Article says it’s to small to be a housecat.

Farting is the best.

In general you don’t report gifts to the IRS. The gift-giver is responsible for reporting and paying the tax.

Given that the gift-giver is in a foreign country not subject to US taxes I guess that means he’s subject to Russian tax law instead, which I’m sure he will diligently follow.

I did think that Trump Jr was a government employee though and I’m sure sure they’re not allowed to be receiving gifts over some tiny symbolic amount ($12? Somebody help me out, here.)

I call that friendly, open, and engaged

Well, mostly when I read that kind of language it’s means racists or cops who want other people to acknowledge they’re superior.

What is “respect” supposed to mean in this story?

I use one for my work number and one for my not-work number.

TIL I may be a Russian spy

Hm that sounds cool but on iPhone tapping an address from contacts seems to only go to Apple Maps. Apple permits options for different default apps for a couple different functions (mail, browser, etc) but not for maps :(

Where do you even go to see a contact to click it? I have the local map downloaded, but CoMaps seems to be completely unaware of my contacts at all.

Does this count as “scoldy”?

I did see that coming.

But for real if you want to actually convince people of things you just can’t talk to them that way. Nobody will listen to that.

I hate the LLM AI. I think it’s corrosive to our minds when we use it, I think if it succeeds as a business technology it will make the world worse by pollution, by robbing people of the incentive to make genuine new creative expressions, and by weakening their ability to make genuine new creative expressions even when they want to. To the extent that it lets people accomplish things they couldn’t otherwise accomplish — which it does — it does so badly in unsafe ways.

I say all that with not the slightest fear of having my comment suppressed, because I’m not attacking you while I do it.

For anybody reading this, I hope my post and all the other zillion posts saying the same thing on Lemmy help you to keep the courage to say “No thanks, boss, I think the work comes out better when I do it myself. By the time I’m done checking, finding, and correcting errors it comes out better and faster my way.”

And I hope you can keep your temper and say it with firm, even conviction. Because all life is politics and how you say things appears to matter more for most people than what you say.