Carl @ Carl @lemm.ee

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This pretty much. The IRS already knows how much you've paid them and can easily calculate how much you probably owe - they could easily switch to a system where they just send you a check/bill at the end of the year depending on the balance and that you only would have to file if you have a special tax situation, but they won't as long as tax filing is an industry.

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So how do you account for the fact that, in many instances where a white person and a black person have the exact same qualifications, the white person will be far more likely to be hired?

How do you account for the fact that many people who are racial minorities aren't born into families that can afford things like living in a house that doesn't have leaded paint on the walls, meaning that a black person who has the exact same qualifications as a white person has had to work a lot harder to overcome their disadvantages to get those qualifications?

How do you account for the fact that diverse teams of individuals simply produce better results in the free market than homogeneous ones as a result of their more varied viewpoints?

There are so many reasons why "equity based on gender or skin color" for hiring and college applications and so on is absolutely necessary to address the inequities in our society, and why the baby steps that we've made since the civil rights movement haven't been nearly enough to address the problems that they were meant to address. Frankly we should be talking about reparations in the form of just straight up giving large swathes of land and fat stacks of cash to certain groups, especially African Americans and American Indians, not these piddly little affirmative action programs that only kind of exist in colleges but everyone assumes exist everywhere else too.

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Nobody is brought down in the name of equity. What is brought down are the systems that privilege certain people based on aspects of themselves that they cannot control. If you think that tearing down white supremacy and patriarchy is the same as tearing down white people and men, then you need to ask yourself why you think that those groups of people are inseparable from their privileges

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No argument here, Hollywood has always had lazy and awful shit and their attempts at lazy and awful inclusion are bad. Often the very groups that Hollywood directors purport to represent come out hard against bad representation too - like that french trans cartel leader film that just came out where the director said he didn't bother researching Mexico or Mexican culture before making a film that takes place there and where everyone speaks Spanish really badly.

Used free file myself and it works great, if you haven't filed your taxes yet this year better do it fast before the site gets taken down!

I just think there's a contradiction in a) continuing to use a platform that is developed primarily by Communists and b) thinking that the platform being associated with Communists "actively harmful to the reputation of the Lemmyverse". The fact is that the Lemmyverse is associated with Communists - or "tankies" as you insist on calling them - and so if that's its reputation then the reputation is accurate.

the reputation of the Lemmy-verse

As long as the main devs of Lemmy are Dessalines and other communists, then the reputation of the Lemmy-verse being tied to a bunch of highly communist instances is just an objectively correct fact. Liberals are free to fork their own version of the software and call it something else.

You can tell they're communists cuz they live rent free in the heads of every .world user.

Just checking: John Brown did nothing wrong, slave owners should be killed.

i dunno that monkey makes a good point

There's no way that they should be allowed to advertise "no ads" when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government... right?

I don't understand why you seem to think that this is a bad thing. Scorcese is a top ten of all time in his field - if every director who wasn't as good as he is just gave up then we wouldn't have any directors.

He's actually just wrong. Nolan has a lot of action scenes in a lot of his movies, and while some of them do suck most of them are actually pretty great.

The fact that Nolan puts in the effort to try to elevate his films above being popcorn slop is often what makes them stand out even if they sometimes fall short in other ways. If every director just painted by numbers then every movie would be a Marvel movie.

There's a studied effect on pro athletes where getting paid to play makes them lose their love of the game, and I think it's something like that. Anecdotally I used to love acting but I didn't even last a year in the theatre industry before I burned out and haven't acted in a single thing since.

The first wave of Cuban immigrants to the US came immediately after the revolution, and it was mostly rich people. Castro was redistributing the land and the wealth, executing former police torturers, and going after crime lords who had been safe under the Batista regime, and every worm that could escape did so. These types were allowed into the US for their propaganda value because of course they wouldn't have any trouble going on TV and talking about how horrible communism was and crying about how their plantations were taken away from them by the government. That group of rich people and cops was already right wing by American standards when they came here, and set the tone for all Cuban migrants who came after.

Ironically enough, a great solution to this problem would be to bring in Chinese experts to train American workers. The USD still spends.

When it comes to presidential assassinations, there's really no replacing the efficacy of Marine Corps marksmanship training.

My last tech job gave me a Microsoft Surface, which possibly explains why I was hired with the promise that things would be really busy, barely did anything for a year, and then got let go because there just wasn't enough work to justify retaining my position.

They're not doing it on purpose. The people currently making these decisions do not understand the government, what it does, why it is powerful, where the money comes from, etc. It's like someone stripping the copper wiring out of their own house.

Treantmonk is a guy who does in-depth D&D math, I've been playing that game using his ideas for like two decades now and his channel is called Treantmonk's Temple

the CCP is evil, Ukraine

Do, uh, do you know which country it was that invaded Ukraine?