taco_ballerina

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[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

I will not tolerate this vile and odious slander. Ratchet straps are far superior in most applications.

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

As a youth I went on a backpacking trip. At designated camping spots they had latrines that were open air boxes with a toilet seat on top. They came in three configurations:

  • Solo, one seat
  • Pilot-to-copilot, two seats, side by side
  • Pilot-to-bombardier, two seats, back to back
[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is objectively the best rendition. Fight me.

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Aye. The Nvidia control center was cool when I installed it for my Ti 4600 in 2002 and not much has changed. I'm not particularly fond but the aesthetics of the Radeon software, but it beats the heck out of the semi-useless GeForce experience. I have to make an account just to see if there's a driver update available? I can't even control fan speeds in Windows without third party software?

They're both bad but in comparison Nvidia's offering is garbage.

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is an excellent video by a physicist about crackpots: https://youtu.be/11lPhMSulSU?si=ZGslcTKyp5Wxt1KE

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

More than that. You can depreciate the building (but not the land) to offset tax on the income but the bill eventually comes due because by depreciating it you're lowering your cost basis. For example you buy a property for $150k. If you depreciate it long enough it's worth $0. If you then sell it for $350k you have to pay tax on all $350k, not just the $200k gain in value.

However If you intend to use the proceeds from that sale to buy another investment property or properties you can do a 1031 exchange to roll your adjusted basis into the new property. Thus even when you sell it you don't have to pay the tax.

As you might, expect tax laws are written to benefit constituencies that politicians value highly. Wealthy donors are among those constituencies.

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

You'd think so. On another completely unrelated note, isn't it unusual that every unarmed minority who gets killed by the police in an egregious enough way to garner public outcry totally deserved it for committing various offences that bear no relation to the killing?

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please explain. My intuition suggests the opposite. The company's office is in San Jose. Presumably they have to pay high local market wages to retain workers. If they could hire remote workers willing to accept Peoria lL market wages they could conceivably get the same value of labor at lower cost.

20 years ago companies didn't demand local workers to staff their call centers to avoid competing with the entire world. They did the opposite, contracting out to the lowest bidders overseas and firing staff in the global north.

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Is that the origin of this meme? I knew I recognized it from somewhere.

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I see it in the title now. Sorry about that. I'm a Kickstarter backer (yuck!) of Leviathans by Catalyst Games which promises to be a fun steampunk tabletop game. It might be of interest to you.

https://www.catalystgamelabs.com/brands/leviathans

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Bioshock series, especially Bioshock Infinite might be the most mainstream games in the steampunk genre.

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Yes, and he would like to graduate into being obscenely rich through a successful IPO.

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