Tax auditors are the highest-return government program ever developed. We just increase funding for auditors every-time we need more funding for programs. The billionaires can hire lawyers and try to weasel around laws. But they can't avoid everything. The funds are there if corruption can be controlled. Putting this on the ballot for the people to decide makes it a public issue that's hard to cover up. It's harder to bribe every citizen of the state, though they'll try with propaganda and warped arguments in the coming campaign. The fact is. Since Prop 13 and the Reagan Revolution, cutting taxes for the rich has created the super-wealthy. They did not earn their vast fortunes. They got them through not paying the taxes that formerly created the greatest public education system in the world. The one that led to the tech revolution that subsidized every gain they have claimed as their own, without any proportional merit at all. So yeah. Tax away the billionaires. Experiment with different formulae for doing it in different states and jurisdictions. Chase them from place to place taking capital gains every time they transfer their wealth to escape the next new legislation. "Billionaires" don't need to exist. Citizens do. And we all have responsibilities and yes we should all get rewards for working hard. But nobody should get a billion times more reward for working less than somebody else who works really hard. That's just bad math. This law is just a new more popular algorithm. They should like that, the tech bros.

The Nazis stuck the word in their name just like Trump said he was against wars and would make people's groceries cheaper. Of course they hated actual Socialists. They fought them in the street. But they copied a few policies they thought would look good. Meanwhile, "socialist" Russia was starving the people of Ukraine, rather than sharing food equally. Same same. Real democratic socialism (or whatever) seems like a good model if it means we can increase the power of regular people, and yes, redistribute the wealth currently clogging the top of our economy.

How about we regulate the... consumer (oh wait, would that mean regulating the producer?) to not use as many fossil fuels? Blaming and focusing on individual consumer decisions, rather than profit-making corporate decisions has been a corporate PR strategy since at least the 1970s. When they came up with "Don't Litter" in response to "Regulate Polluters." We stop chemical poisoning by regulating producers. Not by asking individual consumers not to buy the products heavily advertised to them. While we're at it, make polluters clean up the damage they caused with the profits they made knowing that they were causing harm for decades.

No lawsuit necessary. Proper agency response and billions of taxpayer-savings: "Not as free as our new Free Taxpayer Filing System Like Every Other Civilized Country." (Except freakin' Canada where TurboTax and H&RB have extended their claws).

Not an excuse for bad governance, but it'd be nice to have elections where if it doesn't turn out the way the US wants, we won't just overthrow the "wrong" winner

The one thing low RAM will impact performance-wise is audio-playback in some situations. If you overload the RAM on these machines while playing a live DJ set the slowdown will be audible when it will start to glitch. Folks should be aware of that and close all their browser windows before going off to their big gig.

Yes they should pay you to use the tools they're forcing you to. But their trillion dollar bet is that you're training the tool to do your job for you. So I'd rather bank a cheque than have a discount called a perk. And anybody who's working in tech now and not saving up (while investing in ???) isn't thinking ahead

Or go cheap like me and trade up your 27" DisplayPort for a ten year old 27" Thunderbolt Display from Craigslist for $200 at an $1800 savings. Let the pros have the top-end if they want them, but these creaky old 2560 × 1440 27" monitors look about as nice as they did when they came out, and better than any other $200 monitor I've tried.

Report says: 7% of teens living in higher-earning households say they do all or most of their schoolwork with AI chatbots’ help. Rich kids have actual human tutors on salary who either do their homework, or help them learn stuff if they want or have to. Or they are taught as a class to lie on questionnaires.

And the person who got a "useless humanities" degree years ago when it cost tens of thousands of dollars less, when there were way more jobs to get with it, got a much better deal out of it. So it's no surprise the numbers have changed. It was a smarter investment then. Today's kids have also been screwed in the housing market by the wealthy buying up everything on speculation. It's not a mystery. The world isn't the same as it was in the 1960s or 1990s when education and housing was cheaper. What are we going to do about it?

They say that surprising people may make them more aware of their surroundings so politeness kicks in. Or that we need more billionaire vigilantes to ride the subway. "...this study highlights how situational disruptions alone may be sufficient to produce similar effects. This suggests a potential mechanism by which novelty and unpredictability foster prosocial behavior, reinforcing theories that link attentional shifts to increased social responsiveness. At the same time, alternative explanations should be considered. For instance, the superhero figure may have increased the salience of cultural values, gender roles, and chivalrous helping norms.... More studies are warranted to better understand the mechanisms underlying these effects and to disentangle whether they are driven primarily by attentional shifts, priming, or other contextual processes."

It's tangential to the death, but shouldn't there be basic measures social media platforms can take to prevent such occurrences? Same with url squatters. Can't there be an automatic waiting period after names have expired? Like if I have "TheBest" twitter handle, can't we make it a five year turnover or something? Like, threaten me if you want, it's not going to be available for years either way? If people are being threatened, there needs to be some creative response from providers. They've got a few smart people, spend a few hours and come up with a solution. Should prevent such a thing again. Just a thought on prevention. That, and don't have cops breaking down doors based on anonymous tips for gosh sakes.

Well, if we charge companies (rather than after-the-fact charging the public) maybe they'll choose not to pollute in the first place? If somebody made billions and I get charged, how are they supposed to learn to do something better? So, I'd rather have them pay.

I understand that Wall Street will not insure new nuclear plants, at all. And they require subsidy and federal investment guarantees in order to pencil out. Now if we had given "alternative" energy that kind of treatment for fifty years, we'd be in a different situation. And if we gave that kind of government (state-socialism!) support to solar or whatever now, somehow I think we might compete with the unviable-without-subsidy nuclear industry.