Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up? 1 day ago:
YOU DIDN’T NAME ME BUD!
- Comment on Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up? 1 day ago:
BY YOU!
- Comment on How would a wealth tax affect real estate rentals? 2 days ago:
Maybe fewer people faced higher rents since more bought instead.
As I said the tax itself won’t fix everything. If rents get too high you need to adapt zoning to encourage more duplex and multifamily homes.
- Comment on How would a wealth tax affect real estate rentals? 2 days ago:
Not necessity. Since housing will be cheaper to buy, some will do that instead of rent. so the market of renters will be smaller, keeping rental prices in check.
- Comment on How would a wealth tax affect real estate rentals? 2 days ago:
Maybe. Mostly it’ll drive down the rent, since the homes are worth less.
- Comment on How would a wealth tax affect real estate rentals? 2 days ago:
The idea is to make the wealthy sell some of their assets. Thus driving the price of those assets down. If people horde fewer houses, the market of buyers shrinks and prices fall.
Now a 2% tax on certain assets won’t solve everything. But its a good start. There will need to be a number of loopholes closed and other taxes targeting the super wealthy, in order to make a real difference.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 days ago:
You have a checkbook‽
- Comment on Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up? 3 days ago:
I’m compelled to point out, all names are made up.
- Comment on Does being a ‘hero’ mean you are a perfect person? 4 days ago:
Colossus: Four or five moments - that’s all it takes to become a hero. Everyone thinks it’s a full-time job. Wake up a hero. Brush your teeth a hero. Go to work a hero. Not true. Over a lifetime there are only four or five moments that really matter. Moments when you’re offered a choice to make a sacrifice, conquer a flaw, save a friend - spare an enemy. In these moments everything else falls away…
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 4 days ago:
Volume and Dynamic Range are different things. One doesn’t effect the other.
Stable Volume just uses a form of ReplayGain to adjust volume for each track so they don’t swing so much.
It’s not doing any dynamic range compression, like some Nighttime Listening mode.
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 6 days ago:
I don’t block what I don’t like.
I subscribe to what I do like. - Comment on What do ambulances do with patients cars? 1 week ago:
Ambulances are for people, not cars. Yes they just leave the cars there.
Tow trucks on the other hand, are like ambulances for cars. So they take the cars to a car hospital or morgue.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 2 weeks ago:
Increased tariffs, aren’t going to compensate for the loss of the other taxes they cut. On balance it’s still lower taxes, just not for the poor.
Pedophilia and corruption are unrelated to family values.
I never mentioned them. Not sure what your getting at with that. - Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 2 weeks ago:
They have nothing in common with the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc.
Well they are still all in on lower taxes, and traditional religious family values.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 3 weeks ago:
I find it strange that anyone can look at the current US government and think it’s “Conservative”. The Republican Party has clearly become a radical, right wing, extremist, authoritarian, revolutionary sort of ideology. It’s obvious they want to completely remake the government and all of society. They’re not looking to conserve anything anymore.
- Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate? 3 weeks ago:
Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than building clients which add a social layer to existing content distribution and communication protocols?
If clients built their own social layer, those would be limited to users of that client. If they opened up the social layer with an interoperable protocol, now you just made ActivityPub again.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 3 weeks ago:
“My favorite book said so”, isn’t an argument. It’s a delusion.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 3 weeks ago:
No. He operates as an Evangelical Apologist. He makes arguments that sound logical and convincing enough, as long as you don’t think about or look into them that much.
I think at Stamford recently his whole argument against gay marriage was completely torn down, and he finally just said, he simply didn’t like it. I’ll look for the video.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 4 weeks ago:
“Best” isn’t a question of truth.
Truly there is no “best”.
Truth only describes what is, without any judgement. - Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 4 weeks ago:
More opinions means more people searching for truth together and finding new things.
Finding more opinions, not truth.
If someone finds something new and share it, that could be reviewed and researched by people faster.
More information also means quicker double-checking for what is true
Slower. They must search through the deluge of opinion that grows exponentially faster than any truth could ever hope to.
Centralizing truth has a much more destructive aspect when dealing with truth. This can be seen practically on the difference of reach between the Fediverse and Facebook, for example.
Neither are made for truth.
Truth is a constructed entity.
Truth is discovered, not constructed. You may be thinking of consensus this whole time. Consensus is absolutely constructed. But consensus isn’t truth. Sometimes they align. More often by accident then by intent.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 4 weeks ago:
Opinions only obfuscate truth.
More opinions means less truth. - Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 4 weeks ago:
Blaming immigrants is classic political trope.
Right along with blaming the poor.Even when the nation was welcoming immigrants, handing them a weapon, and shoving them to the front line. They were being denigrated and demonized by other Americans.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
A few reasons that I can see. None of them anti-intellectual.
- Collage and University is increasingly expensive. Well beyond inflation.
- And increasingly not a guaranteed path to financial freedom.
- AI is clearly going after knowledge work first, epically entry level knowledge work that one would do out of collage.
- Decades of those like you denigrating less educated (yet arguably more important) work, combined with the first reasons may have made some disdainful of being pushed into higher education.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 5 weeks ago:
Yyeess! 🤘
- Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life? 5 weeks ago:
Other people are not important to me because I care about them (at least coworkers). They are “important” because I care how they can make my life difficult
It’s not much of an assumption. They basically said as much themselves. Autistic people can be dicks too…
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 month ago:
Smarter than you look 🤪
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 1 month ago:
I think that depends on your time horizon.
In the next 5 years? No, not realistic. In the next 50? Nearly certain I expect. 15-20 years? Maybe? - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month ago:
Not when they’re profiting off the copyrighted work.
Regardless of being owned by a person or corp. A specific copyright will reach a point where it’s not bringing in enough money to justify the expense of renewal. Corps aren’t in the habit of holding onto things that aren’t profitable. People tend to do so longer than corps. - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month ago:
Registering doesn’t need to cost much. It could be largely automated.
And the government will get plenty of money later on from the big ticket copyrights.
And the government isn’t supposed to be profitable in itself any way. So that doesn’t matter much. - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month ago:
How’s it do that?