Rivalarrival
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- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 day ago:
The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’
They’re halfway there already.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
Certainly. Most of the 20th century, the top tier tax rate was set at a level that can only be described as “punitive”. It was higher than 90% to kill off the robber barons.
While I am not morally opposed to beheading rich people, we really need to go back to the tax rates we had in the 50’s. And add a securities tax, payable in shares of that security, that the IRS can liquidate slowly over time.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, that’s what a fucking seatbelt is for. What the fuck is going on with the NHTSA? They’re the reason why cars are huge and getting bigger, and now they want them to be crematoriums as well?
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
Are you fucking kidding me? The only laminated glass that should be on a car is the windshield. Everything else should be tempered.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
Every fucking one of them needs to be recalled.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
What is depicted here isn’t even a polygon, let alone a triangle, let alone a right triangle. This is just a line segment. Line AB is the same as line AC. There is no line BC. BC is a single point.
I suppose it could possibly depict a weird cross section of two orthogonal circles in a real and an imaginary plane.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
A is drawn in such a way that it resembles a right angle, but it is not labeled as such. The length of the hypotenuse is given as zero. The opposite angle cannot be anything but 0°.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
Every now and then, I get a little bit lonely and you’re never coming 'round
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually pretty easy. With CB being 0, C and B are the same point. Angle A, then, is 0, and the other two angles are undefined.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 3 weeks ago:
No, but I can almost always check the modlog ~~when ~~ if a user complains
FTFY.
The authors of thoughtful, insightful, accurate, and reasonable posts and comments tend to be the kind of people who choose their battles, and quietly walk away from communities led by power-tripping dipshits.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 3 weeks ago:
I just know I am capable of recognizing a shit take on politics anywhere
Not when the “shit take” in question is the arbitrary, capricious, unjustified removal of thoughtful, insightful, accurate, reasonable posts and comments. You (generally) can’t recognize the “shit take” of removing good content unless you spend all day reading the mod logs.
- Comment on If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance? 4 weeks ago:
There are laws against selling fake drugs. Why does he think your product is a drug? Has it been represented to him as a drug by you or by someone with whom you are conspiring to sell fake drugs?
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on House Centipedes 4 weeks ago:
That’s a spider orgy.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Get off my lawn, young’n.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Fuck, I’m old.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
1% tax on all registered securities, payable in shares of those securities. The SEC just confiscates 1% of every position, and conveys them to an IRS liquidator. The liquidator sells them off in small lots over time, comprising no more than 1% of total traded shares. Securities with negative values are returned.
Once completely phased in, natural persons will be exempt on their first $10 million in registered securities. Corporate-owned securities will not be exempt: the are taxed from their first share.
We tax only the problematic portion of their wealth: their wealth-generating assets. We auction those assets off to the general public.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
A few Nazis and KKK apologists convinced a shit-ton of marketers, influencers, Karens, and other predatory users to leave.
On balance, Nazis and Klukkers didn’t make it any worse than it was.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
I agree with everything except the “got even worse” part. It was always a steaming turd.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
The reality is that Xitter isn’t actually any shittier than Twitter was. It’s not any better, of course. But it’s certainly not any worse.
- Comment on What a musical genius 1 month ago:
I heard he made a line of surfing products, starting with Chump Wax.
- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 1 month ago:
If you already know what is wrong and just need a doctor’s note (and maybe antibiotics), go to the clinic.
If something is bothering you, but you can tolerate it for a couple weeks, schedule an appointment with primary care.
If you don’t know what’s wrong, or you need something more than a note and a prescription, and you can transport yourself, go to urgent care.
The only time you should go to the ER voluntarily is if urgent care sends you there. Any other trip to the ER should be because someone dragged you there without giving you a choice.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
I’m glad you mentioned insulin pumps, because there is a community of developers working on pumps, making them available to a broader audience, providing more people with better control over their blood sugar levels than manufacturers are willing or able to provide on their own.
What you are arguing for is a threat to systems like OpenAPS, and to the people who benefit from them.
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
People repair their brakes wrong all the time. It’s absolutely caused accidents.
It also allows end users to install parts superior to OEM, improving braking capabilities, and preventing accidents.
Any automotive technician can tell you that manufacturers take engineering shortcuts. The manufacturer’s motivation is to put out a product that widely appeals to the general public. They want nothing to do with a product specifically tailored to the needs of a particular individual.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
We probably shouldn’t let people repair their own brake pads
What kind of auth-dystopian nonsense is that?
Repair an insulin pump the wrong way and it will absolutely kill you
You’re just as dead if you can’t get that insulin pump repaired or replaced because the manufacturer won’t or can’t support it. When they go bankrupt because other customers have sued them into non-existence, you still own the device they manufactured, and you still need it repaired.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
Yes, dangers exist from third party repairs.
Refusal or even simple failure to provide critical repair data to the end user or their agent denies the end user the ability to make an informed decision about repairs.
The company should be liable for all damages from a botched 3rd-party repair unless they provide to the end user complete specifications and unrestricted access to the device in order to make informed decisions about repairs.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
Proprietary information and corporate classified information do not exist once they are incorporated into the device and sold to the end user. That information now belongs to the end user.
- Comment on Cox asks court to block Rhode Island plan for broadband expansions 1 month ago:
Cox Communications asked a court to block Rhode Island’s plan for distributing $108.7 million in federal funding for broadband deployment.
Cox Communications should be fined $108.7 million for vexatious litigation, and be prohibited from providing any pay or compensation to its C-suite until that fine is paid in full.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
Also, with llms there is no “next time” it’s a completely static model.
It’s only a completely static model if it is not allowed to use it’s own interactions as training data. If it is allowed to use the data acquired from those interactions, it stops being a static model.
