webadict

joined 3 years ago
[–] webadict@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

The only thing the company does is put their name on it. They do not write it off their taxes because they can't. That's a stupid myth that stupid people stupidly spout and then gets spouted again, and I have to spend time explaining why it's stupid.

Also, if you're offended by my tone, I dunno, go outside for a bit. Sorry it fucking bugs you. People die every day, and I'm supposed to be happy or something? Fuck on outta here!

Like, if you want to claim stupid tax write offs, buy art, let it "increase in value", and donate it! Way easier, way more legal, way seedier. There, you got your tax scam. But call it right.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

This is wrong, and it's wrong for obvious fucking reasons. Like Accounting 101 reasons. Like, go to prison for fraud reasons.

Let's say you own a business. You make sales and you partnered with a nonprofit for donations. You ask your customers to donate to that charity.

When you take that money, you set it aside. It does not belong to your company, specifically because you wouldn't want to inflate your profits or offset your losses with money you don't have. If your company loses money and you took this money, then you wouldn't even be able to write off the full amount you took because you wouldn't have any taxable income.

So, since this money isn't yours, when you donate it, you do not write it off your company's profits. Because it didn't come from the company's money because you don't want that to touch your profits. If you do write that off, that's a little something financial experts like to call fraud.

But, let's pretend you did take it, and counted it in your profits because you like to be stupid and risky. When you donate that money, you are writing off the portion of your profits that would have been added. So, even if you did donate that money yourself to write-off, you already took it as profits.

This isn't even a US thing. This shit wouldn't be legal anywhere. If it was legal, then they could donation roulette to continuously donate the same dollar over and over to write off all of their taxable income, and, honestly, it would be easier to just buy art. Art is the real fucking tax scam.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

... But they would be donating the value of the money you gave them. So that money shouldn't be profit, and this would be zeroed out. They did not gain invisible donation money.

Congratulations on being wrong in ten seconds.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

That's a weird thing to wager, but it might pay out!

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Winners are well-regarded for doing everything you're doing.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Are you trying to create drama and play the victim while complaining about other people supposedly creating drama and playing the victim?

They have a cure for that, it's called fucking off.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

There is a kind of irony in people that believe these things. Like, the usage of terminology and phrases like Blue MAGA, shitlib, anarkiddie, etc. isn't dissimilar to how MAGA voters act and treat people they deem as their enemy. The point is to create an us vs them mentality, and it is a typical cult tactic.

I would argue that it's less that they're trying to make anything happen, and more to signal membership in their cult. Because it IS a cult. The people they are attacking with this tactic are, and I cannot stress this enough, not the rich oligarchs that would actually be the source of their problems (including this one, if they believe that protests are insufficient, since it would be the rich oligarchs spreading the information that they do, so it's not really the protestors that are the problem, but that's a logical take on an illogical stance.)

The point is that it is sad that they might have more in common with the average MAGA voter than they would care to admit.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Fuck mass migration, and fuck you for only seeing people as economic units. I'm fucking pissed.

And how much do they cost us? When people immigrate, they are a short-term cost to the country (as all migrants are). Question is: do they make us money in the long term.

I mean, you were a drain on your country's education money, but you're still allowed to live there, so why shouldn't they be able to?

And arguably, the fertility rate (which is around 1.43) of the Netherlands means that there wouldn't really be a need to continue to keep making houses. You can just wait for the population to decline! Like, factoring in the babies (who, uh, don't typically need their own houses), you would need to take in... Well, yeah, around 100k immigrants yearly to maintain a constant population (need to have that replacement rate be around 1.05ish), so it sounds like there isn't really a problem, but I also haven't really factored in that you might just be a racist.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, even with their small context windows, useless matrices, and lowly statistical representions of language segments, they are better at debugging, brainstorming, "coding", and answering questions than a lot of people, let alone "the dumbest mother fucker on the planet".

That's why those people do not code or do those other things, and, surprisingly, most of those people don't suddenly think they are now better than a person who has done... Just... The smallest amount of actual training to become good at that thing.

You got that AI psychosis in you, buddy. Ask your AI friend for the nearest person to get you the hell away from it.

If only telling you how brainwashed you are would actually fox things. Let me know when you have enough tokens to reply to me.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You've used it once 2+ years ago and wrote it off completely. Do you also still do your laundry with a wasboard and clothesline? Is the Internet just a fad also?

I just don't get why people like you exist. You guys have the stupidest fucking arguments for why not wanting to use the regurgitation machine that murders the environment and causes people to kill themselves is bad.

But, like, do you still use NFTs? That was the future. It was so the future. Same fucking arguments from the same fucking mouth-breathing dipshits.

And using AI does not even make you faster or better at what you do. It can increase output, and it can cause you to do a shit job, and it can falate your ego so you think you are soooo much better and bigger than everyone else, you big strong muscly man, you. You're basically just saying that workers can never and should never have any fucking downtime, ever. They cannot stop. They must always, always produce, more and more. And, like, fuck all the way off. You don't need to output more. You do not need to be faster. You don't need AI, even if it was as good as people pretend it is, which it is not!

Because AI sucks. It isn't good at anything other than replicating an amalgamation of the data that is fed into it. Anyone that says it is good at any other thing is just shit at that specific thing and doesn't know any better. LLMs are just huge giant matrices full of coefficients matching language segments. They don't know jackshit. They have relatively small context windows compared to even the dumbest motherfucker on this planet and people working on making LLMs better are running out of shortcuts to make them better. The money they have been lent needs to start making it back. And they can't make money because they are subsidizing everyone using AI with that venture capital because it still hasn't made a fucking dime yet.

Don't worry, guys. We just need to keep feeding more data into it! It's so much better, guys, I swear! This one won't hallucinate all the time, bro, I swear! Just one more model, it's so close!

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are absolutely no robots doing surgery autonomously. That would be one of the most insane things to do from a moral standpoint, but also from a liability standpoint. Every robot that exists for surgery is highly specialized and rigorously tested and trained upon for obvious reasons.

But, then to come out and say that AI is more accurate than doctors is also incorrect. That is simply not true. An AI can, in highly controlled settings and for specific diagnoses, at its best do not even as well as a specialist in the field, and that is for highly curated tests that give the AI as many advantages as it can get. Again, at best, it can act as a second opinion currently.

Like, it is hard to take people seriously about AI when they lie about its best case scenario. It sucks at everything except killing the environment and getting people to kill themselves, and even if everything all of its defenders said about it was true, it is still a nightmare.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Dang, dude. I don't see the slippery slope of not wanting a rapist in power making me a fascist. Please explain it to me.

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