Yep, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

AMD testing the waters?

The first time was purely a grift, this time it is a grift on top of a revenge.

Weird, I didn’t realize I had migrated from Sweden to the US…

I like your optimism, but I won’t put my hopes in it.

Trump has shown that he is completely unhinged this time, he is out for blood and plenty of it.

Yesterday I revived my old Pixelfed account, and I have set myself a challenge, upload one photo every day for a month.

I have plenty of photos from the last decade to pick from

I don’t know if this will mean that my account will be active in the long run, but I’ll give it an honest try.

I posted this earlier in the thread:

https://pxlmo.com/p/stoy/787786012092436062

@stoy@pxlmo.com

That might have been me:

https://pxlmo.com/p/stoy/787786012092436062

“What would I be appologizing for?”

Just one thing, lying and claiming that you accomplished the progress in the games yourself.

Humm, I had not considered that, but you are right.

Earlier I made the prediction that Mr. Trump wouldn’t pardon anyone from J6, as they had outran their usefulness to him.

Well, sadly, I stand corrected.

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Damn, we have a projectionist as POTUS…

Fun fact, it is not uncommon for people to file their taxes on the bus to work through their mobile phone.

One thing that the Swedish government has realized is that if you want people to pay tax, make it as easy as possible, people hate paperwork, minimize that crap.

I pay more tax than I need to, just so I won’t need to worry about back taxes, I just get a tax return instead, less paperwork and logistics.

I firmly believe that people don’t hate paying taxes, they hate the related paperwork

Two years ago I sold some stock I inherited, I had to call the tax office and ask how to deal with it, I got put in a queue, at place 600 something, 10-20 min later I was speaking with an agent who patiently verified my calculations and explained how I would need to actually report and pay my taxes, all of which was easy an straight forward, enter ammount A into box b17 on the second page, and enter ammount B into box b18, then transfer the ammount you owe to your tax account (transfer it to the tax office and use your national ID number as the reference), and sign your tax statement.

Excluding the call it took me a total of 15 min to verify all numbers and sign the statement.

A few month later I got a confirmation from the tax office that everything was done.

Meanwhile in Sweden:

Tax office: "This is exactly how much you have earned last year, this is how much tax you paid, this is how much we expect you to owe, or how much we expect that we owe you, do wish to make any corrections? If not please sign with any of the following methods:

• Mobile app
• Website
• Pen and paper

Remember that is you sign early you will get any taxes owed to you payed back earlier!

Have a good day!"

Good.

It is good that they continue to scam the MAGA crowd.

That was my initial take on this.

Now however, I see a bit further than that.

Exploiting the MAGA crowd will make them more desperate, more confused, more angry, and since the MAGA crowd is too far gone as to sunk cost falacy, they will direct their anger towards the other team, thus supporting the team that keeps scamming them.

An advantage of a proper dial is that you can instinctively see the change in speed by how quickly the needle moves.

The best looking dials on a dashboard I have ever seen is the dashboard from the Saab 9000 CSE.

This isn’t exacty what I remember, but close enough:

I love the green and orange colors, the car diagram, the turbo, temp and fuel dials are just great.

Granted I was a kid when we had that car, but the colors were beautiful