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Comment Re:!free, good riddance (Score 1) 72

We don't have to pay anyone to file if we are intelligent enough to follow the pamphlet that tells normal tax filers where to put the numbers. If you are old school and still mail in the return is costs you a stamp.

The problem is that it is overly complicated for anyone but a simple income earner. And as most people point out, the government already knows most of the numbers to the point they could fill out a preliminary form that would work most people.

Comment Re:!free, good riddance (Score 1) 72

existing free filing services, at no cost to the taxpayer

Do you honestly think these filing service companies are letting you file 'for free' on their own dime? No, they are paid by the government so that your filing looks free, but it was paid for by those same taxes. Much better to keep the expenses in house with direct.file and let all these tax preparation companies go bankrupt.

Comment Re:Go on, follow The Dumb a bit longer (Score 2) 225

You say that like it's a bad thing. Think of the environmental impact of this shutdown. One cross country jet uses enough fuel to heat over 100 homes for an entire winter. Air travel is convenient, ok - but it is also a colossal waste of finite resources.

maybe I don't have to hear planes going overhead every minute - and no I am not near a major airport but somehow over the decades this became a major route; often one plane is only a mile after another on the same path.

-yes I yell at clouds, because there are planes in them.

Comment Re:the point (Score 1) 46

And that album will still be around long after the phone either broke or the cloud crashed. Any actual important memory photos will be lost or buried in so much noise they will never be found again.

I suspect in 30 years many families will notice huge gaps in their family albums. Memories lost to the digital world.

Comment Just the three? (Score 1) 82

The crypto scam will keep going because money laundering will be a continued need.

The debt bubble is already at the point that it simply can't pop because the entire economy will collapse. 'too big to fail'.

AI is what it is, as long as almost everyone ignores that current implementations are nothing more than a database with search (prompt) results determined by a coin flip. Real AI would never need a random number generator - it would also always give the same answer for the same prompt until it is further 'trained'. Anyway, could it crash? Sure but fake AI won't take everything with it like a debt bubble. And why is crypto even in the conversation?

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