I've tried to tell people (mainly family boomers) that the polls are nothing but manipulation tactics. Most of the news is anymore. They are reflecting in the polls what they have decided is best for you to see to get the outcome they want. That being beside the fact that a poll is only as good as the group being polled. Go poll people at a gay parade on their thoughts on gay marriage, what do you think the answer will be?
I wish I had any idea who I thought would win the election. I know a bunch of people doubted me in 2016 when I said Trump would win. I usually have a pretty good gut feeling, but 2020 broke that, and I get a worse feeling about Trump's prospects for this year than I did in 2020. But that's just stupidity anyway. In the end, I try to set it all aside and not let politics live rent free in my head. Do the best I can with the overripe lemons I'm served, and move on.
Yeah, I'm having to screw with it right now because a now defunct company reported a bunch of shit to the IRS as having zero basis. Pain in the ass. I've made a point of not hiding from the tax man prior to that too.
I can't decide on crypto investing for the future. I don't currently have much at all, but if I do continue going forward then it's going to be very limited trades for buy-and-hold investment sake.
If it was easy enough, I'd love to use it for paying for things, the documentation will kill you though. I would for something that's been de-banked though. I don't even know what this content in question is other than something anime/manga related. I'm glad they gave the finger to the banks though.
It's brutal when you look at it from a clean slate and it very much gives me validation that Youtube decides who they want to be popular. I'll go watch a random tech video and immediately it's steering me to only top channels. It is an algorithm, because it improves over time, although I do still get the weird one-offs. I think you might be on to something, it ties a lot more to things about history, because I noticed more politics at a time I'd been watching some Cold War things. I guess they have to make sure to inform me the truth about "real Communism."
I don't need to be excited. It takes a whole 15 minutes of my time to vote for him.
In the end, do I think Trump is going to go in and go scorched earth like he should? No. I think it will be mostly like the first. He is barely different now from what I can tell he was in 2019 despite all the shit since then.
I do believe he's pro domestic energy production and anti foreign wars, both of which things the current rulers fucked up the second they got in. Also both things I really like. Outside of that, I mean what am I supposed to do, vote for Harris?
I don't really log into to Youtube and my browser (Librewolf) is pretty hostile to it's tracking. So I end up having fresh recommendations quite a bit. You can tell, because it's all mainstream shit when it resets, then it will morph into things closer to what I watch.
It's extremely rare that I watch political content on Youtube, I just don't care for rants of guys with Jesus hair agitating me. So I assume that's why I am pretty much never curated into a group being offered propaganda.
For the sake of the argument assuming US because I know about, you're right crypto is an absolute clusterfuck. The taxes is only on gains though. You don't just lose 1/5th of your money immediately.
Example, if I were to send you one Bitcoin today, you sell it and convert to dollars today. The only taxes you would owe would be on the difference between the value of the coin when you received it and the value of the coin when you sold it. For a quick transaction like that it's unlikely to be much. It might even be a loss, in which case you get reverse treatment on taxes. So you get a bitcoin from me worth $60k, you sell it for $60.1k, you pay 24% tax on the additional $100, for a tax of $24. Technically yes, you'd owe taxes on getting $60k worth of Bitcoin from me, but you'd always owe those taxes no matter what I used to give you that $60k.
Most of the pain with respect to the US at least is documentation. It's a huge fucking pain in the ass to track and document all of this for tax purposes, particularly so if you're buying and spending small amounts of crypto. Technically if I spend $10 of crypto on the internet, that's a taxable sale, so I have to have a line item on my tax form for that $10 sale, and account for when I acquired it and for how much. Do that 100x and it gets out of hand very quickly. That's part of the reason I went away from using it to pay for things, the much larger reason being so many more normal places quit accepting it.
You're right it's too volatile for someone to be playing around with for rent money. Anyone who has to think about scraping together rent money probably needs to focus their energy on something else entirely. I actually see the value of crypto as a transactional engine, if it can ever get to that. There's tons of hurdles of course. I don't really like it as a "currency" because of the volatility.
Why aren’t they trying crypto at all? It’s a perfect use case.
Read the whole article, still have no idea WTF they were supposed to have made. DEFCON badge?
I know whatever it is, it’s not going to work correctly. So, I hope it’s something to do with the FBI.
So, I looked it up. WTF it’s some conference? Looks like a conference for those kids in online gaming who tell you they’ve stole your IP address, tell you it’s 192.168.1.12, and they are totally going to DDOS you. After which you’re getting banned because their Dad works at Microsoft. They’ve grown up into LARPing as hackers who know just as little as they did back then.
There are entire countries built around Islamic law. Go there.
I had a friend at the movie theater, that was nice, but not the rental places.
I don't see it ever coming back. Physical media is hard enough to get anymore. I still collect movies occasionally. They are starting to be less available and TV series are getting rare. I can't remember which but there was a movie recommended on here recently I was going to buy and it doesn't exist physically in the US.
I do know of a movie and video game store that lets you rent about anything still. Then they just put the returned rental back up as used for like $5 off.
It was obvious from the reaction in that one fight. No one trains their way to the olympics to step out after one punch if they thought there was a chance. They knew they were about to get torn apart at best and why risk brain damage over it.
I can't decide if I like the hoodie, but I might if I was a Rays fan. 1000 points for actually being fun and interesting though. In a different league from whatever boring shit the leftists would give out.
Screw the racism screamers.
I’m more concerned the US government would do it themselves than bothering with WTF the UK wants to do. FBI isn’t going to do that at the behest of the UK, but of their own accord.
If people in the wrong parts of the US start to notice their friends disappearing randomly, at some point it will turn ugly for the FBI. That’s the reason such things are so difficult in the US. With the 2nd amendment, at a certain point there is a line in the sand.
Hahaha. You'd be lucky to get some Canadians and Aussies at best. I think you should start by sending your police to Moscow to make sure they have a loicense for that illegal speech.
As for my country we defeated you and the natives both. Piss off.
Sitting around watching old TV shows and old people commercials all day like any old person. He’s probably calling to try to get a reverse mortgage on the White House to pay for his diabeetus medication.
It’s just a joke.
I don't understand why they have to geoblock the UK. Tell the UK to piss off and make the government block them.
I guess trying to grab onto whatever Olympic hype with some, 'Oh by the way Hitler was a thing." I'm not sure he made Hitler look bad enough, he will soon be called to the commissar.
Much of the coverage of 1936 Olympics doesn't do a good job painting Nazi Germany with the same negative brush. I can only assume they can't make up enough content, because it wasn't really as bad as they say.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
As fitting a passage as it was against the Brits in 1776.
Oh hey I got reported for something!
Some people are so quick to draw conclusions, I was merely stating discontent with the need to add more apes to the Great Ape House at the Smithsonian Zoo. https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/exhibits/primates
Some people are so worried about comments staying on topic.
Wouldn't that be some sort of hate crime to wish to be black? Stealing their culture. Oh wait, Ben Stiller is in the party so he can say whatever. They'd call for the death of a normal white man for such a thing.
Asylums were the best and most humane thing society could have ever done for these people. Prior to that, they'd have been killed or left to die. Look at the remains of the asylum system, you never see anything comparable to a prison. They are often extremely nice buildings on par with churches, government buildings, etc. of the time. If they had been the home of a head of state they'd be landmarks today.
A few doctors go a bit too far over the line of curing to human experimentation and the leftists turn into the "awwww" sob story party and here we are.
To go with typical leftist themes, that clown needs to remove and quit appropriating the flag of my country. Put on the rainbow flag of globalism since that's truly the flag you represent.
Same with the "you don't hate ____ enough." I guess I don't, because I really spend a microscopically tiny portion of my energy sitting around making sure I hate things correctly.
Yeah, when I was digging more I saw the typical mask statement just a couple years ago. I immediately discard the intelligence of anyone who says "We know that masks reduce spread." I've never been to any such con, but they all outed themselves over the last five years with their all-in adherence to the mask and vax posse.
Maybe was cool in the past at least.