woaw!

sheldon bazinga’d my dog

pretty much everyone from lemmygrad and hexbear dismiss anything from any western outlet as propaganda while uncritically spouting insanity from the putin regime or the ccp.

i saw someone unironically posting about “democratic dictatorship” yesterday. good times

and im taking the hat with me

It’s not the same. Most people calling the 2016 election a sham will admit that Trump did technically win by the rules as written, but also think that those rules are bullshit because they allowed a multi-million person majority to be shut out in favor of a malevolent moron. The people saying Biden lost are saying he literally cheated and that there’s a conspiracy of thousands of government employees collaborating to break the rules and subvert the will of the people; that the multi-million majority literally doesn’t exist. This is just as disingenuous as comparing the top secret documents that Trump hid to the ones that Biden and Pence handed over immediately on request.

You are dying on an an hill made of data chosen in piecemeal by news outlets that profit off of your attention.

mk bud. i cant believe you still dont understand why those rates are misleading. good luck out there

Your statistic doesn’t support your conclusion. His statement is not contradicted, and is in fact true.

Several articles about how poorer taxpayers are significantly more likely to be targeted:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/irs-targeted-poorest-taxpayers-millionaires-went-unscathed-2022-report

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-audit-eitc-five-times-as-likely-to-get-audited/

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor

An article about how audit rates are dropping in general, and dropping fastest for those with the highest incomes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2022/05/18/irs-tax-return-audit-rates-plummet/?sh=642e0b711cca

I never said to ignore it for low income taxpayers, but the statistic you provided is incredibly misleading. Plus the IRS would recoup far more money by auditing higher income taxpayers at much greater rates.

the misleading thing about that statistic is that there are far, far fewer wealthy people than there are normal. even with the rate of audits technically being lower, the number of audits of normal people is still far, far greater, and is where the IRS’s focus truly is

being justified or not has nothing to do with whether something is violent. if someone is getting hurt, maimed, or killed, that’s violence, no matter how much they deserve it.

they just pop out of holes in the ground

Meta/Facebook and Google/Alphabet are very different from Twitter/X. The first two created parent companies under which their large brand names still exist, but are now managed along with their other properties (Instagram, Snapchat, Waymo, Deepmind, etc.) Musk, meanwhile, is trying to completely burn down the Twitter brand for some incomprehensible reason.

nope.avi’s long lost brother, AAAAAA.jpeg

Actually it’s worse than nothing. Youtube promotes comments based on engagement, so while only an upvote increases the tally, voting at all still makes it more visible.

You wouldn’t have had anywhere near this much time before payments resumed if not for dems

it’s uncanny

So many good ones. Eternal Starlight is extremely replayable and is pretty unique in VR space strategy. The Last Clockwinder can be hard to get used to, but feels like a Hayao Miyazaki movie translated into a VR game. Into the Radius is very much inspired by Stalker and is the best VR roleplaying game I’ve come across so far; it should have a whole genre of games following in its wake, even if it is a bit buggy. Lazerbait is super simple and is free; a fantastic game for putting on some music and zoning out for a while. And it’s not VR exclusive, but House of the Dying Sun is by far the best VR starfighter game I’ve found. Please please please if you have any recommendations for VR starfighters, tell me, I’ve tried so many and it’s the only one that scratches the itch!

Also check out the whole Half-Life library. Half Life 2 + the episodes have a free VR mod that kicks ass. Half Life 1 also has a VR mod, but it kinda sucks ass instead… still free though, and under active development. And Alyx has some really good community levels coming out, even if they are infrequent. If you haven’t checked in for a while, Re-Education is incredibly good, as is Post-Human if you’re not reliant on Vulkan rendering. Honorable mentions to Extra-Ordinary Value and Operator. And Levitation is really pretty… if flawed in other ways. There are some really underrated levels if you’re willing to dig into the list, although there are also some with ratings much higher than they deserve…

Also deserving a mention is Contractors, which has a really easy in-game modding system similar to Blade & Sorcery’s mod.io integration. Just be ready for some jank, a nonfunctional singleplayer mode that shouldn’t even be in the game as is, and a lot of wondering “is that guy cheating?”

This is getting to be too much of an essay, but there are still some decent titles I’m missing. Amid Evil, Orbital Strike, Grapple Tournament, Red Matter, VTOL… and a bunch of stuff on my wishlist I’m sure will be good.

Don’t let anyone tell you VR doesn’t have a library!