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- Comment on It should be a strict rule 20 hours ago:
I have a neighbor who thinks a golf course is better than a park. I just want to shake folks sometimes. How is a hellscape of a solitary grass better than a place where you could get all sorts of plants going? One with hiking paths for everyone, and all sorts of goodies like gazebos, meadows, benches…
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 day ago:
I wish I could go back to my first days in that game. The moments when you see a ‘new thing’ and it terrifies the shit out of you, or when you learn with a friend about some little quirk of the physics or mechanics… those were awesome moments.
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 1 day ago:
Probably an existing muslim population. I believe I remember hearing that the largest muslim community in the u.s. was in texas a few years ago. Maybe near houston, I think.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 3 days ago:
So, what’s wrong with that? You have a wealth tax on all wealth over $100 million. If you have wealth anywhere over say, $50 million, you hire an accountant to assess your business’s value. Everyone with that level of wealth already hires accountants. It’s a trivial additional burden. If your wealth is no where near the tax threshold, you don’t need to bother hiring an accountant to get a precise figure.
And I’m going to say, it’s a great means to go after the assholes if they try to claim their assets are worth something different. I think we have a recent case of 34 felonies about that…
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 3 days ago:
The famous athenian system where slaves were tortured for testimony because their testimony wasn’t admitted without torture because they would ‘otherwise lie?’
The famous athenian system where the military quite literally marched 10 miles in one direction, then 10 miles in the other direction the next day because control of the army was transferred from day to day between different generals?
The famous athenian system where a philosopher was sentenced to death because he was teaching the youth to think differently?*
Sounds like democracy fails over and over again every time it’s tried. For every example you could make of communism always failing, somehow, you can make the same of examples with democracy or capitalism. Make better arguments, for the love of water.
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Well, slightly more complicated than ‘thinking differently.’
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 3 days ago:
Businesses. I’ve seen ‘the back end’ of an upper middle class family with a business, and the ways the mother (the tax genius of the scheme) moved money around and labeled various things as expenses for businesses was wild. None of it was illegal, it just was clearly not the intended purpose of the tax laws. One example I clearly remember was sticking five cattle on each of the properties they purchased, and all taxes just disappeared (went from thousands of dollars to just… dollars) due to agricultural exemptions. All of the cattle and their care suddenly became expenses, because the labor they hired to care for them was somehow completely deductible or expensable or however the law looked at it, which allowed them to shuffle money from another business to make it look negative…
and so on and so forth. I think they had more than four businesses that were legally separate (and incorporated, with the board being family members [and those family members are part of a trust that let even more shenanigans happen]) but supported the way money was shuffled. This was for a family that, at most, made ~ $500,000. Super high, above that 1% mark, but not even close to the insanity that the truly wealthy can pull off. Anything business related opens up an exponential number of ways to move money, even while using it, compared to the options a casual income-only tax-payer has.
As much as we can point at ‘Trump, dumb’ and tell ourselves that the rich are stupid but lucky, the majority are not at his level. They hire (multiple) people making six figures to manage their money because that investment pays off.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 3 days ago:
I think the ‘unrealized assets’ should be taxed as ‘realized’ if they are used as collateral. Yes, it would affect the reverse mortgages and such, or home equity loans, but fuck it, I’d take those relatively small pains against the massive societal gains.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 5 days ago:
And, notably, it doesn’t seem to lower crime rates.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s no longer for sale. If you bought it before it was delisted, you can still download/play it through steam. What is fucking atrocious is that I had to go and make an account with epic to play. Well, they can spam and sell my ‘nannerbanner’sfakeemailforepiccunts@proton.me’ all they want. Fucking cunts. .
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 2 weeks ago:
Lulz, that was such a good movie. I’m still annoyed by the nukes somehow needing the code to explode apparently uploaded to them at the very last second, but that’s just a small quibble. Plus it was the first time I got to see machine gun rabbit, so that was a real treat.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 3 weeks ago:
It still happens on fucking lemmy of all places. Looking at that stupid cbsnews url with revulsion…
- Comment on Is it possible to reverse pit a copcar before they pit you? Like if you know a cop is going to pit you on their right side, can you use your left back end to hit them first? 3 weeks ago:
The reason the PIT maneuver works is physics. Cars are typically heavier on the front end, steer from the front, drive from the rear, and the tires are ‘stationary’ in reference to the ground so they are using the coefficient of static friction rather than the coefficient of kinetic friction (an aside, if you’re trying to use a pickup line on an engineer, hit them with the 'ole ‘Is there ever a case where the coefficient of kinetic friction is greater than that of static friction? No? Then the hardest part of this conversation is over, eh?’).
What that means is everything is in favor of the car using its front end to push the rear end to the side. The front tires are turned in the direction of travel, so they have the static friction still going in a manner less likely to lose it. The rear tires will lose the higher traction from the static friction and suddenly be ‘drifting’ as they switch to the friction forces using the kinetic friction coefficient, whereas even if the front tires were to momentarily lose traction, they wouldn’t have the driving force of the engine keeping them in the lower friction state. The heavier weight from the front is more likely to be able to push the lighter rear.
There is also another factor, slightly less important to the pit maneuver itself (the tactic) and more along the lines of the overall goals of the chasers and the runners (the strategy)… and as a matter of fact, why cops don’t typically use the pit maneuver much anymore. Even with the specialized bumpers they once had, damage to the cop’s car is pretty typical. Damage to the fleeing car is very likely, and damage to people that might be around is common. Cops nowadays are pretty happy to just chase you, keeping a moderate distance, until you make the mistake and wreck or give up, either on the car and try to flee on foot, or by heading towards what you think is a ‘safe’ spot. In fact, if they get a helicopter up, you might not even see the cops anymore as they maintain a distance back and turn off lights. That one is pretty rare, but it occasionally happens, and more often than a pit maneuver. Anyway. If you tried to ‘reverse pit’ them, you’d be slowly taking your one advantage away. They have a lot more cars than you. They can afford to take a little damage if it means slowing you down if you want to start playing the nascar bump game.
- Comment on The #1 trick Furries dont want you to know! 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it was just the size of the convention center (30 foot ceilings, holy volumes of air, batman!), but that was my experience as well.
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 4 weeks ago:
Aye, this is one of those weird things that I’ve noticed. The conversations somehow broadcast outside the vehicle much louder than music. Something about how voice calls are handled by the sound system is different, whether it’s volume boosting or something else.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 4 weeks ago:
I’m dead in a month as soon as any major part of our infrastructure/supply chain crumbles. yaaaay.
I do wonder if I’m on somebody’s list.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 4 weeks ago:
People that hatch plans like the federalist society, to corrupt the courts, and project 2025, to destroy the administrative state and consolidate power into the executive, and congresspeople who will support the descent into violent fascism
That’s where we are really fucked. So many of the project 2025 goals have been accomplished. Having a partisan supreme court, and this bare minimum majority of congress, has allowed them to change our course forever more.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 4 weeks ago:
Well that’s a strange segue.
I also seem to recall plenty of effective anarchist defense groups in the various civil wars.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 5 weeks ago:
Just let me be clear, it incenses me just as much as you, lol, but here’s the thing, run on sentences are much worse for us in the interim and we need to circle back around so that that issue becomes a lesser thing, lest we forget the true horrors of english perpetuating themselves through a normalization of nominalization that makes a trivialization of our original lines in the sand aaaaand now I’m just getting into the weeds with my niche micro-interests and brought in too many limes.
- Comment on Annual merit increase 5 weeks ago:
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
‘Well, nanner, you got one write up, which is lower than 95% of the company, so looks like you’ll only be getting 1.5% instead of the 3% for average, and I don’t personally give out the 6% raise I’m allowed to.’ - my fucking supervisor, while other supervisors hand out everything like candy (not really, they just shower their favorite)
- Comment on Zootopia 5 weeks ago:
Because selling sex is much more about the teasing than the actual presentation. I’m convinced that the reason we don’t have nude models selling you stuff on billboards is that the lingerie/just-before-the-bedroom clothes are more effective, so advertising companies don’t care to get case law or actual legislation allowing nude advertisements.
- Comment on Water time 5 weeks ago:
Are they the ‘touch the handle, gentle arc across’ kind, or the ‘sensor begins smooth laminar flow stream into bottle’ kind? Because the first should be banned, ugh (I mean, not really, I still use the ones at the park), and the second is amazing.
- Comment on Zootopia 5 weeks ago:
Yes, that one, thank you.
- Comment on Unfortunately, at this point, ICE has legally "Erik Princed" a US city; over a traffic violation. And they're lying, gaslighting, and giving it cover. 5 weeks ago:
Minnesota will still treat us as a state crime
Will they? Maybe I’m already misremembering events (I’m not), but it seems like the state authorities are giving up on any investigation. Quote:
“The BCA said as of Friday afternoon it is not conducting an independent use-of-force investigation into the shooting, but is working with Moriarty’s office to catalogue and preserve evidence. BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said the office would provide the community’s evidence to the FBI, as it is leading the investigation.
“The BCA remains open to conducting a full investigation of the incident should the U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI reconsider their approach and express a willingness to resume a joint investigation or to share all evidence and evidentiary reports held by FBI investigators,” Evans said.”
- Comment on Zootopia 5 weeks ago:
Aye, it’s like the ‘sex scene’ in lion king. When in the context of the film, you wouldn’t even notice it as potentially lewd, but a single frame can appear pretty different.
- Comment on Zootopia 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but you can still get pretty close to the same idea with the normal, I’d say. Good on the creator for making it a bit better. Image
- Comment on The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle 5 weeks ago:
If I remember correctly, someone once went down the rabbit hole of clicking on one of those links and documented the experience, and it was a maze of link after link that would make those AI bot trapping programs proud. If you actually got to an article, I’m blown away.
- Comment on always watching 1 month ago:
Me: doing my thing
God, visibly sweating and white-knuckling his desk as he watches on the computer monitor: No, no! Stop! Don’t stretch it like that! I didn’t design the desmosomes to last under that kind of pressure! Oh goooooood, stoooooop! Not the ammo box!
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
For dprk, it’s not so much “bring the war to us” as ‘completely flatten seoul in minutes with the enormous amount of artillery they have pointing at it,’ which of course makes south korea a little nervous. Then there’s the possibility of mid range nukes hitting us allies which makes them nervous. I’m quite honestly on the fence about whether anyone in the current us administration would even care. We know trump would merely shrug.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
The seals were approached by a fishing boat who had heard their ruckus, and murdered them. The us has a thing for killing fishermen.
- Comment on Reviews should all contain brand-unfriendly language 1 month ago:
Ah, that’s because the coffee review was op’s previous review, not that one. ;)
