lmmarsano
@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Where’s the fucking list Donny?
So, we’re positive there’s a secret list now instead of a wild claim out of the right-wing conspiracy hole that Donny played up to undermine the establishment to bolster MAGA votes like the press has been saying months ago?
I understand it’s a convenient weapon to turn against Donny, and it’d be funny if his coalition imploded over an unsatisfiable demand he created, but they’re not here on lemmy, so why is this here?
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Shitlibs that pretend Bill Clinton and Joe Biden aren’t pedos
This guy loves wild, unsubstantiated claims.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
“haha this person has sincere beliefs, what a moron!”
It’s more like
this person is making us sicker of them than the thing they’re telling us to be sick of, and we were already sick of that!
Getting sanctimonious & overbearing with people who don’t even disagree with you isn’t effective advocacy. We largely avoid AI already, and a tedious circlejerk isn’t getting us anywhere or adding anything that isn’t frequently stated.
By drawing more ire toward them than things we should be sick of, circlejerks are unjust & deserve all they derision they can get until balance is restored.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
No, you are not. I also give 0 fucks about intellectual property.
People with their modern conveniences have it so well, they just make shit up to be upset about.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Slippery slope: none of that necessarily happens. As with any tool, it’s up to the users.
What we know for sure is that these are modern nuisances for people who live relatively amazing lives, so they just make shit up to be upset about. People in other places have real problems.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Will they live?
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Oh noes, 1^st^ world problems. How will we live?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Islam is still of the same lineage (Abrahamic).
They need to toss in unrelated & troll religions.
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 5 weeks ago:
Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
Where is the claim of a false conclusion? You’re just proving you don’t know understand the fallacy.
considering we are discussing the host of the information being the proverbial nazi bar
Source: Nazi bar
The irrelevance & irrationality of the objection to the credibility of the graph is being ridiculed.
It’s basically
I don’t like that source, because with a few degrees of separation irrelevant to the truth of anything I can relate something else to Nazis.
Pretty much anything can relate irrelevantly to Nazis: they express ideas in the same language, use the same internet, breathe the same air.
By that logic, we should reject sources in any language, online system, or atmosphere Nazis have touched. Where are those objections? Why are you using Nazi-tainted language, internet, and air?
Where are the objections to the credibility of tweets often reposted here?
By arguing against open media usable by anyone because villains have posted some articles we need to take effort to locate & read, they’re basically claiming we need to be babied & nannied by having content we dislike excluded for us, because we can’t be expected to do that ourselves. The expectation is patronizing.
If the concern is ad revenue, substack doesn’t work that way: revenue is subscription-based on commission fees charged to writers. No one gets revenue from free articles: if anything, freeloaders cost substack bandwidth.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
OK, but you’re just making yourselves lolcows at this point where you announce these easy-to-push buttons & people derive joy from pushing them. Imitating AI just to troll is a thing now.
So…that’s a victory?
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 5 weeks ago:
Cool genetic fallacy, brah.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
Also fixed.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 5 weeks ago:
That’s why I decline meetings without an agenda. No agenda = lack of preparation = waste of time = not a meeting.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
fixed
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
AI BAD, TRUMP BAD, GENOCIDE BAD.
Now where are my upvotes?
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
Did an airplane touch you the wrong way?
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
Do you really need to have a list of why people are sick of LLM and Ai slop?
With the number of times that refrain is regurgitated here ad nauseum, need is an odd way to put it. Sick of it might fit sentiments better. Done with this & not giving a shit is another.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 5 weeks ago:
Even so, still not NSFW. Wondering “It’s tagged NSFW but is it actually NSFW?” creates its own issues & nuisances.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 5 weeks ago:
Dishonest rhetoric? You’re speaking of yourself by twisting NSFW. Words mean things, not whatever you want them to mean.
An image of a rat in an open piping bag doesn’t ordinarily result in disciplinary action at work.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 5 weeks ago:
NSFW means NSFW, though, and not “my personal appreciation filter”.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 weeks ago:
That makes more sense.
Long-term capital gains are taxed significantly less than ordinary income: that’s partly to incentivize stabler markets by rewarding long-term investments over short-term market timing activity.
The annual ceiling on contributions to social security is bullshit & needs to be eliminated. However, there’s no such ceiling for medicare:
All covered wages are subject to Medicare tax.
Have you looked at the taxable income distribution/quantiles? The top marginal tax rate seems to begin somewhere between the minimum adjusted gross income (AGI) for the top 1% & 2%. < 1% have an AGI over $1M. We’re talking about increasing marginal rates for the top fractions of a percent here. While that increases federal revenues, it’s unclear that will boost revenues as much as we need.
For example, the Social Security administration publishes annual reports on solvency proposals with summaries. Eliminating that taxable maximum alone won’t save social security. Increasing the payroll tax rate, however, will definitely save it. It’d help to know the effect of taxing all taxable income.
Keeping programs solvent might require increasing taxes on the bulk or a more significant part of the population.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 5 weeks ago:
What part of them is unsafe for work?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 weeks ago:
The highest rate is on annual taxable income in the hundreds of thousands and up. The hundreds of billions are also getting taxed that top rate.
Your statement is muddled. Maybe the word same is missing like
Everyone in the top bracket shouldn’t be paying the same rate. Beyond the start of the current top bracket, they need continue adding increasing tax brackets for the millionaires & billionaires.
Some of your ideas equivocate themselves. Income taxes are already progressive. Taxable income already includes income other than wages.
The way you suggest realizing things that are already true draws into question whether you’ve ever filed taxes. Likewise for the people agreeing with you: have they ever filed taxes?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 5 weeks ago:
and the tax brackets should go all the way up to the highest income level
What does that even mean? They’re lower limits. Everything that exceeds the lower limit for the top bracket is taxed the top rate, which has no upper limit.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
Yep, like this one, though it could earn more in bonds or investments.
Low-interest loans are great, too: if they don’t need to be repaid right away, they can be leveraged to earn back more than their cost.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
Direct link: Mastercard rule 5.12.7
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
I thought credit was the main selling point.
- Ability to dispute & reverse charges.
- Flexibility to keep cash in a higher interest account until payment is due.
- Not having to constantly check enough cash in is your low interest checking account (which you’ll keep low so your cash earns more interest elsewhere & to minimize losses in case of unauthorized debits).
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 month ago:
Mastercard: “Sex with children is illegal. Get rid of those games.”
Games depicting it aren’t. Cool mental theater, though.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 month ago:
Gee, I wonder who people are going to believe.
Other payment processors? Why is this hard for you?
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 month ago:
From the article
So this seems like Mastercard are basically saying “it’s not us”.