I know. We’ve had this conversation before.

That’s the only one where the pronunciation actually is thorn. The rest are eth (ð).

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Nobody here is upset - I pointed out that Lemmings are hypocrites in one specific area, they predictably didn’t like that and upped the vitriol, and I returned as good as I got. I’m very used to voicing uncomfortable truths on the internet - there’s no need for this weird, patronizing coddling thing you’ve got going on.

I’m more concerned with the hypocrisy than the tone policing myself, but either way I’m only returning the energy I’m being given.

You’re giving me the same “well if you don’t like it then you should just leave” rhetoric that Republicans use in response to my efforts to make this a better place? This thread is a hell of a trip.

The irony of posting this comment in this specific chain would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.

Whatever gets you past the cognitive dissonance, chief.

I mean, federal overreach can certainly be seen as kinda like fascism, I suppose, though I think it dilutes an important term to say so under normal circumstances.

Under the current administration, yeah, it’s definitely fascism.

That’s the spirit! Anyone with a different opinion from mine can only be trolling, and doubly so if their opinion requires me to - gasp - question literally anything at all. Echo chambers are the Lemmy way, after all.

Except you don’t have to look 150 years ago to find literally dozens of modern issues where Lemmy happens to disagree with an individual state’s decision and demands that whatever issue it is be blanket mandated at the federal level.

Actually supporting states’ rights means supporting their right to sovereignty even when they make decisions you disagree with. The way Lemmy does it is to constantly demand federalization until the rare occasion when states’ rights happen to be useful to their argument, and then suddenly they’re all literalist constitutional scholars.

Funny how gung ho Lemmy is about states’ rights all of a sudden.

This is a non-story (except for the continuing fact that the way stock options are taxed is bullshit, and that Elmo’s tax breaks should be extra scrutinized due to his suspiciously close relationship with the administration).

Tesla not paying taxes is a good thing, because it means they’re losing buckets of money from people not buying their trash cars.

Tesla’s revenue being 4 billion or 10 trillion doesn’t matter if their expenses exceed that income - you don’t pay taxes on your business either if your business expenses exceed your revenue, and you can carry forward your own losses to future tax years as well.

And accelerated depreciation is perfectly consistent with GAAP as long as you’re consistent with your reporting - it just means you get more of a tax benefit on depreciation in the short-term and lose out on that benefit in the long-term.

I had the same problem

I’m still going strong two years later! :D

Had me in the first half.

They definitely do similar things though. I was out at dinner with some of my Japanese coworkers and one of them was having steak (suteeki in Japanese). I asked him if it was suteki (“great, wonderful, attractive”) and they all groaned and said I was telling “oyaji gyagu” (old man/dad jokes).

It does too many things too well.

Exactly. Under no circumstances should people actually take responsibility for their actions and decisions!

Oops, thanks, I was watching it on my phone and grabbed the wrong link from Duckduckgo. I’ve corrected the link to point to their video.

Note that it is back up - I’m watching it on their channel on my phone right now.