And yet, taxes have been cut again and again and again. How do you reconcile that fact with your statement that "Because the people raising taxes will never reach a point when they say "the government has enough money now, let's cut taxes"."

Seems that it's very, very easy for the government to cut taxes, at least for the rich. Why are you afraid of "the people who want to raise taxes" when those people have never actually done so? Seems you are imagining a scenario that is not just unlikely, but counter factual.

No, people want to pay for things with their taxes. The are not, in fact, idiots. They don't want predatory capitalists taking a cut, and figure, correctly, that government is more trustworthy than a man with a profit motive and no morals.

People recognize that certain endeavors are just not well served by a capitalist free market. Health care is a primary one that simply doesn't work unless heavily regulated or run by the government. You do not know what is wrong with you. You do not know how to fix it. You can not shop around for a new liver.

As it is, we are basically running health care like a for profit government, and we are getting the worst of both the public and private worlds. Health insurance amounts to a system of taxation that forces the healthy to pay for the sick, and lets a third party take a huge cut. Replace health insurance with actual government taxation and what have you lost, except for the greedy bastard trying to mark up your heart medications? Nothing.

You showed no proof of anything.

You assholes have no problem with kids reading those same types of sex scenes if it's straight. Just ask Beverly Cleary. Most YA novels have sex scenes. Doesn't make them pornographic or unsuitable for kids.

You aren't American so stop talking as if you know us or our culture, asshole.

You don't know shit then. Stop talking like you know America if you aren't from here, asshole.

We need to raise taxes on the rich back to what they were in the good old days Republicans pine for. Marginal tax rate of 90%. "Oh!" you whine, "Nobody paid that!" Yes, but they paid more than they do now and that's the point. Raise taxes on capital gains, raise corporate taxes, lower taxes for the middle class and boom! Deficit fixed.

Normal people are not lazy, they just don't want to be taken advantage of. The real drag on our economy is billionaires and other tax cheats.

Oh stop lying. You can't provide any evidence for any of your wild claims. You censorious assholes only ever talk in generalities. Be specific. What fucking books are you talking about?

What normal people have figured out is that it is the right wing and religious figures who are abusing kids. So many right wingers who shout "groomer!" have been caught with child porn. You disgust normal Americans.

We don't have a left wing in US politics. We have a center right party, and a far right party. Neoliberals want everything Reagan wanted, they are not left wing. And they are very authoritarian.

It is pretty obvious that the right wing is banning books and free speech. That's what you mean, right? The actual government telling you what you can and can't read, and what you can and can't wear.

Sorry, bud, but "normal people," which is to say the majority of Americans, support people living however they please. We are not authoritarian by nature, quite the contrary. We believe in individual rights to self expression, and if you don't, I kindly suggest it you may not be a real American.

As for left wing narratives, the majority of voters in both parties favor economic policies to the left of what we have now. Medicare is left wing socialism, and the most popular government program ever made. That's why people like you want to get rid of it, not because it doesn't work. You want to get rid of it because it does work, and people know it. Kinda plays hell with your "no government is good government" propaganda.

It's not just the third party apps that use the API. Almost all moderator tools do as well. And Reddit plans to charge its own unpaid moderators for that API use.

Nobody, and I repeat NOBODY in any position of power, authority or influence over the site has called for zero cost API usage.

There's a reason that sites publish APIs: scrapers. These are incredibly inefficient. If Reddit keeps the price where it is now, piracy is an option, and it will cost Reddit more than just lost ad revenue, it will cost them server CPU cycles.

Many affiliate marketing systems use this, not just spam. There was one porn spammer that I deposed that the affiliate link would be http://www.site.name/affiliate....

The site id would be the particular web site of the affiliate program. The program id would be which type payment preference, ie. pay per click, per signup, or revenue share.

They would then convert this value into a "session id" which is stored in a temporary table.

By removing this 'tracking' information affiliates (sometimes it's not always spam, thinking maybe maybe Rakuten) will not be paid for referrals.

The people following GPS instructions into the water deserve to be left there.

I knew one of those talented women. I tutored her in Fortran when I was a junior in high school and she was a junior at Northeastern University (doble major chemistry and electrical engineering) . She got out of software when she made enough money to retire on by writing perl programs to optimize microcode.

Oh my God. You are using four letter words! Use M-A-T-H., get your mouth washed out with soap.

Seriously, what is a professional coder? Is that a coder who gets paid as opposed to an unprofessional code who does not get paid? Or are we talking about coders who got a computer related degree? Does a bootcamp count? What about self-taught? Wozniak and Gates were self-taught.

Instead of a coder, we need to use engineers. But, since the advent of PCs I think the lines between coder, programmer, and engineer have been blurred. In the old days, in the days of punch cards and plastic flow chart templates there was a distinction. Now, you a programming editor will spit out code templates, or you can ask a AI prompt to generate code of questionable quality.

I think everyone should know the basics of coding and how computers work, not to work at it, but understand it. The problem though is, we will have less tech support stories that starts and end with "Is it plugged in?" Just like everyone who drives a car should know basic things, like how to change a tire, air-filter, add air to a tire, etc. Of course, this will eliminated jobs from the fraudulently named Geek Squad.