Windex007
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- Comment on Susan 1 day ago:
Oof owch owie
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days 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? 2 days 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? 2 days 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? 3 days 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? 3 days ago:
How do you establish that a loan is or isn’t “acting as income”?
- Comment on The most powerful brain on Twitter 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Sadam in the tail?
- Comment on Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Ok good I didn’t want to accidentally click a malicious link
- Comment on A Right-Wing News Channel Struggles to Sanewash Trump 1 month ago:
No I mean is the video real
- Comment on A Right-Wing News Channel Struggles to Sanewash Trump 1 month ago:
Is this real?
- Comment on Poggers 1 month ago:
- Comment on Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else 2 months ago:
Chatgpt told me 188 but then admitted it was 120 after I bullied it and then landed on 95
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
This is why I dig ditches. I create labour because someone has to pay to fill them in.
- Comment on Seriously. 2 months ago:
But R and K agree on zero
- Comment on Animals that use Drugs 2 months ago:
Humans actually do, but they do it by drinking the reindeer piss after the reindeer have eaten it.
- Comment on Flying Ants 2 months ago:
I met a guy at a bar once who was about ants at a bar one time. Wouldn’t stop talking about them. To get him to put the dimorphism into perspective I asked how Lage the women in the bar would be if the human ratio was like ants.
It was cool because I’d never gotten the opportunity to watch someone develop a fetish in real time before.
- Comment on Peer review 2 months ago:
So it’s like a crowd strike code review
- Comment on Weekend Box Office: Deadpool & Wolverine hangs on to the top spot; Borderland a disaster 3 months ago:
It’s bizarre to me. Hollywood has generally figured out that if a book sells really well that you shouldn’t fuck with the movie version any more than you have to. If you gotta jiggle a few things around for pacing, fine.
But they’ll still absolutely torch a video game story to "make it better"with no comprehension of the source material and it’s literally never ever worked.
TV figured it out w/ The Last of Us and Fallout.
- Comment on Turns out, that was the one piece that we needed. 3 months ago:
When Beavis and Butthead originally aired, the duo skewered the music videos on MTV. Parents groups hated the show, it was the stupidest thing on television.
When the show rebooted in the 2010s, there weren’t enough music videos so they started skewering other MTV content: teen mom, jersey shore, etc.
It was amazing, because Beavis and Butthead were exactly the same, but as a viewer you realized that Beavis and Butthead were now the SMARTEST thing on MTV.
- Comment on This is so freaking funny to me. I love Lemmy 3 months ago:
And could you explain how, for the court, how can you be correct, when I explicitly made you Principal Skinner?
Jury gasps
- 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:
There have always been susceptible idiots.
Nazi’s are just a byproduct of an eroding standard of living. When things are good and getting better, there just isn’t the fertile ground for that kind of ideology, even among the idiots.
When standard of living is on the decline? Anyone who gives a simple answer and a simple solution gets the attention of idiots.
- Comment on New tech discovered 3 months ago:
I think my main issue with that use case is that it’s a “solution” to a relatively minor problem, that actually compounds the problem.
Let’s say I don’t want to write prose for my email, I have a list of bullet points I want to get across. Awesome, I feed it into the chat gippity and boom, my points are (hopefully) property represented in prose.
Now, the recipient doesn’t want to read prose, they want a bullet point summary. So they feed it into the chat gippity to get what is (hopefully) a properly condensed bullet point summary.
So, suddenly we have introduced a fallible middle translation layer for actually no reason.
Just write the clear bullet point email in the first place. Save everyone the time. Save everyone from the 2 chances for the chat gippity to fuck it up.
- Comment on New tech discovered 3 months ago:
People who are using it to solve problems which require equivalent effort of writing a sufficient prompt and just directly solving it without AI at all for sure are AI folk.
- Comment on Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk adds nine to cast including Mark Hamill and Judy Greer 3 months ago:
I think the issues with adaptation are far deeper than the rating. I recall that I read this book cover to cover in one sitting, it was able to inspire the terror of stopping or slowing as a participant.
The story takes place almost exclusively in the protagonists head.
Also, they don’t really do a deep dive… even a shallow dive into the structure of this dystopian world, unlike the world building like in something like hunger games or star wars.
I agree that a stage adaptation would probably work better than a Hollywood production… Where they’re going to for sure make significant changes to important story features just to make it work on the screen.
They’re going to make it a really really bad hunger games. Ultimately that’s what I think will happen.
- Comment on When a medicine asks you to "take with food" how much food is enough? 3 months ago:
So you trick your stomach like you’d trick a dog by hiding medicine in their food?
