Every time someone complains about Biden’s taxes I want to pry their eyes open Clockwork Orange style and force them to read the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
Net taxes were higher for people making under $20k right from the start. It was also intended that income taxes start increasing again in 2021 for people making $40k+. It’s right there in the fucking law. In fact, if Congress doesn’t do anything the income tax cuts will expire completely in 2025.
Only the corporate tax cuts were meant to be permanent. Income taxes will continue to rise in order to offset the deficit increase brought by the 2017 law, and it will primarily impact those making less than $75k.
I don’t even like Biden. His only job as far as I’m concerned was to get Trump out, then sit on his hands for 4 years while we figure shit out. However, anyone who thinks Republicans stand for ‘small government’ and working Americans clearly has not been paying attention.
Rich people bickering about copyright and NFTs. A pissing contest among the wealthy to determine who deserves to extract money from the general population. Who could have foreseen this shocking turn of events?
Quentin Tarantino is going ahead with his plan to auction "Pulp fiction" NFTs, despite being sued by Miramax for copyright infringement. Tarantino...
I always forget the #qoto default theme is light. Logged in from ungoogled chromium on my phone where I can’t have the dark reader extension and thought something was wrong for a second…
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An Illustrated guide to 2021's pipeline battles #US https://grist.org/indigenous/an-illustrated-guide-to-2021s-pipeline-battles/
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Now this is a suit! Neil Patrick Harris at the premiere of the new Matrix movie
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It never ceases to amazes how headstrong conspiracy theorists are when they dont even understand basic terminology.
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Many of the people most opposed to transgender related medical procedures on "we must protect children" grounds will also literally cut up the penis of their infant sons because they believe a supernatural being wants them to.
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Web 3 Is Going Great! https://web3isgoinggreat.com
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It is permissible for private citizens to be disrespectful to lawmakers who have personally threatened state coercive violence against their person and property. Lawmakers aren't owed a duty of being nice to them, especially when they're flexing the violent power of their office.
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"This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer (2013)" 😂
http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer
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Why blocking unwanted content is a right that needs to be exercised and defended. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Tips-and-tricks-waterfall
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Jen Psaki Accidentally Tells the Truth About How Expensive Covid Rapid Tests Are in U.S. https://theintercept.com/2021/12/07/jen-psaki-cant-explain-americans-dont-get-free-home-covid-tests/
Always strange to me when I see people bitching about twitter (while on twitter), yet they don’t care to hear about alternatives like mastodon. It’s like they keep expecting twitter to be something it’s not, but the idea of leaving or even simply trying something else just doesn’t compute.
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#UnitedNations, #USA "balks at legal agreement" for outright banning of "killer robots", instead asking for 'non-binding' agreement.
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#KillerRobots #Autonomous #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Drones #Defense #Technocracy #MiC #Military #Industry
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/02/us-rejects-calls-regulating-banning-killer-robots
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We just noticed that Android 12 includes a much stricter implementation of "app-links": https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/verify-site-associations
Afaiu if you don't control a domain your app will never show up in the app chooser for a link to that domain. The user needs to explicitly setup your app for said domain deep in the settings.
This is super inconvenient for all the 3rd Part apps out there (i.e. NewPipe) or even alternative builds of 1st Party apps (F-Droid build of Wikipedia app).
Update: I was able to enroll my own keys using the UEFI menu instead of KeyTool. UEFI ver. 1.11. Lenovo still hasn’t even acknowledged the issue that I know of so I’d assume it’s still possible to brick the motherboard this way. Make sure to do everything in the right order (PK last!). Any attempt is at your own risk as Lenovo considers it customer induced damage if it goes wrong.
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Interesting article on #decentralization and the problems to tackle in distributed system to maximize the amount of "user sovereignty".
https://scribe.rip/swlh/a-unified-theory-of-decentralization-151d6f39e38 (medium via scribe)
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