Firstly, let’s call them what they are, hucksters.
Secondly, I cannot think of anything I give a shit less about than their burnout at making internet videos of themselves.
If you’ve talked yourself into a world where you must be on social media, you are absolutely fucked. Get out. now.
If microsoft stopped producing anything today, they would still make billions per year for many years
That is definitely the C-suite
Wow right after their Chief Product Officer joined the army as a freeloading Lt. Corporal. Easiest $200 million clams, or bones, or whatever you call them - ever!
as customers switch to Chinese EVs
Sure. That’s the reason.
Congrats! And condolences. 😄
Signed in? There’s your problem.
Start fresh - search for, I dunno, “bread recipes” and bang-zoom, your suggested next video is something about how wonderful fascism is.
Best we can do is some Jordan Peterson videos and something where trump appears to be yelling.
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It’s a classic
When Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the signature legislative achievement of President Donald Trump’s first term, it slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% — a massive revenue loss on paper for the federal government.
To make the 2017 bill comply with Senate budget rules, lawmakers needed to offset the cost. So they added future tax hikes that wouldn’t kick in right away, wouldn’t provoke immediate backlash from businesses, and could, in theory, be quietly repealed later.
The delayed change to Section 174 — from immediate expensing of R&D to mandatory amortization, meaning that companies must spread the deduction out in smaller chunks over five or even 15-year periods — was that kind of provision. It didn’t start affecting the budget until 2022, but it helped the TCJA appear “deficit neutral” over the 10-year window used for legislative scoring.
The delay wasn’t a technical necessity. It was a political tactic. Such moves are common in tax legislation. Phase-ins and delayed provisions let lawmakers game how the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) — Congress’ nonpartisan analyst of how bills impact budgets and deficits — scores legislation, pushing costs or revenue losses outside official forecasting windows.
And so, on schedule in 2022, the change to Section 174 went into effect. Companies filed their 2022 tax returns under the new rules in early 2023. And suddenly, R&D wasn’t a full, immediate write-off anymore. The tax benefits of salaries for engineers, product and project managers, data scientists, and even some user experience and marketing staff — all of which had previously reduced taxable income in year one — now had to be spread out over five- or 15-year periods.
You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done.
“What if we threw a ton of money after the absolute shit ton of money we threw away?”
Generative AI was always garbage and our oligarch overlords tried to out dick-wave each other for years wasting hundreds of billions of dollars and cratering their in-house teams.
Will they learn their lesson and abandon this impossibly broken technology?
Nope!
Guess getting p0vvN3d cut their legs out after all. Who’s going to buy them, y’think?
I assume headline writers want clicks.
These stories are starting to feel like the “Trump could be in big trouble now” headlines where nothing ever fucking happens.
See I still remember when I didn’t have to scan my face to get a machine to do something. And that’s the way it will always be. For me.
Disagree. All they need is a small army of marketers to keep convincing executive idiots they need to have MS Office 365.