Mostly we heckle the people saying you shouldn’t vote, or should vote 3rd party, when the ubernazis are closer than ever to total domination. I think most people are of the opinion that, between actual elections, everything possible should be done to get better nominations and replace the old guard democrats.
I’ve never outright asked for one.
Best part of it is when the BJ giver does it spontaneously, anyway. With anything sexual, so much of it is psychological rather than physical. I’ve probably asked for a BJ or two with my first partner or two in my younger days, but I’ve since understood that it’ll never be as good as a spontaneous one from the same person.
It’s free though? Kagi the search engine is paid, Orion the browser is free. There’s still no paid browser that I’m aware of.
The problem with YouTube isn’t that it has ads, it’s that it ran at a loss for well over a decade and THEN started putting ads everywhere, increasing the amount every few months. If your service is only profitable with a ton of ads, put those ads there right away. The enshittification once you have a captive audience through the network effect is what sucks. We could have competitors and that would improve the quality for everyone, but Google sank billions into making sure nobody is using anything but YouTube and THEN started bombarding us with ads. That’s quite literally billions of dollars spent on making the market worse.
Over 55 isn’t babyboomers anymore that’s gen x.
And silent. But notice how little the percent goes up when you add both silent and much of gen x to it. Most of it is still baby boomers.
I think this kind of data is exactly what you’d expect to see in a somewhat equal society: you work your whole life, saving, of course you’ve got more savings then people who haven’t been working their whole lives.
Yes. So why are people whining that their paychecks aren’t rising, that they can’t afford property, etc? All that goes to old people who, via retirement funds mostly, own the companies that young people work for. The housing is owned by old people and companies belonging to old people. If the US suddenly had a 50 dollar an hour minimum wage, old people would be fucked and have to go back to work because their holdings would no longer be worth shit.
Really I suspect averaging here is skewing your perception, that 70% can hide a few super wealthy and many more poor (which is what you’d expect given 1% of the population own more than the combined bottom 95% ).
Median baby boomer is worth like 400k, average is near 2 mill, so of course it’s still skewed, 10% of baby boomers own 70% of their wealth. But what I’m trying to argue is that you can’t have both a great working life and a great retirement life at the same time unless the amount of retired people is small. Baby boomers enjoyed a great working life and now they’re enjoying a great retirement life, but they can only enjoy the latter because everyone else’s wages stagnated. No other generation has ever been as rich as the baby boomers, no other generation’s wealth outclassed the preceding generation as early as theirs. They’re enjoying more time at the top than anyone before them. Gen X and millennials on the other hand are getting there much later in life and I don’t know if Gen Z will ever be the wealthiest generation before most millennials are dead.
People just aren’t having enough children for this whole retirement thing to work much longer. Millennials might never retire, Gen Z will definitely not retire (and this isn’t specific to the capitalist system). But we get to pay baby boomers to retire.
Eventually we need to start talking about getting rid of retirement altogether. We can’t have 5 retirees living off the back of one working person, that’s absurd.
Ironically the AI everyone’s fighting against, combined with a better economic system of course, is the only thing that can change things. When there are truly very few jobs that need a human, we can finally consider having so many non-working people for so few working people, without outright straddling all the working people with debt. Maybe not AI as it is now, but AI that can truly replace knowledge workers to the point that it can design automation for physical jobs on its own. As it is now, even supposedly “communist” countries need people working well into the 50s and 60s, and it’ll get worse when their demographics crises hit.
They don’t control, yes - the control (on the level of the individual companies) is being handled for their benefit though. Line must go up for the shareholders - aka old people.
Cars have more emissions though, which is worse for public health, and they’re better at killing pedestrians. The license for motorcycles isn’t a tax in of itself, but 1000€ and having to spend 20 hours in school and then registering for exams where most of the spots for the summer are already gone by march just to have the ability to ride a motorcycle 6-7 months a year is a decent deterrent and the reason most people don’t ride.
I personally find it OK for people to ruin their health.
I mean if you’re in the US, it’s fine. Everyone pays for their own health insurance anyway. Let them all get fat, sick and shoot eachother. In most of Europe, we tax or ban things which have no real benefits, but clear drawbacks. Meat still has protein which you need some of, whether it be from meat or plant sources. Carbs you should still be eating some, just not a ton of sugar. There’s no amount of nicotine that’s good for you though, same with alcohol, so we tax those things. Heroin can easily completely ruin your life after trying it once, at which point you’ll be a burden on social systems for years to come. So we ban it.
Even Fox News has criticized him once or twice (at which point it was named communist media by MAGAts, it was hilarious). And Fox’s CEO could still decide to do whatever if he got pissed with Trump, he just happens to find it gainful being aligned with Trump.
It is, but it’s the only way to get viable heating without fossil fuels in a climate with winters. I have a friend with a ground source heat pump and one with an air to water heatpump and the former has a bigger house and significantly smaller electric bill when the real cold hits (January, February). Think it was 100-150 EUR vs 400-500 EUR + also needed to keep burning firewood every day when it got proper cold. Both use floor heating.
All in, you can count on it costing about 15-40k depending on everything. Air to water heat pump is more like 10-15k all in, but when you’re burning 10 kilowatts on resistive heating and your place is still not as warm as you’d like, you’ll know exactly why.
It does not, it pays whatever Chinese or Korean company makes its battery cells, which pays whichever Chinese company refines the metals, which pays whichever Chinese company mines the minerals. China owns most of the battery industry and you don’t really get much of a say in what their labour practices are - but you COULD pay 2-3x as much to get a battery from a non-Chinese company, that may or may not have a better track record when it comes to slave labour and may or may not still use Chinese lithium and cobalt.
It then also pays a Taiwanese company to operate sweatshops in China, that the Chinese government is somehow OK with despite being “communist” and “for the workers”. It’s all ultracapitalism all the way down. Though I hear these days they don’t even need the suicide nets anymore.
Unfortunately, state media can be as well.
My country’s national broadcaster is still fairly OK, there doesn’t seem to be any real pressure to censor specific topics or anything. The BBC on the other hand, has been losing its credibility hard in recent years with all their anti-palestine shit.
And now imagine if the US had a prominent national broadcaster. Like NPR does exist, but what if it was something that a majority of Americans watched on TV. Now imagine what would happen to it under someone like Trump.
I think for outlawing, the cat’s already out of the bag. Too many people are addicted, especially young people and teenagers, and the tobacco companies would sue every single EU nation with the public opinion support of the addicts if we tried that. Much better off increasing the taxation steeply (also for cigarettes of course).
Motorcycles are already taxed by fuel and the necessity of a somewhat expensive extra license that you only use for motorcycles (though that mostly goes to a private company) to discourage large-scale adoption, plus they are lower impact (pollution and traffic) way of getting around than cars. You pay tax on the fuel, tax on the motorcycle, tax on all the work you did to earn the money to pay for those things. Etc.
Skiing - I see a small tax on mountain passes as a completely reasonable solution. Small enough that it doesn’t encourage people to go find their own quiet mountains with no local medical assistance, but big enough to at least partially offset the injuries sustained by the sport. Of course every country can decide on their own taxation here, mine doesn’t have mountains so not much to worry about.
Fast charging is already expensive (often moreso than fuel unfortunately). The idea being proposed here is that if you make it slower, people get hungry and you can sell them more junk food. You lose that opportunity when charging is too fast, most people get their petrol and drive on instead of getting food each and every time. So it’s actually better to have slower charging, even if you can then charge less money for the energy itself, since you have a captive audience.
Well that depends. In urban areas, it’s more of a problem. Side of the highway… Honestly, most fuel pumps sit empty 90% of the time it seems. Not that they don’t get business, it’s just that they’re nowhere near saturating their capacity usually.
If you’ve got tons of space and want to save money, you can have a horizontal system, you’d ideally want about 1.5 meters of pipe length for every square meter you’re heating, according to the companies selling heat pumps. The pipe should be a meter deep and I think it should be a meter from any other section of pipe. Think of the good ol’ mobile game Snake.
If you’ve got tons of money or just don’t have the space, you can do a vertical system. It’s even more efficient, but you’d want roughly the same amount of meters, in the form of deep holes in the ground - for a bigger house, it’s OK to use multiple, just keep a bit of distance between them (6 meters is supposedly OK).
When the air goes cold and it’s hard to cool down the outside air to heat up the inside of your home, the ground stays warm so the efficiency drops much less. With the vertical system in particular, there’s no measurable drop, since a lot of your refrigerant is running so deep underground, it’d take an ice age to cool down the dirt down there.
Cycling every time I travel 3km is encouraged by the the excise tax on fuel, which accounted for half of its cost before Trump went crazy and nearly doubled our diesel prices here in Estonia. Just like drinking less is encouraged by excise tax on alcohol and of course nicotine products have their own excise tax, but it doesn’t appear to affect snus as much, since at least the ridiculously strong pouches are actually super affordable since they contain so much nicotine that just one an hour is equivalent to chain-smoking cigarettes.
You also need to be 18 to drive a car without an adult present and you have PE classes as a teenager, whereas you can easily get started with snus at 14 or hell probably 7 or 8 because nobody checks if you’ve got a pouch in, unlike driving a car where they check your driver’s license. I smoked in 6th grade (and then gave it up and later picked it back up again), but that was a whole ordeal and you could sneak in a couple of cigarettes a day, with snus you can go all day every day in school without getting caught. It’s just so easy to start ruining your health from a much earlier age, making the tail end of your life more expensive to the people who actually have to work for a living while you’re retired already.
Like, I’m pro socialized healthcare because absolutely nobody should be bankrupted by medical bills, but that implies people being responsible and since people can’t be trusted to be responsible with health things, laws have to be used to force it.
Yes, and that’s why we’ve taxed alcohol and tobacco products, some places tax added sugars, and we’ve also banned most recreational drugs (admittedly, some of those aren’t even that unhealthy and should be reconsidered). Because the system stops making sense when everyone’s making shitty decisions. Snus lets you ingest ridiculous amounts of nicotine, it should at the very least be taxed significantly more heavily. Right now it doesn’t really matter how strong the pads, they cost the same (and are WAY cheaper per gram of nicotine than smoking at the high end).
I think the idea is to develop a vaccine or cure along with the disease so you can deploy that selectively.
Doesn’t make the idea any better though.
If you alternatively want to spend LESS time keeping up to date on them, just keep up with what Unsloth offers quants for because they’ll have most of the interesting models anyway, and they’ll immediately list how much RAM you need for whichever quant on their Docs page
Been a while since I played it (I’m past the boss mommy with the annoying babies and on top of the plateau, but still haven’t reached many parts of the map for context), so this really played with me giving me 3 places super close to Raya Lucaria and 2 that looked fairly similar to Raya Lucaria at a first glance but ended up being completely different places lol