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- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
If I’m allowed to post thoughts on the internet then why are you yelling at me?
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
My point is not about it maybe being false, I just don’t think that many people are helpful even if it is real, I think they will make the situation worse, they will not be able to make sensible decisions. I’m not talking about chaos in the street, but in coordination of law enforcement. At Uvalde, many police officers did show up, and they simply didn’t do their jobs. Among many issues with the response, they couldn’t make up their minds about who was in charge, that’s a problem with many people from many departments all showing up to an incident at once.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Yeah I don’t disagree that they should go check it out with enough people but that’s, what, 40+ officers? To an incident supposedly involving two people? What are they all supposed to do? It’s just chaos and I don’t think they are helping the situation.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Completely reasonable response to that kind of a threat, if that is what the call was.
I think twenty cars is still too many
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Why do you think that? Do they mention some kind of payout in the video? It sounds unlikely to me.
- Comment on Roasted, dumbass 1 week ago:
no u 😭
- Comment on Roasted, dumbass 1 week ago:
looks like a teletubby
- Comment on All mixed up 3 weeks ago:
I love that understatement
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
Homeopathy is way more popular in Germany than anywhere else in the world, is funded by state healthcare and administered by their so-called “real doctors”. We’re not that much better than the USA, just a few steps behind in the slow slide into madness.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
In vitro is in the lab, literally “in glass” (e.g. a petri dish or test tube). In vivo is in the living organism. In vino I guess not very much survives, the ethanol concentration is too high.
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 weeks ago:
Sure, I agree with that, but even at home, if I want 8 potatoes for gratin it’s pretty worth it
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 weeks ago:
Disagree, I’ve worked in plenty of commercial kitchens with them and am fine at using a knife.
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 weeks ago:
if you want to cut something very consistently and not spend much time to do it you use a mandoline
- Comment on Mathematics conferences are a huge ego boost 3 weeks ago:
Probably hardly more than an average person from the street.
- Comment on No u 5 weeks ago:
It’s much more common than it should be, but that is still rather on the extreme end, not normal, and extremely unethical behaviour on their part. I’m sorry that happened to you.
- Comment on sus 5 weeks ago:
this looks like the entrance to an absolutely sick club tbh
- Comment on Wonder why? 5 weeks ago:
On what basis exactly are you making such a wild claim?
- Comment on Batteries 1 month ago:
Taking immunosuppressants because you think they’ll make you live longer is absolutely fucking wild.
- Comment on Looooooong 1 month ago:
But then it wouldn’t rhyme with extend :(
- Comment on What's wrong with Ellen DeGeneres? 1 month ago:
lmao is this the english version of the flying lotus copypasta
- Comment on I don't think they're alone on one 1 month ago:
I’m having some trouble understanding your comment. Are you somehow using both meanings of CBT simultaneously? Would you explain?
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 1 month ago:
obvious troll is obvious lol
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
No, I understand just fine, we have income taxes here too, they’re just lower. This means that the tax system is fairer because richer people pay more. It also means that people are more incentivised to work, to contribute to the economy, and to invest. I don’t really see what something being taxed a first or second time has to do with anything. What matters is the overall tax burden, which although hard to calculate exactly, is lower here for the large majority of people but distributed more towards richer people - not those with more income but those with more wealth. It may be true that Americans would freak out about such a thing, but that is merely due to quasireligious ideas about taxation from national myth propaganda, not about the actual effect it would have on their lives, and it reveals fundamental defects in the American character.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
I currently live in a country which has this. Income taxes are correspondingly very low and public services are extremely good. I’m very satisfied with the arrangement, yes. You seem preoccupied with some kind of religious sanctity of your “savings account” without actually considering what the implications of such a policy are, that’s too bad.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
Nope, not only is it not stupid, it is pretty much the best possible taxation system unless your explicit goal is to keep poor people poor and rich people rich.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 2 months ago:
Wealth taxes in Switzerland start at ~150k and include the family residence. And capital doesn’t flee. It’s a great implementation and income taxes are lower commensurately so that it works for people.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 2 months ago:
Yes, but you’ll only pay like a thousand a year on those savings, and your costs will go down to 30,000 thanks to improved infrastructure, healthcare, etc.
- Comment on Death by linguistic imprecision 2 months ago:
ok, I guess. how can a pile of bananas and a pile of rugs be in the same place though?
- Comment on UK immigration officers 'working for China' arrested after forcing entry into flat, court hears 2 months ago:
more probably his mate killed him to avoid him squealing imo
- Comment on Death by linguistic imprecision 2 months ago:
There are just piles of sand literally everywhere? An infinite number of them in every tiny void?