Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
Might be betraying my age here, but do you remember when GST was 7%? EXACTLY the same thing happened.
GST breaks strictly pad the revenues of business AT THE COST of funds to the public purse. Does a fat fucking zero to the wallets of consumers.
- Comment on "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Reboot In Works 1 week ago:
Considering the author, I think the one update I want to see Desmond Llewelyn (deepfake unfortunately) reveal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with it’s features, and have Judi Dench explain why it needs to be brought back in one piece (with clear resignation of the knowledge that it won’t happen)
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 2 weeks ago:
“If I push on this, I will alienate myself from this clearly mentally unstable patient and at that point there is no chance to help them”
It’s literally how mental health professionals are trained.
- Comment on At your service 2 weeks ago:
As someone with a kid… I agree 100% w/ this. It’s like when old people say “youth is wasted on the young”
Don’t you dare waste your freedom! Don’t answer your (relative) lack of responsibility with arbitrary and self imposed limits. Call in sick and fuck off to the mountains on a Wednesday and spark a J. Just because I can’t doesn’t mean I don’t desperately want that for you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The energy is in the form of complex but stable intramolecular bonds
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Banners body has a store of extremely high energy particles. When he transforms, they are converted to much lower energy particles and the energy is converted to mass (e=mc^2). When the hulk goes back to banner, is the same process in reverse: mass is converted to much more highly energetic particles.
- Comment on That's right! 2 weeks ago:
Valentine’s Day set to bankrupt me this year
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
I live in Canada and tbh I’m with the Chad on this.
Not saying “turn off your furnace” but energy use (and cost) balance ons exponentially based on how hot you have your thermostat set at. Lower your thermostat to the point where wearing a sweater indoors is enough and save money.
And I’d be happy to subsidize the first X GJ/mo to help people keep themselves from freezing, but if people want their apartment to be the tropics that’s gotta be on their dime.
Same with electricity. I’ll subsidize keeping your lights on but I’m not paying you to mine crypto.
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
Same here.
But there is middle-ground here. My wife came from a very temperate country. She wants the thermostat set at like, 26.
I’d be happy to have it at 17 and wear sleeves indoors. 9 degrees thermostat difference makes a hell of a dent in the utility bill.
- Comment on Reddit morals vs Lemmy morals in the greentext community 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know anything about China, and I don’t use votes as “I agree” so I have no idea what this is about
- Comment on can they?? 3 weeks ago:
Can they SEE why…
- Comment on "I have an story/fanfiction idea ruminating my mind for a long time. I wish I could write it " 3 weeks ago:
Hold the power button for like 3 seconds
- Comment on how to crush a can of dr. pepper with slats of wood 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Petrichor 4 weeks ago:
I’m still missing something here. For it to be useful, I’d imagine that it would need to inform decisions, and do so where existing senses would fail.
At least in my environment, if I can smell rain, I could also just as easily use my eyes to see the cumulonimbus clouds and say “rain, due east”.
In the savanna are there scenarios where the only awareness of rain would be smelling it? Can you derive directionality at 5 parts per trillion? Does it matter?
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see the two environments as necessarily being at odds in any way.
If implementing feature X is going to take a developer 10 days… It’s going to take a developer 10 days. I can say the deadline is 1 day all I want, it’s going to take 10 days.
If I want to get my Volkswagen golf down a 1/4 mile, it doesn’t matter how hard I push the gas pedal, it’s going to take as long as it takes.
In a corporate environment, if deadlines are what you’re optimizing for, you have options. You can cut scope. You can add resources. You can decrease quality. You can forgo time intensive processes designed to reduce risk. These are still all agile activities. Making deliberate decisions, and continually evaluating those decisions is agile.
Agile doesn’t mean there are no timelines or goals. It’s just that the design and implementation are routinely examined for suitability to your ultimate goals.
So I actually think agile is better suited to corporate environments because of how volatile the definition of delivered value is. Open source projects usually have a less volatile vision
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 4 weeks ago:
Do you have any idea how many jira states our development workflow has?
I wonder how much appetite there is for project managers and scrum masters in the open source world.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Ok, I’m just going to go ahead and pitch an alternative and then you can weigh in on the relative merits.
In my mind, the issues aren’t the loans themselves, it’s that they’re secured by shares. Billionaires are able to realize real value from those shares without paying taxes in them.
I think if you want to use shares as collateral, you need to pay the taxes on them.
You wanna use shares to back a loan, fine, but the instant you do, all taxes on those shares are due at FMV.
- Comment on Susan 4 weeks ago:
Oof owch owie
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 5 weeks ago:
This is a bad system for several reasons:
-It requires an arbitrary use-agnostic choice of value. Why 10 million? Why not 5? Why not 50?
-it requires an arbitrary time scale. Why 5 years? Why not 3? why not 10? Why not limit once in a lifetime?
We’re defining a system here with numbers out of thin air with no context around anything. These are fundamentally badly designed systems. No amount of fiddling with the parameters will make up for the fact that it’s fundamentally flawed.
Also, beyond that, you would be amazed how many scenarios exist for people and businesses to secure large loans that this would impact. The goal is to actually tax the super rich who are dodging taxes, not kneecap legitimate useage. You’d hurt hundreds of thousands legitimate borrowers and just shove Bezos and Musk into using alternative mechanisms to leverage their security holdings.
I know you think I don’t understand your proposal. I challenge you to consider that I do, and still think you can reconsider the root cause of the issue and come up with alternative ideas. You’re stuck on the loan aspect. That’s a symptom, not the cause.
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 5 weeks ago:
They aren’t used interchangeably so this implies a different definition or at least distinct connotations.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 5 weeks ago:
The problem isn’t that i “don’t understand the gap”. The problem is that this isn’t what I’m asking.
How do you define for the purposes of this hypothetical law which loans would be taxed as income?
Telling me how rich Bezos is is completely tangential.
I’ve been trying to use the Socratic method to prime the pump that
-The root of the problem isn’t the loans themselves, it’s that they can “realize value” from shares (using them to secure a loan) without selling them.
But that doesn’t seem to have gotten anywhere because of how excited people are to hear any question to be somehow a doubting of how rich these guys are?
If that is the case, and you step back, can you consider an alternative strategy besides just some messy spaghetti definition of “income loans” vs other loans?
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 5 weeks ago:
My mortgage was many times my yearly income.
So then you just have frequency, which is easily gamed by getting fewer larger loans. Maybe one every three to five years? At that point it really is just a mortgage with stock as collateral rather than a house.
Like, you’re not wrong in your intuition that the system is problematic. Mine (and others) point is that the devil is in the details, and they’re not trivial.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 5 weeks ago:
How do you establish that a loan is or isn’t “acting as income”?
- Comment on The most powerful brain on Twitter 1 month ago:
This guy is the definition of “if your only tool is a hammer, every problem will look like a nail”.
“Leftist Tyranny”.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 month ago:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, so forgive me, but I expect carefully reading the prompt is still orders of magnitude less effort than actually writing a paper?
- Comment on here, kitty kitty 1 month ago:
Sadam in the tail?
- Comment on Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies 2 months ago:
Yeah when the ant man Halloween costume numbers come in at the end of the month I’m sure they’ll be in the black.
- Comment on A Right-Wing News Channel Struggles to Sanewash Trump 2 months ago:
You can never be too sure. My grandson clicked a YouTube and two days later his laptop was completely dead. The Apple genius at the door said water damage. Scary stuff.
- Comment on A Right-Wing News Channel Struggles to Sanewash Trump 2 months ago:
Ok good I didn’t want to accidentally click a malicious link
