There won’t be anything stopping people from unplugging their tech and just walking away from it. Go back to writing checks and paying cash. Buy an old school flip phone in case you need to call somebody. I mean, the internet is mostly shit at this point already.
How is taxing someone an unreasonable amount of money based on what seems to be an arbitrary gross calculation of their apparent wealth with the intention of taking their assets to pay for it fighting fair?
To actually be fair, I would prefer my government be more fair than less fair as a general rule.
Conveniently glossing over the fact that we, in a normal world, would only be using the AI to look at all of their stuff and not ours. Stupid idea all around.
Why can’t we just use the numbers we already have? I mean they say Musk is worth x amount, Bezos owns x amount. They get those big numbers from somewhere. Tell them how much tax they owe based on how much they theoretically own. They can pay their taxes with their theoretically valuable stocks/shares whatever. They are going to be all like, “I can’t afford that. Nobody has that much money!”
To which we will say, “Fine then, uh give me that super yacht right there and 10 super cars and we will let you start a payment plan.”
If people don’t pay their taxes the government can seize their property to cover it, right? This is how we can achieve the reduction of billionaire wealth and find a path to balancing out all of the money we owe ourselves from all the government shenanigans over the last century or so.
More LSD is always the answer. Sometimes more for them. Sometimes more for me. Solves most psychic issues.
Suddenly, I’m glad I’m a welder.
Welding job interview - weld these two pieces of metal together.
Me - ok here you go.
I guess you could use AI to ask me stuff but end of the day they just want to know if I can do it or not.
Is it schizophrenia if we are all in agreement?
Sub conscious pattern recognition is what tripping is all about. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who has experienced this.
I will die on the steaks in a skillet hill. On the grill it’s all wizardry. In the skillet it’s all science. I just want a consistently yummy steak without having to invoke the winds or mumble prayers to the spirits of flame. Also I’m in Texas so mosquitoes are all up in my business while grilling.
Too many hallucinogens in my youth? I hear music in the shower too. Anywhere where a white noise is the dominant sound my brain just starts making shit up. I get the same deal staring at static on an old tv. I start seeing patterns in the chaos.
Sorry, that one is on me. I don’t follow politics closely. I thought he got the boot when everyone else did but I see now that his defiance of trump got him first. I stand corrected.
Not reliably, I tend to hear metal or jazz and I think that correlates with the amount of noise in the white noise. It’s more like a slower flow makes less noise so I hear less music or none at all. It’s gotta be saying Ssshhhhhh or I don’t hear squat.
I know this is an old topic but I got to ask. Do you slide between notes a lot? I tend to lose little patches of skin here and there from regular playing. Then I wrote a song that is nothing but sliding notes from one fret to another for like 3 minutes or so. Playing that one song just destroys my callouses because the round wound strings are acting like a rough file on my fingertips. If you do a lot of sliding up and down the strings you are going to lose some skin for sure. Hammer ons and pull offs for instance hardly do any damage at all. I used to be able to do those all day long without any damage. Oiling the strings just accelerates your skin damage in regards to sliding around a lot. I learned that the hard way. To be fair I used to drag my fingertips on everything everywhere I went when first started playing. Rough concrete, office style carpet, brick walls and whatever I could use to just rough them up while I was out and about and going through my day. I recommend at a minimum just taking more frequent breaks while practicing.
I see it more as he doesn’t have anything to lose by starting impeachment. He got voted out and now he can be free with his votes and power without kowtowing to anyone.
I will admit that I do. However, in my defense, I hear music coming from the faucet while it is on and I like to jam to hallucinatory music while I brush. My brain just makes whatever it wants to hear from any white noise source but water from the tap in the bathroom produces the best results.
My wife and I spent around 10 years looking for the best place to get a steak in Houston. We tried everywhere and the best steak we ever found was from a guy grilling them on the deck of a bar we used to go to. I asked him his secret. He told me it wasn’t a secret and that it was all in the quality of the meat. He used to be the meat picker for Taste of Texas back in the day and had tons of experience. As far as seasonings he only put teriyaki sauce on the steak while he was searing the first side followed by a quick shake of regular old Cajun seasoning. It was for real one of the best steaks I ever had. Good meat will taste great even if salt and pepper are your only seasonings. Learn to identify a good quality cut of meat.
I recently taught myself to cook steaks in a cast iron skillet and now I will never go back to grilling steaks for as long as I live.
I feel the same as you but for different reasons. Games with mtx have a different pace and game progression to account for the mtx. If I’m paying full price it’s for the kind of game that is very much not a mtx kind of game. There are certain expectations that game developers keep trying to change for the worse when it comes to what you are getting when you buy a copy of a game. The only way to fight it is to be picky about what you buy.
Nah, I meant the banks are the scam. They hold your money in a low interest rate savings account. Then they loan out your savings account (on paper at least) to someone at a higher interest rate and so on. Every bank for the longest time was a big old house of cards that only held up as long as no one moved too much money at once. I get what you are saying about wealthy people wealth acquisition, though.
Gen Z has a basic competence issue apparently because everyone complains about their ability to do everything. Weaponized incompetence or whatever they are calling it. The good news when it comes to being able to cook is that anyone can figure it out for themselves. If you can make instant ramen noodles then you can cook.
I highly recommend anyone who wants to learn to cook get a hold of the Fannie Farmers CookbookFannie Farmer Cookbook find a used copy somewhere because $50 for a book first published in 1869 is friggin ridiculous.
This book is basically a reference book as well as a recipe book. It explains just about everything from measuring to prepping to storing things in your pantry. It is stuffed with recipes for basic things and then a bunch of recipes that build on those basics.
My mom was a lifelong food lover and taught herself to cook because her mom couldn’t. She had a library full of cookbooks from all over the world and through the ages. The only cookbook she gave me when I moved out was the Fannie Farmer Cookbook which is a tome to be sure. She told me it was the only one I would ever really need. Everything else is just recipes.
Gen Z, millennial, Gen X it doesn’t matter who you are it is flat out cheaper to cook your own food. If you are single then soups and casseroles are your buddy. If you make a different one every other day and freeze the rest you will have a constant supply of a variety of meals you can reheat at will so you don’t get burnt out. If you are a couple just about every meal feeds four which is dinner plus leftover lunch for the both of you.
I live in Houston, TX which is one of the most diverse food scenes anywhere with some of best restaurants for every kind of food and I can’t find a steakhouse that consistently makes a better steak than me. The closest I’ve come was from a guy selling steaks at a bar I used to go to 15 years ago. No one makes better pancakes than I do. I’ve never been hesitant to order pancakes when I’m out but I’m always disappointed and feeling ripped off. The difference is staggering. Pancakes are cheeeap and making them better costs next to nothing. The only restaurant food I buy is food I don’t make yet.
Stop giving your money to people who really don’t deserve it. Learn to cook. One thing at a time. Every success leads to more success. The knowledge you gain is for life. You pass some of it on and one day far in the future every human will be a master chef because what else is there to do?
The only actual cash billionaire I can think of is the guy that created and sold Minecraft. That dude has billions in the bank. Or at least he did for a minute or two before I’m sure he invested a ton of it. All the other billionaires just own billions worth of stuff for the most part. Banks don’t even leave money in banks. They invest or loan out all of it and keep the returns. That’s the scam, same as it ever was.
Good points. Sounds like there isn’t anything we can do to avoid mass surveillance so we should just accept it as a done deal. They are going to know where you are and what you are doing on your hippie commune too. The only counter to mass surveillance is mass resistance.