Why the f does that matter? They existed as they did, killed multiple millons, so don’t butwhatabout and redirect.

Millions killed in purges and policy created in cults of personality.

Yeah, need to make a whole identity sh*tting on imperfect democracies while touting systems that have always devolved into dictatorships.

50 GB? That’s a couple iOS or other OS update, or just streaming video a lot. A quick check shows my house over 500GB last month.

Size definitely played a role. It attracted bots, corporate, and political manipulation.

people

Bots

A corporation that defers taxes and experiences a “loss” as we’ve been discussing may not have to pay those taxes at all - even if they were profitable when the taxes were initially levied.

If you are wealthy using loans, in lieu of selling assets and incurring capital gains taxes, to buy things is absolutely the way to go. And then in top of that, make sure you’re personally worth very little when you die so there’s little for the banks to take from your estate. That’s how the rich stay rich and get richer.

As far as recognizing future earnings, again, there’s the aforementiond deferral and writeoff, as well as banks not normally coming after wealthy/corporations for failure to pay on time. Yes, both rich and normal people get “future earnings” considered, but the consequences and benefits of how those future earnings are handled are wildly different mechanisms for both parties. Corporations might get a tax bill written off for a bad couple quarters, meanwhile a normal person losing their job and being unable to realize those “future profits” could face foreclosure. To make it equal, make the normal person’s loan payment recalculate every quarter based on projected earnings, let them defer some of a payment if they got a good bonus one quarter, and then allow them to completely not owe some payments at all ever if say they become unemployed for half a year or take a pay cut . That’s why it’s not the same thing. I’m trying to keep apples and oranges separate, one is a fiction generated for the corporations’ benefit, a paycheck or lack thereof is a hard reality for the normal people.

Yeah but I don’t get to write off the loan or cancel part of it if I don’t make the money and the bank can come after my assets for failure to pay. This is not the same thing.

Ugh. Terminology written by the rich. Like a multi-billionaire being described as being “poorer” because their assets took a downturn yet they’re still a multi-billionaire. I despise the premise that predicted money not made is a “loss.”

No, you never had the value, so you can’t lose what you didn’t have. But businesses get to act like it and then it helps them ditch deferred tax assets if they get deemed unrecoverable. Isn’t that amazing?

It’s probably the SoS. Act like they were going to hire from the outside, but they were gonna promote the guy that already worked there for cheaper anyway.

Seems like a big switch in the last 3-6 months? Even google is making me do stupid captcha when I occasionally use it.

Life was friends, school, weekends, and school breaks.

Now it’s no breaks, bills, and where are my friends?

Longer than that. I’ve had it shut off for the last 4 years because it actively made things worse and has been ineffective at best. Now it doesn’t underline spelling mistakes probably 70% of the time. Highlighting misspelled words hoping for a quick suggestion help is a gamble if it recognizes the misspelled word at all.

I remember it working fairly decently a decade ago, but it’s been a downhill slide for a long time now.

I was hoping for an unusual cause of demise on that plaque. Sometimes old gravestones list a cause of death with wry humor.

Some of us allive, anyway.

If you put money you earned as pay in a stock for something like a 401k, yes it was. If you’re a rich person whose hundreds of millions turn into billions because the line goes up and you were granted stock options as part of a compensation package…no. Your money was never real.

Any place that has life, if it does. Like the theorized oceans under the ice on Europa or Enceladus. I want to see it. Otherwise, maybe Daphnis or Pan in Saturn’s rings. The view would hopefully be spectacular.

“Backlash against unwanted resource hogs threatens our pocketbook.”

That’s what they mean.

I’ve bought a couple FTW 3080s used for about $300 give or take. They work great for probably 98% of games even on high settings, I get 150 fps on fast paced shooters with coustomized settings and no OC. I can’t see a reason for a 5090 other than bragging rights or some highly specialized uses, and paying that high five-figure price tag for one is craziness. RAM prices absolutely do suck, though.

Ok, so there’s one. I’ve been on 2 Fords, a Mini, Kia, Toyota, and Subaru. The only one that had a user menu setting was the Mini which had auto headlight tilt for braking and hills.

I’m referring to the “setting”, not the manual headlight adjustment.