The world is so much easier to reason about when an entire generation can be explained by a meme though.

I’m a registered tax agent. This isn’t really true - but, it’s exactly what someone needing a 2-ton codpiece would say.

If you use a passenger vehicle exclusively for work / business, then you can claim depreciation on it’s total cost up to a maximum of ~$66k (last year… this limit is indexed each year).

Vehicles with a carrying capacity of > 1 tonne are not subject to this limit as they’re “commercial” vehicles rather than passenger vehicles.

So if you had a $100k to spend on a new car, then a landcruiser wagon / SUV will be less tax effective than a RAM ute because you can’t claim a deduction for the entire cost of the ute.

That said, no one actually chooses between those types of vehicles on the basis of the tax deduction available - you either want a ute or you don’t. The choice is always between a hilux size ute and a ram size ute. Additionally, I don’t have a list but I’ve heard tell that very few of the bigger utes actually have a carrying capacity of > 1 tonne once you subtract the potential weight of passengers.

I shit you not… I saw a cooker waving a Trump 2020 flag last week.

We seem to have been invaded by them in the last 2 years or so. I don’t see why regular utes and 4wds have been fine until now, but suddenly every tradesman needs one of these.

Only if you compare 3 roads to 1 track. If you’re arguing about which costs more then it doesn’t make sense to include the cost of the whole 3 lanes as all that traffic doesn’t need to go by rail.

or "/r/dontdeadopeninside

because it’s a fake sign designed to be read wrong.

IDK, I think brigading / vote manipulation has more of an impact than most realise.

Yeah you’re right. It’s not a binary choice between echo chamber and non-echo chamber. It’s just an open community where trolling antisocial behaviour is discouraged. If admins of an instance are encouraging antisocial behaviour then the only solution is to defederate.

The blocking instances thing won’t necessarily solve this problem.

You might be able to block posts from an instance but not comments or votes.

You’re right of course, but it’s still something that the fediverse is trying to figure out.

Do you have any examples of how google is pulling the strings at Mozilla ?

I disagree.

Google doesn’t “control” mozilla in that way.

They can always test it out against all their ads and make sure it works, putting out a fix if it ever doesn’t.

They could do this even if they weren’t funding mozilla. Ad’s aren’t exactly reliant on bleeding edge web standards anyway. You’re thinking about tracking tech, which they don’t have any input in for firefox.

We’ve also seen recently how they’re trying to make it so people can’t run ad blockers

Well yes, and mozilla was quite vocal in their opposition, demonstrating that Google doesn’t have much control over them.

they will not ship WEI

I don’t really understand how this could work.

The whole outcry around WEI is that most of the web wouldn’t work if you didn’t have a browser that supported it.

Not shipping WEI would seem tantamount to just discontinuing.

Wiki about her is great:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakano_Takeko

There’s a lot of bullshit in genesis to make fun of, but this is the least weird.

it’s implied in the bible that Adam and eve had heaps of kids.

Oh man. Fucking around with config.bat having NFI what it did.

This is my understanding. They can review devices, buy pirate materials are not illegal, so I don’t think they would care.

To get 80k they’re obviously counting variations. How many breeds of cow have I eaten?

Lol, basic coding is part of the mandatory school curriculum for 12 year olds in Australia.