America has famously bad government everything. Everything they touch becomes a jobs program for the least qualified. Every comedian jokes about the DMV and TSA because they're the ones most people deal with regularly, but it's depressing to realize every government run institution is just as if not more bizarre. My interactions with USCIS and DHS, who I thought would be more professional, made me question if I was on a hidden comedy show...
My favorite interaction to tell however belongs to the TSA. I went through the scanner and it flagged the back of my head. The TSA agent said he needed to verify, so put on gloves and patted the back of my head before letting me go. I wear a military cut, the back of my head is done with a #1/2 guard. For those not in the US, that's a buzz cut of length 1.5mm.
I'm not joking, in Australia the tax "filing" takes like 2 mins, you literally go, next, next, look at the details, "yep looks correct" put in your claims, and then submit.
You are all done.
Unless you have something wack going on its not even a process. I have had signups which are more complicated then it.
American taxes on the other hand mega suck, and have 9000 pitfalls.
Finland doesn't even ask you to approve. They send you a suggestion and if you do not amend it by deadline they take it as it is.
And amending is online form where everything is clearly explained, links to documentation. And longest time it takes is actually to look up numbers from your own records.
In the US, property tax typically works that way for many people. You get something in the mail that says this is what your tax will be. If you happen to have a loan for your house, the bank in charge of your loan handles it.
The only opposing political argument I've heard is that if income taxes were this simple, many people would be overpaying. I think that argument has many obvious flaws. Unfortunately few US citizens demand anything of their politicians on this topic or other topics that would dramatically improve their lives. Instead they care more about vanity topics that don't even effect them.
> I had a fairly decent CPU, a 3090RTX card, 32GB RAM
The answer might be more simple, OP when have you updated your chipset/mobo drivers?
This was a known issue (which I was also effected by) for amd chips that would fuck with the USB driver when the PCIE lane pulled was in pcie 4 (my memory is a bit rough in this)
> October 27, 2025 disclosure and November 4, 2025 email confirmation seems like a long time to have their entire client file system exposed
There is always the simple answer, these are lawyers so they are probably scrambling internally to write a response that covers themselves legaly also trying to figure out how fucked they are.
God that's scary, seeing cursor in the past so some real stupid shit to "solve" write/read issues (love when it can't find something in a file so it decides to write the whole file again) this is just asking for heartache if it's not in a instanced server.
That can't be true right? PD (and some Chinese standards) have insane wattage allocation/allowances, there's no way that a mobile CPU can pull over that amount, it's more that they don't support it.
I'm going to be honest, I have no issue with this.
For anyone that it matters for, they won't care it shows they are using a vpn and for anyone trying to be deceitful using a vpn then it will downplay their credibility.
I agree with this, some of those are "passing" and others are really passing. Specially with how much better some of the new model is compared to old ones.
I think the paws one is a good example where I think the new model got 100% while the other was more like 75%
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