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«The IRS currently uses technology from the 1960s, called COBOL, to process and intake individual tax returns.»

https://time.com/6204928/irs-87000-agents-factcheck-biden/

“technology called COBOL.” Ok. I guess. 🙄

I guess it fits in with employers asking “do you know language X?” when really they mean “do you know language X and the ecology around it?”

«It’s an effort that goes back to 2010, when Republicans took back control of the House of Representatives and immediately instituted a series of crippling cuts on the IRS. Since then, overall funding for the IRS has fallen further, by more than 20 percent, while enforcement funding has dropped by 31 percent. That’s made it easier for high-net-worth tax cheats and major corporations to avoid federal taxes to the tune of billions of dollars.»

https://time.com/6204928/irs-87000-agents-factcheck-biden/

Hmmm.

«“As people here say, if it comes down to exchanging gunfire, you’ve already made a mistake.” He volunteered during the 2014-15 war against Russian proxies in the Donbas area.

“When I was in my first campaign, I thought, what on earth are those drones, I have to be the real man, carry a gun on my shoulder, go seek out the enemy,” said the 33-year-old. “I’m older and wiser now.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-drone-spotters-on-front-lines-wage-new-kind-of-war-11659870805

Based on a link from an article on Sen. Josh Hauley (blah blah blah, who cares?), I’m drinking a drink called a Missouri Jackass (except I don’t have limeade, so i just went with a lime), and I gotta say: holy moly y’all. This is a boilermaker without the in-your-face bourbon-ness to warn you. The rum just HIDES. Extreme caution is advised.

(Maybe it’s the fact that I don’t have any Michelob Ultra in the house, just high-falutin’ white liberal beer.)

12 oz beer

6 oz light rum

6 oz frozen limeade

https://www.crystalmixer.com/missouri-jackass-recipe/

Random factoid:

«Today, 24 million more households consist of adult roommates than in 1995.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/10/work-its-whats-for-dinner/599770/

«The historian Michael Tadman has estimated that the domestic [slave] trade split up about one third of first marriages in the upper South and separated nearly half of all children in the region from at least one parent.»

https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/RR_sample.html

Oof.

Alex Jones was just found liable for $4 million in damages and then ten times as much for punitive damages, which is a legitimate legal thing (I thought triple was sort of the standard, though). My recent reparations back-of-the-envelope calculations didn’t even take punitive damages into consideration.

Really, not a place I want to be: