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Comment Re:US congress is weak (Score 1) 82

bitcoin revenue (not profit)

What is the difference between revenue and profit, when it comes to bitcoin? Wouldn't both just be the difference between buy-price and sell-price?

will have a sales tax of 50%, and it will be applied retroactively,

1) Where are you going to get the political will for that?
2) I think people would sue about the retroactive part and the judiciary would likely agree.

TL;DR: The USA refuses to tax the rich.

No lies detected.

Comment Re:Kimmel Doesn't Want to give Republicans a Platf (Score 1) 281

Kimmel addressed this in the show itself (maybe watch the program before making stupid comments?):
(1) He would be more than happy to interview Paxton ("call me!") - he has a number of pointed questions he would like to ask.
(2) He has interviewed only one side many times before (both Democrat and Republican) with no threats from the FCC.
(3) In some cases, interviewing all candidates would be an impractical number of interviews.

Comment Re:Fools blindly trust or blindly distrust. (Score 0, Troll) 33

While I agree that both sides of the corporate political landscape lie, it is far from "simply a matter of coincidence": Trump lies constantly (99.9% lies) and most of the Republican party still backs him up. The (corporate) Democrats prefer to obfuscate and only outright lie maybe 10-20% of the time. The progressives only lie by accident - which is why the oligarchs don't back them and they have trouble getting elected.

> Then do your own research to see where the truth happens to lie. The con games of thieves and politicians and their surrogates only works if you blindly trust or blindly distrust.
Truth.

> And don't be foolish and think if one side if lying the other is telling the truth, they may both be trying to manipulate you with lies.
Also true.

Another truth is that they may (both or not) be trying to distract you with a non-issue, like the Culture Wars, distracting from real issues.
E.g. trans-kids here or there, under no circumstances should there be a teacher inspecting genitalia!

Comment Re:I guess I'm already dead? (Score 1) 88

I agree and disagree: there's a reason that health communicators have been saying "the best exercise is the one you enjoy".

If that means I lose one of the 80-90 years I'm likely to allocated given my current health,

It's likely more like a decade than a year you'd lose if you don't get enough movement.

I'd recommend looking around and seeing if there's some activity you think you'd like or at least don't actively dislike and then try it out.
If you're social, there are many group activities, where the social aspect can outweigh the negatives.
If you're solitary and like to think, there's walking, running and some other activities where you can be solitary and not concentrate on the activity.

Myself, I've been doing self-defense (Jujutsu) for 15 years and have been an independent trainer for 5.
I love giving kids' classes: they haven't been beaten down by society yet - I try to give them self-defense against that, too. :-)
P.S. I'm in my mid-60s.

Comment People still use Reddit? Why? (Score 1) 89

I used to be very active, but I stopped using it a long time ago, before the big blackout or whatever that was called: I stumbled across a subreddit helicopters something or something helicopters, referencing the practice by right-wing death squads of throwing people out of helicopters over the ocean to murder them. There were some posts in there pretty explicitly advocating using the practice on Democrats - such posts are very definitely against the TOS. My report was tossed by one of the founding redditors - basically saying "I read the post and I don't see it". I tried to appeal to a different admin, but got a response from the same one that tossed the first report. I tried reporting it to various authorities, advocating for murder is illegal in most of the world, but none felt they had jurisdiction. After that, I just couldn't stay on the site - I think I'd burst a blood vessel from anger if I did.

Comment Boycott Amazon! (not because of this) (Score 5, Insightful) 37

Amazon jacks up the prices. What? But they have the lowest prices?
Yes. If you are a seller who wants to be in their recommendations, you must not offer your product at a lower price anywhere else AND you have to spend a lot of money promoting your product on Amazon (on average 25-30% of the product price).
That means you have to pay more because of Amazon, regardless of where you buy the product.
And when you do buy at Amazon, Amazon takes the lions share of the profit.
Amazon also has extremely unfair labor practices.
Boycott Amazon.
Also beware of dropship re-sellers: when you buy from them, they will turn around and have Amazon ship it to you, pocketing the difference and you end up having spent more money and bought from Amazon anyway. Depending on what you are buying, buy local or buy directly from the manufacturer when possible.

Comment Re:Secular (Score 0, Troll) 133

I agree that the majority of Congress Critters are sellouts and/or criminals and that the supreme court is a joke.
That said, I don't think Bernie, AOC, or her squad are sellouts. A clear minority, but not negligible.
The difference between red and blue is currently between fascism and an unacceptable, but non-fascist status quo.
I'll take the non-fascists, please: I don't like people being kidnapped by masked thugs and sent to concentration camps.

Comment Re:The purpose of a trigger warning (Score 1) 155

Sorry if I'm out of touch, but who is corrupting it how? Are creators mislabeling their material? Are platforms misusing the labels? That would be a problem.
Any misuse by the audience, whether to seek out or avoid labels, should not affect the usefulness for the actual target of the trigger warning.

Comment The purpose of a trigger warning (Score 5, Insightful) 155

Everyone is treating it like a trigger warning means normal John and Jane Doe should avoid the content. And that because that doesn't happen, we should get rid of them.
That is totally off-base!
A trigger warning is for people who have trauma that may be triggered by the content. Most people don't have serious trauma (at least I hope so).
If people want to use it as a guide, that makes no difference to its usefulness to those that need it.

Comment Re:Software should be "simple and disposable ... (Score 1) 48

I agree. The Einstein quote applies: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler".
Whether a GUI or CLI is easier for you depends on your history. Either way, your code is implicitly hiding something, otherwise the user/programmer would just be using the "bare metal" your code is built on.
Make sure what your code hides isn't something your user needs to see, that they can easily see and change anything they may need to. I'm suddenly feeling the urge to expound on how, but I think that's enough for now.

Comment Re:ridiculous (Score 1) 103

Please learn the difference between voter fraud and election fraud.
Voters need to be on the rolls regardless of whether or not they have photo ID.
That means, in clear text, that your cited example of "voter fraud" cannot be voter fraud - it can only be election fraud.
Something that voter ID will not help with.

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