When will we break from this cycle of opting for shitty solutions and practices?

I recently interviewed and there’s a quiet resignation of “well, this is how it is everywhere”. Why? What’s driving this? Why are the work cultures so bad, prioritizing speed and heroic efforts over systems, long term thinking?

One’s a top the other’s a bottom ? 😏

It’s not young vs old, it’s capital-owning class vs everyone else. AI is trying to solve a trillion dollar problem: paying wages. If you live off wages you hate ai because it endangers your livelihood. If you live off your capital you love ai because you get more of the pie.

In California the property taxes are such that it punishes people that didn’t buy a house 30 years ago. The apartment I rent pays property taxes on a valuation of ~$250k. This property just went for sale at $1.2 million. Whoever buys it now will pay property taxes on a $1.2 million valuation, while right now due to how the law is structured, the current owner pays taxes on $250k.

It’s just a big fuck you by the system. The tax law was modified because they saw that if they kept increasing the tax proportionally with the market value of the home, soon a bunch people would lose their homes because wages are stagnant and home prices are rocketing. So they passed this cap that helps current homeowners.

I don’t know if there is a reasonable tax under these conditions where home speculation and investment-mindset inflates home prices while wages are stagnant and inflation is a bustling.

No possible version of half-life 3 will satisfy the hype that has festered over decades. It’s best not to make half life 3 ever.

Do wealth tax instead!!!

Inequality is the cause of poor living standards. We need higher taxes on inheritance, wealth. And weaker taxes on workers.

This is from 1894, nothing has changed, the systems are still in place and arguably have grown to cover a wider spread of the socioeconomic classes.

It blows my mind, for all the advances in technology, human nature hasn’t changed and we’re still exploiting our fellow people. It’s just one “fuck you” after another

Ah so stock dilution is the proposed plan

To represent the American empire being vulnerable to drones

In the words of Trump to a soldier’s widow: “he knew what he signed up for”

Is it possible to transmit an sti by taking a sip? Will someone please run this experiment for the benefit of my idle entertainment?

There’s a very funny book called the Art of Procrastination, and his secret to deal with procrastination is to use other projects to procrastinate. That way you’re always working on a project, it may just not be the one deemed highest priority.

I would like to learn more, do you have some links? Or where are you hearing about these?

Huge asymmetry using cheap drones to destroy millions of dollars of radar equipment.

Why are we doing this dumb thing again? Because he rapes kids

Can he get rabies and die please

The main reason is that OGC looks like a sideways stick figure having a wank.