I’m actually against a wealth tax, but think one of the only ways that taking their unrealized assets can work is if we do as you suggest.

If you own stock in something, taxing unrealized gains isn’t good. it’s not like were going to pay them for unrealized losses.

But we MUST stop them from being able to actualize those unrealized gains without taxing them like when they use their unrealized assets as collateral. It’s like a loophole for the ultra wealthy where they can just borrow against their assets for their entire life without paying taxes on it.

And really… who cares if this way might be more expensive to do, they’re rich as fuck, and can pay for it as part of that tax. Also assets can be very nebulous and hard to know what they actually have. But when you see that new house, new yacht, donation to a SPAC or whatever, the IRS can come knocking and be like how’d you pay for that.

I mean the data IS sanitized, but not to the level that would have required certain human things to not happen.

Part of what’s led to its improvement over the years is better going through the data and removing bad things or properly labeling them.

That left turn that was cut to short makes it into the first set of training as a cursory look at it seemed okay, and then they see that cars are cutting turns to short. So they go through the data again and try to find examples of it and then label them properly so it doesn’t think it’s okay.

But that’s not a simple process, and then trying to only have certain good behaviors gets really hard because they’re actually very uncommon in normal driving because the bad behavior is socially acceptable.

Citizens United was the final straw in the downfall of America democracy.

It’s been inevitable since.

Unless it’s overturned it’s over, and I don’t think they can overturn it.

I think they said the judge didn’t have the right to block it nation wide, only for the states that sued, which was 22 or something like that.

17th biggest in the world. I was surprised when I learned that.

Never do your own Crypto

Figured this needed repeating not at the bottom

There’s nothing to dislike about it though if it’s done right. Everyone would just have the right ID, and there’s nothing to worry about when verifying the age. The uses become much larger than just porn.

Its a cryptographic way of verifying something without having to expose the information it’s verifying.

Lets say you need to prove you’re over the age of 18

You can have a digital ID that has your birthdate on it.

Through some fancy cryptographic stuff I can’t explain, the website could challenge your ID to prove your age, and the ID could return a response that proves you are over 18, but it doesn’t need to actually give your name or age in response, and it’s response isn’t something that can be linked back to your ID.

Now simply having an ID isn’t necessarily enough, kids could just take someones ID, so it might need to have some biometic’s added and be a small piece of hardware that has the digital ID, so when the website challenges the ID, you unlock the ID with your fingerprint, and now the website knows the owner of that ID is the user of the ID, and they are 18 or older.

For this to work though you’d need someone who has authority on your age to implement the digital ID properly, and then write the software that will validate things.

So you could go to the DMV as an example, they issue you a license while you’re there, you authenticate the ID with your finger print (but they DMV doesn’t get your fingerprint, it’s just stored on the ID) and then the website can challenge the ID and get a response that verifies you’re old enough, without verifying who you are, or your age.

Edit: just to add, and ID like this wouldn’t be limited to online. You could go to the liquor store and validate without them having to see your ID which exposes where you live for example.

This could all be solved with some zero knowledge proof technology so they can just prove your age and gain absolutely no tracking capabilities, but of course that will never happen.

It was a joke.

There are no hurricane when there’s nothing to predict them. It’s just a storm. There’s no covid because we don’t test for it.

WTF is a hurricane? It’s just a storm, get over it.

They’re willing to deport a fucking veteran who took two bullets for his country, they’ll deport anyone, including YOU.

Pure unadulterated evil.

Ya, like maybe let’s build some ammo manufacturing capacity (as an example) instead of just buying it all out of country.

So 5% seems like a lot… but we have definitely been under spending for awhile and could use some catch up, and 1.5% of that is earmarked for infrastructure, so maybe we’ll at least get something useful to everyone and not just the military out of that extra 1.5%. Like a port doesn’t necessarily have to be a military port, but the infrastructure could be used by the military if needed. Unless they really mean that has to be a military port, in which case, meh.

Long term though that seems a bit bonkers.

Edit: also were going to need to spend a lot of money on arctic stuff as global warming proceeds, at least in the mid-term. I bet a lot of it will go into that.

Edit: just another example, a high-speed rail connecting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City could be part of that. It would allow the military to deploy around the region much faster. Spend some money on some special high speed military train cars as well to help make the point.

It never occurred to me that authors would do that, but of course they would.

Breaking News from RFK Jr: 100% of people who have Autism and have this shot, had this shot! It was the shot!

“Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration”

Except… you dropped those bombs on a facility designed to be protected from those very specific bombs.

Next up:

Police officer wearing bullet proof vest obliterated by 9mm subsonic round. “Everyone knows what happens when you get shot! Death!”

Police Officer: uhhh hey I’m still alive here.

And then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.

Oh I’ve totally forgotten about potatoes. I used to do that ages ago for ‘baked’ or mashed and it worked really well.

I do so many things with my air fryer, such a great appliance.