@nbaschez My submission for the most egregious mistake in the history of journalism: nytimes.com/2023/10/23/pag…
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Joseph
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Joseph
@JosephOnions
mission to civilize. learning. CFP. CPA.
Amherst, NY Beigetreten Haziran 2012
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This is pretty bad
Maybe the worst mistake in the print edition of the NYT ever?
Sasha Issenberg@sissenberg
Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?
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@adammarkowitzEA @TKocher33 My man, we all need a breather at this point in tax season. You're not making sense here, which could definitely be my bad. Wishing you and yours a happy Easter/Passover.
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@TKocher33 @JosephOnions It isn't about the SALT cap, per se. If it was $22k in total SALT, they'd both get 11k each (though that's about where each would phase out).
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Just the most jackass MFS that I've had to do.
Couple lives in TX. They have about $600k in AGI, so they're capped at $10k in SALT MFJ. Their SALT is about $20k.
By filing separately, they each get the full $10k in SALT.
Man, OBBBA was written like crap. #TaxTwitter
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@0xcryptotax You go too far. These guys are selling their own AI thing, that's it.
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Lol, so many things to dive in on this one. I love tax season CPA crash outs.
- If you have such a "solid understanding of tax law", then why are you relying upon an LLM and Turbotax consults to do your taxes?
- Said LLMs are known to point to outdated data. Ya know, given that OB3 just passed few months ago and most models didn't incorporate. Yes, it may incorporate the bones of the IRC but case law and key legislation is an after thought.
- How can you definitely say your taxes are correct when you yourself lack the judgement and expertise to do so? Similarly, how can you can you steelman your own tax position when the LLM is just predicting your next thought?
Good riddance on both accounts. Good CPAs and accountants don't want clients like you and there's shite accountants running 1040 mills that deserve to get replaced by basal AI.
Santiago@svpino
The first time I used a CPA, he was extremely efficient and extremely wrong. It was a large company. They took care of everything for me. I felt amazing. Years later, I understood what a crappy job they did: They did almost nothing to help me save money. As my taxes became more complex, I started trusting CPA and tax preparer experts less and less. I quickly realized that they provide very good service for the 95% of people out there, but as soon as your situation becomes more complex, their services are less valuable. Right now, I'm too rich for the CPA I can afford, and too poor for the CPA I need. This year, I filled out my taxes using a combination of Claude (for the most part) and ChatGPT. For reference, I have a solid understanding of tax law, and I've always been involved in my taxes. I'm also not uneducated. I used TurboTax's consulting service to ask complex questions beyond my knowledge and to fact-check Claude's suggestions. Most of the time, the human experts were clueless and didn't know that something we did was even possible or lawful. Most experts had to ask me "to return my call later" so they had time to read more about the topic. Claude was right every single time. This was eye-opening for me. By the way, I also found a mistake in my 2024 return. Claude found out that I wasn't reporting a backdoor Roth IRA contribution correctly. I had to file an amended return for 2024, and the IRS owes me $2,562. To all the people saying this is just bro science and that you should trust your CPA, I say: Have fun with it. Instead: • Claude did 99.9% of the work with my help • I used human experts to validate some of that work • I paid the TurboTax Audit Defense service to have them represent me in the event of an audit I know this might be fringe today, but more and more people will start moving this way. CPAs will have to compete now to win our business back.
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@adammarkowitzEA @TKocher33 What am I missing? $250K+ starts 30% phase out, cap starts at $20K. $300K MFS is $50K over threshold, at 30% is $15K, which reduces cap to $5K each...which is the floor, and same as $10K filing jointly.
Or I'm wrong.
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@TKocher33 At $600k MFJ, they phase out.
At $300k MFS, they each get more than $10k.
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@jaytedder @Wvv_70 @jmt5050 @KurtSchlichter Yes, I'm certain the unprincipled Trump loyalists Alito & Thomas will agree with you. But no one else will.
In what way does it mean under the jurisdiction?
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@JosephOnions @Wvv_70 @jmt5050 @KurtSchlichter If the parents owe loyalty to another country, meaning they are citizens of another country, they are not under the jurisdiction of the US. They are just visiting. Yes, they must obey our laws while here, but they are not under our jurisdiction the way the amendment means.
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You guys understand we’re going to lose the birthright citizenship case, right?
Before you completely freak out, the traditional understanding of the 14th Amendment, which we are seeking to change, is not an insane reading of it. Nor are our arguments insane like the left has been same. That’s baloney to just shut us up. Neither side is frivolous.
It’s a tough call legally and objectively speaking. But when we lose it, and I think we will, don’t freak out that this is some sort of conspiracy. It’s a hard legal decision. Sadly, we have three judges who aren’t even going to try to examine the question and will always vote for what leftists want. But the rest of the court has to make a tough legal call.
I think our reading is the correct one. For various reasons, I think they’re going to rule against us. Don’t freak out when they do. It’s not an utterly irrational ruling like so many of the district court opinions we’ve seen.
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@jaytedder @Wvv_70 @jmt5050 @KurtSchlichter It's a bad rule, but it says what it says. It's wild that so-called conservatives have now forgetten that words have meaning. Scalia is rolling in his grave.
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@JosephOnions @Wvv_70 @jmt5050 @KurtSchlichter Is there another country where they can vote and be drafted into their military?
If you go to Japan, you are subject to their laws. You cannot vote in their elections. If you have a baby there, it will not be a Japanese citizen.
This isn't that hard.
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@StrayedWest @andr3w31a561 40k now? Thought it was 30k? Or was it 50k?
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@jaytedder @Wvv_70 @jmt5050 @KurtSchlichter Those are two out of the ordinary examples. Are they subject to every other law? Required to pay taxes?
It's a bad outcome, but every conservative should be calling for clear reading of the text.
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@Wvv_70 @jmt5050 @KurtSchlichter Can you be drafted into our military? Can you legally vote in our elections?
Take your own advice.
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@JosephOnions @MonkeyPresson @nntaleb Sometimes they do. But not always. And not in Iran.
And the only reason they do notices is because of international public opinion. Given how radical they are now, if we didn't have the internet, they would do the same thing they did at Deir Yassin or Tantura in April 1948.
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Their business model is bombing everyone, especially civilians, and are surprised that once in a while they get bombed.
They naturally believe that they are the exception, but they also believe that others ALSO believe that they are the exception.
Arsen Ostrovsky@Ostrov_A
Impact of Iranian cluster missile in Tel Aviv! The location of the image resonates immediately. Just horrible!
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@strxwmxn Southern part of Lebanon cannot be a buffer zone. Just how big a zone does one need? Those drones can hit from anywhere…as we are seeing now. Bombing civilian houses is surely not a solution
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Hmm. Just for the record- I am not anti Israel or anti anything Jewish. I call out criminal behavior , regardless of who is doing it. And these days Bibi is very busy doing criminal stuff
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
Absolute bombshell. Benjamin Netanyahu openly admits to illegally occupying and annexing sovereign territory in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon to create permanent buffer zones. He is literally confessing to violent imperial expansionism on camera.
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@pacopaquero @MonkeyPresson @nntaleb I don't find it merciful at all, it's extremely brutal. I'm trying to get you to make the honest statement, a truth you seem unable to agree to: IDF did or did not give advance notice so civilians wouldn't get killed when their homes were bombed?
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@JosephOnions @MonkeyPresson @nntaleb If you destroy my home and my future, am I supposed to thank you for not killing me before taking my land? I hope you never have to experience that. I'm sure you wouldn't find it so merciful if you lived through it yourself.
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@pacopaquero @MonkeyPresson @nntaleb This is great progress, and a fair question you ask. Do we agree that IDF intentionally avoided killing civilians by giving advance notice before bombing neighborhoods?
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@JosephOnions @MonkeyPresson @nntaleb You're missing the point. So if you inform people (including those "terrorists" you're confronting), and then destroy their homes is not a big crime according to you? What's the purpose? You didn't kill your enemy, and have destroyed the future for hundred of innocent people.
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@pacopaquero @MonkeyPresson @nntaleb You're conflating property with civilian lives, on purpose. Before neighborhoods were destroyed, IDF informed the people living there that they'd be bombing. If IDF intended to kill civilians indiscriminately, why the advance evacuation notices?
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@MonkeyPresson @nntaleb Yes, erasing entire neighborhoods and leaving millions of people without a home to return to is caring a lot about civilians.
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@tolstoybb 0 regard for 45,000 Iranian people murdered by their government a few months ago? Any thought as to what they may have done with a nuclear weapon?
Thankfully the most incompetent and unethical administration in our history is much more competent and ethical than you are.
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Just did a dry run of my 2024 taxes with both Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4, providing the same docs and info I had given my accountant last year.
Opus missed a few things, and thought I had underpaid by $25K.
GPT matched exactly what the accountant produced, and even found an error!
Daniel Vassallo@dvassallo
Update: My accountant is gonna be @openclaw instead, using TurboTax for tax filing. It’s already been 10X more helpful than my previous accountant.
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@NrsngHomePndmic @ilan_wurman You're holding Coleman to an evidence-based analysis. But Joe Kent openly speculates that maybe Israel actually did try to kill Trump, with no evidence at all.
If only the former is a concern and the latter isn't, your brain is broken (as you'll reveal further in reply).
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“Insinuation is 100 percent’ is not an evidence based analysis.
Joe Kent says at least three times in the interview with Tucker that he doesn’t blame Israel and that he has no proof that it is Israel. What he DOES say is as the Director of National Counterterrorism he was not able to follow leads he thought he should be able to follow.
Coleman in response;
“What I'm saying is anyone who says something as insanely illogical as Israel tried to get Trump killed, clearly there is something going on, making that person irrational, right?”…..”“I'll double check it and if I'm wrong, I'll cut it out.”
I dont think Coleman is ‘“an evidence-based person”, I think he is a scumbag with an agenda.
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Watch this episode. The whole two hours. Every minute is worth it. Coleman was excellent. He was very respectful, focused on data and argument, and didn’t resort to accusations of anti-semitism. The more he pushed Glenn, the more Glenn moderated and nuanced his positions in ways he rarely does when it’s a rah-rah interview with those who already agree with him. And Coleman was excellent at demonstrating that whenever Glenn thinks “Israel” or the “Israel lobby” is behind something, there is almost always a more simple and parsimonious explanation. Glenn also represented his views well and respectfully. They both modelled civil discourse at its best. Bravo.
Coleman Hughes@coldxman
A while back, I agreed to debate John Mearsheimer on the Israel Lobby. John dropped out for mysterious reasons and @ggreenwald took his place. Ultimately, the festival got canceled, so I decided to invite Glenn on my podcast to (respectfully) duke it out. youtube.com/watch?v=AEvJQo…
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@Gordon91918009 @thackerpd You wrote earlier that the one thing that broke your trust in the public health establishment was the statement about the vaccine's 95% effectiveness. But that 95% effectiveness was true, wasn't it?
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@JosephOnions @thackerpd I understand your point, Joseph. My take is a little different: Two shots, a month apart, was an abominable idea, especially for young men. This will never be done again ,as everyone knows this injured people's hearts. The other result was 2-4 months of pretty good immunity......
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If you lived through all those years or lies and then still ask, "Why has trust decreased?"
I'm guessing you believe we weren't lied to.
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64
A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.
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@KweenInYellow @sawaya_nicolas I mean, you just got caught in a lie didn't you? Off by an order or magnitude. Maybe correct yourself before you go on sympathizing with terrorists?
Are you aware if the good people of Lebanon support this?
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@sawaya_nicolas Oh okay false alarm then I'm sure everything is going to turn out just fine. 👍
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Israel has now seized a larger percentage of Lebanon's total landmass than Russia has taken from Ukraine since its 2022 invasion. The latter was immediately met with international uproar and unprecedented multi-sectoral sanctions while the former is barely even mentioned.
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@Gordon91918009 @thackerpd Pretty much everything about the pandemic is disputed, except this one point. The vaccines actually were that effective against the original Wuhan strain & alpha. This changed with delta & omicron - it's very confusing to people who wish to be confused by it.
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@JosephOnions @thackerpd Right Joe! Of course! But all of the subsequent boosters tailored to protect against the later variants also carried studies showing how well they worked. All of the boosted people also caught all those variants! You sold the mandates on the basis that vax would stop transmission
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@Gordon91918009 @thackerpd There were so many lies, but this was the one clear truth - strange to point to this. The vaccine was that good and effective against the then-prevailing strain, and so many people (like you, but also scientists) failed to understand or predict viral mutation.
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@thackerpd 95% effective against symptomatic infection!!!!!!
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