Democrats called for a criminal investigation into Long’s connections to other alleged tax credit loopholes. The lawmakers allege that firms connected to Long duped investors into spending millions of dollars to purchase fake tax credits.

Fucking scum

That seem a cruel punishment, to know a mistake was made and that you have to pay for it. It doesn’t seem to achieve anything for the public good

I’m not defending the guy, but it’s better he left then started shooting his way out or something

Heh, they’re there for the shareholders.

A 130 days is the number I’d read https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/elon-musk-doge-accomplishment-criticism-explained-trump-admin-funding-cut-125052900745_1.html

Come on now, Elon’s paid >$250 million dollars to trump’s campaign (that we know of) he deserves to have his needs met, the US isn’t called “land of the free” for nothing! /s https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/07/elon_election_spending/

Next up GPUs require always-on connections and Nvidia requires a monthly subscription to pay for that.

Good to see that the law is fair, just, and applied equally to all. /s

Stack Exchange is a business owned by investment company Prosus, and the Stack Exchange products include private versions of its site (Stack Overflow for Teams)

Private equity milking another product dry.

“Sometimes, you know, stealth, they do stealth,” Trump said. “I’m not a huge believer in stealth, because stealth is basically, a lot of it’s the design and the shape. … You’re going to design an ugly plane for stealth reasons. And then six months later, they’re going to figure out this, and then you’re stuck with a plane.”

Trump’s new stance on stealth differed from remarks he made during his first administration, when he repeatedly extolled the F-35’s stealth capabilities.

“You can’t see it,” Trump said in 2017. “You literally can’t see it. It’s hard to fight a plane you can’t see.”

https://www.navytimes.com/air/2025/05/16/pentagon-silent-aviation-experts-baffled-by-trumps-fighter-comments/

Yeah, I’m guessing a UFC video released on dvd would have an age classification

Caesar with his loyal flunkies and hangers on attend* the gladiator fights.

I write unit tests and test my own code, but we also have UAT tests that are completed by others independently. Complex systems with lots of moving parts require lots of testing.

I’m a dev and I hate releasing buggy code but I’m not in charge of testing or the amount of testing we do before release.

“The Romans did not joke about tax evasions. They saw this, essentially, as a crime against the state,” Dolganov said. The punishment could include significant fines, temporary or permanent exile, or hard labour in mines or stone quarries — with the latter essentially a death sentence, she explained.

Tax evasion is theft

Founded six years ago, Ramp is backed by some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley. One is Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who was one of Trump’s earliest supporters in the tech world and who spent millions aiding Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio Senate run. Thiel’s firm, Founders Fund, has invested in seven separate rounds of funding for Ramp, according to data from PitchBook. Last year Thiel said there was “no one better positioned” to build products at the intersection of AI and finance.

There’s the pay off.

Soon it became dangerous to download the movie, though, as popular demand for the movie quickly put a target on downloaders’ backs and scammers soon planted malware in Spider-Man movie torrents that ReasonLabs reported used the movie to “lure in as many victims as possible.”

ReasonLabs said that the malware was “likely from a Russian torrenting site.” It took over the would-be Spider-Man movie watchers’ computers without setting off Windows Defender and with the goal of cryptomining in the background for the bad actors’ benefit.

How does a video file contain malware. Or are people running exe files to watch a video?

Lmao the republicans are the not the party of the little people.
The article is from 2022 Inflation Reduction Act https://www.caltaxadviser.com/irs-audits-are-about-to-surge-heres-who-theyre-targeting/

Commissioner Werfel emphasized that most Americans, particularly middle- and low-income taxpayers as well as small business owners, will not experience a significant increase in audits. Instead, by prioritizing high-wealth individuals, large corporations, and intricate partnerships, the IRS aims to target its resources where they can have the most significant impact

Lol https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/irs-should-target-large-complex-partnerships-watchdog-says

I use AI to apply for job. The recruiter uses AI to sift the applications.

Who needs humans.

“Since 2021, we have returned billions of dollars from repeat offenders and other bad actors, implemented dormant legal authorities and long-overdue rules required by law, and given more freedom and bargaining leverage to families navigating a complex and confusing financial system,” he wrote.
“If civil society does its job, every person unnecessarily taken advantage of by a financial institution will attribute the blame to the right person—Donald Trump.”

Chopra also touted the CFPB’s regulation of junk fees, inaccurate medical bills, and digital surveillance by Big Tech. Under Chopra, the CFPB sued major financial institutions such as Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase and finalized a rule to strike around $49 billion worth of medical debt from credit reports, according to CNN.

With Chopra in charge, the bureau “has fought against junk fees, repeat offenders, big tech evasions, and corporate deception. It has championed competition, transparency, accountability, and consumer financial health,” Adam Rust, director of financial services for the Consumer Federation of America, said in a statement reported by NPR.