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That's because it's not your AI Shopping Assistant, it's their AI Salesperson.

You think the person at the car dealership is there to help you out?

If I remember correctly Sexologist Dr. Lindsey Doe has a story from her time as a student where she was in a lecture where a dude was talking about there being no evidence of a G-Spot, and joking about squirting as a concept being a made up porn gag, and she's sitting in the auditorium being like "but I experience G-Spot orgasms and squirt, like... often" 😅

Now, to be fair to the field at least a little bit, I understand why maybe she didn't want to stand up and shout "I routinely hammer my G-Spot and squirt all over the place" in front of her peers, and even in a clinical environment I could imagine it's not the most orgasm-conducive setting to have a bunch of electrodes and cameras and stuff setup and then to be like "okay, now please show us all what it's like at home. Anytime. We're all ready to watch"

Melania face, big dick grace, taking your camera home to your place

Sorta, but despite what some governments have decided, corporations typically aren't people. Most companies don't want to accumulate savings, the way humans do. Profit is cool, for sure, but companies don't save up for retirement, or go on vacations, or have kids. So some buffer to survive a less profitable year, or a costly watermain break or something, is prudent but that's where it might end.

Anything more than that, and maybe you hire some new staff, in which case that expense to you becomes income for your new employee, which they pay income tax on. Or you buy more merchandise, which the government may collect sales tax on. Or you may expand your office, and the government collects tax from the construction company and property tax on the new unit. Or you may offer a bonus to your existing employees, which is again income tax for them. Or you could issue dividends to shareholders, which they're taxed on when they receive them.

So the logic is that the things a company spends its money on are taxed in different ways, and the corporate income tax is basically the catch-all for "and then the rest of the money you didn't spend some other way"

Now, do we lowly humans typically get double-dipped when we have our income taxed, but then after that also sales tax when we buy stuff? Yes. Yes we do...

Not at all, but due to the chart it "doesn't matter". We don't actually need to relate the temperature of the oven to the temperature of the house. Sure they're both temperatures of a volume of air, but they're not related temperatures. One is essentially just an abstract number you set an oven to without thinking about it. 350 for "cold", 400 for "medium", 425 for "hot", and the rest are whatever the box or recipe says.

I remember one day being like "wait, if 212 is boiling in American, what temperature is 350?" and being surprised that ovens get way less hot than I intuitively thought they did, but it didn't really matter, because it's just a number on the oven and nothing else.

Or, like, yeah I know my height in feet and inches, but given that I don't typically measure distances by laying down and using myself as a guide, it doesn't really matter that this isn't how I'd measure a room. Or I know my weight in pounds, but that doesn't help me weigh butter.

I'm not justifying it, I think it would be better if we switched more fully, but it's not as detrimental as you might think. Most people don't use the temperature of their pool, their own weight, and the length of a sheet of paper in the same formula very often.

Up to no good???

In related news Israel is causing some mischief in the West Bank, and the Germans were real troublemakers in the early 40s. Some reports go so far as to call them scoundrels!

For sure. Or put a more direct way, someone needs to be making drinks at Starbucks when the rich-enough-to-survive go there, someone needs to be boiling noodles and chopping onions all day for when they want pasta at a restaurant, someone needs to stand in the sun next to hot asphalt and lay it so they can drive over it.

And if it's not the too-poor-to-live, it's the next wrung down.

I totally get what you're saying... but to be fair if you did allow people to deduct all the money they spent in a year from their income, it would specifically encourage a lot of people to spend every single dollar they earned just to avoid the taxes.

They'd be like "hang on, if I spend $3000 a month on rent I get taxed on the $1000 I have left over? What if I move to a place that costs $4000 a month? No taxes? That's what I've got to do then!"

Is that sensible? No. The tax they'd pay on the $1000 is way less than the extra $1000 they're planning on spending to avoid it, but people seem to have a real aversion to a little tax, and many would feel they "got something" for the extra money they spent on groceries or restaurants or rent, compared to the taxes which are simply taken from them.

I'm not saying it couldn't work, I'm not saying there aren't better ways to do it, and I'm definitely not saying there aren't weird cliffs in programs like this that lock people into poverty. But I'd be worried that people who are already wrong about graduated tax brackets, for example, would make a lot dumber choices if they felt they could spend $40 on fancier bread to avoid "$40 of taxes"

We, as a species, have basically failed to build a single one quantum computer that does anything. So... that's why they're not everything yet. It's because there are currently approximately zero.

And the few there kind of are are massive and requires liquid helium to cool them to ungodly cold temperatures. And even then they don't do much, besides allow researchers to test stuff.

A protocol is a shared set of expectations that allow two or more things to communicate. It says "I will announce myself in this way" and "these are the responses you should expect to this request" and "here's the list of all the things I know how to do", and if we both follow the protocol, then we both understand what's going to happen when we communicate.

Not when they met, though