Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 18 hours ago:
The more wealth inequality grows the less important 99% of the population is as consumers and the more important the 1% becomes.
Not as consumers, no. The 1% doesn’t consume more than the 90th percentile. They just park a higher percentage of their wealth in wealth-generating financial assets, which leech wealth from the rest of society.
We need a tax on all registered securities, (with exemption for the first $10 million owned by a natural person.) That tax should be paid not in cash, but in shares of the security: the IRS should slowly liquidate those shares over time, such that IRS sales never constitute more than 1% of total traded volume.
We further need the punitively-high top-tier tax rate we had for most of the 20th century. That tax rate pushed businesses to spend their excess income, turning it into other people’s paychecks. It discouraged the kind of wealth-hoarding investment that is stunting consumer spending.
- Comment on We are so cooked 23 hours ago:
Everybody says this. Nobody posts recipes.
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 1 day ago:
Bang bang, shoot shoot.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
Because the only thing worse than self driving is human driving.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
This transfers money from the advertiser to the advertising agency, without creating a sale for the advertiser. This devalues the services of the agency.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 3 days ago:
I said the same thing, but it turns out there is a weasely way around it. The 22nd amendment doesn’t actually say you can only be president for two terms. The text actually says:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 3 days ago:
Is there anything I can do to make your day better?
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 4 days ago:
You sound like a fun person.
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 4 days ago:
I don’t think he’s planning on throwing American teenagers into camps. But, having lived with teenagers in the house, I can’t say it’s the worst idea…
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 4 days ago:
I’m guessing the work ethic of an adult immigrant is going to be better than that of a teenager living at home.
- Comment on Horror 5 days ago:
You can’t get a balloon pilot’s license without a formal diagnosis. :)
- Comment on Horror 5 days ago:
Hot air balloon pilot here: We do, indeed.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 5 days ago:
The reverse, probably: You should probably increase your contribution.
Consider the state of the market “now”. Consider the state of the market “later”, meaning some hypothetical time between now and your eventual retirement.
If the market is low “now”, and you think it will be high “later”, you should be buying now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t know what should be done, but I’m pretty sure whatever it is will involve a Guy Fawkes mask and a green newsboy hat.
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 1 week ago:
I discovered a simple upgrade for the infotainment systems in most cars. The screens work perfectly well with either suction or adhesive-mount phone holders.
Even the shittiest phone is a major upgrade compared to any built-in infotainment system.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
Are you sure you’re not Joe Biden?
- Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. 1 week ago:
jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each…
Prior to the two AIs switching languages, this was two machines using “voice” to convey data.
Technically, they weren’t using “Internet Protocol” over that voice link.
- Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Road crews carry the world on their shoulders. They just aren't given enough to do what needs doing. 1 week ago:
They just aren’t given enough to do what needs doing.
Guillotines are on back order, with earliest ship dates after December 4th.
- Comment on Getting Nicole-ed feels way more awesome than how getting scammer spam usually feels. 2 weeks ago:
The URL you posted is not what I received.
Some sort of deanonymizing and/or tracking is the only thing that makes sense here.
A VPN is called for.
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 2 weeks ago:
The hurdle to this kind of fast charging isn’t the tech in the car nor is it the tech in the charger. It’s powering the fucking things.
Agreed.
would require a nuclear reactor sitting out back to supply the required 1.2 Megawatts of power!
Eh…
At 5 minutes a car, each charger would be able to accommodate 12 cars per hour. The 12-charger station, fed by that nuclear reactor, would be able to handle 144 per hour; 3456 cars a day
A typical gas station that size has an 8500 gallon tank, and refills 2-5 times per week. That amount of fuel will serve somewhere between 1000 to 3000 cars per week, or about 6 to 18 cars per hour.
This doesn’t call for a nuclear reactor at the station. This calls for a sufficiently large battery pack at each station that can “trickle” charge continuously. I say “trickle” - if I did my math right, it would be about as much power as 15 hot tubs or 60 water heaters. This is about as much as a grocery store, with all its freezers, refrigerators, lights, HVAC, etc.
- Comment on Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’ 2 weeks ago:
This is absolutely going to crash the economy
That’s going to be offset by the coming war in Central America, ostensibly against the cartels that he is claiming are running the region.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, I like… I think you might want to add some sharp cheddar.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 2 weeks ago:
Spaghetti belongs in a taco, not a pizza.
- Comment on Why are autistic people so odd?? 2 weeks ago:
I would say that neurotypicality is a mental disability characterized, in part, by a limited ability to comprehend and tolerate neurodiversity.
- Comment on Vintage memes? 2 weeks ago:
Het guy here: It is, indeed, “time”.
- Comment on What is the point of the Nicole spam? 3 weeks ago:
“They” will be an LLM.
- Comment on I want to branch out from PLA. Should I try ABS or TPU? 3 weeks ago:
TPU is a fun one. Touch, extremely flexible, but not stretchy.
Don’t try to feed it with a bowden tube; you need a direct drive extruder. Other than that, it’s incredibly easy to work with.
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 3 weeks ago:
Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Blue Shell
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 3 weeks ago:
just mix some Cyrillic letters into your word. I bet that “Luigi” gets flagged but “Luіgі” doesn’t.
Rule 1:
- English only Title and associated content has to be in English.
Checkmate, terrorist!