Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 8 hours ago:
I don’t know where you are. But in the US or most of Europe. Again it’s a single lunch. A cheap fast food lunch. If you have a hard time affording fast food once a month, I get it. But I’d easily skip one meal for a month of better internet.
- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 12 hours ago:
It’s not expensive. For the price of a single cheap lunch. Your main gateway to the internet is no longer trying to use you to make money from advertisers. It has the largest most capable feature set of any search provider. Again for the price of a single cheap lunch. It would be the last subscription I cancel.
- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 12 hours ago:
It’s totally worth it. And you hit the major reason for me also. “Ranking” results is fantastic. And lenses to narrow down results academic sources is too useful anytime you want real info.
I started with the 300mo. I was able to keep under the limit without too much effort. But eventually I upgraded and it’s nice to not think about it anymore.
- Comment on People Who Love Corporate BS Are Bad at Their Jobs, New Cornell Research Confirms 2 days ago:
This article cites a meta study of 4 others.
- Comment on What is hubris as an adjective? 3 days ago:
Your saying they aren’t arrogant assholes?
- Comment on Lets say the Dems found a canindate with a criminal history and backed him or her who would it be or you like to be? Taking a page from Republican playbook. 3 days ago:
A Dr. providing compassionate euthanasia assistance.
- Comment on What is hubris as an adjective? 3 days ago:
Hubris is un-earned arrogance.
Some people are appropriately arrogant. It’s annoying as fuck, but you can’t argue with their results. - Comment on Has anyone tried making a free software, federated, advertising system? 3 days ago:
People need to be okay paying for things online.
Communick is a paid fediverse provider.
I pay $30/year because I believe it’s worth paying for.It makes sense for different servers to have different financing models. Ads I’m sure will have their place. But I imagine they won’t be popular.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 4 days ago:
NO TAXES!?!
I never said anything close to no taxes! I said the opposite of no taxes!I said the purpose of taxes isn’t what people think it is.
Governments don’t need to take money so they have money to spend.That doesn’t remotely mean I don’t want taxes, or taxes aren’t necessary.
Taxes are absolutely necessary!
Taxes are the flip side of government spending.The government spends into the economy with one hand, and taxes out of the economy with the other hand. Taxes are the real inflation control.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 4 days ago:
99% of that is correct. That is exactly what governments do.
The part that’s wrong is tiny, but absolutely foundational to what I’m saying,
What governments do, doesn’t necessarily correlate with how things work. What they do, and have done for centuries, could be wrong.
I’m arguing that it is wrong. I’m saying that everyone has been running their economies and making monetary policy decisions based on wrong ideas, since fiat currencies were invented.
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 5 days ago:
No. Live traffic data is too much server overhead for an monetized service.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 5 days ago:
I guess if you want to define the term that way, you can.
Seems an odd choice of phrase.If you export something, you don’t have it domestically any more.
But this doesn’t work that way.It’s more shareing inflation globaly. Diluting it maybe.
But still, that’s nothing to do with what I was saying.
Which is why I’m not sure you understood what I was saying. - Comment on Taxes are cool 5 days ago:
Yah… That’s econ 101 stuff I’m not and haven’t been confused about that. Not sure how that’s ‘exporting’ inflation.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
I’m not sure you understand what I’m trying to say. - Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 5 days ago:
That’s true. I forgot about a down network switch.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 5 days ago:
I don’t understand.
exporting it’s inflation globally
Do you mean inflation as increasing prices?
Or increasing money supply?Neither matters realy as the USD is the global currency. Foreign and domestic together, are a single economy from point of view of the USD.
- Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 5 days ago:
But several devices can connect to the WiFi side.
Counts as multiple endpoint devices. - Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 5 days ago:
I think you actually need 3.
Otherwise there is no real “routing” just “in here, out there” and vice versa. - Comment on USA officially bankrupt (insolvent) 5 days ago:
I’m absolutely going to trust that a site making money shilling for gold and silver, on the solvency of a government with the world’s reserve fiat currency. There’s no way they’d lie about that to help their own interests.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 5 days ago:
It really is how this works.
It’s just that nobody realised until the last couple decades. And now we have a century of inertia behind economic theories that says otherwise. A century of economic theory that’s been horrible at predicting the real economy.But it’s not difficult to understand.
If a government can make money out of nothing to pay for anything it needs to (the definition of fiat currency), then it doesn’t need to collect taxes to pay for things. If it doesn’t need to taxes to pay for things, then what do taxes do? Taxes remove money from the economy, offsetting the money added by government spending from nothing. This is direct inflation control. - Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 5 days ago:
It doesn’t happen with pot really.
It does happen with opioids like heroin. Why?
Because fentanyl is much more potent. You can smuggle a fraction of the volume for the same amount of sales. So it’s easier to move.The problem comes from the fact that since it’s so potent, if your measurements are off by only a few micrograms, people die. Most garage laboratories have trouble with that level of precision.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 5 days ago:
Modern governments with their own Fiat currencies don’t use taxes to pay for anything. Taxes money doesn’t get distributed, it gets destroyed to control inflation.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 1 week ago:
Just switched to Graphene on a refurbished 10 Pro XL
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 week ago:
A a handful maybe. Most grew organically from collections of myths, stories, and traditions. Greek, Nordic, Egyptian, Hindi, Jewish, Wiccan, Vodo, Zoroastrian, even Christian, all started as folktales.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 week ago:
It’s extremely rare for a cult to survive the death of its leader.
The only one I know of is Scientology.Vance would become POTUS, but he won’t be able to keep MAGA united. Remember Rump is miraculously keeping both pro Israel zionists and anit-semitic neo-nazis together on the same team. As well as others who would be natural enemies. MAGA will collapse. Vance’ll almost certainly loose in '28.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
No. It’s a list of The Seven Basic Plots. Themes are different.
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 1 week ago:
DLSS uses AI tricks to improve framerate.
Previous versions used AI upscaling and frame generation.
This version now uses AI filters. It changes lighting and texture effects to make the image “better”, instead of just making the image faster.
It’s actively manipulating creative decisions about the style of a game. Which naturally upsets many developers and players alike. - Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 1 week ago:
I like cooperative tabletop games.
Check out your local game store. See what they recomend for cooperative games with simple rules for beginners. Pick up one or two that seem interesting to you.For the whole seperation thing, try going to the game store on your own. Come up with some options, then talk to mom about what seems interesting. Then go again on your own and buy whatever you agreed to try.
That way jist getting the games could serve both helping with separation and bonding at the same time.
- Comment on So say, someone lives in an English speaking country and wanna see a movie in the threaters but they struggle to understand English, how are they supposed to watch it? 1 week ago:
It’s not good family bonding time, sitting and not talking to each other.
It’s better than nothing, but any activity that explicitly directs you all to interact with each other is better. - Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
All of them.
There are only a couple dozen or so quality stories.
Everything is a ripoff or mashup of those. - Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 1 week ago:
Brain damage changes peoples brains.
It could make them conservative, liberal, childlike, homicidal, happy, sad, robotic, face blind, mute, aphantasic. All sorts of things.
Brain damage doesn’t = conservative.