I wasnâ(TM)t gonna go see it in a theatre anyway. I have a giant 100â TV, a bitchen 9.1 surround sound, and seat craft seats with heat and massage. I would have gladly bought it on Apple TV. I dont enjoy a movie theatre experience. I want to pause the movie if I have to piss, and I spent all that money on my home theatre. I didnt HAVE the option to buy it. So, I saw it like this.

But I skipped ahead, jaw dropped, and downloaded it.

Honestly, these Europeans dragging on our tech industry needs to stop. We should recoup the funds in tariffs on all goods and reimburse Google. Hurt their industries if they hurt ours.

Imagine 10,000 clusters of 20 homes. Each cluster no closer than 5 miles to.. anything. And all of them behind some mountain or in some valley or somewhere else that's really inconvenient. AI tells me you can run copper 5 miles without a booster - so that's what they did - sometime last century when they ran power. Work was cheap, copper was cheap, and someone was running power so they piggybacked. Easy peasy.

You can't run modern stuff nearly that far - except for fiber. But then you're running fiber to 10,000 hubs and each will probably need some kind of a station to do processing and splitting and further wires. I don't suppose any of this is hard - it's just expensive. And for each of these 10,000 hubs you're going to do all this work for 20 customers that only want to pay $10/month because that's their deal. You will *never* recoup those costs.

So I get why they don't wanna. But that's the deal they get for monopoly power and right of way and all that.

This is not so much about dropping copper service as it is about dropping service. AT&T (or their predecessor) put in the copper and now they just want to drop those customers because they are expensive to maintain. I can't say I blame them - I would want to, too. The thing is they don't want to replace the copper with anything - they just want to ignore those folks.

The state would be more than happy if AT&T put in fiber and dropped copper. After all, they've secured tens of millions in California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) and Last Mile infrastructure grants

That's not what they signed up for when they were granted right of way and monopoly powers. They just want to weasel out of it.

Vacuums don't crush.

I really dont get why it's an issue? Our civilization can operate in perpetual night. We have lights galore. Its not like we need to refill kerosene... No, changing clocks is the stupidest idea ever. In fact, I think we should get rid of time zones. you live in X, you wake up at Y, and you go to work / school at Z. Its the same time everywhere, and your local school or work sets its schedule accordingly. For fucks sake are we really that stupid anymore? Every human on the planet that needs to operate on a clock has a phone glued to their eyeballs that can manage this.

I feel like I need to spell out the math.

300 * 1,000,000,000 = 300,000,000,000
300,000,000 * 5% = 15,000,000,000

That's all CA will get from the one time tax "from Apple". Just 15 Billion Dollars.

I just have to chime in here. My drop-out paper - back around '91 - was titled "Shovels & Society". It was the final for my Computers and Society class - which I did not think much of. The TA was great, though.

After a few weeks in the class, the TA asked our group how many of us were in this because we enjoy programming. I raised my hand. I was it. I decided I was no longer in the right place.

Anyway, my brief argument was that computer/software advances were a lot like those of the shovel -> bulldozer, etc. Just like every other advance, ever. People would lose jobs like they always had, etc. It was supposed to be 15 pages - but I just wrote 3. I feel bad for my TA - she was so disappointed.

I've been happily programming ever since (and before). I'd learned everything I was gonna for compsci anyway.

But holy crap. AI. The shit I can get done now. I feel like there is no way I could get another programming job - between AI and Agism.

You underestimate the states interest in surveying you with your own money.

No one, but I guess some people like paying taxes.

Billionares are a more productive allocation of resources than the state, so I am fine with not taxing them any more than anyone else. If a billionaire takes out a loan, It should be just like you took out a HELOC; non taxable. I know this isnt the current of this crowd, but c'est la vie. If money in the hands of government would fix problems, we'd be living in a utopia. We don't, because government is the WORST allocator or capital imaginable. By far, and it's so bad I'm not even going to argue with anyone who thinks otherwise, because you might as well argue that stars are fireflies stuck in the sky. Among the states, California takes the cake. Unions and voters in California are under a disillusion that a bunch of billionaires are going to write taxes, and suddenly, food will be free or healthcare will cost less, or anything that will benefit them in any way will happen. It wont. I am sorry, it just wont. It never has, and never will. Instead, we are going to just give the money to other contractors of the state and they will just use it on non-profits with executives making millions, ad revenue back to Google and Paramount (or whomever buys them next), and other endeavors of the state like commissioning studies for $40m with nothing ever shown for it.

This very article lists billionaires, like Sergey Brin. He created Google, a search engine which has made just about all of our lives better. Same thing with Nest, etc... We use their services voluntarily, it's why they are billionaires. We don't have a revenue problem. Our government expenditures would reduce EVERY billionaire to $0 and it would not provide for ONE YEAR of government spending. I am sorry, but thats the truth. All US billionaires are worth $8.2 Trillion. The federal government spent $13.64 Trillion in FY2025.

All this is to say nothing of the fact that these "billionaires" dont have the money to actually pay. They will have to sell off their stocks, which will collapse the price. So while they might sell 5% of their holdings, it will dwindle the market down 20%. That will affect 401Ks, Pensions, etc...

This is just a bad bad law all the way around, and we will be worse off for passing it. My signature is more relevant than ever too.

Trump wont turn on Israel. The videos Mossad have of him fucking boys on Epstein's Israeli Honeytrap Island are the knifes over his head. He will fall in line and do what he is told. US will continue to fund Israel's IDF, give them access to intelligence networks, satellites, and then supply them with missiles, bombs, Jets, iron dome replenishments so they can continue racking up the body count of people living on land they want. This will happen, regardless of how this post is modded.

Absolutely not MAGt. Read the room bro

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