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- Comment on Taiwanese grandmothers aged 89 and 91 train at the gym. Taiwan is encouraging elderly people to hit the gym to stay healthy, both physically and mentally. 6 days ago:
Very cool! Gotta keep them healthy to keep them working to compensate for the impending demographic upheaval
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 6 days ago:
In California the property taxes are such that it punishes people that didn’t buy a house 30 years ago. The apartment I rent pays property taxes on a valuation of ~$250k. This property just went for sale at $1.2 million. Whoever buys it now will pay property taxes on a $1.2 million valuation, while right now due to how the law is structured, the current owner pays taxes on $250k.
It’s just a big fuck you by the system. The tax law was modified because they saw that if they kept increasing the tax proportionally with the market value of the home, soon a bunch people would lose their homes because wages are stagnant and home prices are rocketing. So they passed this cap that helps current homeowners.
I don’t know if there is a reasonable tax under these conditions where home speculation and investment-mindset inflates home prices while wages are stagnant and inflation is a bustling.
- Comment on My son job lowered their hiring wage instead of raising it. 2 weeks ago:
This is from 1894, nothing has changed, the systems are still in place and arguably have grown to cover a wider spread of the socioeconomic classes.
It blows my mind, for all the advances in technology, human nature hasn’t changed and we’re still exploiting our fellow people. It’s just one “fuck you” after another
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 1 month ago:
The problem with the statement(which I have no idea if it’s true or someone just made this for rage bait) is that it’s making a ranked comparison saying streaming sucks more than regular jobs, so it antagonizes the working class as it jumps into a misery competition.
It’s divisive, when instead we should be uniting under the reality that standards of living are shit due to wealth inequality. The statement in the image instead just divides us more.
People are struggling, and hearing someone say “I have it worse than you” is not helping. We have to be demanding our governments and political parties for solutions that address wealth inequality which is causing lower living standards and causing the general discontent.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Schwarzenegger did it with Danny Devito
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 7 months ago:
We don’t, the assumption is that because the box sets were bought from eBay that they’re bootlegs. Also some of the dvds appear to have been written with a software associated with dvd ripping, so that’s another interesting coincidence. But not all crappy dvds he looked had that signature.
But we don’t know 100% they’re bootlegs.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 7 months ago:
He owns a paper mill, he games the system
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 1 year ago:
I think it’s pretty screwed. What is ham radio? The name means nothing to today’s youth, it’s just confusing and they’ll move on to something else. Our attention is so fractioned these days that no one will stick around to find out more, we’re never bored. And you need boredom to get into this type of thing.
What can you do with ham radio? Talk to strangers? You can do that online with milliohms of resistance whereas getting on ham radio is megaohms of resistance in comparison. What I’m saying with this resistance analogy is that ham radio has a big learning curve and friction. You’re competing with the internet, social media, games. Ham radio simply doesn’t have a good hook, it doesn’t have a good incentive.
- Comment on Aardwoof 1 year ago:
Super Saiyan Dog
- Comment on How Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S. 1 year ago:
Cause rent-seeking
- Comment on Woke up today to find out my demo has 100% Positive rating (from 10/10 reviews) 1 year ago:
Congrats! I wish you success!
- Comment on I bought a freeze dryer so you don't have to [1:00:14] 1 year ago:
Primarily because it’s a $3k piece of equipment. There are myriad other food preservation methods (canning, pickling, drying etc) that compete very strongly on the price/performance scale.
For some people it’s worth it, but for most use cases it’s going to be cheaper and simpler to go with an alternative method. There’s nothing wrong with the equipment or the technique, it’s just the value proposition for the consumer is low and the entry cost is high.