MyBrainHurts

No idea what you're trying to say.

You should probably read what OP wrote and what I responded to. Military control to prevent an opponent from taking power is almost literally the definition of authoritarian.

Like I said: >Politically, they Impeached trump and only craven Republicans saved him. You know what could have given trump problems? More Dems in the Senate either time he was Impeached!

You would probably refer to me as an authoritarian yeah

You are correct

And the answer to rising fascism is not trying to replace a popular authoritarian with an unpopular one.

Unfortunately, everyone can call anyone a fascist. That's the entire problem. Any system wherein one group can just dismantle another because of their politics will be abused. If whatever magical law/mechanism your nonsense required existed and had been used after the 2020 election, trump's successor would simply have done the same thing to the Democrats next time but we'd be even worse off as there would be no constraints on their power and no viable opposition, unlike the Dems who now stand a Puncher's chance in the goddamn Senate. Being the good guy is difficult but the road you propose inexorably leads to authoritarianism. I get that politics is slow and boring but this isn't a video game.

Trump and crew literally attempted to overturn the election and the Dems did next to nothing

Are you forgetting how almost everyone who stormed the Capitol was arrested?

Politically, they Impeached trump and only craven Republicans saved him.

The rest is supposed to be on the voters, more than half of whom decided they were okay with what had happened. As is their unfortunate democratic right, that’s literally how it works.

they did nothing to prevent fascism. The fascist did not face serious detrimental consequences of any kind.

That is the trumpiest and scariest line of thinking possible. Elections are not meant to punish the losing side.

The very fact the Dems won in an election is a demonstration that they weren’t battling fascists yet.

This is crazy dumb.

It's almost like you have to win the election...

I don’t know the organization so can’t speak to the source or their methodology but they do note: The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes. All of which seem pretty reasonable. If you don’t have the money for a professional, at least checking with something that is right more often than not with some basic questions seems perfectly reasonable. From the reactions above, it seems people are assuming they’re just asking chatgpt to do all their taxes, which doesn’t appear to be the case.

Neither the article, nor source make a distinction as to whether it’s a general purpose LLM or purpose built software. So it really depends on the question that the poll asked, which as far as I can tell, is not shared. Edit: Even TurboTax, notes that AI has some useful applications for taxes: https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tips/should-ai-do-my-taxes-canada Basically, I’d just be careful about wailing and gnashing of teeth when we’re of even confident of the context. Using AI might be as simple as “what does box 1134a refer to?”

I mean, a lot of tax stuff is automated. Mine are pretty straightforward so turboTax handles a huge chunk of the work…

Optics aren’t great and it’s not like he has qualified people helping but honestly, I still think I want Donald as far away from a problem as possible just so he can’t make it even worse.

Me everytime my calf muscle does anything that is any way unexpected: Please Jesus no, please!

Oh fully agree. I’m in a similar spot though I’m an okay-ish manager, I don’t like it and much prefer my actual job. I’m not sure how common my experience is as I work in a large non profit and while union, my union group is pretty free wheeling (fewer protections but fewer restrictions.) Anyway, we’ve gotten around the problem by just adding words to or changing words in my title. This has had the effect of allowing me to do my job, get raises as basically deserved and look like I’m advancing. Admittedly, my manager etc are very understanding and most of the senior leadership knows me, so take from that what you will.

I wouldn’t want the hardest worker to be the automatic promotion. We’ve all worked with someone who means well, works hard but is dumb as a brick. God help us if they get promoted.

It’s free and using it means I don’t have to support American tech companies.

I’ve legit wondered about this and one of the many reasons I don’t want kids is I don’t think it’d be fair to inflict my lifestyle on them, no matter how morally correct I feel. My basic thought though is that as long as social media is the dominant means by which cultural trends are spread and amplified, anti-consumerism will be hard to spread. Once modern social media became dominant, social justice pivoted from our own sins (wearing slave made clothes, children losing limbs for our new phones etc) and switched to dunking on public figures and large systemic forces. I think that’s because it’s much easier to share, make jokes about etc evils that you are not currently doing. That is to say, it’s a lot easier to make memes about say, OscarsSoWhite when none of us are in the Academy than say, “my shoes are made by kids who occasionally burn to death” while many folks are wearing those types of shoes.

And I just got a better job after having a bad one. I’ve also known addicts who’ve quit. Does that mean “just get a better job” “just quit your addiction” and “reject consumerism” are reasonable answers to people struggling?

This is the same as “I would just have a better job.” Some normal folks are out there, trying to give their kids as normal a life as they can despite their financial circumstances and not all of them are as enlightened as you claim to be online.

It’s fucked but with a charitable view, I can see some logic. For all the nonsense, there are a handful of good deals on the Friday/Monday. If I were living paycheque to paycheque, seems like a bnpl scheme could let me budget say, November to February for christmas gifts, interest free unlike a credit card. That being said, that’s the theory. I imagine a lot of folks end up in over their heads much like credit cards etc.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hegseth-ssecretary-of-war-name-plate/ I’d guess it’s still ai generated in that someone asked an ai to print their labels.