memes

This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Imgonnatrythis, in 80085

Anyone able to get this to play?

MasterNerd, in I prefer speeds per Swedes
@MasterNerd@lemm.ee avatar

Dude it’s such an easy conversion between dongles and whatsits, you just don’t get how intuitive it is. There are 42.48 whatsits in a dongle, and 17.49 dongles in a shlorp. Europeans are overreacting so much

MissJinx,
@MissJinx@lemmy.world avatar

“Europeans” LOL try the rest od the world

MisterFrog,
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world avatar

I feel like this is part of the the joke because Americans often focus on Europeans when metric comes up. I’m Australian, and I have been assumed to be in Europe a number of times by US internet commenters on the topic haha

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

You recognize the monarchy, so it’s close enough.

/s

Obi, (edited )
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

More importantly they participate in Eurovision so really that says it all. I for one welcome our down under cousins to the continent.

MasterNerd,
@MasterNerd@lemm.ee avatar

There was this one redditor a few years ago who thought I was European because I held different values than him (I’m American). Man am I glad I don’t use Reddit anymore

MisterFrog,
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world avatar

Pretty sure that makes you a dirty commie

Lucidlethargy,

To be fair, Europeans complain the most about it.

Ranvier, in I prefer speeds per Swedes
FilthyShrooms,
@FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world avatar
TWeaK, in IRS be like

The only certainties are death and taxes, but I’m still waiting on both to catch up with me.

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

Fyi, if the IRS thinks you are dead, they stop coming after the taxes. I'm not totally clear on the legalities of it, though.

TWeaK,

Yeah that’s what I was thinking, potentially only one of them could win the race!

SnotFlickerman, (edited ) in IRS be like
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Poor people can’t afford lawyers to fight back.

Rich people can.

Ergot Ergo, they aim at poor people way more often.

Daxtron2,

Not sure what grain fungus has to do with it

thebuoyancyofcitrus,

Well, they are pretty clearly tripping, so maybe grain fungus has more to do with it than we realize.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Nice catch.

kpw,

The Pentagon is not some rich dude with lawyers.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah not my fault its a badly considered meme.

I was just responding to the second half.

The IRS isn’t in charge of auditing the Pentagon, congress is.

Grayox,
@Grayox@lemmy.ml avatar
kpw,

The military also doesn't make any revenue probably.

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh it does, just for private entities.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

Ergot, they aim at poor people way more often.

Or 99.9% of people are poor lol.

Besides, thank you Biden.

www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/…/71486513007/

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

The IRS can audit the ultra wealthy exclusively and it still wont really change how fucked taxes are in the US. The tax brackets are a fucking wreck, capital gains is a joke, and estate tax is basically non existent.

It’s like cheering for Biden for really sticking it to those rich folk when he’s just checking their couch for quarters.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

Ah true, guess we better do nothing rather than search for billion dollar quarters in the trillionaire holding elite class.

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

That’s what I am saying, this is nothing and we shouldn’t be celebrating nothing. It’s not like they fixed the Trump admin’s tax changes, it’s not like they’re taxing the wealthy more.

To do more than nothing takes an act of Congress and they’re not doing anything, they’re doing nothing. This is the legal equivalent of 4th grade graduation ceremonies.

EatYouWell,

We really just need a corporate revenue tax. Any other method of taxing the ultra wealthy will be abused so that the ultra wealthy are the only ones not paying it

mrchuckles,

ergotism is a sick grim salvo reference

IWantToFuckSpez, in IRS be like

It’s just a missing missile or two here and there

shiveyarbles,

You dissing the missing fissile missile ?

Zipitydew,

And in some cases they’ve found more. The miss numbers being thrown around are typically aggregate of all overage and underage combined. That way all errors are highlighted and the overages don’t net out some underages.

The other funny thing is how it’s fucking Russia. These audits are partially why old assets were depreciated even further. Which freed up more “spending” for Ukraine.

I’m even old enough to remember Republicans started this whole thing as a gotcha to Clinton. It was so they could prove with all the departments being audited that taxes could be cut. Then the only department that got a pass was DoD. Right when Bush came in. And they then kicked that can a few more times until Obama was President. Then it was suddenly a big deal to Republicans again for DoD to finally start doing audits.

pingveno,

So these are basically audits that are designed to fail for political points, or at least that’s how it started?

Zipitydew,

Mostly yes. The Newt Gingrich lead house Republicans wanted to do anything they could to make Clinton look bad. Somewhere around 97 these audits started across all federal offices. Point being to “prove” waste was happening and taxes for rich people could be cut. Dems went along with it because it’s not actually a bad idea. But right out of the gate the Republicans made sure DoD was given a pass.

JeSuisUnHombre, in what's your best "insecure boss" story?

I don’t have a story in particular, but any time there’s any critique directed towards my boss he will make up some excuse for his actions. It seems like he takes any critique as a personal attack and obviously the critic in question is the problem while refusing to address the substance of said critique. Makes it impossible for any improvement to occur and is very exhausting.

Starglasses, (edited )

This is my parents.

Showing them they defend every single critique… is a critique. I’ve emphasized in so many ways how what they did wasn’t a big deal, how I’m not mad, how it’s ok and it’s a nothing-burger. I’ve given them literal scripts of what they could say. I’ve sent articles, videos, infographics that could help them understand and ways to be able to accept that what they did was a mistake an that it won’t make them a pariah. Telling them dozens of examples of times when I or anyone else has made a mistake and then apologized and fixed it when it was pointed out and everything was fine… nothing.

They don’t change. Like you said, the critique is the problem, it’s not the problem that’s the problem to them.

Just own it, make it right, and let some time heal any embarrassment that’s felt.

Just had to vent.

OutlierBlue,

Sounds like you were raised by narcissists.

Zipitydew, in IRS be like

I get the intent here, but it’s a really bad comparison. It’s certainly easy to get confused about without base level awareness of finance and accounting things.

The DoD is a government cost center. It doesn’t generate revenue. Therefore nothing to tax. Meaning nothing for the IRS to audit.

That’s why the federal government has other audit authorities and often contracts independent auditors to help. Those people are auditing department spending and assets related though. This type of audit is not to check if taxes are owed. It’s more like making sure the department bank account is correct to keep this simple.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This. Congress is in control of auditing the Pentagon.

The most the IRS would do would be auditing the incomes of people who work at the Pentagon.

Badly put together meme.

JoYo,
@JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

s/IRS/GSA/

TurtleJoe,
@TurtleJoe@lemmy.world avatar

I also want to add that many landlords were beginning to demand that their tenants pay with venmo, or other e-payment services, and those leeches need to pay their taxes.

ryathal,

Which the IRS has acted on, and most these platforms have to send documents to the IRS for anyone that crosses a certain threshold. They are going to have to prove it isn’t income or claim it.

pingveno, (edited )

I found this article on the audit. It’s also about boring but necessary things like stockpile management, automation, climate risk, and bookkeeping. It’s broken into 30 sub-audits. It sounds like all of these must be fully passed as “clean” for an audit to not be considered failing.

galloog1,

Yep, I’m not sure why folks think this is anything more than some company lost a gas mask somewhere. It’s me… I’m the problem it’s me.

7u5k3n, in what's your best "insecure boss" story?

This is so accurate. My boss is a fragile delicate flower.

Even_Adder, in 80085

Why do those waveforms look so loud?

Honytawk,

Very excited breathing

scytale, (edited )

He’s applying the wall of sound technique. Everyone knows women like overcompressed mixes with no dynamics.

Aggravationstation,

They’re both extended cuts of Horny '98 by Mousse T.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH8WvayAo1M

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kt_xgFJxBM

Bronco1676,

It’s delivered quietly, so that should be okay

kippinitreal, (edited ) in what's your best "insecure boss" story?

My manager missed a pretty useless meeting due to a genuine personal reason, but I did attend. When we met up to update him on what happened, he talked for 15 mins out of 20 about how he’d have taken care of everything if he was there. He even sent out 3 - 4 emails to the organizers apologizing, they didn’t care too much.

If you spend more time apologizing for missing a meeting than the actual meeting took, that screams insecure to me.

Edit: a week later 25% of managers his level were laid off. He probably knew what was going to happen, wondering if he was on the chopping block

camelbeard, in mayo

Mayonaise is amazing and it beats ketchup on fries 100%

hydrospanner,

You from Holland?

camelbeard,

Yes, this post is an insult on our culture 😂

DeepGradientAscent,
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

No, you know what’s an insult? “Traditional” Dutch “cuisine”. It’s no wonder you chucklefucks smother your fries in Mayo. Look at how you “season” your food! I bet you think water is too spicy.

camelbeard,

How do you think we season our food exactly?

DeepGradientAscent, (edited )
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

I’ve lived in the Netherlands since July 2022. From what I’ve witnessed, it’s a few picograms of salt and phlegm when you people pronounce the letter “G”.

camelbeard,

We hate salt, it reminds us of our worst enemy, the sea.

DeepGradientAscent, (edited )
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

Yeah. That’s why I mentioned it’s a few picograms of it. Any more, and the lot of you will have a heat stroke.

hydrospanner,

Step one: Colonize the fuck out of Asia with your chartered megacorp.

camelbeard,

We just voted for a radical extremist, so guess step one is half way done?

hydrospanner,

(It was a joke about the Dutch East India Company.)

DeepGradientAscent,
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

And their “food” still sucks. 🤣

Apeman42, in I prefer speeds per Swedes
@Apeman42@lemmy.world avatar

Wait, when did Michael Cera play Chekov?

Plibbert, in what's your best "insecure boss" story?

Got a new boss once my company merged. First round table meeting and he starts attacking our imaging team for not working fast enough, claiming all received requests should and could be boxed and shipped within 48 hours of being received.

After the imaging team kinda fumbled their words, I stepped in and just flat out said that is not true, not of what he said was true. Then explained why. Having to break it down for him that these are office tech workers that support one of the largest teams with the highest turnovers. They don’t have the luxury of sitting down and doing nothing but one thing consistently.

The guys hasn’t spoken to me in almost 2 years sense. Other than “hey I’m sick, hey I’m going on PTO, e.t.c.” he passively snaps at me if I speak up in team meetings now. It’s fuckin hilarious.

SpaceNoodle,

More like 2 years nonsense

Plibbert,

Lol that took me a while, but I see what you did there. Nice lol.

psmgx, in IRS be like

IRS ain’t going after the DoD. Not their job.

GAO is supposed to do that, and they regularly publish scathing reports about all sorts of DoD shit. Public, too

SpaceNoodle,

Reports which nobody reads and carry no consequences.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • memes@lemmy.ml
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 22137968 bytes) in /var/www/kbin/kbin/vendor/symfony/http-kernel/Profiler/FileProfilerStorage.php on line 174

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 10330696 bytes) in /var/www/kbin/kbin/vendor/symfony/error-handler/ErrorRenderer/HtmlErrorRenderer.php on line 339