Cypher
@Cypher@lemmy.world
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 2 days ago:
Well that just makes sense.
Through selection pressures the only surviving Australians are highly venomous.
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 1 week ago:
My sister in law fell for one, it was a passport scam where they claim to get detained and need to pay a fee or they will be deported.
They took their time setting it up over several weeks and it worked. She realised when she was explaining to my missus and asking for more money and I raised the alarm.
It was too late and the money was gone.
Poor woman isn’t lucky in the romance department, or in looks. Im not surprised that she was so thrilled to get attention that she ignored all the red flags.
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 1 week ago:
Did you even read your own article?
I haven’t linked any articles, but Im about to. I know keeping track of simple comment chains is difficult for some people.
blog.ucsusa.org/…/five-things-the-nuclear-bros-do…
The cost of decommissioning reactors is unavoidable and factored into the lifetime cost of power delivery. They don’t last forever despite the fairy tales people believe about nuclear power.
Talking about land use, what about the storage of nuclear waste? Are you going to have it in your backyard?
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 week ago:
Well… given every single Windows update has failed for the last few months for me it really won’t be running on my PC.
I’m going to need to wipe the bloody thing soon though because of the security risks.
Time to go back to Linux Mint I guess
- Comment on A community about Anti-natalism 1 week ago:
What a strange collection of miserable people
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 1 week ago:
A furry peddling far right talking points.
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 1 week ago:
He’s just peddling right wing talking points with no intention of actually examining the data.
Your comment is good for anyone else who stumbles across this and is willing to learn.
- Comment on IBM sues a Zurich-based startup over 'unlawful' use of mainframe technology 1 week ago:
Losing not loosing.
- Comment on Why is Windows 11 so annoying? 2 weeks ago:
Total War games are buggy on Linux despite having linux “ports”.
Star Citizen also runs poorly on Linux. They’re meant to support it at some point so maybe in a decade…
- Comment on banana slugs 2 weeks ago:
Eating slugs sounds like a good way to get horrific parasites… I wouldn’t even trust one that’s been burnt to charcoal.
- Comment on Three of Australia’s wealthiest private schools got double the federal funding they were entitled to last year 3 weeks ago:
We need to abolish private schools in Australia which would force the wealthy politicians to give a slight fuck about public schools.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 3 weeks ago:
I’m arguing that by FlyingSquid’s own assertion that the Mass. wealth tax could be copied that the numbers make zero sense.
What’s not to get here? Read what he claimed and read the link he provided.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 3 weeks ago:
Position vs stock. Learn to read.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 3 weeks ago:
Also, the question was:
The question was
So how does this wealth tax work?
I know because I asked it and not a single one of you has had a coherent response.
Oh like the tax in Massachusetts?
The tax that would only see Musk pay $575 million and not the ass-pulled $6.6 billion?
Who are my opponents?
Apparently the ultra wealthy but you seem a bit confused.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 3 weeks ago:
a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million
Musk isn’t earning $220 billion a year, so clearly as I asked, this appears to be based on stock valuation.
People spruiking and sharing absolute nonsense with zero idea of what is income, what is capital and how a “wealth tax” would actually work.
This is why your opponents laugh at you.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 3 weeks ago:
The IRS just confiscates an equal percentage of every position they hold
Congrats there are now 3 men who can collaborate to collapse the government by shorting an insane position, have a portion of it seized, and wipe out all government revenue for a year. Sure they’d also be infinitely broke but you just gave them the lever to kill a country.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 3 weeks ago:
So how does this wealth tax work? Are stock holdings taxed? Stock quantity doesn’t magically go up unlike fiat currency which governments just print more of.
None of these numbers make any sense in terms of how capital actually works. Is the government meant to take the profit in stocks? Because these billionaires aren’t selling that much stock each year and aren’t earning that much from CEO paychecks.
Not to say CEO paychecks aren’t obscene…
And what do you do when they pack up and move themselves and their companies to tax havens?
- Comment on At least they're not yeeting a baby at it 4 weeks ago:
Memeing this image is pretty disrespectful considering it’s entirely obvious how pissed they were at having their privacy invaded.
- Comment on Den Fujita's (the founder of McDonald's Japan) prediction for the year 2971 is a shitpost in itself. 4 weeks ago:
It’s because historically dark skin meant you worked in the fields and were extremely poor.
Light skin meant you did not perform any manual labour and was a sign of wealth.
The blonde hair part is the weirdest bit to me.
- Comment on Minister told to name sources in Afghan inquiry or face potential jail term 1 month ago:
Same thing Australia did to its whistleblower on war crimes in Afghanistan.
- Comment on Australia 1 month ago:
They might look a little scary but they prey on the really dangerous locals, so it’s good to have one or two around the house
- Comment on Rittenhouse killed two people and bragged about it. Colleges shouldn't host him to speak. 1 month ago:
Well from what he was actually charged with we can start with Possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18
Rittenhouse was armed with an AR-style semiautomatic rifle. He was 17 years old on the night of the shootings. Wisconsin law prohibits minors from possessing firearms except for hunting.
He was also failing to comply with an emergency order which put a curfew in place.
Whoever purchased the firearm for Kyle, allegedly with Kyle’s money, committed a “straw purchase”.
washingtonpost.com/…/240d666c-e23d-11ee-95aa-7384…
Trafficking illegally obtained firearms over state lines is also a felony.
I still find it odd the prosecution dropped the ball so badly on this case.
- Comment on Rittenhouse killed two people and bragged about it. Colleges shouldn't host him to speak. 1 month ago:
trying to do the right thing and several people attacked him
Broke federal law having another buy a weapon for him, crossed state lines with an unregistered weapon with the specific intent to brandish and incite.
He is the reason people should be armed, so they can shoot criminals like him.
- Comment on Princess of Wales says she is undergoing cancer treatment - BBC News 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone, or royalty for that matter.
- Comment on legs to die for 1 month ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
Commonly known as a house or carpet centipede.
The drawing is mostly accurate.
- Comment on Tibetan activists protest outside Chinese embassy against Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit 1 month ago:
Real glad those cops protected that metal fence from the dangerous flag waving.
AFP needs to stop being violent at non-violent protests.
If property damage occurs then of course they should step in but there was zero indication of more than flag waving and shouting slogans.
- Comment on Google reshapes Fitbit in its image as users allege “planned obsolescence” 1 month ago:
I threw my fitbit away the day google bought them for a reason. Fucking parasites.
- Comment on Apex Legends hacker said he hacked tournament games 'for fun' | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Not having a bug bounty program is a recipe for disaster that could have easily been avoided.
Most bounties pay out extremely small amounts too so it’s not exactly extortionate.
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 1 month ago:
Alternatively if you’re a worker you scream and make a big deal and the real issues get found.
- Comment on The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood 1 month ago:
By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries,
Getting shot going to school is an American problem.
Your comment sucked.