HubertManne
@HubertManne@piefed.social
- Comment on When Will The World Run Out of Water? - PBS Terra 1 hour ago:
Then end part about severe storms being some sort of saving grace as they see it replenishes groundwater a bit faster is one of those climate things that are just maddening. Yeah its faster in comparison but still way slower than our usage and the harmful effects of the loss of mild rain and increase in severe storms. Arrrgh. I can't believe they ended with that.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 16 hours ago:
the original half life. I decided to load games onto my deck smallest to largest. Playing ones that held my interest and kicking off others. It can only hold like 3 or 4 latest triple A type games so I figures I would just have like two on their and use the rest of the space to have a greater variety of games.
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
I feel like big tech should be subsidizing rooftop and balcony solar if it needs energy so much.
- Comment on Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees 1 day ago:
yeah I have been unemployed for just about 11 months which is longer than every before and I am far from young.
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 3 days ago:
wow. no wikipedia for britain aye.
- Comment on After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis 3 days ago:
bromide bro. I like my bros like my vegetable oil.
- 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 4 days ago:
Im fine with long term capital gains being less than short term capital gains but not less than ordinary income. a 1% transaction tax could drop short term timing more effectively. What you say at the end for social security is another reason regular income tax needs to be very low at the low end.
- 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 days ago:
Yes what I meant is the rate should not stop increasing at such a low amount. In fact the hundreds of billions do not pay the rate because of the way we tax work higher than returns and because social security and medicare have a max point. Basically the folks paying the highest rate are the folks that make it to that highest rate for what is still a common profession like doctors and lawyers. After that its escape velocity for 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 days ago:
At the upper end you might be able to swing the more modest of housing and put away for retirement and that is great but it is not like changes circumstances that much. I would argue that opposite that the 2billion is one billion of funny money over what the one bilion guy has and should be taxed along the lines of lottery winnings.
- 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 days ago:
as papastevesy said im advocating for zero tax on five figures which would go up to 99,999.99
- 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 days ago:
It means the highest tax bracket should not be in thousands when the top makes hundreds of billions.
- 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 6 days ago:
Meh. I actually don't think its a good idea. You just draw power away from the best of a segment empowering the biggest assholes. Taxes should be progressive and include all sources of income not just wages and the tax brackets should go all the way up to the highest income level. So there should be a level for over 100 billion and another for over 10 billion and over 1 billion and so on. Five figure income should be zero.
- Comment on Not all Orions are pirates! 6 days ago:
I have not been to a con in a long time but in my area 20 years ago there was a guy who had an incredibly complex full borg outfit. I can't remember exactly how long he said it was to put on but I know it was at least an hour but im thinking a bit more. He attached various parts to his body with stage putty type stuff.
- Comment on Not all Orions are pirates! 1 week ago:
As an awful fen who almost never dressed up. I thank you for making cons neater as costumes are always cool.
- Comment on How to trick id verification 1 week ago:
Linkedin does not require this. Make sure whatever you are doing is actually linkedin and not some scam.
- Comment on Does anyone say "What ho!" anymore? 1 week ago:
I've pretty sure I have heard it a lot in rap songs.
- Comment on Would you rather stop playing a game than lower the difficulty? The First Berserker: Khazan devs reckon you would | Eurogamer 1 week ago:
Games can't be easy enough for me. I like playing with dolls essentially. pew pew. that being said I firmly believe elden ring leaves a lot of cheese to give folks an easy mode without having to put in an easy setting. Sorta a cake and eat it to or official deniability.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
bro. just have ai cover it.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 1 week ago:
I mean no one walks over me but I do get the sorta. oh thats cute. Im not so sure im kind though as much as polite and looking at things in terms of what works and whats right.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing. 1 week ago:
Yeah its like the soy sauce on rice. Gotta have it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
cowbell. could always use more cowbell. seriously IDK.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 1 week ago:
I don't suppose the organic garden is still around along with the whitehouse mead made from honey of beehives on the grounds.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 weeks ago:
The old wall of text so im going to dismiss all you said. Im not saying crypto distracted im saying it is unfortunately the thing that got taken up. Like the use of fossil fuels in our society. The answer is things aren't always done in the best way. Its like saying if algorithms are so bad why don't people stop using them. There are many bad things that we do that we don't stop doing and many good things we don't bother to do espcially when looking at things with larger and larger groups up to the scale of humanity.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 weeks ago:
crypto is a usage of the distributed ledger. not the distributed ledger itself. Its only been popular in implementations like bitcoin which are programicly scammed. Its programmed to increase in value (ie use more energy) and creates the value by burning energy for no useful return (no infrastructure created, nothing manufactured). You could say it provides a service in exchange but its far inferior to what it theoretically replaces since it uses way more energy in transaction (at least the driving popular ones still do) and this is why its not used for purchasing by and large and more like a value store. A proper implementation like gridcoin is not used because its value reflects the energy it uses. In other words its backed by the value of the service it provides. Whats funny is it can use low energy but just isn't in bitcoin. You ask what demands its usage but what does that mean. I pointed out the benefits. No longer needing to keep up multiple databases or clear them out since we are talking point to point. So I buy something at the store and I can scan a QR code to know everything about the product which everyone along the chain added as it transacted and even ones early in the chain can see the eventual endpoint as well as me, the consumer, able to see its sourcing and such. We can all see the full ledger at the time of looking it up because its distributed. Once done there is no real need to clean out a database. Don't get me wrong they would still exist to keep track for the businesses with tons and tons of supply chain items. They just would not need to keep any detail outside of the unique identifier which can be used to get the information from the blockchain.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 weeks ago:
really anything with a centralized database, especially multiple databases. The name itself. Distributed ledger. Says what it does. shipping in regards to supply chain management where all parties can trace without everyone have to have it all on their own databases and thing like customers can know details without having to access the companies databases. same with verification of information like health records or content. Its like having a record of authenticity
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately distributed ledger software never seemed to get used for what it should given the crypto craze.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Vasectomies are reversible.
- Comment on Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans 2 weeks ago:
yeah I am very skeptical its only 40%. I find it hard to believe anyone working for a wage that does not include a contract with a golden parachute is keeping up with inflation.
- Comment on Toothbrushes don't list what they are made of. 2 weeks ago:
Ideally regulation but for now it is most vexxing.
- Comment on Toothbrushes don't list what they are made of. 2 weeks ago:
see thats the thing. I look all over the packaging and it does not say what it is doing it. Just this bullet point of antimicrobial.