I pay my taxes and you should, too. I have no sympathy in general for people not reporting income from PayPal etc, but I’m struggling to think of a less sympathetic subgroup of tax frauds than ticket scalpers. They’re not getting special treatment here, it’s any 1099 income via the payment apps, but I really wish that wasn’t the case. These crooks should be taxed out of business.
When dealing with unhinged users, white lies are often helpful…
You need to log off, call a doctor, and get a script for antipsychotic meds ASAP, my dude. Like, my first instinct is to say something snide about how pathetic Reddit jannies are, but this is unhinged schizoposting. The FBI could not care less about your jannie drama. You don’t have contacts with the FBI. You almost certainly hallucinated these conversations. These are delusions of grandeur. You’re a Reddit moderator, anything but dogwalking is above your paygrade. If you had contacts with the FBI, and this was an active investigation into a semi-famous multimillionaire engineer, they would’ve told you in no uncertain terms to keep your mouth shut. You wouldn’t be spamming the Internet with your baseless conspiracy theories. Either you’re lying, or you’re completely detached from reality.
No one cares if someone’s creating sockpuppets on Reddit. Reddit’s TOS is useless except as toilet paper. Unless the sockpuppets are recruiting terrorists for ISIS, the Feds don’t care. Any cop would’ve told you to turn off the computer and go for a walk or something. You want protection? From what?! Jesus Christ, man. No one’s out to get you. You’re a Reddit mod. You’re the epitome of an NPC.
I can assure you, Wayne Westerman doesn’t even know you exist. He doesn’t know your name, he doesn’t know your Reddit username(s), and unless he has Google alerts setup for his name, he doesn’t know that some random shut-in is schizoposting about him on forums. How could he have the time to? Quick internet search on him: he’s in his 50s, he started a successful company that got acquired by Apple, he’s been name-dropped in the NYT, he has a PhD, his startup exit made him rich-rich. Unlike Reddit mods, I’m sure he has much better things to do with his time than to waste hours every day on pointless internet arguments.
Please get help, before your delusions escalate into stalking this random stranger or something horrible… I don’t respect Reddit mods, clearly, but everyone goes through some rough patches in life, you’re redeemable. Whatever you’re going through will pass, you just have to ask for help. There’s a hotline now: just dial 988. I’m serious.
It blows my mind that this is both spez and Elmo’s best idea for what to do with their respective hellsites: what if we made a shittier Quora? Because Quora’s such an enviable business, right guys? Quora’s right up there with Apple and Microsoft!
The Metaverse pivot by Zuck was only marginally less stupid. This is why HBO had to cancel Silicon Valley, the show: you can’t parody Sillycon Valley anymore. ByteDance and WeChat are going to devour these clowns alive, now that the money printer stopped going brrr. They never had any plan to ever be profitable. Their business model was just to continue scamming investors with fake users and keep raising more billions, like the Pied Piper bot users. These are zombie companies, propped up by negative real interest rates for a decade. Let them die already.