chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on he forgor 1 day ago:
College degrees demonstrate you can complete a long-term project with disparate, often competing priorities while meeting deadlines and milestones.
- Comment on sales =/= quality 1 day ago:
Yeah, but then they tried going all woke in the late 90s with the CD-RW stuff and data reassignment procedures.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Just throw hard enough to trigger fusion reaction then.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 3 days ago:
Write-offs are deductions from income, not reductions in taxes owed. They only get to deduct the taxes they would have paid if they had kept the donations.
Let’s imagine their annual income was $10,000,000. Their nominal tax rate would have them owing $2,100,000.
If they received a $100,000 in donations, that would make their income 10,100,000. But with the donations they could write off the 100 grand, reducing their tax bill by $21,000, for a total of $2,100,000.
Either way, they pay the same in taxes with or without the donations.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 3 days ago:
That’s not how tax deductions work. All the write-offs allow is for them to not count the money donated as income, so they make the same amount of money on the sale whether or not you donate.
The benefit to the company is PR or donating to a non-profit with a mission that aligns with their corporate goals. For instance, Bass Pro may ask you to donate to wildlands preservation non-profits that maintain environments in which people fish and hunt.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 3 days ago:
He said rape is bad, but also any sex outside of marriage is bad.
So, by his logic, raping a woman is no worse than getting consent if you aren’t married.
- Comment on Womp womp womp. 4 days ago:
You have to stay with the agency several years. The plan is to fire them before paying.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 4 days ago:
I suppose we could make feeds into porn sites…
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
4mph is close to the maximum speed in downtown Austin traffic.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
It’s Austin. The traffic is so shitty you can’t go fast enough to get in a wreck most of the time.
- Comment on Uhhhh sure? 1 week ago:
For me it’s for traffic. There’s about 4 major routes I can take between my home and office, and with different traffic changes (wrecks, construction, conventions, etc) the difference between them can be over an hour.
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 1 week ago:
That’s what happens when the boomers refuse to let go.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 1 week ago:
The property was cheap (about an acre for 40,000), but then they had to put a house on it. They were living in an RV that came with the property due a few months while the house was being built.
Covid hit in the lag between when their old house sold and the new one was ordered, so the cost of building the new house was double what was expected, so instead of buying cash their remaining equity was wiped out and they ended up with a loan. But it was still cheaper than their old house because of taxes.
But after the new, smaller house was finished, a neighboring property was also bought and a multi-million dollar mansion was placed on it. And then another.
And then the county and school district raised the tax rate for everyone while also quintupling the assessed value of the land. There’s a circuit breaker law, so it can only go up 10% a year, but even that’s unsustainable for people on a fixed income.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 1 week ago:
No. They keep having to move away from their homes and get new loans at higher rates.
They’ve never been able to pay off a home because they keep having to do new mortgages.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 1 week ago:
Yeah. My parents moved into the country because their house value got too high and they were being taxed to death because of all the people that moved into my hometown making property values skyrocket.
Then other people started moving into the area, and now the value of their place has skyrocketed, and they’re gonna have to sell again because they’re being taxed to death because other people moved into the area.
There’s this massive movement of retirement people from place to place because every time they move somewhere to reduce their tax burden the values go up again.
I’m 100% for capping the taxable value of land for primary homes based on the value at the time of purchase plus inflation. The whole idea of a homestead is to improve land, and
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 1 week ago:
That’s because they’re guaranteed to sell all the water when there’s a storm anyway. There’s a reason there’s laws against raising prices in an emergency.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
I didn’t play the second of the remake games because it was a PS5 exclusive. I usually buy into one platform (it was Xbox this gen) and hop on late in a console cycle for the other side to get cheap consoles and games, but for the first time consoles are getting more expensive over time, so I still don’t have a PS5. It’s on PC now, but building a PC costs as much as a modest house right now.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
DMCA is interpreted very widely.
It criminalizes circumventing anything that could be used to protect copywritten information. So they just add copywritten stuff where it isn’t needed to criminalize anything they don’t want you to do. It’s why washing machines now have proprietary software and circuit boards instead of mechanical switches and why printer ink cartridges have chips on board.
- Comment on Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night | After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move. 1 week ago:
Bilbo Baggins is in the files. By conflating “in the files” with “took part in the crimes” a lot of innocent people will be falsely accused.
And that’s the point.
Trump and team want so many innocent people to be called out that it provides cover for the guilty.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The response to this mess is gonna be everyone sticking with Discord, not because there’s no alternatives, but because there’s too many alternatives.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
That’s not true. Packet loss is a thing. It’s the same reason some USB cables suck and others are awesome.
- Comment on Wendy's closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales 1 week ago:
I’ve just changed how I eat out.
Fast-casual restaurants cost the same as fast food these days. And if I need food super fast due to time and travel constraints, the quality of gas station food in many chains like QuikTrip and Speedy Stop is better and faster than McDonalds.
So they are no longer the fastest or the cheapest, while their food remains garbage.
Of course they’re failing.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
It matters in digital signals more than I expected.
A bad-quqlity HDMI cable over a long run will start getting a bunch of noise on some of my displays that shows up as random green specs popping off due to signal loss, whereas better cables will give a clean signal.
And back when more broadcasts were analog and I ran tech for a road show, I’d occasionally pick up random stations on poorly-shielded cables that would get amplified by powered speakers. The cables essentially became antennas. Though I haven’t run into that in over 20 years.
Poorly-shielded cables and speakers also used to have a lot of issues with cell phones. Anyone else remember the series of 3-beeps you could sometimes hear on speakers a few seconds before a phone in the room started ringing?
- Comment on Price gouging 1 week ago:
It’s a joke.
But also, there are other, better forms of metal printing. One is to use metal powder and laser-weld it layer by layer.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 1 week ago:
A lot of people don’t understand the difference between service dogs and ESAs, including store owners and employees.
The American with Disabilities Act does not include ESAs, and businesses can prohibit them.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 2 weeks ago:
What we need to do then is poison the well and provide bad training data.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
Yeah - that’s why I always use credit if I can. If someone steals my credit card, I’m protected. The money doesn’t even leave my account, so I don’t have to worry about losing access to my funds for a few days while everything is worked out.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There’s a mix that’s designed to work with rim fire and other lower-velocity stuff. It’s not as powe4ful, but is more-easily triggered.
A dumb friend put some in a chewing tobacco tin and launch it from a skeet launcher to shoot with a shotgun using bird shot. I personally would not be that close to anything I was blowing up, even with a plastic shell.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 2 weeks ago:
Inverted Y works for me in first-person games because I equate the tilt of the stick to tilting my head. If I want to look up, I have to lean my head back.
In 3rd-person platformers, it’s because I’m imagining moving the camera. It’s also why I have to invert the x-axis on third-person platformers.
3rd-person shooters I just treat as an fps because that’s how my brain works.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 2 weeks ago:
When I was in retail, we were required to destroy anything we threw away.
If we had a warranty issue on a product, the manufacturer would usually just ship us a new one because it was cheaper than a repair, and we’d have to provide proof of destruction. My favorite was for kayaks. We had to mail back a portion of the body at least 1 square foot in area that included the serial number stamp.