newport
1yr ago
Of the twentysomethings I know that use nicotine (myself included, see username), almost all of them follow the same pattern that I do: vaping regularly throughout the day, and infrequently indulging in smoked tobacco only in social/ritual settings. I get through a pack of actual cigarettes every month and a half or so. This results in drastically less physical smoking than we'd engage in if cigarettes etc were our only option, holding nicotine dependence constant.
newport
1yr ago
A more comprehensive cataloguing of these shootings by category (lone wolf terrorism vs gang related vs romance related vs accidental discharge etc), as well as by national news coverage, would contribute a lot to this discussion but I don't have time to trawl through 50+ incidents. From a cursory look at the 2020s list by no. of deaths I hadn't heard of any of the top ten besides Uvalde and Nashville, which I find odd.
newport
1yr ago
The feature you're talking about is called "truescore" in the codebase this site was built off of; it appears to be disabled on profiles but does already exist in the code.
Not sure whether it would need to be retooled; by default it counts both upvotes AND downvotes as +1 truescore unless this has already been patched over.
Whether it should actually be enabled? I dunno, I could see arguments from either direction.
newport
1yr ago
Since the IRS already has W-2 data for filers, it's probably not very hard for them to notice when someone reports their income wrong.
IANAAccountant, but I have taken a tax accounting course. This is, IIRC, precisely how it works. It's called the Document Matching Program, and it dispatches notice letters to taxpayers when a discrepancy is detected between the filed return and the IRS' copies of the taxpayer's W-2s and 1099s.
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-irs-tax-compliance-activities#Underreporter
https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/newsroom/irs/upfront-information-statement-matching/
newport
1yr ago
For anyone looking, Walmart is about to sell the SE for $99
Tangential to your post, but it appears this deal is only for a model locked to Straight Talk Wireless (a prepaid contract-less Verizon subsidiary). I haven't been paying very close attention lately, but I thought carrier-locked phones were practically extinct in the US at this point?
I have no idea what Straight Talk's unlock policy is (maybe they'll unlock it if you ask nicely), but annoying regardless.
newport
1yr ago
This is a very minor issue but on iOS mobile devices with a screen notch, the notch area is shaded hot pink regardless of login status and theme settings. On rdrama, the notch area shading is tied to the theme color setting which appears to have been hidden/disabled on themotte.org's profile settings page.
Otherwise fantastic job on the site and thank you for all the time you put into this.
I played viola for 7 years in grade school, up until I graduated high school. I was naturally good enough at it to land ~second chair +/- 1 up until it got fairly competitive in later high school, and if I'd actually applied myself at all I probably could've played in the competitive auditioned extracurricular orchestras. Alas I am chronically lazy.
I miss it sometimes, mostly for the type of people it surrounded me with.
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