[-] bobburger@fedia.io 13 points 9 hours ago

Which Trump policy's do you expect to cause deflation significant enough to reduce your grocery bill?

Which Trump policy's do you expect to reduce your dependcy on owning a car so that you won't be at the mercy of oil companies, car manufacturers, and insurance companies in order to survive?

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 5 points 14 hours ago

Not according to most users on Lemmy

[-] bobburger@fedia.io -1 points 15 hours ago

Banning Democratic candidates from taking campaign contributions from outside actors like the AIPAC, but those are a pretty small drop in the bucket of the total spending.

This article summarizes the spending on the Bowman election.

About $22 million has been spent on the Bowman/Latimer race. About $6 million of that comes from campaign spending which you suggestion might address. It would be pretty easy to bypass the restriction because most of the AIPAC funding comes from bundling individual donations; the AIPAC could send links to contributors and have them directly donate to Latimer's campaign as individuals completely bypassing the process. So not really much the DNC can do there.

The majority of the money being spent on the campaign (about $16 million) is from independent PACs. Even if the DNC did ban contributions from these groups going directly to campaigns, that portion of their spending is really a very small piece of the funding that's being addressed (less than $3.2 million). The vast majority is really outside the candidates control, if a PAC wants to send out mailers and run advertisements they can pretty much do it with impunity.

How is the DNC leadership expected to control the spending of PACs and the contributions of individuals? (Your original claim was the DNC is allowing these things to happen, I'm simply rephrasing the claim not trying to move the goal posts).

We 100% need campaign finance reform, and less outside influence on elections in general, but blaming this situation on the DNC doesn't seem appropriate.

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 2 points 17 hours ago

...Democratic leadership hasn't been allowing the AIPAC to dump millions into primaries...

That's an interesting take. What can the Democratic leadership do to stop this?

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

If you're doing a lot of reporting I highly recommend getting familiar with Quarto. It's incredibly flexible for writing ad hoc reports, automated reporting, dashboards, presentations, etc. You can use python, R, observable, or Julia.

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 35 points 1 week ago

I feel like you shouldn't ask your friends to put their lies in writing.

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 33 points 1 month ago

I don't know why Biden would cause so much inflation in Canada, England, France, Germany, and just about every other country on earth, but he did. What a dick.

Obama is also at least 10% to blame. Vote Trump 2024 to teach the Dems a lesson.

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Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced over his new film, which is to be premiered at the Cannes festival.

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 40 points 2 months ago

You can't deduct your mortgage from your taxes, only the interest. And only on mortgages related to your first or second home. From irs.gov

This part explains what you can deduct as home mortgage interest. It includes discussions on points and how to report deductible interest on your tax return.

Generally, home mortgage interest is any interest you pay on a loan secured by your home (main home or a second home). The loan may be a mortgage to buy your home, or a second mortgage.

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 69 points 2 months ago

To be fair it's a pretty terrible dataset. The AI is just going to say "this" to every question you ask

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 26 points 2 months ago

Every thing you google is just going to direct you to a link to let me google that for you

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 20 points 2 months ago

I'm sure a couple of them are real people.

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 21 points 2 months ago

I like to imagine this was thought up by some ambitious product manager who enthusiastically pitched this idea during their first week on the job.

Then they carefully and meticulously implemented their plan over 3 years, always promising the executives it would be a huge pay off. Then the product manager saw the writing on the wall that this project was gonna fail. Then they bailed while they could and got a better position at a different company.

The new product manager overseeing this project didn't care about it at all. New PM said fuck it and shipped the exploit before it was ready so the team could focus their work on a new project that would make new PM look good.

The new project will be ready in just 6-12 months, and it is totally going to disrupt the industry!

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