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Comment Re:Does this mean Sam Altman's going to prison? (Score 1) 14

I'll say the obvious: because we all know that ChatGPT is used constantly for cheating. I'm no fan of this paid cheater, but 3 years of prison for that is stupid. Tax evasion? Sure. Scam? Fuck no. Sounds like the university be bad at Englishing.

I don’t recall being allowed to carry my computer and internet connection, into the secure exam room. Ever.

The problem, isn’t cheating. The problem, is being too stupid to know when to Flunk A Child Behind when they earned it AND being too corrupt to prevent cheating.

Comment Re:taxing unrealized gains is problematic (Score 1) 286

Pretty easy to put lower limits on that sort of thing or even exclude a primary residence

The Florida property tax headline-grabbing concept of No More Property Taxes!** ultimately got reduced to an **only-the-first-$250K footnote on the back page of a voting ballot scheduled four months from now.

Florida will now wait and see if even that bullshit footnote, passes a supermajority vote to become more than just political fodder.

And this is in a solvent State infamous for no State tax due to their local lottery earnings. Which the (now-legal) $200 billion dollar “speculative” scratch-off market in a country that illogically still keeps bookies in Federal prison, confirms those revenue gains.

Turns out it’s actually not “pretty easy”.

Comment Re:We need a max wealth cap in America. (Score 1) 286

Once you hit 10 billion dollars, the government sends you a gold dollar plaque all future wealth over 10bn at 100%..We'll throw in a "You won the American Dream" flag plaque.

(Joe Sixpack) "Shiiiit, if I had ten billion dollars I KNOW I would have WON me dat 'Murican Dream!"

* cracks beer *

(Cleetus) "Hey man. Yer Tindurr dinged. She said you're still only a 6 because 'eleven billion, loser.'"

Comment Re:Lack of fiscal faith (Score 1) 186

You don't have objections to the government straight up confiscating 50% of a corporation? Really? You ok when they come and take 50% of your company?

You OK when AI technologies take 50% of human jobs, along with the mass chaos, violence, and death that instability will bring upon a society controlled by governments we already know won't react fast enough to prevent or even control that harm?

Bigger picture, is a LOT bigger than your semi-valid excuse. Understand that. This isn't taxing a corporation. This is forcing those who should be funding UBI, to actually fund the fucking thing.

Comment Re:Wait a minute (Score -1, Troll) 67

See the thing to remember is those people is that what they accuse the other side of doing, just blind ideology.

It's just a variation of the Goebbel's playbook, which the Trump administration loves to follow - "accuse the other side of the thing you yourself are guilty of".

- Try to rig the upcoming election while yelling loudly about how the other party consistenly cheats - and without evidence, of course.

No evidence, you claim? The entire fucking country of India, would like to have a word with LA county regarding how to count votes effectively. Lear anything yet about evidence, or do I need to say the words “California healthcare audit” again?

Tell you what. Let’s put 100 liberals against 100 conservatives in political debate. There’s only one rule. When any participant is caught lying or dismissing blatant fact, the moderator gets to punch them in the face.

First topics up for debate will be addressing why only Democrats assume minorities are too stupid/incapable to obtain ID cards to vote in Federal elections, but for everything else in society they’re mandatory and defended. Then we’ll move on to auditing the shit out of healthcare programs funded by taxpayers. Not even libtarded girl math will help dismiss the look of a lying Democrats face after that. And the battered faces in debate will be the receipts.

The media lets Republicans act like children? Should I schedule a quick media event with former President Dementia so the media can ask about fucking ice cream flavors, or should they ask Vice President Word Salad instead to cackle out another 74 reasons to schedule Democrat Punchfest SummerSlam, sponsored by Mike Tyson? See what I mean about libtards being fucking delusional and hypocrites? Ain’t no way you’re gonna factually claim the liberal leftist-dominated MSM lets conservatives “get away” with shit. The only time they let off the lie pedal is when a legal court order forces them to. (You know, like when The View is forced to read a legal apology on air again, to avoid being sued and/or fired.) The mainstream media, is literally how President Autopen and Vice President Didn’t Earn It, got elected. But don’t ask me to prove that. Ask their ratings instead.

Are Republicans innocent? Not hardly. They’re just not nearly as brain dead when it comes to acting like the true child in the room. Adults, sit down and debate. Children run off and refuse to, while playing victim Olympics. When liberal Democrats can start actively debating conservatives on issues that actually affect the majority, THEN they can make claims about integrity and election fraud.

Heres a simple fact. Raising the voting age in America, would only affect one political party. But it would benefit an entire Nation. Now go ahead and tell me why America should lower the voting age. Because that’s almost assuredly the Democrat play, since America isn’t dumb enough to elect an Open Border Czar again so lying libtards can try and win elections, and there isn’t quite enough homeless votes for Democrats to buy.

And by the way, it’s not Republicans being against climate change. It’s being against corrupt Democrats grifting taxpayers for that problem, while doing NOTHING to fix it. Count the number of homeless taken off California streets and high speed rails operating for evidence. We KNOW how Democrats will fund climate change. It’s becoming obvious with every audit long past due.

Comment Data mining; the failsafe business model. (Score 1) 25

The money runs out or they get lucky and trip over an actual business model.

It's not hard to 'trip' over a business model in the 21st Century when your business involves harvesting the shit out of human data.

From sonic-based imaging helping detect cancerous tumors to military use involving next-gen 'brown sound' weapons. There's always a buyer for a data whore.

Comment Re:taxing unrealized gains is problematic (Score 3, Insightful) 286

They have no problem taking out loans on unrealized assets so if they are worth it to the banks, they can pay taxes on them.

Be careful of this kind of rhetoric.

Billionaire trickle-down-fuck-YOU-pay-for-it-pleb economics will ensure retired homeowners on a fixed income end up losing their homes, because tax the shit out of those 'urealized gains' called home equity..

Comment How failure, becomes predictably human. (Score 1) 219

Congressional Insider Trading, is now a fucking job perk. Instead of Common F. Sense realizing how horrifically harmful that can be to the key market in US Capitalism and condemning it immediately it was defended, and is now unofficially known as Pelosis Law.

Gambling, a known and recognized concept that can easily create horrific addiction, got re-branded into "speculative markets". Which grew into a massive industry now in business with professional sports. Instead of Common F. Sense remembering why bookies are still rotting away in Federal prisons, we'll end up trading Robux as a fucking fiat currency because GenBet suddenly needs a re-defined retirement plan.

OnlyFans took prostituting oneself to the next level, normalizing amateur porn as some kind of logical career stepping stone for 17-year old social media hottie attention whores turning actual whores. Instead of Common F. Sense remembering the many reasons the worlds oldest profession never really went mainstream, 21st Century liberalism re-branded it into "modern" feminism which demanded All D. Accountability be sacrificed by a divorce court firing squad in the endless pursuit of Oprah-approved hypergamy happiness, making Fathers rare creatures. With disastrous results.

This might be how the world assumes it "works", but much like girl math it often doesn't add up. This is how stock market crashes happen. Again. This is how Recessions happen. Again.

Comment How they earned that Experience. (Score 1) 38

Which failed.

Sane people don't want these kinds of experiences, they know it just leads to a raw deal. The experiences are tangible, but the product they want is.

The experiences will be a cost adder to the final price of the car.

Now, this is not to say that the existing car dealerships don't have there own shenanigans to separate more money from you. In house financing vs. cash up front, and closing desk add-ons are the major ones.

After picking out the VIN # I want, I'll find my local group of stealership victims. I'll beat them up with a phone call saying "Me Want", and make them fight over the same car for a week or two. Once I've softened the price up a bit, I'll pick a victim and walk in at 9AM sharp with a popcorn machine under my arm, within 36 hours of their fiscal quarter end.

I don't get my ass or credit score out of bed for less than 12 hours of pre-approved stealership entertainment, at no less than 10% below MSRP. Sorry, but they're gonna learn one way or another that Fail, is never Too Big. If the status quo doesn't change, it's going to be blowout pricing when the inevitable liquidation happens. I've watched the same new car inventory rot on the same lot for over a year now. And it's everywhere you look. The main profit margin in a stealership is service. They now struggle to even keep mechanics employed in service bays due to flat-rate greed and too much warranty/recall work being underpaid.

Consumers should avoid at all costs being in a rush to buy a car. Even if you are, don't ever admit it. Ever. Emotions alone, will add 10% to the price. Desperation adds 20. Then depreciation takes off 30% within 6 months, reminding wallets of the actual value in reality. On top of what insurance will claim it's worth after a wreck. Until they drop new car prices more, we may be an era of Buy Used for a while. Few new car prices make sense at any level of reliability, which is also being enshittified rather quickly (The hell, Toyota. No shit we're looking at you.)

Did the UAW go a stitch too far when trying to negotiate the line workers minimum wage based on But-The-CEO-Makes-TOO-MUCH-MOAR-than-Me logic? Uhhh, guess we'll see once the manufacturing plants starts taking summer breaks like elementary kids do. Due to lack of demand for an overpriced re-negotiated $40K product made of plastic designed to now break before the 8-year car mortgage ends.

At some point a more sane century-old model of selling cars, might actually return. Along with what a car can be. KISS simple and functional.

Comment Re:In Other Words (Score 1) 29

the application that was supposed to protect organizations actually became the attack vector.

That is how anti-virus works.

It is a root kit with remote C&C that you expect to read all of your data.

How much of anti-virus, was attacked with remotely controlled C&C features, 20+ years ago?

Perhaps unnecessary complexity, is the real infection here.

Comment Re:The alternative.. (Score 1) 69

Obama would be rounding up people into FEMA concentration camps whereas what he *actually* did was deport significantly more without disrupting or disobeying courts, making emergency SCOTUS applications, shooting protesting citizens dead in the streets or grifting on a historic scale.

Democrats also managed to abuse many American airline companies to fly illegal immigrants around the country in the dead of night. With hardly a news story from the mainstream media about it.

Democrats also managed to put a man suffering from dementia in the White House. With an MSM in full denial. For years.

SHOCKING what leftist corruption can get away with when they have bought the mainstrearn media, now isn’t it? Makes the honest journalism challenge presented in Good Morning, Vietnam look fucking tame by comparison.

No shit Obama did literally more than Trump to fight against illegal immigration with little backlash. It’s easy with media in your back pocket. It’s also easy to see the childish hypocrisy.

Comment Re:I like it (Score 1) 38

As a consumer, the idea of buying a car without haggling with slimy sales and finance people is enough to make me light headed.

If they can make this work, they have my thanks. IF. They will certainly face severe headwinds from entrenched interests.

I walk into a dealership with check in hand. Pre-approved by my own credit union. It’s the easiest way to avoid the finance department altogether. Makes it easy to know what you can afford too.

Last two cars I bought I got the test drives and research done early. Contacted five dealers in my local area, gave them the VIN # of the car I wanted and said , “Don’t call me until you have your best price.” When they did, I’d respond with ”Not bad. Now lower it $500 more, because your competitor just did.” and then immediately hang up. They work for me. I don’t work for them. After weeks of dealerships fighting over the same car sale, you at least have a reasonable idea of just how low a price can get. Learned long ago the key is to never be in a hurry to buy a car. Ever.

No-haggle dealership models have been around for decades. Never really got that popular for good reason. Far too much profit and competition not to negotiate.

Right now the problem isn’t sales tactics. It’s insane prices. Thankfully I don’t need a car, so I just troll my local dealership walking the lot prices every 6 months to get a good laugh. The bankruptcy sales, are gonna be wild.

Comment Re:I just had to replace a phone for a family memb (Score 1) 55

Elections have consequences and one of them is you don't get cool electronics anymore.

I know for you politics is like the square hole that everything fits into, but the RAM shortage is just capitalism being capitalism (and you probably know the famous saying that it's the worst system except for everything else we've tried). It's been explained to death - the RAM manufacturers are worried that if they build more capacity, the AI bubble could pop and then they'd be left holding the bag.

I'm not even sure how you'd fix this situation..

Perhaps we stop bullshitting first and call it what it is; an AI crisis. Not a memory crisis.

Address the fucking root cause already. Otherwise the next critical need AI needs will be the next “crisis” in need of a politician demanding your tax dollars. Wrong. No. Fuck that shit.

Comment Re:Credit where due. (Score 1) 51

It'll look as silly in 20 as the hysteria over Ozzy and D&D.

Sad people believe that. Because the evidence has been in for a while now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ozzy? You could shove four decades worth of Tipper-crippling heavy metal lyrics into a single song and still not create the measurable cognitive decline we have today. D&D "panic" came and went with a young Tom Hanks trying to manufacture panic in a horrible movie that sold that panic like bad wrestling.

20 years from now the status quo will be defending full-blown Idiocracy at this rate of denial.

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