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No, the alternative is being able to file for free. Turbotax lobbied for decades to make sure you have to pay.

this is stated in the post my dude. not even at the github link, just like, a few paragraphs in.

> the video keeps playing on the desktop (not just the lock screen)

It’s too early for xenophobic christo-fascist boogeyman narratives, man.

Stop being a "happy customer". We shouldn't be paying in the first place.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

an explicit mention in their vision* statement is hardly an afterthought. it’s also the second item in their multi-point action plan. and other mentions elsewhere.

please review your first link and read their mission statement; there are three items, and one of those is truth.

“Relentlessly strive to assure information integrity, assuring that truth is gathered and reported.”

https://www.acejmc.org/about/strategic-plan

strongly disagree; we can quantify the differences. our current population levels are sustainable if we stopped overfishing our oceans and raising billions of animals each year for slaughter. check my other comment for a bunch of citations!

Bit of a fallacious argument here - why do you presume to know how farm land will be used in the future?

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

> If you remove animal agriculture, you don't get far less fields. You get fields with a different crop in them.

we just simply cannot know this. but, we do know the impact of our current practices, not to mention the (supposedly) debatable ethical element of killing hundreds of billions of animals each year.

> in terms of saving the environment and turning back the ecosystem back to a sustainable one, the distinction between animal based or non-animal based is mostly irrelevant

this is simply false - did you follow any of the citations? you’re welcome to find something to support your position but as they say: if it can be asserted without evidence, it can be dismissed without evidence.

The most impactful elements of modern agriculture are entirely animal-based. Full-stop.

You in fact rightfully but incompletely recognize : artificial fertilizers (for giant mono-crop fields of soybeans to feed to cows and pigs [0]), replacing forests (to clear room for soybean fields and pasture for cows and pigs [1][2]), and runoff of these fertilizers and manure into waterways. The parent comment is right - if we want to fix these problems, we must stop killing and eating animals at such an industrial and horrendous scale.

0. https://www.ucs.org/about/news/extent-emissions-created-mass...

1. https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

2. https://gfw.global/39qbPdC

3. https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

it’s a CVE write up; the audience for these knows what an LPE is.

Is your opinion here grounded in experience from working in that field, or is it speculation?

it may more likely have something to do with the date of April Fools :) seems it got more than a few folks here haha

> We might even guess your age from that alone.

I guess two can play that game - would you mind sharing if you were born before leaded gasoline was banned?

It is. Here’s a vegan cheeseburger for four dollars in a popular west coast metro.

https://www.eatfaceplant.com/menu

They even have a working shake machine.

Here, have some facts.

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

Arkansas, Georgia, and Texas did not pay inmates for any work whether inside the prison (such as custodial work and food services) or in state-owned businesses. Additionally, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and South Carolina allowed unpaid labor for at least some jobs.

It’d be inaccurate to say that no one is paid for their labor, but it’s dishonest to claim that all prisoners receive wages, especially when it’s not always the case, it’s an order of magnitude below the federal minimum, and they are forced to pay above-market prices for necessary goods, as others have pointed out.

You can also review Council v. Ivey about parole denial to continue forced labor through one of those fancy terminals.

Simply wrong and dishonest, yet so easy to google.

https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/work_programs.j...

I suppose you could consider 15 cents an hour “paid wages”, but to me that’s just a bad veneer for what our system truly is.

we don’t really do that added ‘u’ thing here.

em dashes, sycophancy, exaggerated details vis a vis metaphors, AI evangelism in bio, and my own dash of undiagnosed ASD.

pattern-seek for yourself: check their other comments; some seem legitimate which might suggest a human in the loop.

Generated comments and bots aren't allowed here, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888857

Generated comments and bots aren't allowed here, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888857

Generated comments and bots aren't allowed here, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888857

And yet despite this self-assessed evolution to apex predator status, you probably accept the difficulty and self-restrain from killing other humans during a fit of road rage if you're cut off while driving.

However, some people have cultivated empathy for non-human beings to the point that killing an animal for an easier meal is morally equivalent to killing a human for an easier time on the road.

Some people have also recognized that a bit more difficulty in finding a place to eat is worth it to decrease the ecological impact of eating beef and cheese.

And some others still have realized that not everything should be hedonistic, and enjoy a plant-based diet that contributes to overall greater health even if it means a bit less (or rather, different - vegan food is delicious) sensory pleasure.

Shame can be a powerful motivator to be sure, but altruism and compassion are preferred, here.

Heck yeah, go be an artist! If you want to be one and aren't, what's stopping you? Perhaps the lack of financial security? ;)

Here's a non-exhaustive list of eligible types:

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-a...

Some (many?) ethical, ecological, and healthy choices will require you to go beyond "does this taste good" or "does this feel good"?

> no meat is not what i'm evolved to eat

why do you think this? I've lived seven healthy years with zero meat and am in superb physical shape. how many 30+ year olds do you know that can run a five minute mile? can you?

The commenter I'm replying to implicitly made that claim:

> [...] So did all other carnivores

and there are mountains of evidence that prove you don't need to consume dead animals to have complete nutrition.

which makes the killing of animals to eat a needless act. because it's not needed.

like most nutrients, you can weigh them.

for example, you can tell exactly how much protein is in 100g of a complete protein like tofu when compared to 100g of something gross like beef.

similarly, my algae-based capsules contain 1210 mg of omega3s per serving, with 660mg of EPA and 440 of DHA.

> we mostly only know about the benefits of eating fish

nope, this study describes consumption of omega3s, not fish per se.

a docs entry point - https://support.apple.com/en-mide/guide/security/sec469d47bd...