It’s missing the bit where he starts screaming “You will not replace us!” and accusing them of pedophilia.

If they charge you for your being late, they should have to pay you when they’re late.

That’s not how cartels work.

Word is just a shitty application for text.

It’s fine. People love to shit on the app because Microsoft Bad. But it’s living at the rough midpoint of application quality, at least in it’s modern incarnation.

PowerPoint, likewise, is a shitty slide show application.

As a slideshow app, it’s another perfectly fine piece of software.

What’s disgusting about PowerPoint isn’t the app but the LinkedIn psychos who use it

I think we’ll eventually see folks migrate to Jupiter Notebook style data entry and management. But they’re relatively new and not well-integrated into modern workflows.

For the time being, people are brought into offices and trained on Excel, get comfortable with Excel, and continue to use Excel because that’s how they spend the bulk of their hours. You’ve got networking effect and priors cementing these apps as the go-to for an entire generation.

The premise of MAGA was always that we’d have a permanent impoverished servant class. But the message got distorted as it moved from the middle class liberal PMC to the lower class industrial/service sector serf.

Turns out “Every Home A Castle, Every Man A King” doesn’t play out in practice so well.

no immigrant has taken your job

In fairness, the more common modern practice is outsourcing. Send the Capital to the large labor pool, rather than sending labor to existing capital stock.

Prime candidate for a bus

Freetaxusa is free federal and cheaper state.

Haven’t tried it in a minute, but I’ve got a Schedule B and D to file. It wasn’t helpful for that.

never actually tried to do more than let TurboTax scam them

Filling your returns by hand is obnoxious by design. Importing your data digitally saves a ton of time and wrist strain.

It sucks that TurboTax has a functional monopoly on the IRS API, but you’re really trading time (and annoyance) for money. Most people justifiably bite the bullet and file electronically.

Itemizing is a totally waste of your time. Just take the standard deduction.

And that hamster bit me, so stab away, I’ll feel nothing but schadenfreude.

I don’t think those two conclusions track with each other

Curious to see if Elon makes it to a normal human life expectancy or goes out Steve Jobs style

Ketamine

over 4 million children are in the process of dying because of his actions cutting foreign aid.

They’re dying because we’ve ramped up arms exports to surrounding territories in the midst of a climate crisis.

The idea that countries like Sudan and Libya and Haiti need USAID is predicated on us ignoring why they’re impoverished and war torn to begin with

what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?

The Raytheon Strategy.

Works great if you’re trying to bribe Nazi ex-pats into compliance while fighting a war of arms escalation.

Is that communism?

True Communism can only be achieved if we wipe all the current communists off the map, take their stuff, and impose “democracy” through an occupying military.

That wasn’t aimed at the billionaire. It was aimed at the billionaire’s monster, a misunderstood child-like creature abused into madness.

I hear that kid is a pedophile

I haven’t ever worked at a company where Office was the preference,

I haven’t worked at an office where it wasn’t. And I’ve done years of consulting at Deloitte, so I’ve seen a few places.

but then Google Docs took them apart

Tapping the breaks on that one.

Google Docs is very lightweight, but it’s also very stripped down. Word remains the first choice in word processors for 90% of the market. It (and Excel) are a big reason offices haven’t seriously begun abandoning Microsoft.