Taxes do not depress the economy. They only are an issue when you have a kekistocracy like we do right now so that a massively disproportionate amount of the value of your taxpayer dollars is going to a handful of psychopathic billionaire Epstein Island attendees.

But otherwise no that's not how that works. You still need roads and schools and police and fire departments and you need regulations to make sure that the shit people sell you is safe because it won't be if they don't face consequences for selling you unsafe shit and you need research done that takes decades to pay off that no large corporation is going to pay for.

You also need social systems that prevent people who are unfit for work from becoming desperate and violent.

And finally you're stuck with the government whether you like it or not because if you don't create one and fund it then the billionaires will making you pay for it and then they'll take everything from you which is what they're in the process of doing right now. I mean for fuck sakes just go look into how SpaceX is basically a scam to steal all of our retirement savings...

You are thinking and acting like a 12-year-old and it needs to stop. If you're on this site you're smarter than that. You need to stop indulging yourself.

You would have a point. But they are so you don't. They will rule that the Federal regulations override state making it all legal and then we're just stuck with legalized gambling everywhere because we elected a corrupt asshole multiple times for some god-awful reason and they kept getting supreme Court Justice seats.

This last time we fucked up so bad I don't think there's any coming back from it. I'm happy to be proven wrong but the shit's about to hit the fan in so many ways and there's fuck all we can do about it. It's not like I can wave a magic wand and give everybody in the country a hundred IQ points.

Maybe even 2 years. I mean if you're in the Grand theft Auto then yeah that's fine but everybody who isn't this game is going to choke the life out of the industry. I think it's budget is over 2 billion. I don't even know what the hell you do with that. But whatever the case it means that for at least the next year or so it's going to be basically impossible to get anyone to play anything else in the larger game industry. The same thing happened when Skyrim really took off. There was a period of time where it kind of just choked the life out of the industry but that one was only about three or four months.

Closed source has those vulnerabilities too, but only the bad guys know about them because the code is not open for public audit.

Many CVE's are somewhat junk of the form if you already have 3 ways to legitimately become root, you can use this 4th way too. OR (samn close to) OMG!!! Denial of Service attack, you can turn off the power and nobody can access the server!!! RED ALERT!!!

Others are real and need to be addressed, but the junk does more harm than good by distracting from real issues.

It leads to the house. Which does not have a garage.

GTA-V Online is a multi-billion dollar enterprise, pretty sure the Rockstar leaks revealed they have a weekly playerbase of something like 9 million, of course they're gonna maximize that.

That's nutty bavarian numbers, a lesser company would have put all their efforts into online instead still delivering an entire single player campaign.

You could've had a legitimate point if you'd just continued with the actual reason this game is going to suck: the online portion is a fucking freemium game that isn't even free to initially download. I'm sure the folks who don't mind blowing their rent money on Shark Cards are going to love it, though.

The point of foreign trolls is to rage-bait and create (or exacerbate existing) divisions among Americans: Divide and Conquer. They do not care about the topic, only that the divisions grow -for "a house divided against itself cannot stand." *

* quote from Abraham Lincoln, who borrowed it from the Bible.

It's going to be GTAV with nicer graphics and then degraded by attempts to maximize DLC and online subscriptions.

I call it necessary basic infrastructure which is something only Democrats seem capable of doing.

I am not arguing for no sweet stuff at all. I am arguing for no sweetened stuff and making "sweet" the exception not the rule. For example, fresh fruit with a lot of sugar because it is very ripe is fine, bit only if consumed in moderation. And having ice-cream once or twice a month is not a problem either. But sweet stuff every day, every meal is not fine. And making that "sweet" effect artificial does not solve the problem at all, even though many people apparently think it does. A bit of self-discipline goes a long way here.

Of course, as society is so pervaded with "sweet", some things get more difficult. For example, if I want cake, I have to bake myself because what you can buy has so much sugar I find it utterly disgusting.

For billionaires. Meanwhile you and I got about 25 bucks a month but thanks to Trump's tax cuts for billionaires and the big beautiful bill for billionaires he has raised the national debt by 25%. Think about that a quarter of the debt is because of trump.

We elected the king of debt to be president because he promised to reduce that and we elected a billionaire rapist pedophile because he promised to protect us.

Honestly at this point if I wasn't being dragged down with the rest of them I would be happy to see these fuckers who voted for Trump get what they deserve. The better half of me knows that stupid people don't deserve to be taken advantage of but fucking Christ there should be limits to stupid. Like some practical limit to how stupid you are.

Sad as that is, I agree. I am not calling for violent suppression or anything like that, but they were intellectually tolerated and their deranged views and denial of reality and Science were seen as valid stances and they were not called out on it. And now a very high price for that failure of the rest of the population has come due.

And when you look a bit closer, your mindless comment mostly goes out the window. Because the human body neither produces nor craves this crap to any significant degree.