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sometimesme 1 point ago +1 / -0

they're telling you this so you miss the presidential alert.

keep your phones on

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sometimesme 1 point ago +1 / -0

you posted about one day too soon, we'll know by noon tomorrow and not one moment before

and for the other people in this thread who aren't so full of hate, greatawakening.win is a sister site to td, feel free to hop in

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sometimesme 4 points ago +4 / -0

info:

  • section 230 currently shelters websites from being liable for a user's posts/uploads as long as the website isn't curating the content
  • this is a good thing because otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to host any website that lets people upload comments or data without being liable. it'd kill the internet
  • the problem is section 230 is being applied to websites that are curating their content. when twitter bans all right-wing people, they are basically a left-wing publisher now and should be liable for what's said because they explicitly are allowing those words and not others

imo section 230 is fine but it needs to be applied as written and not constantly flaunted by big tech

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sometimesme 2 points ago +2 / -0

montana isn't deep red by any means. it's libertarian by default and getting infested by libs. libertarians have no immune system against libs so it'll turn blue in a generation.

idaho is about the same but more traditionally conservative, as is east oregon and washington.

texas would probably be your best bet overall though

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sometimesme 3 points ago +3 / -0

if you sell your retirement before you're 59 1/2, you pay a 10% early withdrawal penalty on all of it.

also, if you sell your retirement all in one year, you'll have a much larger income, pushing most of that income to being taxed at a higher rate than if you got it normally.

if you want to fuck libs without bleeding money out of the ass, then try to shift your stocks into companies that are based.

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sometimesme 1 point ago +1 / -0

unfortunately ANTIFA would gleefully catfish that site relentlessly and there's no non-intrusive way of making sure everyone there is MAGA. imagine a bunch of people who hate you and want to destroy your life all trying to do so via a dating site.

but an ad-hoc solution would be the equivalent of R4R personals in the *.win domain and require vetted users only (ie long-time user with only MAGA posts)

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sometimesme 4 points ago +4 / -0

the "big picture" moves are 1) everyone in congress was finally forced to pick a side 2) big tech finally deplatformed a sitting president without pretense. important people are now on record supporting treason that they knew about and were warned about and big tech is documented having interfered with our election and politics in a heavy-handed way.

what happens next is one of two things:

  • biden becomes president and we, the country, and the world are all fucked
  • OR a lot of famous politicians are arrested for treason in the next few weeks and big tech gets broken up

and no matter what, the republican party as it stands now is completely in ruins. only 6 senators sided with trump. the rest of the republican senators have 80+million voters who will never vote for them again.

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sometimesme 1 point ago +1 / -0

So if I am a full time salary employee for an organization my options are very limited correct?

correct. the big legit ways to lower your taxes are 1) get married to someone who makes less than you 2) have kids 3) put money into retirement 4) start a business that loses money

crypto based transactions.

owning crypto is a red flag for the IRS today and it's not anonymous. every transaction ever made is stored in the blockchain. cash or barter is the best

if you and your friends all trade services with each other then those would indeed be very hard to track

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sometimesme 2 points ago +2 / -0

if what you're thinking of is not paying taxes, then here's a few things to know:

  • there are "failure to file" penalties and separate "failure to pay" penalties. if you file your taxes but never send them money, you end up owing them far less than if you skip filing your taxes, too. if you want to protest on principle, this would be the way to do it: file taxes but not pay.
  • any form of being a smartass and saying the IRS doesn't have authority triggers a bunch of angry IRS shit that's not worth fucking with IE doing a wesley snipes. these are called frivolous tax arguments and you get penalized severely for taking them and they generate huge red flags for years to come. not worth it at all. don't listen to the internet.
  • a much better way to avoid paying taxes is to have lots of expenses. if you are getting paid as an employee (w-2) then you don't really have any ways of lowering your taxes apart from making lots of retirement contributions. donating to charities doesn't really do anything anymore.
  • the best way to avoid paying taxes is if you are a small business owner or contractor, ie you file a Sch C. the most effective way to avoid taxes is to claim a large but reasonable amount of business expenses. the best way is lots of car miles and lots of advertising expenses. you can run your business at a loss for a few years in a row before they consider you to not be having a business.
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sometimesme 1 point ago +1 / -0

remember, this discussion is about UBI. the reason people don't like UBI is because they think "somebody has to pay for it". but the answer is the robots will "pay" for it. they are all slaves making shit for us forever and we can sit around doing random bullshit because they will depress both costs and wages to zero.

the problem is that wages and costs won't go down uniformly for everyone, and UBI is the way to smooth this over. the end point is everybody is unemployed, but the middle point is half the people are unemployed. and 3 billion people aren't going to be doing songwriting and spiritual mentorship -- especially not for pay.

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sometimesme 1 point ago +1 / -0

robots are already better than the best person at many things (chess, go, optimization in almost everything)

there's nothing magical about the human brain, and there will be a time, likely in our lifetimes, when there is literally nothing we're better than AI at.

pick any activity and then look at how humans and AI compare and you'll see that the gap is closing. i'd actually like to hear something you think humans will always be better at.

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sometimesme 1 point ago +1 / -0

right, in literally every prior instance you'd be correct. a steam shovel that does the work of 40 men doesn't replace 40 men, it just gives 40 men steamshovels so they can do 40x more work.

but in this case it is different and has zero historical precedent. this is because strong AI doesn't augment, it replaces. like i said, i wasn't exaggerating with my 300 IQ 12 ft robot example. that really is what it will be. and humans cannot compete with the combination of 1) better and 2) free.

if there are 10 robots per person, and each robot is better than the best person at literally everything, there is no room for "more jobs". there will just be more jobs for robots.

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sometimesme -3 points ago +3 / -6

hard disagree

imagine a person with an IQ of 300, 12 feet tall, never sleeps, never gets sick, never asks for money, and whose memories can be instantly placed into another person's brain -- a person just like him.

now imagine 100 billion of them on the planet, all working nonstop at every conceivable job, even at the factories making those people.

of course, in practice that's not going to be how it is because it's not worth it to make such a general-purpose android, but functionally it will be equivalent. there will be no room for humans in such a world.

and once that world exists, you'd better hope there's a UBI system or else we will literally all be starved to death and nobody will care and history will never write about it.

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sometimesme 3 points ago +3 / -0

looks like he's going to go camping and happened to bring a gun

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sometimesme 10 points ago +10 / -0

since people are asking for specifics:

  • if you're using facebook messenger, discord, or slack to talk to people, swap to in-game chat systems like valve's steam or GoG's galaxy. accounts are free and you can have large friend lists and chat sessions without censorship.
  • if you're using gmail or any big-tech email, have it forward all emails to a non big-tech email address. some examples would be a proton mail account or librem one. also, you can literally buy and set up your own website and get an online host for your own email server. it takes about an afternoon and some internet searches
  • if you have a bunch of links of memes and infographics that are on websites like imgur or reddit or facebook, then download them to your computer and upload them to non-compromised sites like this one's image hosting service or something like catbox dot moe
  • if you use twitter, get your list of people you like to follow, and then check to see if they're also posting on other sites like parler
  • remember to actually give money to the non-compromised sites. they are run by freedom loving individuals with limited budgets. $5 is more than enough to cover your own share
  • image boards = wild west of internet. 8kun dot top is one. voat dot co is reddit-style non-compromised site. that said, those sites might go down, too. also, at the moment they're literally full of nazis so you'll have to look past that.
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sometimesme 9 points ago +13 / -4

you're think in terms of outcomes, not processes. you're saying "since kavanaugh didn't allow X to happen, then he is against X". but that's not true, especially when dealing with people whose job is to have principles.

as an example, if i ask an IRS agent if they can waive my penalties because it's the right thing to do, they'd say no. if i ask an IRS agent if they can waive my penalties because i'm seeking a first-time penalty abatement, they'd say "sure! here's your money back".

if you only took the first event and concluded "IRS agents don't want to give me my money back!!!!" you'd be wrong. you simply didn't ask them in a way that lets them follow the rules.

per this ruling in particular, it is debateable whether or not texas has actual standing, especially prior to the certification of the election. and apparently kavanaugh's understanding of the law says no texas does not have standing. that's fine. that doesn't mean he can't be convinced that fraud happened or anything else. it means in this particular avenue, his thinking lead him to a certain result. that is a good thing in a judge.

you don't want a judge who just rules for his "own side" in every situation, regardless of the soundness of the ruling.

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sometimesme 3 points ago +3 / -0

fun fact: if you only got know one thing about a person when guessing whether whether or not they were pro or anti gun, the biggest piece of information to help you wouldn't be if they're conservative or liberal, but rather if they're a man or a woman.

women, even conservative women and even conservative women who have guns, skew ridiculously towards gun control.

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sometimesme 6 points ago +6 / -0

no, written korean isn't anything like chinese. chinese essentially uses pictures instead of an alphabet, korean uses an alphabet that looks like pictures.

chinese and japanese, however, do share some of their pictures. but they aren't mutually intelligible. a chinese/japanese person can pick out about as much from the other's language as you could pick out from german.

ie if i said "der hund ist harmlos", you might be able to figure out it means "the dog is harmless".

as for chinese and japanese, both 入口 mean "entrance" in their languages. but in korean it's 입구

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sometimesme 17 points ago +17 / -0

i love him but he has probably the world's worst personality type for making technical debate arguments within a confined set of arbitrary (courtroom) rules.

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sometimesme 20 points ago +20 / -0

the 17th amendment put senators to a popular vote rather than being chosen by state representatives.

in general, state representatives skew conservative because they have to come from all parts of the state, whereas the popular votes for a senator only come from the population centers of the state. in other words, all the "flyover counties" of states have no real say in who their senator is right now. the 17th amendment, in some sense, removed an electoral college for choosing senators.

if you repeal the 17th amendment, the end result is that all the rural county voters will have a larger say in who their senator is.

right now, in a state like montana, the relatively liberal cities like missoula and bozeman get to unilaterally pick who the senator is because they have a lot more retarded urbanites who vote for whomever the TV tells them to. but montana's state legislature will be conservative for a long time into the future.

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