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Tax filing protip: you can pirate TurboTax if you need a little more control. No crack needed. They don't have copy protection on it because the last time they tried they ruined people's hard drives.

Intuit sucks and so does the tax code, get ya money

uspol 

Here we go with the delegation-vote count disparity shit again

Also it should not have taken 18 hours to count all these precincts from paper records, what the fuck

eidolon boosted

whatever you’re doing, wherever you are, there’s software fucking it up

uspol 

So the Iowa caucus results are further delayed because they never actually tested if the app was reporting caucus results correctly.

Wow, it's almost like that NPR article was clairvoyant about this exact literal thing happening and the Iowa DNC rep in that article lied about there being backup plans.

Fucking tech culture

I didn't intend to make this marked sensitive but it works

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us pol (dem primary) 

leave it to the fucking DNC to botch a primary on the first day huh

re: uspol 

@flussence@nulled.red and also the mobile app they decided to use fucking SUCKS

re: us pol (primaries) 

Hmm, sure would suck if someone hacked these almost assuredly vulnerable voting apps and used them to sow distrust in the voting system.

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us pol (primaries) 

Apparently the Iowa Democratic Party is using an unvetted mobile app to handle the vote tallying.

How the fuck are we still fucking this up...

Quake III Arena on Dreamcast had cross-platform multiplayer in 2001. Nearly 20 years later the games industry is still figuring out that people might actually want that

code is policy. which means, generally, things are better if there's less of it

re: uspol 

@em each state will have its own primaries and caucuses; today is the first day for that with the Iowa caucus. Another day to pay close attention to is Super Tuesday, March 3rd

@Duende@snouts.online sample a dick slapping against belly and make a sick beat with it

re: Peter Thiel, actual vampire; another fediverse clone 

@antifuchs this is NAKEDLY colonialist shit, wow

more realistic horror stories need to involve simulated EAS alerts

@Siphonay@octodon.social yeah, unfortunately despite efforts to the contrary, masto/fedi does still reproduce the social capital attraction that makes twitter awful for people who don't already have the capital

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