phubarr

@phubarr@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Stage 2 greedflation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, 30 years is, but he said 1995… Wait, no no no no no no no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting to note that Puerto Rico doesn’t have property tax. When you pay off your home, the tax collector’s office just leaves you alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Functionally, there’s no difference. The amount they demand is based off your house’s value, and they take it away from you if you don’t pay. The label is just a detail. And it’s not a trivial cost, I inherited a small, aged, worn out house and I pay over $300/mo just to exist in it. The tax office wildly overestimated it’s value and there’s nothing I can do about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about? “Taxes don’t have anything to do with ownership”

  Your county sends the person on the deed to the house a tax bill every year. For me, it works out to over $300 per month for a very modest house. If you have a mortgage, it’s bundled into the mortgage payments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a scam that you’re forcing to pay homeowner taxes on a home that the bank actually owns.

  And, they force you to pay mortgage insurance (against yourself) if for some reason you can’t pay your mortgage. In the event you can’t pay, they make you leave the house AND reap the benefits of the insurance claim. I’m sorry, if the bank wants to bet against you that’s one thing, but forcing you to pay the bill to bet against yourself is massively unfair.

  It’s entirely possible that you could be unable to afford the mortgage payment because of the additional costs of the extra insurance they force you to pay, to insure them against you not being able to pay. Think about that.

  This is entirely separate from homeowners insurance, which is a whole other scam.

  There should be a law to force mortgage lenders to disclose the full price of the loan at the time you take the loan. For example, if a home is $200k, a typical 30-year mortgage for that home will have you paying something like $450k by the time you finish paying it off. This should be shown to the buyer at the time you take the loan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy, just examine Africa’s situation with warlords

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Happened to me with the Android anti-theft app Cerberus, AND with the PlayOn TV recording service.

  We should make a shame/do not trust list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

  -Benito Mussolini

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently started debating with myself why we don’t consider artificial intelligence genuine life. I begin with the most broad truth and work towards narrowing it down to get the most specific, essential truth.

  So far, I believe that the fact we have emotion is probably the single biggest determining factor in whether we are truly alive, or other words, really a form of life… More specifically, intelligent life.

  Can anyone build on this? Maybe try to find a slightly narrower definition of why we believe we are alive and AI isn’t?.. And what about humans born without any functional emotions whatsoever, ie severe cases of sociopaths, psychopaths, etc. Does that mean they’re not?