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Zwets t1_j9f12u8 wrote

The thotaudit meme is a joke, you need to actually submit a form of evidence that you actually know details about this person's finances to the IRS, and aren't just wasting their time, for them to investigate someone.

I don't actually know what qualifies as evidence, because that can vary by state. I wonder if images and videos of someone holding stacks of cash or making it rain can count as valid evidence though.

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Zwets t1_j5yi7tc wrote

> Hell, some of them might have season tickets and don't want to lose those.

So they wanna screw a whole lot of lawyers out of their already purchased movie/convention tickets, and want to do so by using a privacy invasion they could be sued for....

Let me know how that works out for them.

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Zwets t1_j0139xl wrote

Partially I suspect the increased Dutch gas heating prices have caused the price of "warmtepompen" (electrical hot air machines that pull in outside air) to increase dramatically. As businesses faced with massive gas bills rush to buy every available one.

Buying and installing a warmtepomp at 3 times or more the market price might return that investment in 5 years, but gas prices are already going down, so that might not be worth it (even though you should invest in one anyway for environmental reasons). Buying a mining rig that has sharply dropped in value recently and changing how the fans on it work, is probably cheaper than buying one of the hot air units right now.

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Zwets t1_iy2u77h wrote

I wonder if the environment of different trenches is unique enough to actually create noticeably divergent evolution like we see on some isolated islands (a bird like the kiwi filling a space that would normally be held by a rodent, or komodo dragons in the space that would normally be held by a big cat or wolf) Or would the conditions at that depth be so harsh that every trench trends towards the same evolutionary solutions?

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Zwets t1_itz9eb3 wrote

"Hosen" means trousers. A "Hose" would be a trouser, referring to a single pant-leg. As might be expected, needing to refer to 1 half bifurcated trousers doesn't come up in conversation often.

I think "puts on his pants 1 leg at a time, just like the rest of us" isn't used as a proverb in German. Though it could also be my German family members have never had cause to use their version of it.

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