Overly simplistic and assuming you are talking about the US: So you spent 80M making a movie but for whatever reason it never makes it out of production, you never see any return on this investment. But overall this year you made 100M from something else. When you do your taxes, you can “write off” this 80M spent as a loss, so you only have to pay taxes on the remaining 20 million. It doesn’t deduct 80M from taxes owed.

Hadn’t thought of masking tape. A squirt of compressed air also works to get them to vacate the area temporarily.

Mo thinks he’s a mechanic

Edit: In case it’s not obvious, DO NOT shoot compressed air directly at your cat! Just let it make the PSHHHHH noise.

My cat cares not for PSPSPS, but if you yell “what the fuck are you doing?” he’ll run over like you were waving a fresh salmon at him.

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All these sweet looking Skyrim mods that might get released someday. Possibly. Maybe.

Usenet is a decentralized network that works very much like the fediverse here. Anything uploaded to one server gets sent out to all the servers; that’s why you can log onto lemmy.world and see posts made on say lemm.ee. Likewise something posted to one usenet server gets sent out to all the others. And these servers are being operated by individual entities (again, much like lemmy). Whoever owns the server you’re downloading from is having to pay for everything it sends out. Which is why most of the free ones will let you access the text portions but not the file downloads.

A VPN isn’t necessary. But you do need a special program to connect to usenet. It’s built into a lot of older email clients (thunderbird is a good option).

There’s no one single usenet company for the same reason there’s no one single lemmy instance. (I’m sure someone has explained it better somewhere else in this post).

in the era of free services, why do you still have to pay for Usenet access?

Bandwidth costs money. And usenet isn’t collecting and selling your info to recoup those costs like most “free” services. A lot of ISPs do offer free usenet access to customers, albeit somewhat neutered. You can browse the bulletin boards but most of the file downloads are going to be filtered out. That’s the part you have to pay for.

Is this how Don Jr finds out who his real dad is?

Authorities used a technique known as encapsulation to destroy the drug, pulverizing the seized blocks with waste before mixing the resulting fine powder with cement, sand and glass.

Someone totally took that home. “We turned that 20 tons of coke into 20 tons of concrete. Job well done pack it up.”

Once they get so crusty they can stand on their own. That’s about 8 hours in shoes, or a week next to the bed.

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Could be Epic, could be privacy.com, or could be malware on your system. But every time I’ve tried alerting places they are leaking credit card #'s, I get the runaround or ignored. So I just assume it’s on my end, take the necessary precautions, and let them figure out on their own if it’s their problem.

It’s under Settings -> Blocks -> then down at the bottom is the block instances option.

You can on instances running .19 or newer. Settings -> Blocks -> then at the bottom is an option for blocking instances.

Reminds me of The Love Toilet from SNL.

My cat wipes the condensation off windows so she can look out.

Brass and Polonium most likely.

Calling it naive doesn’t give proper credit to the pair of huge brass balls it took to come out and say this in the first place.

This MF has 2 water bowls and a swanky ass stainless steel cat fountain but he’ll still wade out in 40°F mud puddles for a drink.

I thought it was James May.