I ran linux mint for a couple months. It was nice. Very few problems.
Unfortunately, when I tried to install it on this newer desktop it was a shit-show. No wifi or ethernet, no hdmi, it crashed when I tried to play elden ring. I should try another distribution, but I was so distressed after two days I just rolled back. The people in the mint discord were helpful, though, and got some of the problems fixed.
Windows sucks though.
I don't think the working class is taking out $10mm personal loans against their stock portfolios. And if you do it with a progressive model, smaller players won't be impacted much or at all. Otherwise, if it's being used like income it should be taxed like income.
I don't think the rich people's "resources" are that useful if they can't turn them into fungible money. Can't eat Tesla stocks. They have power through other mechanisms like access and owning platforms, but money is a big part of it. They can spend money on elections, on bribes, on buying platforms. So I'm not really sure what you meant by the distinction between resources and money.
I was on a grand jury some years ago in NYC. It really did a number on my faith in people and the legal system.
Now, a grand jury is different than a regular (petit) jury in a few key ways. First, you only need simple majority to move forward with an indictment. You can't 12-angry-men hang a grand jury. Second, as I learned later, even if you do convince a majority to not indict, the prosecutor can just try again. So all those times the police didn't get indicted for murder and the prosecutor just gave up? They could have tried again. They didn't, because they didn't want to.
All of that said, the cases were largely about drugs. People selling weed and heroin and the like. No violence. I suggested to the jury that we maybe just say no, and don't ruin people's lives over marijuana. You don't have to show your work. You can just say whatever. The whole rest of the jury was like "are you insane?" Some of them were just anti-drug, full stop no context. Some of them were like "We have to do what they tell us" very obedient. Some of them just wanted to go home, and thought an indictment would be the fastest way.
They all voted to indict on every charge. The guy who was sleeping, and the lawyers and cops laughed at him snoring, also voted to indict.
I asked the little old white lady sitting behind me a hypothetical. I asked if she was on a jury in the 60s, and the charge was a black man eating at an all white's diner, if she would indict. She was like, "Hmmm maybe."
I tried. One of the cases the cops said they found a gun in the man's house, so they charged him with intent to use it in a violent crime, or something. I was like, they didn't even try to prove it was his or that he was going to use it. Everyone voted to indict. I'm just like, why do you have to make it easier for the police?
But don't LLMs not do math, but just look at how often tokens show up next to each other? It's not actually doing any prime number math over there, I don't think.
WHEN games do inevitably become 80-100 dollars,
I'm always like, if people stopped paying that price they'd stop selling at that price. Like imagine if a new Assassin's Duty launches at $100 and sells like thirty copies. It'd be big news.
But people don't work like that. And if they did, we'd probably just see more "the game is $40 but half the content is in $60 of dlc"
Oblivion is the go-to example of how not to do level scaling. It's impressive how badly they fucked it up. Like, they managed to make exploring pointless and unexciting.
You find a tomb, but you know that whatever's inside will be "level appropriate". If you're low level it'll be steel weapons, and if you're high level it'll be daedric. There's not really any point in going in at low level. Might as well level up some other way and come back when the loot will be good.
On top of that, the gameplay is so bland and unresponsive that you can't really punch above your weight class. The game is very much a levels game. It's not like Dark Souls where someone can get really good and beat the whole thing while naked (and in the game, too). There's a lot of "well, this guard is level 30 and you're 10, so no matter how many times you hit him with your hammer he's not going to flinch." Knowing you're always going to get kind of bland treasure wouldn't be so bad if the act of getting it was fun. Like, sometimes a tomb or whatever in Elden Ring will have crap loot, but it's still a solid core gameplay.
Morrowind had a lot of these problems, but it was also kind of wacky and heartfelt.
That feels like an easy loophole to patch- Treat loans as income. Maybe tax it at some separate progressive rate so people using small loans as intended don't get fucked. But if Muskerberg has $100 million in loans taken out against his stock, taxing $90 million of that as income would make a difference. Especially if the top rate is like 90%.
There are many things wrong with the laws in the US. I'm not even sure where I'd start
But the other bigger problem is enforcement. Some people do a murder and get a nationwide search. Others the victims family get a "lol can't help you".
Recommend reading "the new Jim Crow" for one look at one part of this.
Makes sense. Many people are living paycheck to paycheck and can't tank a $500 surprise bill. Maybe that's not the market for what these people are selling, but it seems to be the general state of the us.
The rich have too much money and everyone, even the rich, suffer for it
Looks pretty typical to me (longtime nyc resident). It's rare to see trash, and graffiti is pretty uncommon. People sometimes think the subway is still like The Warriors where it's just a wall of spraypaint, but not so much.
Anyone who thought doge was a good idea should not participate in politics, nor make decisions of greater import than "what flavor ice cream do you want?"
Reminds me of the fanclubwallet song "Solid Ground" https://fanclubwallet.bandcamp.com/album/you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me
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sometimes you miss sleeping next to them even though if you don't miss them anymore
sometimes the music's different if you listen to it in your old bedroom
and if the friendship's over you still remember the color of your shoelaces
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