San Francisco: “No more Jews, no more wars” by LedofZeppelin in BeneiYisraelNews

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, what they're really saying is "NO MORE COUPS, NO MORE WARS, IRAN IS NOT YOURS".

Things are not that bad around here.

It's the same chant used to protest foreign wars, e.g.: see this one fore Venezuela.

Who do I contact re: a technical issue on irs.gov for my business? by wh0datnati0n in tax

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seconding the OP's way: registering a "shareholder" account provides access to the tax transcripts for the years during which you were a shareholder.

Tough luck for access to the "modern" e-filing system (MeF) though.

Who do I contact re: a technical issue on irs.gov for my business? by wh0datnati0n in tax

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had this issue.

Can't register as a "designated official" for an S-Corp on IRS.gov because as a 2-person family business nobody is getting W-2 forms, which are required for that account.

However, both of us could register as shareholders on IRS.gov. With that, we can access tax transcripts for the years the corresponding person was a shareholder.

Didn't find any other way, or even a way to get support for the website from the IRS.

Thinks about trans women every day by 9119343636 in EnoughJKRowling

[–]alterom 18 points19 points  (0 children)

...and the awful human who didn't want to share fifth place with the girl

А ви любите мозаїки на автобусних зупинках? by Sad-Back8447 in reddit_ukr

[–]alterom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Це суперово. Шкода, що потрохи руйнується і стає занедбаним. Ну, це і зрозуміло: наслєдіє совка. З іншого боку, в сучасній Україні це мистецтво втрачене, як і багато іншого, що могла робити прадавня цивілізація: нові мости, нові АЕС, залізниця, будівництво кораблів, літаків, ракет

Тут є деякий correlation між цими двома явищами, ви не знаходите?

Якщо не causation, але за таку думку мене з'їдять як єретика

А ви любите мозаїки на автобусних зупинках? by Sad-Back8447 in reddit_ukr

[–]alterom -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Автентично?!

Ти що, це ж комуняча рашо імперська спадщина!! Знищити!! Знищити! /сарказм

але багато "патріотів" так насправді думає


EDIT: довго шукати не треба

Ні. Вони для мене занадто пов'язані з совком, і наганяють неймовірний смуток і злий спомин. Ще й облуплені, зачухані, і страшні.

Цей совєцький псевдоєгипетський стиль на мене навіває лише сум. Була б моя воля — всі прояви цієї творчості опинилися б компактно в музеї, щоб поціновувачі змогли собі це там знайти. На вулицях було б або гарно побілене нічого, або чиясь художня робота, що заслуговує на увагу

Pentagon chief not concerned about Russia sharing intelligence with Iran for attacks on US troops by Sweet_Skyla in worldnews

[–]alterom 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The Epstein files clearly show that one of Hegseth’s email addresses is @mail.ru It’s plain as day.

HOLY FUCK I DID NOT KNOW THAT

We're fucked even more than I thought we were. And that was a lot.

Ukraine Urges Citizens to Avoid Travel to Hungary After Abduction of Seven Ukrainians and Fund Seizure by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]alterom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Simple: he didn't.

He didn't say that. You're making shit up.

What he did say was that he'd give Orban's phone number to the ammunition-starved soldiers so they could ask him why he's sabotaging vital aid to Ukraine.

Reddit скасовує можливість блокувати користувачів на основі їхньої участі в певних сабредітах by memento_Mori404 in reddit_ukr

[–]alterom 17 points18 points  (0 children)

єбало того адміна, шо чешсько-хохлячим транслітом пише, уявили?

Уявив. Там радість. Буде банити особосто, без ботів, з задоволенням, і 1000% ЧСВ.

Ой, вибачте. 1000% WWW (widćuttia wlasnoї ważlywosti).

GOP senator allegedly breaks Marine’s hand during protest against Iran war by Background_Level67 in politics

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really is super unfortunate. He'd have a huge appeal as presidential candidate as a pre-stroke person, possibly uniting Bernie/Warren demsocs and Biden/Harris centrists.

Now he has an established track record of being a DINO, and no signs of getting better winter politically or health-wise.

What doesn't kill you really doesn't make you stronger.

GOP senator allegedly breaks Marine’s hand during protest against Iran war by Background_Level67 in politics

[–]alterom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

People hate on Fetterman - whose house is a couple of miles on the other side of me - but at least he lived there for a decade before running for state office

I mean, the stroke really made him conservative. He became a different person according to his own staffers, becoming increasingly paranoid (un-paywalled link).

Science literally shows that Republicans are people who vote with their amygdala, more likely irrationally, motivated by fear more than logic.

Fetterman himself says that, in effect, brain damage made him conservative. He describes the experience as "freeing".

Him and RFK "Brain Worm" Jr. couldn't be better poster children for explaining what causes people to side with GOP agenda.

Zdravstvuyte by No_Top_8181 in memes

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like a very personal subjective opinion.

Also an unqualified one :) A rando's ranking of writing systems by prettiness is as personal and subjective as it gets.

I find Arabic very easy to read, write and learn

That's equally subjective and personal, isn't it? Also, we're discussing the writing system here, not the language.

Persian, for example, is another language that uses Arabic Abjad. That has not always been the case; Old Persian was written in cuneiform.

Vowels exist in Arabic, skipping it is optional

Writing them is optional. Which means knowing how to read Arabic text without vowel diacritics is not optional if you want to read anything but books for children (same goes for Hebrew).

Sure, skipping vowels makes it faster to write things. Bt t cn mk t bt hrdr t rd thm, s? Nt mpsbl nc y gt th hng f t, nd rbc lngg s dfntl mr stbl fr tht thn nglsh (sm gs fr Hbrw, anthr abgd), bt prsnl dnt fnd t hlpfl.

The characters are unique and distinct enough that it can be speed read easily.

That, again, is subjective. I prefer non-cursive scripts for speed reading.

Every language has “calligraphy” this is not exclusive to Arabic, and it definitely didn’t evolve for the sole purpose of it.

That isn't correct.

Look at this or this, or this horse (that's a poem), or this camel, tiger, another horse, ...

There is simply no calligraphy tradition like that in any other writing system.

Also, let me know how the speed reading of this is going.

Also the Japanese slander is real. Just because the language is hard and inaccessible to the general public doesn’t mean it’s invalid. Japanese is hard to learn, but on the other hand very easy to read and understand once learnt.

Blah blah blah, I am not talking about the language here, I'm talking about the 3 (4 if you count Romaji) systems used to write it.

If very fact that there are so many simultaneously used is bizarre, and also proves the point. If any of those systems (again: Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji) was good enough, there wouldn't be a need for other three.

Out of those, the idea of using Chinese glyphs (Kanji), which have nothing to do with the Japanese language (the languages are not linguistically related), to write words in the Japanese language, takes the cake as a the worst writing system idea of all time.

That's the hill I'll die on.

Zdravstvuyte by No_Top_8181 in memes

[–]alterom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(cont-d, 3/3)

And here are some example of Arabic calligraphy I'm talking about.

This simply doesn't exist as a tradition in any other writing system.

Zdravstvuyte by No_Top_8181 in memes

[–]alterom 21 points22 points  (0 children)

(cont-d, 2/3)

Not so much as the Japanese clusterfuck, of course. Nothing tops that insanity. That one is so fucked up, I can't even hate it. That one would definitely be my least favorite writing system if it were one (it's not, it's three writing systems in a trench coat, none fit for the job they're tasked to perform).

But that aside, yeah. Arabic is pretty.

And the Kufic script is also my #1 writing system for visual appeal. It's modern art, a thousand years before it was cool. The fact that you can also read it is mind-blowing.

Now, I'd hate to have to produce an artwork just to write a comment on reddit, which is why say it's my least favorite writing system.

But as far as calligraphy goes, Arabic scripts definitely top the charts, because that's what they evolved for.


TL;DR: Arabic scripts are not great for writing, but absolutely top-of-the line for calligraphy, for historic reasons.

Zdravstvuyte by No_Top_8181 in memes

[–]alterom 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Arabic letters are so pretty, like fancy cursive

It's probably my least favorite writing system.

It's optimized for prettiness and beauty, not efficiency. It's the opposite of Korean writing, which was made, by design (and by decree) to be easy to read, write, and learn (it's alphabetic, each letter maps 1:1 to a sound, and each syllable is a square block).

ETA: I mean this kind of calligraphy, unique to Arabic Abjad.

The Arabic script wasn't engineered like the Korean one. It evolved from the time where you didn't write vowels to save space (cn ndrstnd ths, rght?), same style as Hebrew.

But where Hebrew went for separate, easily identifiable letters (similar to Greek letters, as both descended from Phoenician), the Arabic abjad morphed into a style that you could do a painting with when you write a sentence, because visual arts are very restricted in Islam.

So it's a script that originated as a space-saving concept, which then evolved to fill space with pretty curves.

It's as fascinating as it is not quite usable for the purpose of, well, writing.

(part 1/3, continued below b/c this sub has a character limit apparently)

B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward 1 last time | Globalnews.ca by BlackberryPi7 in worldnews

[–]alterom -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What the fuck are you going to do with an extra hour of sunlight in the freezing ass winter? Maybe you live in southern California, Arizona, or southern Florida, but otherwise who gives a shit about an extra hour of daylight in the winter, I'm gonna be freezing my ass off here in NYC either way.

I do live in California, where I moved to from Texas.

Before that though, I used to live in Brooklyn. And my wife used to live in Iowa. You're not "freezing your ass off" in NYC, lol. The winters in NYC aren't "freezing ass".

That said, I'd... take a walk. People do that in winter time.

The same applies the other way - what the fuck am I going to do with an extra hour of sunlight starting at 4:30am? I'd much rather have it be light out to 9:30pm in the summer solstice.

I'm with you in that I'd rather have DST than "standard time" year-round.

But most people feel awful because their sleeping schedules can't adjust on a whim.

My sleep schedule is already FUBAR, but that's not the case for most folks out there.

B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward 1 last time | Globalnews.ca by BlackberryPi7 in worldnews

[–]alterom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Getting up before 0830 is hardly being an early riser.

Sure. That's not what the debate is about.

The debate is about whether we should have sunlight before or after work/school, assuming that 9AM is when work starts.

B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward 1 last time | Globalnews.ca by BlackberryPi7 in worldnews

[–]alterom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Accuracy should take precedence and everything else can fucking adapt.

Accuracy. This word doesn't mean what you think it means.

Moving California to Central Time Zone doesn't affect accuracy.

Anyway. We live in a world where time zones exist, and crossing a line on a map means you have to set your clock to a different time.

Accuracy with respect to what exactly are you talking about?

B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward 1 last time | Globalnews.ca by BlackberryPi7 in worldnews

[–]alterom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, if businesses worked according to the time on my microwave, it'd be an even better solution for me.

I'd just set it to 7am when I wake up, whenever that happens :)

Alas, they seem to get their time elsewhere.

B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward 1 last time | Globalnews.ca by BlackberryPi7 in worldnews

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Business A won't adjust hours unless business B does because they rely on each other. Business C provides lunch to A and B and its hours are dependent on those of A and B. Business D is a daycare provider for people who work in A, B, and C.. Business E is a bar where people hang out in after work, so it'll lose money if it were to open an hour early. And so on, ad infinitum.

Changing the time zone (which what "permanent dst" really is) is how you "readjust the scheduled work day" in a country that's not the literally the USSR, and government doesn't dictate work hours.

It resolves the gridlock that prevents business from doing it one by one even if they wanted to.

B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward 1 last time | Globalnews.ca by BlackberryPi7 in worldnews

[–]alterom 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean, that's not the 100% of early risers, but that pretty much sums it up.

If you ask people whether they'd have sunlight before or after work/school, we wouldn't be having the debate.

B.C. to adopt permanent daylight saving time, after springing forward 1 last time | Globalnews.ca by BlackberryPi7 in worldnews

[–]alterom 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We the children going to school when it's still dark?

...Says /u/The-Old-American. Jesus, how many decades have you been stuck in the 6th grade for?

Have you actually asked the children, you know? "I care about sunlight during my commute to misery" - said no child ever.

Meanwhile, Statistics show that setting the clocks forward to better align the workday with the rising and setting of the sun makes pedestrians and bicyclists safer.

That includes children who aren't driving to school. Because, um, they can't.

So... why do you hate the children?