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Same. But because I still try to maintain some sense of whatever insanity is happening in the world, I checked and this one is real. 😞

I think B should be ‘bog’, because many people say “D as in ‘dog’.”

Maybe read it again? L is lima, no ‘g’. It and bravo are the only unchanged.

I’d argue that in many cases, it is still an issue of money.

Are there some jobs technology can’t solve for yet? Yes. But if the company invested in research, they may be able to solve those problems.

Are there some jobs that technology can solve for, but the solution costs more than human labor right now? Also, definitely, yes. (Plenty of jobs are automated in the US but still done by humans in other countries.)

The above person’s point, as I read it, is that if people have UBI, they will be less motivated to do those jobs so supply of available labor goes down and the cost of acquiring that labor goes up. Then the company has a choice: invest more in people or in technology. At that point, scales may tip to technology.

To put imaginary numbers on it:

• If a technology will take $1T in R&D and $100M each to roll out to each of 1,200 warehouses, then the technology cost is $1.12T.
• If each warehouse employs 1,000 people at $50k a year, a year’s worth of wages for 1,200 warehouses is $60B.
• Human labor costs the company more than just wages though, usually anywhere from 1.25–1.4x more. Let’s go with 1.25 for $75B.
• So that would take ~15 years for the technology to exceed the cost of labor.
• But if people had more bargaining power thanks to UBI and wages double, they’d have to pay $120B in annual wages.
• If they also need to provide better benefits to attract employees, the multiplier would go up; let’s say 1.35x. Now labor cost per year is $162B.
• So now it’s less than 7 years for the labor costs to exceed the tech investment.

Companies aren’t great at long-term investments because they don’t show immediate shareholder value. Reduce the length of time for an investment to pay out, and they’re a lot more likely to do that.

I’m not sure OP is complaining about taxes themselves, just the way people react to a refund.

The refund means someone overpaid all year and could have had that money throughout the year. And yet many people get excited about a refund as if they’re getting a gift rather than, well, a refund of what they already paid.

In OP’s mother’s case, she was disappointed that she owed more. If she’d managed her withholdings differently, she could have avoided owing and, despite paying the exact same in the end, would probably have been more satisfied with her tax outcome.

And yeah, US here. I wish my tax money was going to better causes. I genuinely want my money to go to improving my community (schools, healthcare, social services). And some does, but even more goes to horrible things.

I’m not OP but I’m wondering if perhaps they are mixing up ingredients with nutrition facts or just marketing content?

Here are screenshots from a mix I was looking at just last night. Chloride is listed as one of the electrolytes, and it’s listed separately in the nutrition facts. But in the ingredients it’s just “salt”.

I’m just speculating though.

Edit: TIL cropping images then hitting “copy and delete” to close them does not actually paste a cropped image on my new phone. That’s annoying.

Oh jeez, your comment reminded me of something.

My boyfriend used to tell the following joke: “Have you heard about the Mexican magician? He counted from uno to dos, then disappeared without a tres (trace).”

It definitely has a “had me in the first half” racist vibe, while not actually being problematic. Except one time he told it to someone who turned out to actually be an idiot racist. He was too stupid to understand the language pun, but heard “Mexican” in a joke and took it as an opening to tell some truly racist “jokes.”

I’ll sometimes tell the joke still by modifying it to “Spanish-speaking magician,” but I am very intentional about my audience after that experience.

I don’t love the “haha, women are hysterical” tone here, but also it’s a solid pun. So I say bravo to your shitpost. Anywhere else and it would not have been received well.

Username checks out.

I outlined what I’d guess is the rough shape of the cat behind the grass. Even after OP provided the cropped version, I definitely had to study the original pic to find where this spot of grass was.

Those are clearly line segments, not planes. /bad geometry joke

Ok fair enough. I’m choosing blissful* ignorance on this one.

*For a given value of “blissful,” given the shitshow of everything going on.