That tracks for finance though. Many in that industry are the grind hard in your 20s-30s, retire in Thailand in your 40s type.

Eh, kind of both.

When researchers peeked into which areas of the image were being used, it showed that the tiny camera watermark from the Google Streetview car was being used by the model a lot.

That is, the recognition system had learned all the routes every Google Street view car had taken, and was using that in its recognition process.

Not all images have this watermark though, so in the cases the watermark didn’t exist it then resorts to more traditional geoguessr tactics.

Nope, they definitely do. The specific assets and schemes differ across wealth levels and also across time as laws change, but the general principles of finding and exploiting loopholes remain the same.

The middle class negatively gears property despite the property gaining in capital terms. The ultra wealthy negatively gears sports teams despite the team gaining in capital terms.

The middle class deducts fancy electronics and cars as “hobbies”. The ultra wealthy deducts entire luxury hotels and horse racing clubs as “hobbies”.

The middle class stuffs income into retirement accounts. The ultra wealthy stuffs assets, which are way more fungible in value, into retirement accounts.

The Secret IRS Files Archives — ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/series/the-secret-irs-files

Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale — ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-tax-avoidance-techniques-irs-files

More Than Half of America’s 100 Richest People Exploit Special Trusts to Avoid Estate Taxes — ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/more-than-half-of-americas-100-richest-people-exploit-special-trusts-to-avoid-estate-taxes

A basic one is negative gearing + trusts + cheap loans.

Negative gearing allows you to deduct/combine different income streams together to reduce your taxable income, and hence tax liability.

Traditionally used by middle/upper middle class to deduct mortgage interest payments and reduce their taxable income.

Rich(er) people combine this with trusts to distribute income/expenses among trust beneficiaries for something more tax advantageous. Usually this is someone like a spouse, child, or extended family member.

Add on the fact that rich people get cheaper loans, which often makes it cheaper to finance day to day life with loans, and only draw down (ie realise capital gains) after shuffling around incomes/expenses for a year.

Tax loopholes are basically legal ways to shift the timing and benefiary of income/expenses. There’s a bunch of other ones, like

• choice of depreciation calculation
• purchasing things on behalf of a “trust” or “company”
• getting paid in low tax jurisdictions
• moving money into tax advantageous retirement accounts

Yes.

Spoilers for every Monster Hunter plot:

The monsters in the wild are becoming way more aggressive/crazy, resulting in not only the ecosystem going out of whack, but also endangering human settlements.

You start off as a rookie hunter by culling them, and as you work up the ranks you discover that the source of this imbalance is actually due to a mysterious new monster (not actually that mysterious because it’s usually the cover art monster).

You gradually gain more experience and kill the flagship monster, graduating low rank (the first half of the game), roll credits.

But it turns out the mysterious new monster only invaded the ecosystem because it was escaping from an even bigger threat, the new Elder Dragon of the game, whose awakening is a once in a 1000 year occurrence and is causing even more mayhem in the ecosystem.

You work up the ranks again, and slay the Elder Dragon, graduating high rank (second half of game), credits roll for second time.

Rinse and repeat for the G rank DLC/expansion, where you also get some new areas.

Canonically everything is done for the ecosystem. Gameplay wise there is significant dissonance as you genocide multiple species just for a 1% drop to upgrade your corpse dress.

Employers: use shitty recruitment platforms, ATS, and internal systems that require Chrome to even function correctly

Also employers:

Microsoft Tay

Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from Twitter | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/tay-microsofts-ai-chatbot-gets-a-crash-course-in-racism-from-twitter

I respect the pedantry, but I was trying say that I was using the “Anglo” - which in casual speech is short for the casual “Anglo-Saxon”, itself short for White Anglo Saxon Protestant.

I remember I had this exact same conversation IRL, and we determined that the confusion and somewhat jargony nature of the latter two terms (especially since WASP isn’t well understood outside the US) was why people in casual speech just use the ambiguous “Anglo”.

Semantics 🤷‍♂️

Oop, I meant Anglo, as in the the shortened version of Anglo Saxon (basically Germanic).

Poor people using spices to cover rotting food is a complete myth falsely attributed to the Middle Ages. Spices were incredibly expensive and a luxury limited to the upper class - anyone rich enough to afford spices did not have to worry about rotting food.

The actual reason for the perceived blandness of White American food is basically the converse of this. Stereotypical white suburban food is probably closest to mid western cuisine.

The mid west was uniquely isolated from Spanish, French, or Italian influence (which were heavier in tastes), lacked international trade to get any spices, and as the nation’s bread bowl specialised in and received lots of subsidies for growing staple crops, like corn.

Ethnically, its white populace is overrepresented by more Anglo ethnicities, like the British, German, and Nordic, which also had more, shall we say, limited palates.

Spices Were Used to Mask the Taste of Bad Meat in the Middle Ages? - https://culinarylore.com/food-history:spices-used-to-cover-taste-bad-meat/

More like bill of wrongs amirite

“If you turn a new leaf, it’s the same leaf” - Kandy Muse

Usual suspects

Heartbreaking: cancer diagnosed with Mitch McConnell

US laws: money is speech

People: OK, we’ll just choose to not spend money with those we dislike

US laws: that’s illegal

(Anti BDS laws)

Ironically the French are very passionate about their cheese made from raw milk.

It’s still classified as somewhat dangerous, and people in high risk categories are advised not to consume it.

11 sick in French cheese E. coli outbreak | DAIRYSAFE - https://dairy-safe.com.au/11-sick-in-french-cheese-e-coli-outbreak/

Already happened half a decade ago, with “real men wear diapers”

Yep, laser toner is literally plastic dust that gets rolled on then baked. That’s why it doesn’t smudge or rub off when wet - it’s plastic.

That’s why there’s so many large warnings to properly recycle toner cartridges.

Tbf as long as the toner doesn’t spill anywhere, the risk is lower than other background sources like tyre dust. Still gives me the hereby jeebies though.

How printer dust is polluting the air? – TCTEC® Innovation - https://tctecinnovation.com/blogs/daily-blog/how-printer-dust-is-polluting-the-air

Laser toner is literally micro plastic powder that gets rolled onto paper then baked, mmm

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