[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago
[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago

sheldon bazinga'd my dog

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's a bug. I've been getting it too, pretty sure it's related to how much stress the server is under. Give it a few minutes and refresh the page.

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Allegedly, but reddit also spent tons of money on stupid shit. My favorite example is their braindead stupid million dollar Superbowl ad, but they also doubled the number of employees to 1400 in 2021. And all they have to show for it is a slow, ugly website and a trashy, extra-monetized mobile app. Fuck em.

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Damn yall must have the shittiest popeyes, the biscuits at the one near me are so good

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