• Optional@lemmy.world
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      I’ll be honest. I didn’t expect people to be this stupid. That’s on me with the whole information superhighway thing being “a good thing”. I didn’t think there would be this calcified idiocy that continued to grow in spite of the fact that plainspoken factual refutations for it were just a few keystrokes away.

      I didn’t believe people would fall for such blatantly idiotic shit “in the future”. Despite being an American. I know, I know. My bad.

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        The original assumption was that this data super highway would transfer the truth and facts.

        But it turns out because anyone can distribute any falsehood, people instead are able to find things to reinforce their existing opinion, instead of the truth. The biggest strength of the modern day internet is also what will ultimately be its downfall I believe. The next kind of web will definitely be different.

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            Very true, but it has someone like you. They ain’t got me either, friend, but there’s plenty of Texas drunks on it.

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                How were the olden days gramps? No but really, if you don’t mind answering, what was the ‘newest’ tech that you can remember coming out when you were a kid?

                I’m in my early thirties and was raised in a different country, I can recall the internet being the latest thing and how my family all huddled around our first pc and internet connection to set up an email ha. I don’t recall all of it but I recall it had AppleManzana in it which manzana is just apple in Spanish.

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                  Telnet talkers! They predated the existence of a web page. It was a basic text interface that you had to telnet into a certain IP address. It was a wonder of ASCII art too. And we got there by using the freenet using a dialup modem that took out your phone line for hours.

                  Once webpages came along I migrated to Livejournal, which was and is forever the best social media that ever existed even in its decayed Russian state today.

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          The marital equivalent of “it’s a republic not a democracy”. Or: If you don’t agree with me, you don’t deserve to have a say.

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        Reminds me of those flat earthers who keep coming up with ways they think will prove the earth is flat, but then it proves the opposite, and they’re just like “we did something wrong, let’s try this instead”. Rather than just accept the base is flawed.

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      Pay income taxes or pay alimony and lose my assets in a divorce…gosh, I’d have to consult a CPA on that one…this isn’t something I should do the math on myself. It’s too important to me and to my online homeless sovereign allies.

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      Ooh I love when they disagree about the particular form of nonsense they believe in. “No, you did this thing someone made up wrong, you have to do it the way I made up!” It makes a it a lot easier to justify when everything they try fails, I guess. But something tells me the OP should probably just look at what paperwork he needs for a divorce.

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    I love how it’s all some big conspiracy to rob you of your money but you can also get out of it by filling out a form that takes up only the top third of a piece of paper

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      1099C is a cancellation of debt form.

      In the real world, they’re used when someone holding the debt has decided to abandon it, TYPICALLY as part of some renegotiation. It’s tax paperwork showing that the debt is gone (which is de facto income and so tax-relevant).

      These types believe that you can file them unilaterally to get rid of a debt, because it says debt cancellation in the title and the the world is a vast and all-powerful conspiracy that also is vulnerable to uncountably many technical loopholes.

      edit: or it’s part of the weird belief that the government has a massive pool of money they hold that belongs to you, and if you just speak the right incantations by filing weird paperwork suddenly they’ll use the secret bank account to pay off all your debts and free you of your contract/citizenship/slavery or whatever the fuck. Gets very weird very fast.

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    This sovcit stuff is all a bit sad to me. They roleplay like rich people and abuse loopholes, however they are exploited by the people peddling stuff like number plates and id cards.

    While in the end they stand to lose all their possessions.

    Ofc the 'haha gotcha style smugness they extrude makes it funny to have them get their comeuppance, but I only see some really confused and scared individuals being plucked clean by vultures. I can’t

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      They mostly are people trying to get out of paying child support and are honestly pretty nasty if that makes you feel any better. A couple are just dumb fools caught up in this nonsense, those ones I never post, but most of them are pretty shitty people.

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        Yeah I know, it does help me sightly, I’m just not that keen on schadenfreude in general, I think.

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    Wait a minute, don’t you need a marriage certificate from the government to be legally recognised as married?

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        Seriously. These idiots trying to “prove” things to their skeptical wives are just fucking their wives over. The IRS is going to fuck the wives just as hard as it fucks the idiots.

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      Not necessarily. In my state you are common law married if you cohabitate with someone of the opposite sex for 5 years.

      Fortunately it doesn’t come up unless you break things off and your partner tries to argue it in court, but it is still fucked.

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    If he learned it from some Indian math wiz accountant on YouTube, I’d almost believe parts of what he’s saying, because filling out all that paperwork and filing it with the IRS sounds like a legitimate thing to do that would take time, so it’s not like instant results and you actually would have to work for it. This guy probably did not get his information from a formally educated accountant or tax lawyer though.