherently political (party) movement we all got to see it shoved through that lens.

So we Americans saw Democrats torch their own like Al Franken into resigning over a USO act while the GOP categorically defended their abusers. I am sure a similar dynamic played out across other political regimes as well.

Isn’t the whole thing with expats is that they explicitly keep their US citizenship? Most the self described expats I know are overseas military that married a local so my perspective may be skewed here.

https://pulitzercenter.org/resource/how-we-investigated-epidemic-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material-internet

https://www.engadget.com/ai/california-is-investigating-grok-over-ai-generated-csam-and-nonconsensual-deepfakes-202029635.html

There’s a whole media cycle on it from the last few months.

You may have missed how there’s a massive CSAM problem with AI because the models are all trained on CSAM. “Plausible” is a bit behind the times.

I know people who literally worship police. Like, the crying and reaching out to touch the sheriff during a parade type.

The cult is widespread and deeply entrenched.

Israel, Russia, Trendy Aqua, whatever. Ultimately the USA has failed to maintain its obligations to civil society, allowing those who operate the mechanisms of power and policy to be susceptible to such exploitation. Classic blunder.

That subject is usually just the convenient outlet for being hateful. And hate’s a hell of a fuel.

Now combine this ordeal with getting them to properly sign the damn thing.

Well, sort of since they tend to get it down to 0, which is sort of an undefined or infinite amount more any taxpayer pays.

I’m just hoping people aren’t overpaying their taxes by improperly deducting, which someimes seems to be the case with how taxes are referred.

Yes and for the purposes of reducing taxable income, not the overall tax burden.

An example in a vacuum: If you report $10,000 and itemize a $2000 deduction for an expense, you’d be taxed as if you made $8000.

Some take it to believe the $2000 deduction means they deduct $2000 from what they owe in taxes and then feel cheated and blindsided when they still owe.

The standard deduction is just under $16,000. So if we round things out: the tax bracket for the first $10,000 of taxable income is a 10% rate. If you made $26,000 you’d owe $1000 with the standard. (26k minus 16k, leaving 10% of 10k.)

In this same scenario if you could itemize $26,000 in deductions on $26,000 of income, you’d owe $0. No one self employed or any worker can actually do this reasonably. But large businesses can, and do.

This is how billionaires pay no taxes. They use their business expenses, loans, and losses to deduct the entire amount of their taxable income to eliminate any possible tax burden.

Hell, my in-laws continue to itemize their deductions in amounts less than the standard. They think they’ll get audited of they don’t. I’ll never understand it and I cannot go over it again with them for my own sake.

$36000 would owe about $6k in federal taxes, or about 17% total across the brackets. That’s including deductions for social security and all. I know some states have income taxes, but those are state taxes, not US taxes. Do any of those push people into the 27% range at that income level?

Completely unnecessary with the lack of high income taxes or wealth taxes nonetheless.

Like, I get it. Tax the billionaires out of existence, but I am pretty certain the bracket at which you’re paying 25% in taxes is income over 100k.

That’s entirely possible, as it’s closer to being the very public conflicts of like a dozen people. You could have blocked one user and inadvertantly insulated yourself from almost all of it.

Or: crimes are crimes and elected public office doesn’t inherently require or extend any immunity to that.