Badeendje
@Badeendje@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 days ago:
Got some links… I wanna see. I probably normally don’t venture on these forums where that happens.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 days ago:
I fear it is the latter. Nuance seems to get lost over time. It’s maybe the opposite of black people in the US using the N word amongst themselves in an attempt to take it back… I don’t think that this was successful by any measure as it just caused the racist to point at it and say… see they even say it about themselves because only hoodlums (what a word) use it…
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 days ago:
That’s why these conversations are so cool. It helps all of us give words to some of the things we cannot express properly. Why I also enjoy reading co tributuins by others… especially if they challenge my preconceptions.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 days ago:
Pepe to me seems like the opposite of the Confederate flag.
Pepe is an internet meme that is in some cases used by racist and hateful people to carry their message, but the primary function is internet nonsense.
The Confederate flag is a symbol or hate and oppression that in some situations is used to express country & westerns ideals of freedom and roaming the country with not a care in the world… without the racist subtext… however you cannot deny the basis of its use and thus should not use it.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 days ago:
If you follow the links, they refer to copy pasta’s of hatefull stuff including swastikas but no breakdown of what is counted, the use of the happy merchant (a meme with an antisemitic origin used to convey greed) and the use of pepe the frog in profile pics (pepe is a symbol of hate according to the ADL).
The issue I have with the whole here is that I don’t subscribe to the premise on which the analysis is based.
IF you assume pepe is a hate symbol, then each case it is used is an expression of hate and furtherance of that hate. I however reject the premise that pepe is a symbol of hate.
The use of the happy merchant is a bit more of a problem, because I see the antisemitic message it has. However I also see a lot of stupid people that don’t… and have seen the image used (probably in antisemitic context referring to greed) but people associate it with greed primarily… so this one is an issue, I think I refuse part of the premise, namely that the antisemitism part is a dominant factor when the image is used.
These are the 2 main examples, a lot more in the report that have similar caveats.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
A friend who works and lives in Thailand told us that ladyboy is a fairly common naming used there.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 6 days ago:
That’s just the dishonest pundets though… and the people ratcheting the Dems right. Kamala ran on a Y2K republican program and got annihilated because Y2K republicans are now maga and there are no moderate republicans.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 1 week ago:
Or one of our 12675 carefully selected partners
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 1 week ago:
Bending the knee
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 1 week ago:
Except your argument on small ownership is quick decision making has a counter arguement… shareholders… they appoint a small group for daily operations and decisionmaking. But the real power is with the shareholder meeting and a large group of possibly anonymous owners.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 1 week ago:
Exclude a mortgage for your primary residence, capped at the median house price or something… And only exclude it IF it is paid back in full over a max period.
This is the case in the Netherlands… paid back in full after max 30 years… No cap in how much. This was because the interest on the mortgage are tax deductible. So some bankers figured… we keep the loan maxed, and put your paybacks in a special fund… and at the end of the 30 years the fund pays back the mortgage. That way we get max interests and you get max tax break. In the end the banks made a lot of public funds private this way.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 1 week ago:
Assets are taxed all the time (real estate tax, car tax… ). So taxing the value of a share portfolio at the 31st of December each year is perfectly doable. And if it has depreciated since last year, you get a tax deduction… which is capped by the income tax to maximally reach 0… No carrying over till next year… or maybe 1 year… whatever, that’s implementation details.
How much do you tax these assets is the point that needs consideration… it’s not fully income… But a percentage is only fair. And if this means people need to realize gains to pay for it… that’s fine… Why would it not be?
And borrowing against an asset portfolio should mean that it counts as realizing gains of the asset portfolio and the amount is seen as income and thus taxed. (You loan 10 million against your shares, that’s income) And to avoid fallout for the normal people you can build in a threshold and exclusions for example for the first million in your lifetime… or for the mortgage on your primary residence with a cap at the median house price or … something. So for these people borrowing against assets means they can keep the assets… but pay interest on the loan. Alternatively they can actually realize the gains and pay cash.
It’s not hard at all, it’s a matter of political will, and writing proper laws that state your objective and exceptions.
- Comment on USA President term limits 1 week ago:
It should be E and the DOJ should have made sure that this was handled in a court of law in the first 100 days. Or maybe even a specialised tribunal for insurrection.
How did they handle the insurrectionists post civil war?
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 1 week ago:
It also helps if you have a very specific and narrow cause … muh guns rights … and anti or pro specific legislation. This creates broad consensus… that follows the NRA draft talking points they usually bring out.
- Comment on Bears Cave 2 weeks ago:
The language they speak is also not a Slavic language but closer to Italian.
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 3 weeks ago:
Yes!
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 3 weeks ago:
Fair point. Still their proposition is underwhelming imho.
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 3 weeks ago:
Why does dropbox exist. For the same money Microsoft offers equal storage, plus office.
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 3 weeks ago:
I have no clue how people use reddit anymore. If I open the app I am greeted with an unrecognisable mess of stuff I never asked for. Sorting is fucked, my frontpage contains stuff I don’t care for and everything seems to be yelling at me for attention causing me to close the app again.
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 3 weeks ago:
It’s seems a lot of Sci-Fi is a warning.
- Comment on LinkedIn Tests Advanced AI Assistant for Recruiters. 3 weeks ago:
Excellent, wholesale obscure bias that will in no way shape or form favor LinkedIn premium job seekers.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 3 weeks ago:
Made me spill my coffee
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 3 weeks ago:
I hope the return down vote people just start collecting view count and upvotes too. Then we can at least keep that.
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 3 weeks ago:
One million square kilometer!
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 3 weeks ago:
Because houses past your primary residence are not taxed enough. Houses you own should be taxed at an exponential rate. Primary residence means you live there >80pct of the year.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 4 weeks ago:
Word of mouth will become important again.
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 4 weeks ago:
Party, not just leader
- Comment on WhatsApp is adding the ability to save contacts within the app independently from your smartphone’s address book. 4 weeks ago:
Well, time moves forward… so new users, replacement users, new contacts.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 4 weeks ago:
This is how you end up with laws mandating paper cards with pricing information.
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 4 weeks ago:
The vote difference in Georgia was less than 12K votes…
I’m betting more that the excess mortality of republicans was easily 12k more than democrat excess deaths during Covid… The more hardline/republiQan/Nuts, the more anti-mask and prone to risky behavior during the pandemic, the more excess deaths… especially at the beginning with the OG (die-in-the-intensive-care-hooked-up-to-a-vebtilator) variant.