Poverty hasn't been solved by making trillionaires pay their fair share.
It also hasn't been solved by making trillionaires either.
The vast majority of people don't give a shit about how much the wealthiest people have. They care about they and theirs having enough. A lot of them don't have enough, and that is causing problems. Taking more away from them to give to the wealthy is making the problem worse, yet here we are doing just that.
It's not clear that there's a single person on the planet that isn't morally superior to Elon Musk.
I definitely know of one. He has the complexion of an Oompa Loompa.
Uh huh... username checks out.
"High taxes" aren't the cause; we could end all taxes and it would not improve things (and in fact would make things worse). It's the decline in buying power that decades of wage stagnation have brought about. You can't have prices on goods and services keep increasing at the same time that wages stay flat and expect nothing to change. People are finding it harder and harder to make a living without the added expense of having children.
Yes, your average person is getting overtaxed, but it isn't dat ebil gubbermint doing it. It's the rent seeking money grubbing corporations and their billionaire leaders that are squeezing the blood from the turnip. Your insistence on blaming the wrong entity shows how successful they have been at gaslighting you. The only entity that could possibly oppose the oligarchs is government, and here you are blaming them for your problems.
I just wonder if I will live long enough to see things improve, or watch the wheels come off. I know which one I'm expecting.
The thing about "opt-out" is that almost no one will bother, but Zuck can always say "It's your own fault for not figuring it out."
“But the plans were on display”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Fusion is a type of nuclear reaction that generates energy via putting atoms together. The other kind is fission, which generates energy via the splitting of atoms.
The danger starts when people notice that the AI was already right about 30 times so they stop to check for errors.
I'm assuming just a grammatical error: "they stop to check for errors" is a good thing, as they are stopping what they are doing to check for errors. If phrased as "they stop checking for errors" then that will reflect the meaning you want.
I shudder at the thought of people like Bezos actually figuring out how a human brain works. Because once you know how something works, it's a small distance towards controlling said something.
Where is the Sad But True mod when you need one?
I would trust my American Overlords over the Chinese overlords ANY day of the week....
I wouldn't trust either one, but I think it foolish to trust the local ones, as they have a lot more ability to fuck with your life.
Minnesota's legislature is more or less evenly split between GOP and DFL (aka Democratic Farmer Labor). DFL has a bare majority in the Senate (34-33) and the House is evenly split (67-67).
Governor Walz is DFL (obviously).
The MN Supreme Court is supposedly non-partisan and elected to 6 year terms, but all of the current 7 were appointed by Walz or Mark Dayton due to mid-term vacancies. They all have mandatory retirement at age 70 (which is something we need to do at the SCOTUS).
Government authorization, depends on the size of the bribe, er crypto-coin purchase.
Probably due to Poe's Law. There are actual people who would say the exact thing you posted. I weep for humanity some days.
In the current make-up and structure of the US government.
Sure, this bill may pass and be signed by la presidenta, but the next administration might likely pass another bill to weaken it or repeal it.
Very true.
Of course, they could try to make it constitutional amendment to make it harder to water down or repeal.
Won't happen. Constitutional amendments need either 2/3rds of both House and Senate or 2/3rds of state legislatures to even propose one. To ratify a proposed amendment requires 3/4ths of state legislatures or state ratifying conventions.
This of course leads is to what I think may be the Achilles Heel of the United States government. Each new administration and and each new congress can't seem to come up with a sensible plan, then leave it alone for the long term across election cycles.
Also very true.
The way we are going, we are probably going to become an authoritarian regime. When this happens, then maybe there will be some long term planning which might stick, but at what human cost?
Become? We're pretty much there already. And there will be no long term planning from this current circus.
This... so much this. Used to drive a '88 2 door Ranger, loved that ride. Somebody PLEASE build a small EV pickup?
Two percent of zero is almost nothing.
