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Comment Re:IANAL but... (Score -1) 51

How do you not see this for the obvious publicity stunt that it is? You must have voted Trump.

But it worked, you got enraged and engaged with the content.

Congratulations, you're the problem with the internet today.

Oh, and I am aware of the irony of posting a reply in order to condemn it, so you needn't bother pointing that out.

Comment Re:Humanities professor here (Score -1) 53

Yes, the US is the absolute worst and most horrific country on the planet. Except for all the others.

You have a bizarre concept of freedom. You think freedom is getting free shit taken from other people against their will.

You want to eat when you're hungry but can't afford food? Freedom: having the government take the food from farmers and give it to you.

You want a roof but can't afford a home? Freedom: having the government take a home from others and give it to you.

You want clothes but can't afford them? Freedom: same shit. Government take the clothes others have sewn and give them to you.

Where is the freedom of the farmers, the builders, and the seamstresses? In your world they are slaves.

Oh but wait, the government compensated them so it's ok! But governments don't have income, they have taxes. What are taxes? Taking money from other people who earned it by doing useful and productive things and giving it to you. Taxes and money are just a proxy for taking things directly from other people and handing it to you.

And taking, by definition, is always by force, ultimately at the point of a gun or edge of a sword. People don't have a choice to not pay taxes. Today the IRS can/will simply take the money from you (with fines and penalties) and if you're a pita about it, you can go to prison, as well.

Your "freedom" is other people's slavery. To you.

Real freedom is keeping what you make and not being the servant by force to others through government force. Real freedom is when you succeed or fail based on your own efforts, talents, skill.

We are not 100% free now. A 100% free society is anarchy but we're not slaves, either. Thankfully, we have a constitution that's mostly still in place to fence off people who think others must be enslaved for their benefit and "freedom".

Have you ever taken a high school government or civics class? If so and this is what you believe your teacher failed you very badly.

Comment Re: Square this circle: (Score -1) 101

Yet some how, despite you being a bad teacher (your own words), the kids in charter schools test better.

Weird, huh?

Please explain how there are tin of statistics between different states as well as per pupil spending in the US vs other countries showing zero correlation between per pupil spending and positive student outcomes.

You guys have screamed for decades how we need to spend more! Spend more! And yet, go ahead and look at a place like Chicago where teachers are making 6 figures, well over double the average incomes for the area yet almost none of the students can read or do math at anything even close to their grade levels.

At what point will you acknowledge that spending more is not helping anyone but the teacher's unions? It does nothing for the kids.

Anecdotally, I paid way fucking more to have my kid in California public school than now in Florida yet her nothing special Florida school is teaching her things her California friends in the most advanced classes aren't being taught. She's actually helping them online every week because her California friends aren't being taught. Yet California pays waaaaay more for those shitty educations.

Comment Re:200 million angry, single disaffected young men (Score -1, Troll) 103

Dear Wolf Warrior,

This post has been rated "blatant crap" and as such you will not receive the standard 50 cents per post.

In fact, this post was so lame, I thought it was sarcasm until I looked up to see it was posted by our very own China shill, wolf warrior extraordinaire who never saw an act of CCP brutality or stupidity she couldn't flip 180 with outright lying.

They should replace you with a deepseek bot. You know, the one that writes vulnerable code if it thinks you're not pro-CCP.

Comment Re:collect IP (Score 1) 57

They don't need AI for that. Teams - and pretty much all Microsoft products - are honeypots designed to collect data.

Well, no so much "honeypots" in the case of products that employees are forced to use at their workplace: they're no honey needed to attract them and get them to give Microsoft data. If you disagree with Microsoft's privacy invasion, you lose your job.

That's the genius of Microsoft's particular brand of invasiveness: instead of convincing individual people their products are good enough to relinquish their privacy for (Facebook), or convincing a large part of the internet to let them sneak in their trackers (Google), Microsoft convinced the bean counters at most companies to install their spyware and ram it down the throats of people who need to make a living. Disgusting...

Anyway, the AI thing is just the turd on top of the shit cake.

Comment Re:CHENGDU, China (Score -1, Troll) 205

Do you people really get fifty cents per post? Surely it's more than that by now.

Never seen such a panda hugger since someone pointed out that we should have responded to J6 like China did to 6/4at Tiananmen. It lacks the polish of using the A-10s to turn them into pink mist, but calling out the tanks to turn them into pink mash worked well. Just a remincer: when you want to overthrow the government, bring guns. Lots of guns.

Comment Yeah... no (Score 3, Insightful) 191

What's gonna stop obesity among Americans isn't permanent standard time. It really, REALLY isn't that.

A good start would be making healthy food that isn't 1,000,000 calories per pound, and not made of fat and sugar mixed in unknown chemicals affordable. And taxing the living shit out of junk food. And getting people to stop eating supertanker-sized servings.

Comment Re:Communist gonna communist (Score -1, Troll) 52

So when China blocks US products coming in, that's a brilliant move which helps China, hurts the US, and oh yeah Orange Man Bad and some wolf warrior jackass mods you up for the hate America shilling.

But when the US does the same thing to Chinese companies like Huawei for the exact same nationalist and protective reasons, you 50 cent Chinese shills go ballistic, tell us there's no evidence Chinese products are infected, it's the worst idea ever for the American economy, completely stupid and racist to block a Chinese company in the US. And then some Orange Man Bad mods you up for your 50 cent wolf warrior Chinese shilling.

You're so predictable, as are your dual standard hypocritical pals.

Comment Re:At this point (Score -1) 42

But they're not. The New York Post broke the true story on Hunter Biden's laptop and was censored off social media. NYT won a Pulitzer Prize for failing to question the Russian collusion hoax. Journalists covered for Biden, concealing his dementia from the public. Shall I link to the article in which the BBC radio journalist complains about "too many white co-workers"?

You think you hate journalists enough, but you don't. -- Micheal Malice

Comment Re:Politics poisoned your mind (Score -1, Troll) 21

Which tax scams are those?

As one of those rich guys you loathe so much I'd love to know what scams I'm missing out on, especially since I just wired in my quarterly estimated payment yesterday.

I've look high and low for these alleged scams the jealous envious poor (you) think exist. They do not.

I pay a larger percentage than you and I certainly pay more than you in absolute terms.

In fact, I'll bet I pay more in taxes every year than you'll pay over your entire life.

There are no huge loopholes. There are no scams. There is no way to avoid ttaxes. There is no escape.

There are ways to spread a one time windfall across several years to reduce the total hit a -little- but even those methods have other costs, like having your money locked away untouchable for years and the amount saved is not dramatic.

Please post a url describing these scams you claim exist, since none of my advisors or very expensive accounts seems to be aware of this secret knowledge you possess. I likely pay my accountants and advisors more than you make yet here we are. You know more than they do. You should change careers and help out rich guys like me. You'd make a killing.

And yes the IRS is still enforcing the law. That's why I've had to pay tax attorneys tens of thousands to make sure my stuff was straight and deal with the IRS the one time it wasn't. Because the IRS enforces the law quite strictly.

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