[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I will not tolerate this vile and odious slander. Ratchet straps are far superior in most applications.

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I play this game at least a couple times a week. It's an all-time favorite!

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

As a youth I went on a backpacking trip. At designated camping spots they had latrines that were open air boxes with a toilet seat on top. They came in three configurations:

  • Solo, one seat
  • Pilot-to-copilot, two seats, side by side
  • Pilot-to-bombardier, two seats, back to back
[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not too different than on Windows. Stress tests, MemTest86, disable/enable XMP, double check voltage, update your BIOS. Check that your RAM is on the motherboard's qualified vendor list. It might be worth making a separate post about it.

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If your memory is not stable you're always going to have weird problems. I would get to the bottom of that first before anything else.

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

What did the government do to cause that?

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Aye. The Nvidia control center was cool when I installed it for my Ti 4600 in 2002 and not much has changed. I'm not particularly fond but the aesthetics of the Radeon software, but it beats the heck out of the semi-useless GeForce experience. I have to make an account just to see if there's a driver update available? I can't even control fan speeds in Windows without third party software?

They're both bad but in comparison Nvidia's offering is garbage.

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This is an excellent video by a physicist about crackpots: https://youtu.be/11lPhMSulSU?si=ZGslcTKyp5Wxt1KE

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More than that. You can depreciate the building (but not the land) to offset tax on the income but the bill eventually comes due because by depreciating it you're lowering your cost basis. For example you buy a property for $150k. If you depreciate it long enough it's worth $0. If you then sell it for $350k you have to pay tax on all $350k, not just the $200k gain in value.

However If you intend to use the proceeds from that sale to buy another investment property or properties you can do a 1031 exchange to roll your adjusted basis into the new property. Thus even when you sell it you don't have to pay the tax.

As you might, expect tax laws are written to benefit constituencies that politicians value highly. Wealthy donors are among those constituencies.

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You'd think so. On another completely unrelated note, isn't it unusual that every unarmed minority who gets killed by the police in an egregious enough way to garner public outcry totally deserved it for committing various offences that bear no relation to the killing?

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Please explain. My intuition suggests the opposite. The company's office is in San Jose. Presumably they have to pay high local market wages to retain workers. If they could hire remote workers willing to accept Peoria lL market wages they could conceivably get the same value of labor at lower cost.

20 years ago companies didn't demand local workers to staff their call centers to avoid competing with the entire world. They did the opposite, contracting out to the lowest bidders overseas and firing staff in the global north.

[-] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, and he would like to graduate into being obscenely rich through a successful IPO.

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