[-] randoot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe we're strawmaning each other. I would be fine with a 1-2% tax on billionaire wealth that's sitting as unrealized gains.

Taxing me on the value of my house is absolutely similar to taxing unrealized gains. If my house gained value that doesn't mean my income did. There is no guarantee that I can afford it. I can't sell my house to pay the tax. The same arguments used to defend billionaires applies to me as well, but somehow we're supposed to feel bad for them but we're ok with the middle class paying essentially the same thing as unrealized gains on the asset they own that's mostly likely 99% of their net worth.

Can you tell me what is broken with expecting someone that holds $100b in unrealized gains to pay %1 tax on it

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

That's all great but then why the fuck am I paying property tax on my house that is mostly unrealized gains. Before you go arguing to abolish property tax, I'm fine with it. My property tax goes to make my neighbor better, and provide services and schooling for my neighbors.

Billionaires become rich because their companies benefit from highways, regulated internet, a public educated work force, etc.. so they should pay their fare share.

Taxing unrealized gains for 99% is ok, it should be the same for the 1%.

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

And yet, you still have some gay people out there supporting Trump. Leopards never run out of idiot faces to eat.

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

I ask for one if I suspect they'll get my order wrong and I have a paper trail.

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago

Having gone through what is essentially sleep deprivation torture when raising twins, I believe this and the guilt would be unimaginable.

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

I only read Lenny, obv I'm missing some meme about him fucking couches?

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 74 points 5 months ago

Vonesh instead of Borgers is not a misspelling. He either botched a find and replace because he just copy pasted from someone else, or he used GPT and it hallucinated random shit.

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 104 points 5 months ago

patriarchy : social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line

"They don't value patriarchy". It's not meant to be a positive thing you idiot.

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LLMs are solving MCAT, the bar test, SAT etc like they're nothing. At this point their performance is super human. However they'll often trip on super simple common sense questions, they'll struggle with creative thinking.

Is this literally proof that standard tests are not a good measure of intelligence?

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

He's just playing mind games. He clearly wants Trump to win, he's got him on a leash.

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 61 points 7 months ago

Imagine being such a snowflake you can't handle seeing a paper mache Satan and you goto prison for it

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

When you're defending patents you have to demonstrate you're developing your own products or licensing them and so you can sue for damages. At this price point this "prototype" is just a loophole so they can extort Apple.

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Alt text: Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.

[-] randoot@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

Haha oh no I'm old

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