Nagisa

[mint @cascadingfly]

whenever people say ROC as in "rest of canada" as opposed to québec my mind pictures this

[Cute Dessert @sweetxdessert]

<3

[Cute Dessert @sweetxdessert]

too cute to eat

[Doublage FR 🎙 @Vehefisme]

🎂 En ce 10 août, un joyeux anniversaire à Michel Vigné !

[Antistar 🦊 @Antistar]

C'en est trop pour moi, je vais me coucher, me rouler en boule et réfléchir au sens de la vie.

[Sabling @Sablingart]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Tarot

[Doublage FR 🎙 @Vehefisme]

🎂 En ce 2 août, un joyeux anniversaire à Laura Préjean !

[Headshok1962 @Headshok1962]

I knew it

[Cute Dessert @sweetxdessert]

✩

[Cute Dessert @sweetxdessert]

excavation cakes

[Martin Foret @MartinForet]

Le Roy de Quanteau a accepté de frapper monnaie nouvelle ! Voicy les Pochedeniers qui vont bientost garnir vos bourses !

[Sylffy @TsarSylveon]

Ahhh I’m so drunk!

[Ariele 🏗️🌐🏳️‍⚧️ @PositivistWitch]

this is the epitome of bankinte design btw. this is how it should be

[Shizuna 🦋 @ShizunaSH]

CLR - Odd
#codelyoko

[Shizuna 🦋 @ShizunaSH]

Odd's design evolution from 2025 to today!
(I've improved quite a bit too. 😄)
#codelyoko

[Doublage FR 🎙 @Vehefisme]

🎂 En ce 21 juillet, un joyeux anniversaire à Sébastien Desjours ! 🧽

[dpaws @dekopaws]

shoutouts to the 3ds game that turns your mii into a furry

[ominous @0MINOUSLUMINOUS]

me unfortunately

[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.