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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[The Weeknd @theweeknd]

Can finally post this 🥹
A while back I got to visit Atlus and play P4 revival
and got an early peek at P6 : https://t.co/nmGyOeZ4Um

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

@pewpiece @ScotchInformer So Imu, “king” of the world being lunarian

And the only other lunarian we know is named “King”

goda is at it again wtf 🤣🤯

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨Nobody wants to hear this but it needs to be said.

> Scientists just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. No training data. No machine learning.

> It woke up and started walking. No one taught it to walk. No one trained it. No gradient descent. It just... knew what to do.

A fruit fly brain has 140,000 neurons.
A human brain is around 86,000,000,000.
And we've gotten really good at scaling.

Meaning with this proof, the first digital human won't be built by OpenAI. It'll be copied from someone who's already alive.

Your consciousness is software. And someone just proved it can be copy-pasted.

Start your day with that.

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

OH ANO NAKA ILANG CHANGE PASS KAYO

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

220 na after 8 months 🤣 eyooooooo

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

Holy shit 170 na carwash hshahahah

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

One Saudi prince took things to the next level for his avian flying companions where he reportedly purchased individual seats for each of his 80 falcons.

Transporting falcons in the Middle East is a pretty common practice. Falconry - training birds to hunt - has been practiced in the Middle East for thousands of years and is still a popular pastime in the United Arab Emirates.

Falcons can get their own passports from the UAE to travel that allows them to travel to Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Morocco, and Syria. The passport is valid for three years.

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

Hay BDO app classic ka talaga sa bagal hahaah

[Jalex @JalexRosa]

Luffy Gear 5 vs Kaido with almost no budget, took more than expected haha

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

Ang solid ng gyoza sa snr pang restaurant hahah

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

haven't really gotten around to watch the office's last seasons, nakaka anxiety yung ending. rewatching season1-7 is my fucking go to

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

@Joyboy21st @Geo_AW For future spoilers on whats possible with gear 5 just watch tom & jerry and perhaps looney tunes tbh

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

Sabi na e

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

apple is about to abandon its lightning connector any year now tbh

[Bianca Dava-Lee 🐱 @biancadava]

We saw the crew of the China Coast Guard vessels taking our photos, so…

SMILE! ✌🏼

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

Inang past lives yan sobrang cringe ng dalawang bida 💀

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

Hayup na uptown mall yan nangangain ng mags 😩💀

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

Malalaman mong may inflation kasi 20 pesos na pancit canton sa tindahan

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

G na g ako manood ng fiba kaso wla nga palang net sa bahay ina niyo globe🥲

[「 ｂｅｎｅｔｔｅ 」 @b3n3tt3]

Putangena napaka solid mag order ng shoes sa china WEW