deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 1 week ago:
Meanwhile down on earth, you’ve just caused an entirely new class of derrivatives traded on sketchy and unregulated markets, increasing the risk of fraud to all, including small individual investors.
Wealth is finite
The size of the observable universe is ~93 billion light-years. So, you’re technically right, but…
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
Tough question. I don’t think the descendants of european, asian and african settlers are going back home any time soon.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, advertising your secret plans in public might not be the best idea, regardles of the medium.
From the technical standpoint, internet has never been more secure and private. The amount of plaintext shit that was literally flying over the air just a decade ago was terrifying.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
What I like: The effort and persistence of the developers What I dislike: The ActivityPub protocol.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 weeks ago:
The value of an art piece is always subjective. The price (closest thing we have to the objective value) is determined by the buyers.
What other mechanism would there be? A committee? That’s a bit nazi for my taste. A popular vote? Look at the election results to see why that might be a bad idea.
The theme is a bit touchy these days, especially in certain small country in eastern europe, where the new minister started to cut subsidies to the art she considers unworthy, obscene and politicized, in favor of art reflecting so called traditional values and national identity. The mere existence of the ministry of culture, established with the most noble goal of supporting art, creates this kind of potential vulnerability.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 weeks ago:
What are the capitalists doing to prevent you from expressing artistically?
- Comment on Why is the vision correction in VR headsets only an afterthought? 5 weeks ago:
But would the 2 pictures fit together? When you shorten the lens-display distance, you basically zoom in.
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- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 month ago:
Sounds like a Babylon 5 character. I vote for Lemmier!
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
omny.fm/…/ep78-does-your-brain-have-one-model-of-…
Why do you see a unified image when you open your eyes, even though each part of your visual cortex has access to only a small part of the world? What is special about the wrinkled outer layer of the brain, and what does that have to do with the way that you explore and come to understand the world? Are there new theories of how the brain operates? And in what ways is it doing something very different than current AI? Join Eagleman with guest Jeff Hawkins, theoretician and author of “A Thousand Brains” to dive into Hawkins’ theory of many models running in the brain at once.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
Communists and fascist are the conservatives on my side of the planet though. They both appeal on “the good old times, when the world was right”. Both equally glorify physical labor and fights against the intellectualism.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
It’s the bullshit of hard work will result in success and money.
That’s funny, because it’s not the liberal leaning folks who glorify the hard labor.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
That only confirms my hypothesis that leftists don’t want a system of governance, but mom and dad…
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
Filthy capitalists, giving people what they want!
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
Yes, reporting on a success of an individual is practically the same thing as openning the gas valve… Jesus F. Christ !
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The Lust series is pretty good. It’s a horror game similar to Amnesia or Penumbra, except you’re infiltrating a sex cult.
…steampowered.com/…/Lust_from_Beyond_Prologue/
…steampowered.com/…/Lust_from_Beyond_Scarlet/
- Comment on Scammers PANIC After I Hack Their Live CCTV Cameras! 2 months ago:
Publicly spreading the faces of people you’re accusing of a crime
That would be a sound argument if they weren’t doing the crime right there on the video.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 2 months ago:
I actually like those, and started to watch the channel regularly after the house remodeling series.
What’s barely sufferable are the “we bought stuff from the internet and here it is. check out our sponsor…” videos that’s been published a lot lately.
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 2 months ago:
It’s just that I rarely see a real person be so confidently wrong.
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 2 months ago:
We’ve already established that language models just make shit up. There is no need to demonstrate. Bad bot!
- Comment on 'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike 2 months ago:
Sure. Let’s protect the proper culture. Like Fast and Furious 10, or the 60th marvel superhero movie rehash :P
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 2 months ago:
Yes. Screw the small businesses. All that competition is just fraud and burden to the real corporations :D /s
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 2 months ago:
3d printer is subtracted from revenue for tax purposes
That makes sense. Since my profits always oscillated around zero, claiming any expenses had no practical effect.
legitimately running a business, or just trying to save money on their hobby
That’s actually how it started. We’ve installed linux on some old desktop machine with my classmate back in school, set up some services like webhosting, mail, jabber, and started to give access to people for free. No guarantees, no pressure. As we finished school, trying to turn it into a business was a logical next step. It never went big, but we just kept the thing around, bought newer hardware, moved it to a proper housing, did basic maintenance, and years later, here I am owing to the government thanks to my highschool hobby.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 2 months ago:
Well, I fell into a bracket that’s taxed (it’s not officially called a tax, but that’s what it is) by a certain fixed minimal amount. Thanks to my total revenue being relatively low, it makes an absurd amount percentage-wise.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 2 months ago:
IRS will audit you, and could deem you a hobby
Are there any negative consequences? I’d prefer to be downgraded to a hobbyist. Instead, the government has increased my taxes to around 70% of my yearly revenue. Social democracy, fuck yeah!
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 months ago:
We can tell you probably have an emotion if you use one, we just can’t be sure what emotion. The emoji you type is almost certainly not the one we see.
- Comment on Anyone else get random cancellation emails from onlyfans? 2 months ago:
When some internet stranger manage to enrage me more than usual, I sign up for a porn site with their email address.
Who did you piss off lately? :)
- Comment on Anon tries to connect with a coworker 3 months ago:
I fail this every single time. I always assume if somebody had something to say, they would’ve just said it. I mean, we’re already having a conversation about certain topic. Why wait for me to ask?
- Comment on My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence? 3 months ago:
The real billionaires love taxation. It helps them getting rid of the competition.
- Comment on Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace? 3 months ago:
Forced family is the worst
But this is literally how family works for the first 20 years of your life. You don’t get to choose one. You are assigned one from birth :D
