Income tax, capital gains tax, wealth tax, VAT on purchases over the median value increasing with price, property tax, inheritance tax, corporate taxes, etc

China has the manufacturing capacity and manpower to challenge the increasingly inefficient American military in a protracted war of attrition. Assuming the nukes don’t drop.

Fair enough!

There are more Republicans in California than Texas. Secession is not gonna happen.

So yeah. Super duper made up.

This feels super duper made up

Ah, that’s good to know. Thanks.

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No, dude. People are going to die over this. A lot of people.

Democrats are complicit at best, and each day they seem more like collaborators. They won’t save us from fascism because they don’t want to.

We’re fucked beyond belief, and it’s going to take a long time for people to realize how badly.

Maybe… You shouldn’t have to be on a shoestring budget? Maybe this economy should let you support yourself more comfortably.

And maybe you should be the recipient of mutual aid during a general strike if you need it.

This is where mutual aid comes in.

Share cash with people who need it. Pay their bills, pay their rent, pay their bail money, pay their medical expenses.

The capitalists will hurt people to try to get you to stop boycotting and striking.

This isn’t as true in tech companies as it was in traditional companies years ago. Most high level engineers take an individual contributor role that allow you to be promoted without becoming a manager. At Google it’s called a staff role. At Amazon it’s a principal role.

I have a bunch of uhd discs that are full of meandering loading crap. The HD Blu Ray era was worse, and that’s what I think drove people away. It’s obviously too little too late on the newer stuff.

For real though

I genuinely believe more people would have kept uaing physical media if they made it more convenient just to pop in a movie and play it.

Everytime I put in a 4k blu Ray, there’s like 40 seconds of useless loading screens, unskippabble warnings, menu animations, and other bullshit. It feels like the old days of massively overcooked multimedia “experiences” in the worst way possible.

What’s the make and model number? The link is funky if your AMZN location isn’t set to UK

Counterpoint: congress does their jobs exactly how their corporate owners want them to. Congress does not serve the best interests of the people.

I think it’s pretty scary. Completely overwhelming the media and internet with near-infinite variations of their propaganda is the most powerful way I can imagine for them to carry out the stuff you’re more worried about, with even less resistance.

It’s not the lack of AI safeguards themselves that worry me, it’s the constant stream of propaganda drowning out reality that worries me.

I’ve tried a couple and they all return worse results on average. Scrolling down past the LLM garbage and paying attention to which results are real is less work than re-querying DDG 4 times to get a decent result.

I haven’t tried kagi, but I’ve heard similar anecdotes here on Lemmy. I’m not opposed to paying. The ad model is unsustainably at best.

Corporations effectively run the government.