Waryle

@Waryle@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not brain drain. Brain drain is when high qualified people leave their country, mostly because of the lack of infrastructures costing them opportunities for studying or working in their respective field.

  What you’re talking about is capital flight. This is an issue that is systematically raised as a counter-argument by liberals in debates on taxation. The problem is that it is seriously overestimated:

  • Leaving a country is a lot more complicated than it sounds: you lose your family, your friends, your culture, your habits. Many millionaires who leave their country end up coming back after a few years.
  • You can’t relocate your real estate investments.
  • Going abroad doesn’t exempt you from paying taxes (especially exit taxes).
  • A country that wishes to do so can prohibit the relocation of a profitable company, or even nationalize it.
  • Many rich people who threaten to leave if taxes are raised end up doing the math: if there’s a profitable business, they’ll stay. And in a country that finances its infrastructure soundly and has a good distribution of wealth, there’s profitable business to be had.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While true, how is that any different to the arguments that were used for TV?

  Television is bad because it is a passive activity, but it is less harmful than the continuous ingestion of micro-videos. But I don’t see what it has to do here.

  Additionally, Lemmy is a social network in the same way that Reddit is. Is this not also dangerous?

  What’s the connection? I didn’t mention Reddit.

  As has been the recommendation for practically everything for the four decades I’ve been on this earth, moderation is key. Instead of hating new media, either regulate it (if the evidence is truly that great) or treat it with healthy moderation.

  This would be to ignore the particularly addictive nature of this kind of content. It would be like comparing apples to Snickers: both are sweet, yes, but one is much more problematic.

  Let’s be blunt here. Most of the people in this thread aren’t worried about health

  That could be a point, but I’m pretty sure that if you ask anybody, the main reason given would be that it makes you stupid. But I can agree that this opinion would not necessarily be based on anything other than the eternal contempt for novelty as video games or manga were, for example, before they became popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ITT: People in their mid-twenties or later, who feel superior to those that like one form of media over their preferred media.

  You’re just waving away an important fact, which is that shorts and their equivalents are notoriously known for killing attention spans and disrupting the management of dopamine in the brain, causing depression in particular.

  We are no longer simply in the traditional custom of the elderly who despise the activities of the younger generations, we are talking about health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hexgears and of course lemmygrad.ml are of the same kind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is planning a 400-500$ foldable for 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bigger screen with a constrained form factor. If you don’t need a bigger screen, you’re just not the target, but that doesn’t mean it’s totally useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then something is fishy with your install. Maybe something to do with the DNS or the Firefox version you’re using, or maybe just Debian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar and wind energy could fulfill energy demand 10-fold, Oxford study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The primary finding of the study asserts that wind and solar energy have the potential to generate a staggering 2,896 terawatt-hours (TWh) of energy annually.

  Yes, and most of that will be produced during summer, where our needs are at their lowest, and will therefore be wasted. The problem with solar and wind has never been production potential.