GinaMar 21
It's Shitty Saturday, what are we doing?
Painting all pink walls back to white
7%
Installing Proxmox and K8 on a shitty old laptop
19%
Doing our taxes like a peasant
24%
All of the above weeee
50%
Poll ended at .
Show threadGinaMar 21
✨️ Hint hint wink wink ✨️
Show threadGinaMar 21
Jup, the worst.
Show threadGinaMar 21
My 2 braincells versus sentences like "Was the corrected value more than 10% greater than the value in economic circulation of this property on 01-01-2024? [?]" 🥀
Show threadGina

I have 2 masters degrees and I can confidently say that I'm too dumb for this.

@belastingdienst why are you like this?

Mar 21 at 11:46amWeb
Show threadDaniel BohrerMar 21
@Gina it's not you, it's the system
Show threadGinaMar 21
@daniel_bohrer And I'm like the easiest case there is. No kids, no partner, no business. I don't know how people do their taxes themselves.
Show threadDaniel BohrerMar 21
@Gina it's the same in Germany. When using the official website provided by the state, for the first few years I had to google even after reading every single of their "help" texts. No wonder there are third-party software providers out there who you can pay to essentially give you better help texts, I bet it's easy money for them :D
Show threadM DellMar 21
@Gina @belastingdienst let AI reason the favorable outcome?
Show threadGinaMar 21

@Mndell @belastingdienst Ah we have great experience with letting algorithms assess people's taxes in the Netherlands.

https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-scandal-serves-as-a-warning-for-europe-over-risks-of-using-algorithms/

Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks of using algorithms

The Dutch tax authority ruined thousands of lives after using an algorithm to spot suspected benefits fraud — and critics say there is little stopping it from happening again.

POLITICO
Show threadM DellMar 21
@Gina @belastingdienst "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell."
Show threadMartijn GeerdesMar 21
@Gina @belastingdienst ontworpen door econometristen, voor econometristen.
Show threadDaniel ArtforsMar 21
@Gina @belastingdienst Taxes in Sweden: you look your tax results sees how much you get in return and klick OK.
Show threadRasmus LindegaardMar 21
@daniel @Gina @belastingdienst well, almost the same here; except there are a few corrections you can make in case you need to.
Show threadDaniel ArtforsMar 21
@rasmus91 @Gina @belastingdienst Yes, you can do that in Sweden too. I'm gonna put in what I spent in public transit so that I get some of that back.
Show thread🇳🇱🇪🇺Jeroen🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦Mar 22
@Gina @belastingdienst It’s legalese, which is an attempt at expressing formal statements in a non-formal language. Questions like these are far better suited for formal languages like python.