A lot of people, especially those getting laid off by the thousand in tech at the moment, are paid in shares instead of cash

These people already get double taxed, once essentially when the share rights vest and are exercised (e.g. years after they are awarded) they’re taxed as income at the current value despite not having been sold. Then taxed again when sold, as capital gains

If you make a loss on your shares paid as income by the time they are sold, bad luck, you have to gamble on other stocks/assets and make a large win greater than your losses to ever see the tax back again

E.g.

50k cash, 50k share rights per year

Three years later the share rights vest from the first year of employment and can be exercised into actual shares. This is the taxing point, but if they are worth 150k now, you are taxed on 150k as income + your 50k annual salary so you’re at 200k taxable income with only 50k cash per year coming in

Now when you sell the shares let’s say that 150k is now 50k, you the tax you paid on them is more than the cash you got from selling them and you have to sell another batch of shares 50k in capital gains or more to offset the capital loss and get your tax back

To top it off, when you get fired you typically lose all unvested and unexercised share rights (I.e. half your pay for the last three years)

Employers also don’t have to pay super on shares awarded this way

Why don’t the explosions kill him

I now have the strength to try heroin, thank you kind stranger

That’s actually one of the easiest birth positions

They better not be eliminating the discount entirely

How tf did Amazon operate without giving shipping addresses to third party sellers and delivery partners?

The NPC from panel 2 and 4 should be swapped

Fun fact companies worse than meta regularly buy and sell shares and options in pretty much everything

Use the bones of the deceased, one big cycle

Label companies have to keep their investments relevant

Probably never see it again either

Opus 4.6 has been excellent at problem solving in software development, no surprises it nails it

It’s no surprise public opinion is these tools are trash when the free models are unable to answer simple questions

If we’re gonna eat it then same goes for my chickens

Ah yes so when I give my dog antibiotics for an infection against his will it’s definitely not medical treatment

This isn’t popping, the software industry is completely changing. The enterprise versions of these tools are superior to most humans. We’re all fucked, this is worse than the bubble popping. This is employment popping.

A push bike is a term used interchangeably with non-electric bicycles here, I was not aware they’re something else wherever you live

You can break bones falling off even a stationary bike, yes, it matters. People step out in front of you at walking speed wearing headphones and cause crashes that result in not so minor injuries - especially if you’re transferring your momentum into the pedestrian and their head hits the concrete. That’s without even considering damage to bikes and equipment. Helmets need replacing after a single impact.

You’re out of your mind if you think bikes are only really ridden by toddlers? And even then, what a great experience for toddlers to have preventable crashes

Push bikes have bells that you use to ding people when you’re coming up behind them to let them know you’re coming

Imagine the PCBA company’s response

Based on reaction to images, clicking with a mouse where subjects looked

Could just as easily be a study on how different sexes respond to the same instruction