No luck about it. Luck is for people who don’t plan.

Yeah sure but it’s the scale and sincerity.

Me telling you my opinion on something is just that. I am just some guy. I don’t have access, or even want access, to a billion bots spamming my opinion.

Also my opinion even if applied really doesn’t mean much practically. Generally speaking I am pro infrastructure so if somehow the government spent more money on infrastructure that only translates, at best, to a small raise on my part. Not the same as say a major corp.

You see a community board where people can put up ads. What you expect to see are piano lessons, apartment for rent, tutoring etc. little things that really only matter to one person. You don’t expect some megacorp to rip every sign down and turn it into a billboard that blasts from speakers each time someone walks past.

Basically it’s a question of degree not of kind. It might be that it is all the same kind but the degree is so vastly different.

To be fair mods did try to take action against that and they did have tools. How well they worked is not something I will pretend to even guess at.

I feel like when I run into an old friend and they tell me my ex is in rehab.

I would love for their to be a town somewhere where this was a very sensible sign and not humor at all.

It wasn’t Tuesday it was T u e s d a y. I am assuming it’s like a normal Tuesday but in some uncanny valley creepy form.

Must be an interesting audit.

IRS agent: so you put down that you received a “Cincinnati Steamer” as part of your compensation for employing this vendor.

Dude: that’s right

IRS agent: please describe what goes into a Cincinnati Steamer so I can assign it to a category or categories. Also do you happen to have her W2s and social security number?

Dude: sure, and no I don’t have her paperwork. Surprisingly she didn’t share it with me.

I imagine what is going on is the answers on the multiple choice questions weren’t random and you were picking up on the pattern then retroconing a justification. Say for example

• A. 12
• B. 14
• C. 11
• D. 68

You threw out D right away because it was much different and argued that it had to be A or C because being off by one is an easy mistake. Now it’s just a question if even or odd, so you looked for a divide by 2. If found you went odd, if you found a multiple by 2 you went even.

Added to this you probably noticed a pattern. If C was the correct answer the next one was always A, etc.

If you aren’t convinced that its just really good test taking ability it would be pretty easy to use an AI and make it quiz you.

Well on the bright side I am sure this person has a bunch of new followers on X. Granted most of them are trying to build a criminal case against him for further profoundly dumb posts but still. All publicity is good publicity

They thought about it but were too afraid of the IRS to do it.

It used to be tax deductable to bribe government officials of foreign governments.

Unrelated, if you get bribed in time with a hooker do you report it based on what she charges or fair market rate or is there a set amount? I feel like someone at the IRS sat down and came up with an answer to this.

I wonder when they will go all Boeing and GE. The day when all they will have left is the ability to buy their own stock and lobby from the government for free money. Imagine the platonic peak form of health insurance. Processing no claims whatsoever.

Funny picture, not accurate, but pretty funny. The US is the only developed nation with a life expectancy going down. Hovering around a low established in 1996. Canada on the other hand continues to increase with a tiny rate of growth dip during the worse of Covid. Worse pandemic in its history and all she gets it from it was people were living longer each year at a slower rate.

The proceeding was a paid message brought to you by Atena.

Atena, the last time we paid out was 1998 and we fired the person who did that so it won’t happen again.

People with broken cameras have no money and their data isn’t worth selling.

3. Won’t happen.

Privately peeing on a grave.

Some insurance group put up a billboard on the route I use to go to work telling us how we all suffer from insurance fraud.

Each and every time I went past it I would try to imagine how much I would have to hate a person in order to side with the enemy against them. No saint and I never pretended to be one but I still wouldn’t do that.

I swear I can tell who grew up with a lot of siblings by how they eat.

Bet she is the fifth dentist as well