yeahiknow3
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- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 2 weeks ago:
You think it’s normal to lock the US population into place, decrease house market liquidity, reduce inventory, and drive up prices?
Here’s what I think is normal: the primary home, traditionally the ONLY stock of wealth for the working and middle classes, should not be taxed. Period. Your second house should be taxed. Your third house should be taxed. Your stock holdings should be taxed. Your huge boat should be taxed. Not your home.
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 2 weeks ago:
The “profit” is realized as soon as the sale goes through. Your financial illiteracy and the confidence with which you wield is astonishing to me.
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have an error. If you buy a house for $200k (average price for houses in the US some years ago) and it now costs $500k (average price for houses in US today), this tax makes it LITERALLY impossible for you to sell your house and buy another one.
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 2 weeks ago:
You’re completely correct. In this particular case. BUT, let’s say I want to sell my (cheaper) house and buy another one — the same type of home, but I want to move. Well, I can’t, because as soon as I sell it and get taxed, I can’t afford to buy a house anymore. Kind of dumb.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, that would be fucking hilarious.
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 4 weeks ago:
Sorry to horrify you but we are definitely worse.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 4 weeks ago:
Boom, downvoted for being aware that 95% of violent criminals are male and domestic abuse is no different.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Everyone should listen to everyone else. And as a man, I promise you women have it wayyyyyy worse. I definitely won the gender lottery. Sorry ladies and Godspeed.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 4 weeks ago:
So of all the fucking things to restrict, why this? Facebook is a hundred times more dangerous than any porn. Ban that shit instead.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
It was truly a piece of shit. Imagine trying to play a game with a cheap touchpad. Worst controller I’ve ever owned.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s fucked up
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
Fair enough. I don’t begrudge your enjoyment.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
You expressed surprise that Herbert is a rabid conservative. I pointed out that the book you claim to like is literally a celebration of modern fascism.
Yeah, but that isn’t why people like it.
Correct. People who like Dune generally like it because it’s the biggest book they’ve read, not because they were paying attention to the prose or narrative quality of its boot-licking plotline.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
The story glorifies a eugenically engineered monarchy and waxes poetic about the evils of homosexuality.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
Ironic comment, since Dune’s story is biblical supernatural nonsense written by a racist reactionary narcissist who probably does think the Bible is the greatest book of all time.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
Yes, but the book also became really popular among the Gen X crowd, whose hunger for sci fi was fueled by things like Star Wars.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
Dune’s prose is stilted at best, the actual story is ridiculous, and the characters are unprincipled and shallow. You sound like someone who’s read maybe 100 books in his life.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
Dune is Twilight for boys. Although the movies are better than the books though, the actual story is spectacularly awful. Have you ever had someone try to explain it to you? It’s unhinged. And the book is so poorly written from a literary perspective.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
It’s a relief then that Dune is one of the dumbest fucking stories of all time and casting doesn’t matter.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 months ago:
It’s… a joke. Let me explain it: Kyle Jenner (an evil billionaire) is a despicable human being. Touching anything that she has touched, included a hot guy, is disgusting. That’s the joke.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 months ago:
They’re just using the terminology that’s widespread in the field. The paper’s purpose is to prove that this terminology is unsuitable.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
Oh my god. So the machine won’t do terrible immoral things because they are unpopular on the internet. Well ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
I’m fairly certain my explanations are so succinct and simple they can be grasped by a teenager. I don’t have the talent to simplify them any further.
Take a class in theoretical computer science. In the mean time, I beg you to stfu.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
Omg. Why do you talk about shit you don’t understand with such utter confidence? Being a fucking moron has to be the chillest way to go through the world. I think I agree with your zombie AI about the culling. We gotta cull you dude, sorry. Best harm-reduction strategy to empower humanity.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
What the hell does “empower humanity” mean? When you tell it to reduce harm, how do you know it won’t undertake a course of eugenics? How do you know it won’t see fit that people like you, by virtue of your stupidity, are culled or sterilized?
Why do you expect an unthinking, non-deliberative zombie process to know what you mean by “empower humanity”? There are facts about what is GOOD and what is BAD that can only be grasped through subjective experience.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
if I’m wrong list a task that a conscious being can do that an unconscious one is unable to accomplish.
These have been listed repeatedly: love, think, understand, contemplate, discover, aspire, lead, philosophize, etc.
There are, in fact, very few interesting things that a non-thinking entity can do. It can make toast. It can do calculations. It can design highways. It can cure cancer. It can probably fold clothes. None of this shit is particularly exciting. Just more machines doing what they’re told. We want a machine that can tell us what to do, instead. That’s AGI. No such machine can exist, at least according to our current understanding of mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, and human cognition.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
Feed it the entire internet and let it figure out what humans value
There are theorems in mathematical logic that tell us this is literally impossible. No mechanical process can generate a consistent set of axioms to summarize or even approximate human intuitions. Such a process would get things wrong and output contradictions.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
we’re talking about something where nobody can tell the difference, not where it’s difficult.
You’re missing the point. The existence of black holes was predicted long before anyone had any idea how to identify them. For many years, it was impossible. Does that mean black holes don’t matter? That we shouldn’t have contemplated their existence?
Seriously though, I’m out.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
Economics is descriptive, not prescriptive. The whole concept of “a job” is completely made up and arbitrary.
This has been fun, but I’m bored now.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
The definition is the exact opposite of arbitrary.