Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on Taxes are cool 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks ago:
No. Live traffic data is too much server overhead for an monetized service.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 Taxes are cool 2 weeks 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 USA officially bankrupt (insolvent) 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks ago:
Just switched to Graphene on a refurbished 10 Pro XL
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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. - Comment on How much of it is society is collapsing versus the daily on going of the ruling class was so obscure that they were easier to ignore? 3 weeks ago:
What‽
I can’t tell if this is a stupid question. It isn’t even a coherent sentence.
What are you asking? - Comment on If I were to go out steal 34 cars. And charged with 34 felonies. One per each car. Could I not use the presidents case in defense of my own? Why or why not? 3 weeks ago:
That depends on you’re argument.
How do you think his case applies to you yours.I don’t see any similarities other than the number 34.
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 3 weeks ago:
ABOVE the 250k level is what they aren’t LEGALLY required to cover.
Yes that’s just reiterating what I literally said originally.
There aren’t different tiers of FDIC insurance. The banks aren’t choosing to paying for extra coverage. The FDIC is a federal program. Yes the banks pay into it. It’s required by law that they do. But the FDIC decides on it’s own if it will cover more than $250k. And they have, for every bank collapse, no matter the size, at least since the late 90s.
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 3 weeks ago:
The banks and credit unions don’t do cover the deposits. FDIC is for when the bank itself fails, when they can’t cover their customer’s deposits.
And yes it happens all the time for regional banks and credit unions. SVB was news only because they’re an odly large and important regional bank. But they were treated by FDIC like any other. No depositor at any retail bank in the US has lost their money due to a bank failure in 20+ years.
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 3 weeks ago:
While that is what they’re legally required to insure. The reality is that even people with 10s of millions get fully covered. The FDIC has been covering 100% of retail bank accounts for a few decades.
Most recently when the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, accounts with over $60M were fully covered.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
I used it for almost a year.
It took me ~3 months to find and tweak settings until I stopped running into issues with sites at least once every couple weeks. - Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 4 weeks ago:
And it breaks sooo many sites.
Waterfox, is Firefox that just works. - Comment on Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used 4 weeks ago:
If you intentionally obscure a feature, people won’t use it.
If you make it the default, they will. - Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 4 weeks ago:
Yah. It had customizations nobody has anymore.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 4 weeks ago:
Its wasn’t. I rooted it, installed a few OS’s, it even ran Linux. Since the very beginning, the only limits on smartphones have been what software ‘they’ want you to run.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 4 weeks ago:
They have been since the beginning.
That’s literally why I got an OG Motorola Droid. I said to myself “I can have a full computer in my pocket!”