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krische ,

Kendall or Roman?

Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)

China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

krische ,

We know a thing or two, because we’ve seen a thing or two

  • Germany, probably
krische ,

People will hate it, but it’s a very logical explanation

krische ,

Because people would probably rather believe it’s some conspiracy by Apple to purposely nerf the cheaper iPhone.

krische ,

The only way to do that is to stop needing oil.

krische ,

I wish I shared your optimism

krische ,

Well I’d imagine I’d go like anytime someone doesn’t follow a court order; you get jailed and/or fined in contempt of court.

krische ,

A lot of the courses in Arizona aren’t using potable water; they’re using treated waste water.

krische ,

But that’s only really makes sense in like the simplest of cases. The government doesn’t know if you had a kid this year, or maybe you bought an EV, or maybe you started renting out a room in your home.

If all you have is a single W2 income; then by all means go to your local library, grab a 1040-EZ form, fill it out, and drop it in the mail. Will probably only take you 10 minutes or less.

krische ,

Sure, that would be simple enough for them to mail you a letter with like “we’re aware of these incomes from these employers” and any failure to file additional income on your part makes you liable. And of course not filing to claim any credits/deductions on your part just screws your out of your own money.

But then that also assumes the IRS knows your address. Does your employer even report your address when your taxes are withheld from your paycheck? And what if you move in the time between then?

krische ,

You seem to have a very optimistic view of the efficiency of governments. I mean the IRS is basically running on a budget of table scraps after being defunded for decades.

krische ,

In all but the most niche cases, they do in fact know that you had a kid.

How would the IRS know that? The only way I could think of would be the Social Security department sharing the information with the IRS; and are they legally allowed to do that? But let’s even say that’s true; if the parents aren’t married and filing jointly, who gets to claim the child as a dependent? That’s a decision made by the parents (or local courts in case of custody battles), so not something the IRS would decide.

Basically what it seems to boil down to is that filing taxes is complicated because the tax law is complicated.

krische ,

That’s my thinking.

Every large organization, private or public, that I’ve interacted has been basically just a bunch of different people in many different silos. I’m surprised to see so many people have this “well oiled machine” perspective of the government where apparently it is all seeing and all knowing.

krische ,

But how did that person acquire the copyrighted work? Was the copyrighted material paid for?

That’s the crux of the issue, Open AI isn’t paying for the copyrighted work they are “reading”, are they?

krische ,

I think they’ll eventually just consolidate into one company. The demand for grocery delivery is there, so the service isn’t going to disappear.

krische ,

Who’s to say you aren’t already living in it?

krische ,

I wonder what the turnaround time is for some of the more mountainous countries like Switzerland to build out pumped hydro.

Amazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing (www.vice.com)

Amazon Says It Doesn’t ‘Employ’ Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing::Amazon spent $14.2 million total on anti-union consulting in 2022, filings with the Department of Labor show.

krische ,

Independent contractors. They’re like employees in almost every way except the legal way.

More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’ (www.cnn.com)

The number of older Americans living alone is on the rise. Nearly 16 million people aged 65 and older in the US lived solo in 2022, three times as many who lived alone in that age group in the 1960s. And as Baby Boomers age, that number is expected to grow even more, raising big questions about the country’s future.

krische ,

My completely baseless take: they were fine making the “I hate by husband/wife” jokes while working full time; but once retired and spending time together, they realize they actually really do not like each other.

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)

From the article: “About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel...

krische ,

What happens to lithium after it’s mined? What happens to oil after it’s mined?

There’s no comparing how much worse ICEs are compared to EVs.

krische ,

He’s not competing on the free market.

Those subsidies are exclusively available only to Elon’s companies?

Come on, he’s a massive douche; but Tesla/SpaceX are in the same market as all their competitors. They’re not special, they just chose to do things others weren’t. Why didn’t GM build BEVs sooner to suck up all those subsidies? Why didn’t ULA land their boosters to reduce launch costs and secure more launch contacts and grants?

krische ,

But once it’s out, it’s out. It can then be recycled and reused “forever”.

You extract oil once and burn it once; then that carbon is stuck in the atmosphere “forever”. Now you have to extract more oil and do it all over again.

That’s the big difference, EVs don’t consume lithium; they borrow it.

krische ,

And that’s a bad thing? Isn’t the entire purpose of that government money to spur development? Seems like it is working as intended then?

There’s no shortage of reasons to hate Elon, but using government subsidies for their intended purpose seems like a strange one.

krische ,

There’s at least one company recycling EV batteries already, and that’s even with the small amount of end-of-life batteries out there (most are still on the road): arstechnica.com/…/heres-what-redwood-learned-in-i…

Recycled stuff gets dumped into some poor third world country.

That’s definitely the case for low/zero value materials like plastics. But the materials in EV batteries are way too valuable to just throw away.

krische ,

Thanks for saying what I was trying to say.

I think the EV subsidies have essentially just changed into additional profit margin.

I would probably say that was their purpose from the beginning. Companies aren’t going to do something unless there is profit to be made. The subsidies exist to create that profit.

Now you could say that manufacturers are charging more and the customers are paying more because they know part of the cost will be reimbursed with the subsidies. But that doesn’t seem sustainable for long, because all it take is one manufacturer to start dropping prices to attract customers. Then everyone would drop prices to match. We weren’t really seeing that previously because everything was supply constrained. But now we seem to be seeing that happen with Tesla at least, they’ve been dropping prices in the USA recently.

krische ,

Seems like it’s more so covering the costs of doing automated background checks or something like that. Like making sure you aren’t on any bad lists so they can prevent you from arriving instead of having to deal with you when you’re already there.

It’s not technically a visa, Americans are still granted that upon arrival it seems.

krische ,

Never thought about the North Star, but I suppose that makes sense for northern hemisphere seafarers. But then combine that with the compass and European colonialism and it all makes sense.

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