[new draft post] Another man's poison https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/12/another-mans-poison/index.html
“In this context, Keynes is now irrelevant. ‘It is in determining the volume, not the direction, of actual employment that the existing system has broken down’ he wrote. That might have been true in the 1930s but it is not now. Redirecting labour requires not macroeconomic policy but specific measures targetting these egregious jobs.” #ChrisDillow https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2024/09/beyond-tax-rises.html
so much of contemporary politics is coming up with something sacred they are profaning.
@IzzyChambers Thanks! I’ve run VirtualBox for… something? Probably linux as a guest OS (on MacOS) for something container-ish. I can’t imagine MS would be okay with running Windows without a license on a machine real or virtual, though. If I got good at VirtualBox, at least it’d save me the unpleasantness of Parallels!
the project of trying to get economical access to tax software in order to do a trivial partnership tax return has been kind of wow nightmarish. turbotax business desktop would do it for $190, but i don’t have windows. online it’s $700+. taxact is economical online, but i’m unhappy with it. azure won’t let me spawn a windows cloud PC without affirming i have some kind of license. windows365 is $40.50 a month, and wants an annual commitment. parallels would be a $70 upgrade + Windows 11 $139. 1/
windows 365 has a one-month free trial, so I’ll do that for this year. but the overlap of two consolidated, crappy, markets — tax software, and MS’ restrictive Windows OS licensing in the cloud — has made this all stupidly expensive and hard.
partnership returns are new to me, so i have no examples, am afraid to just wing it despite very simple accounts. i suspect next year i will just end up filling out the IRS’ PDF forms, using this year as an example, and sending them in by mail. /fin
the wild year this has not, in fact, been.
A stylized cat with a bite taken out of it (Apple-logo-style) sits on a black-and-white clip-art style couch.
“Conservatives always descend from some sacred, impregnable prior truth. As Sheffield says: ‘The reasoning is about affirming the concept.’” @Rickperlstein https://prospect.org/politics/2024-09-11-zeal-of-the-convert-matthew-sheffield/
weird family photo. via https://x.com/calltoactivism/status/1833852880354267336
Photo from a 9/11 anniversary ceremony (screenshot of video) including Joe Biden & Kamala Harris, Donald Trump & JD Vance, Chuck Schumer, others.
you put it all together and it makes sense why he’s terrified about the immigrants. https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/113118632649708855
@seachanger @inquiline at some level, i wonder if he doesn’t really think the peak of anybody’s aspirations would be to bathe in the light of his good graces and carry forward his extraordinary genes.
how does a person with that world view wield and exercise power?
@seachanger it is. and a completely unimaginable level of narcissism.
this person single-handedly controls space, communications, and defense infrastructure our nation increasingly relies upon. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1833728804579111268
Screenshot of Elon Musk tweet: “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life”
@laprice it’s aspiration under occupation.
“Students at New College are becoming more and more isolated by various actions of the administration, including…new rules that prevent ‘unauthorized’ gatherings of 5 or more students.” https://ncffreedom.org/%5B-%5D-blog/f/the-death-of-community-gathering-at-new-college
// can this be for real?
I generally like to think of myself as an honest person, but I lie like crazy when presented with those “how did we do” forms after a customer service contact. I don’t blame the customer service person for the organization’s inability to address my problems, and I don’t want to harm them in their jobs. So the customer service was terrible, but everything’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ on the survey!
I clicked “Learn more”. So on-brand somehow. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-desktop/
A screenshot of Microsoft Azure marketing materials, “Explore pricing options”, “Pay as you go”, with a link, “Learn more”
Click the link and it’s “An error (500 Internal Server Error) has occurred in response to this request.”
“The international ideological aspects of the decisions taken by the US and the European Union are seldom taken into account by the domestic decision-makers because the thinking about the rest of the world and development does not loom large for the politicians who deal with China, Russia, national security and the like. But the ideological development problem will not go away.” #BrankoMilanovic https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-third-framing
“When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers” by #GustavoArellano https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers via @ryanlcooper
Trying to make my obsessions more sociable, me and my fam are gonna go to this Kamala-campaign debate watch party in Tampa (Ybor City) tomorrow night (Tues, Sept 10).
You can come too! https://mobilize.us/s/M0QH3m