Rivalarrival
@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
Certainly. Most of the 20th century, the top tier tax rate was set at a level that can only be described as “punitive”. It was higher than 90% to kill off the robber barons.
While I am not morally opposed to beheading rich people, we really need to go back to the tax rates we had in the 50’s. And add a securities tax, payable in shares of that security, that the IRS can liquidate slowly over time.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 4 days ago:
If you’re at the pole, just walk due south.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 5 days ago:
Since you’re outsourcing this, the adjudicator is either the first contract killer involved, or the second contract killer you specifically hired to deal with that first contract killer.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 2 weeks ago:
1% tax on all registered securities, payable in shares of those securities. First $10,000,000 owned by a natural person is exempted.
All securities collected in tax are resold by IRS liquidators in small lots over time, constituting no more than 1% of total traded volume of each security.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
What is depicted here isn’t even a polygon, let alone a triangle, let alone a right triangle. This is just a line segment. Line AB is the same as line AC. There is no line BC. BC is a single point.
I suppose it could possibly depict a weird cross section of two orthogonal circles in a real and an imaginary plane.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
A is drawn in such a way that it resembles a right angle, but it is not labeled as such. The length of the hypotenuse is given as zero. The opposite angle cannot be anything but 0°.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
Every now and then, I get a little bit lonely and you’re never coming 'round
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually pretty easy. With CB being 0, C and B are the same point. Angle A, then, is 0, and the other two angles are undefined.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 3 weeks ago:
The human capacity for reason is greatly overrated. The overwhelming majority of conversation is regurgitated thought, which is exactly what LLMs are designed to do.
- Comment on If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance? 4 weeks ago:
There are laws against selling fake drugs. Why does he think your product is a drug? Has it been represented to him as a drug by you or by someone with whom you are conspiring to sell fake drugs?
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on House Centipedes 4 weeks ago:
That’s a spider orgy.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 4 weeks ago:
I’ll just leave this here.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Get off my lawn, young’n.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Fuck, I’m old.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 4 weeks ago:
My point wasn’t that LLMs are capable of reasoning. My point was that the human capacity for reasoning is grossly overrated.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 4 weeks ago:
You say this like human “figuring” isn’t some “autocomplete bullshit”.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 weeks ago:
even then you don’t need this recurring manual registration mess.
There is no recurring manual registration. You only need to register once in your lifetime.
If you move, you have to update your ID within 60 days, and every time you update your ID, they update your voter registration automatically. (unless you decline).
That has been federal law since 1993, and is pretty much equivalent to European standards.
You really have to go out of your way to not be registered to vote.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 weeks ago:
But it’s very difficult for a lot of people.
It is, indeed, but the proper solution here is to lift them up to the bar, not lower the bar down to them.
Lack of ID prevents you from getting and keeping a job, attending school, accessing the banking system, getting a PO box, getting licenses. Being unable to vote is the least of your problems.
The proper solution is not to figure out how to make voting accessible to those without an ID. The proper solution is to get them an ID.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 weeks ago:
Yes, there are people who can’t obtain an ID card, for whatever reason. A European citizen who couldn’t obtain an ID card would have the exact same problems voting that an American citizen does. I don’t have a systemic solution for that. This would seem to be something that would need to be handled on a case-by-case basis, possibly involving the judicial system and a court order. It also doesn’t seem to be a particularly common problem. I’d bet all the money in my pockets that OP does, indeed, have some sort of ID card.
We have a remedy for this: Provisional ballots. Cast your vote now, and resolve any clusterfuck with registration later.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 weeks ago:
That’s called privilege. You literally don’t realize what a burden it is for some people to comply with voter registration requirements, because your life is such that it’s easy for you.
The “privilege” you are talking about is the exact same privilege the parent comment assumed:
I just have to show up with my ID, doesn’t matter if it’s for the EU parliament or the local city senate.
The “privilege” you are talking about is “having an ID card”. Every time you obtain, renew, replace, update, or otherwise contact the state bureau handling ID cards (usually, the DMV), they are required, under federal law, to update your voter registration unless you specifically decline.
The European standard is “get an ID card, show up and vote”. We implemented the European standard back in 1993.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 weeks ago:
What I’m describing has been federal law for over 30 years. The European criticism about ID cards is nonsensical. Every time you obtain, renew, or amend your drivers license or ID, you update your voter registration.
Remember the context of my comment: I am replying to European criticism of registration. The European approach is for everyone to obtain a government issued ID card and present it at the polling station. The NVRA already does this. We have already adopted the European solution to this problem.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 weeks ago:
It’s overblown. It’s mostly propaganda.
I just have to show up with my ID
My ID is good for 5 years, and I am required to update it within 60 days of changing residences. Every time I’ve renewed or updated it, they have asked me if I wanted to register or update my voter registration. My registration is updated every time I vote, and I don’t get de-registered unless I skip voting for about a decade straight, without re-registering when I renew my ID card.
ALL of the problems with voter registration are about people who either can’t or won’t get or renew their ID card. Every time you read about voter registration issues in the US, you should imagine going to your polling station without a current ID card.
- Comment on Anon is straight 1 month ago:
Can’t give a general answer, but consider the Castrati: removing the testicles before puberty prevented a boy’s voice from changing, giving them a high singing voice in adulthood.
- Comment on What a musical genius 1 month ago:
I heard he made a line of surfing products, starting with Chump Wax.
- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 1 month ago:
If you already know what is wrong and just need a doctor’s note (and maybe antibiotics), go to the clinic.
If something is bothering you, but you can tolerate it for a couple weeks, schedule an appointment with primary care.
If you don’t know what’s wrong, or you need something more than a note and a prescription, and you can transport yourself, go to urgent care.
The only time you should go to the ER voluntarily is if urgent care sends you there. Any other trip to the ER should be because someone dragged you there without giving you a choice.
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sorry to be a bother... 1 month ago:
I need this exact pin. You can save some money and make it without any moving parts.
- Comment on What if the panic over teens and tech is totally wrong? 1 month ago:
the thing that’s different is that social media has demonstrative harm.
Is that actually a difference?
Rock and roll causes harm: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580930/
TV causes harm: …harvard.edu/…/too-much-tv-might-be-bad-for-your-…
Video games cause harm: www.apa.org/news/press/releases/…/video-games
- Comment on Instruments 1 month ago:
I didn’t see mayonnaise on either list?
