Those will become assets that they own (with depreciation). Super rich people love putting their money into things they can get at least some back out of, rather than "giving it away" to others who won't produce cash when squeezed. Apples and oranges. Plus, I guess if you look at things from the right angle, wages are theft?

What? I hate to break it to you, but the American economy is not as simple as "rich people have everything and are happy", in fact it's quite the opposite. Biden and the democrats "put rocket engines on the economy" in 2021 passing the American Rescue Plan by making sure that real people had real money to spend. For real. And all the right-wing media *hated* it.

Rich people are rich because they *don't* spend their money. All of this money that isn't being taxed from the wealthy is going to be tossed into banks or other direct assets, and the economy will be directly suffering for it, all while a higher percentage of what little the average Americans are earning are going to be tied up in more taxes rather than spending on goods and services. The right is quick to point at the stock market like that is the one and only indicator of the economy, but it's only one part of the whole like Trump appears to be learning for the first time with the jobs report from last week. Wealth transferred to the rich is wealth being *removed* from the economy because they are not active participants who are hoarding their wealth like dragons. Instead of taxing this dragon hoard wealth which is being held outside the economy, we are taxing the wealth that is active in the economy and reducing it. This will directly shrink the economy.

Scrooge McDuck was the villain.

What I said certainly doesn't apply to all Christians - but I fully believe it does apply to quite too many of the self-professed ones.

We know someone is an idiot because they act like an idiot. We know someone is an asshole because they act like an asshole. However, it is far too often that we know someone is a Christian simply because they said so, regardless of their actions.

Christians are the only ones allowed to sin, because they believe that they are the only ones who will be forgiven. It does not matter if you sin, if you will be forgiven.

What do you mean by this? How does this actually happen? The rich people have bought up all the media, and the current administration which they used their purchases to install dictates what can be "brought" anywhere, and threatens anyone who doesn't agree with them with a variety of horrors including against their family and peers.

It doesn't matter what a bunch of well-meaning nerds tell each other behind closed doors. They are an utter minority of the voting populace, and the current administration in hand with the purchased media empires are working very hard to maintain their ignorance.

Who is going to investigate and enforce that?

The bibles here all have an extra verse in the Sermon of the Mount: "Blessed be those who faked it til they made it".

I keep having people telling me that "we'll just be swapping tanks instead of filling them up like we do with propane it'll be so fast you will love it." But that just seems like an incredible safety issue.

IMO, the firings are only partially about cost savings, they have every intention of hiring some/most of those positions back but they will only hire loyalists. That will ensure that their ideals will become more entrenched in government.

Hey Ken, you kind of have it backwards - the problem is not that they can "provide some services faster", it's that they can "determine arbitrarily which services will be provided slower". Without net neutrality it's rather that the ISPs can make other traffic crawl, especially traffic that is competitive with services that they offer, such as streaming applications when the ISP offers cable services and their own streaming platforms. They can effectively prevent the use of select services by making them infeasible due to service constraints. They will do all this by saying "we're just not providing them at our faster speeds", and they will try to force content providers to cough up money to them directly as well. One of the more public examples of this was Comcast vs Netflix back in 2014. You might be ok with an internet where you need to pay all the other random ISPs directly for your merchant site to be available "at reasonable speeds" to their customers, but I certainly do not.

When the server sends cookies back to the client, they generally get stored somewhere the browser chooses, in a file on the OS. If someone's computer gets some malware or virus on it then the cookie files are going to be readable and that data can be sent to whatever servers the malware is configured to communicate with, just like passwords/emails/etc.

Plenty of people get malware on their computers and mobile devices. They are likely not stealing the cookies during transmission here but at rest. They can probably be hijacked by scripts inserted into pages with XSS attacks as well and siphoned off that way, again stealing the cookie data from the client computer after it was transmitted across a TLS-secured stream.

Tried?

Only if you are "ruling class".

I really don't think you're confused.

Have you paid any attention at all to the world in 2024?