Oh lord yes. Its why its stupid.

If my family didn’t accept the fact that I’m aroace, I would forget about them and change my life.

Thats an insane amount if privilege to think that it applies to everyome everywhere.

How old do you think computer Tech’s are? There’s been programmers since the 60s on punch cards. There’s totally careers worth of work there.

That doesn’t make it not a tax. It makes it not an income tax.

Sorry auto correct got the best ofe there. Just what a tax is.

Its just a charge levied by the government. You think taxes are only income taxes, but thats just one type of tax.

In the same way tarrifs are also taxes, so would be making an employer pay for govermenet benifit, would also be a tax.

Just because you didn’t intend to disrespect someone, doesnt mean you didn’t. Impact over intent every time. Its a shitty thing to do. So someone should kiss your ass and hold your hand through misgendering someone?

Your personal gripes about they are frankly just your opinion on them, and I’m not givibg it more weight that that.

Like I said in a different reply,

This is people asking for the respect and thought to you know, check a profile before you speak. No one here got offended, it was called out as a dick move, as it should have been.

If you don’t see that as basic respect, thats part of the problem.

EDIT: it’s the same level of respect as spelling someone’s name correctly.

Its kinda shitty thing to do. Mistakes happen, but it says a lot when people dig their heels in.

I don’t think you understand what a century tax is. Because thats what that is.

I happened to pick up in the article the neutral pronoun and have avoided it, but to accuse a pretty casual use of a prounoun as being a shitty thing to do is… a shitty thing to do.

Why should misgendering be treated with more respect than the respect given?

Incidentally, I hate the plural pronoun as the stand in for unspecified. Especially when talking about a company versus an individual, it is useful to use the plural to refer to company and a singular for the individual. Otherwise it’s a vague mess. It’s so confusing when folks are using plural to refer to singular people.

Sorry but they has always been both singular and plural.

‘Can you flag the waiter when they’re not busy?’ Has always been grammatically correct. Its always been the ‘I’m not sure option’. You don’t say he/she when you don’t know how to refer to someone, you use they.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

If they’re not paying enough, why are we subsidising them? Why are they still benifical?

Do you think if Walmart had to pay all of the food stamp costs of their employees, do you think Walmart would dissapear and replaced by nothing?

I also encourage you to look up how much federal tax Amazon pays

No, I don’t want fake ally’s.

Were not a pymarid scheme. Were people asking for basic respect.

And if you see that as a problem, not only were you never an ally, your actively part of the problem.

Sorry, but if your allyship is so fragile that someone being a dick online can wiaver it, you were never an ally.

Same statement. They don’t pay corporate tax either.

Look, I’m not trying to assign humans a lower value or anything. I’m just saying that from an accounting perspective, most employees are just a necessity to keep the thing running, like electricity. The process of R&D is a bit of an exception and some businesses will even give their software or other intellectual property a value in the books and depreciate it over time. But even then, the investment is into the product, not the people. Because the people can bail on you at any time, barring some special exceptions.

I’m not gonna muddle the expense vs investment, because either way, your still devauling the actual humans in this. Trying so say your not, then dobjuag that, undermines the first line.

Thats my issue. Is that the language we use to talk about real people matters. And talking about it like they don’t contribute, just expense is a huge part of it.

What, the 0 dollars the billionaire pay?

If they don’t contribute their share to taxes, why would I as a citizen want them?

He could’ve made more money if he didn’t have to pay it. Similarly to the raw materials, electricity, and every other unavoidable business expense.

Citation needed with data. Because I’d argue pay on the factory is also proportional to quality output. So would they have still made the money with a worse product?

No, time contracts, not space.

Nope!

Information can only travel at the speed of light.

During my undergraduate CERN did this experiment (a decade ago now).

And they had the shocking result of the second wave function collapsed faster than c.

That was until a clock was found to be loosley connected and caused a timing error, that would account for the slower than c speed.

It actually is.

Distance itself is expanding in the universe. Like two dots on an expanding balloon doesn’t mean there’s less balloon, its just the distance itself that expanded.

And the further something is away from you, the more distanve there is to expand. Meaning it moves faster the farther away it is.

What can not travel faster than the speed of light is ‘information’. So we have to wait even longer for light and information about a distant object to get here.

They host relay servers.

Its how they get around networking shenaigins.

You stream media to them, and then it gets passed to you back wherever you are.

Premium allows you to share with friends.