This definitely won’t be popular, hope you stick with me to the end, but real estate is collateral that holds its value quite well most of the time, and is insured by the homeowner.

Stocks don’t have that. Companies with large valuations can liquidate overnight.

Does that mean it’s all a bad idea? No, but it just is different than the frame provided. They are different assets.

Taxing rich people in new ways can be a good thing. Taxing unrealized gains gets complicated, but can be done. But also comparing it to property tax is problematic for a lot of reasons. There are much better arguments, so I think we should stick with those. This one has too many easy attack angles with valid points, even if the main point of “rich people get out of taxes more than normies” is completely true.

I got a Google TV box and disconnected my Samsung TV from the internet. A week later I got an email about how connecting them helps me because it sends the data and my preferences back to Samsung.

… It sends thousands of information pings each day.

I think that’s all fair. But individual reps might care. I think that’s where you can make progress. Those midterms are coming in hot for all those reps.

The Republican party is Trump at the moment, and those reps are looking at getting their asses kicked out of a job.

Then I would try to communicate that better. Your 3 sentences in the original end with they don’t care, it doesn’t matter, and that’s the problem with the protests. It comes across completely defeatist.

So I guess we already lost and should just accept things no matter how bad they get

I feel in the minority on this. It felt like watching someone else play a video game as a plot.

The ideas were OK, but the slapstick seemed crazy childish to me. I just did not get into it at any point.

Like I didn’t think it was just ok, I was pretty actively turned away by it.

Could be just not in my style, but it was the first time I’ve watched something and completely misunderstood the hype. I can listen to music or watch movies & tv shows and not be that into it but understand it. Succession was that way. Wasn’t for me, but could see the appeal.

Hundreds of Beavers was just awful for me personally.

I think it was peak buyers remorse. People wanted electric but didn’t fully know the downsides. For example, our Bolt had a battery that said like 230 miles. I’m in the Midwest… Cold highway driving makes that like 140 or so, no joke. It’s just not a road trip car.

We knew that going in, so it’s a great second car. But I think some people realized that no road trip ability plus hour long charging stops were just not going to cut it.

Legit in the dead of winter it was like 60/40 driving vs charging time. Charging for an hour got you like 90 minutes of driving.

I got a 2021 Chevy Bolt. Insanely cheap, has worked great. We have the highest trim model, but you can get lower ones with less features.

In the peak of used car nonsense post covid, we traded a 2012 Nissan Sentra (no trim level) with 80k miles for the 2021 Bolt with less than 3k miles. After tax incentives, I think the difference was $2,500. It didn’t make sense at the time and still doesn’t. But people were really afraid of electric cars then.