Wait until the author discovers the old Unix philisophy about a separate simple program for each feature.

-Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

Learn to count.

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.

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.

That would be on your employer for putting your work computer behind a Cloudflare front. Why does the work computer need to be so publicly visible? And why do you need a vpn for accessing work?

-that's the smell of fishy.

No thanks. This will get headlines again when AI directs your mom to the nearest strip club instead of to the grocery store.

And that is the problem.

What is with the push to privatize things that really should be under government direction? Basic utilities are a prime example that really have no business making anyone a profit except the employees.

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.

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.

Can't tell if sarcasm or just simple Millennial ignorance.
If the former, good one - if the latter, there's nothing to say really; it is what it is.

It's a continued need for criminals, which is all that props it up. It is a scam needed by criminals so it will continue to exist, is that better?

Maybe they should just go all in on the npm or pip package route.

I wish that thinking 'it's taking all day to mine one bitcoin, it's only half way done' wasn't something I thought way back when bitcoins were literally worth pennies.

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?