It is way too fucking complicated to explain to the American voter. You have to dumb down our solutions because 60% of the country reads and therefore thinks that a 6th grade level or the level of a 12 year old.

People understand having a ruling class is bad and they understand that the billionaires are our ruling class. So you can go to them and say let's tax the billionaires.

When you have a problem the best solution is the one that you can actually implement.

Their assets are valued at whatever they need to be valued for them to get the loans they want. And those loans are below market rates so that they never pay much of any interest on them. This is how they're able to live off debt. You try to live off debt for a while let me know how that turns out for you at somewhere between 10% for a secured loan against the house you live in or 22 to 30% for an unsecured loan. The banks will cut you off around $150000 to $200,000. Then they take your house. They don't do that for billionaires or other members of the ruling class. Those guys get to keep the leverage assets. Trump went bankrupt multiple times and nobody ever seized much of any of his property. That's because they're the ruling class and they take care of each other.

They live in an economic system completely different than the one you live in. It's not about money it's about power. They have it you don't and neither do I.

I want them to stop existing. No one should have that much money. It's not even money anymore it's power and no single individual should have that much power. You shouldn't want them to have that much power either. It's just common fucking sense that you don't give that much money and power to a single person. Hero worship should have its limits.

You can't eliminate the loopholes. Because they will always just buy more. That's what happens when you give someone unlimited money and therefore unlimited power. It's only by the blunt application of direct democracy that you can short-circuit that process.

Remember billionaires don't use loopholes. Instead because they are the ruling class they are allowed to borrow money at below market rates against their assets without any risk of those assets ever being claimed. Imagine for example if you could mortgage your house at 3% and if you didn't pay the loan you got to keep your house. And because it's a loan you never pay taxes on it. That is how a billionaire does it. That is only available to them because they have power. It's not about money it's about power.

That's not a loophole that is a fundamental breakdown in our economic system because they exist outside of our economic system. You shouldn't be able to borrow money below market rates but they can. And you shouldn't be able to put your assets up for a loan with zero risk but they can. They are completely outside the economic system you live in.

I just hope someone good gets InDesign if Adobe explodes. It's my favorite DTP software by a wide margin. I also hope Acrobat just ceases to exist. It's trash.

Monaco isn't on the table any more since this whole pedofuhrer thing has stained this country. Russia might be, though I would prefer to avoid that as well. Too bad. Good thing I don't have kids!

I think most people assign most of the blame for the clownstroke problem to them, and only a portion to Microsoft. They claimed they weren't using eBPF on Windows like they do on Linux because it's not sufficiently mature on Windows. So far I haven't heard from anyone who really knows whether that's true.

On the other hand, Microsoft has always been terrible. Updating windows has always been hazardous. Even in good times it would often scramble itself and stop updating until you did some magic bullshit, usually involving the command line that Windows users so frequently like to mock Linux about. Both systems sometimes require going to a shell, the difference is that it isn't shit on Linux.

Unless they're completely bananas, they will sell a device intended to be your display. Whether they do or not, lots of other companies will sell displays for the vehicle. It's cheap enough to do some adapter plastics for an existing unit.

You didn't understand that article. They've been doing that. It was computationally expensive. Now they've found ways to do it faster, so they are doing more of it.

That's only realistic if you expect this expansion to continue indefinitely. But it is almost certainly a bubble because it's unlikely that an advance in AI will come soon enough to justify all of the expenditure. (It's not impossible...)

Having to find and purchase property, get permits (even with substantial grease) and actually get everything lined up and in hand and made into a fab is a lot. If you can get it done in 24 months you're doing very well. And that's just the fab part of the business...

There's dime-a-dozen AMD UMA systems with AI acceleration, and their performance is pretty good, plus they all support much larger memory than most Apple systems. If all you want is AI acceleration, you can get that just fine. Apple's claim to fame continues to be their hardware design, which isn't incredibly better than literally everyone else, but really is generally pretty nice and almost always has been.

Please fucking do then, California is full.

Even more seriously though, California natives both more and less native than me (my father and I were both born here, before that the history gets Mexican, but that covered a lot of ground once) would be perfectly happy if the Hollywood and the tourism went away, and California's economy was based on real things — or at least virtually real things. People would still want to live here, because it would still have the best weather in the continental US. Parts of it are not great in that regard of course, but then that's because California has just about every kind of terrain but tundra. It's big.

As for residency, you don't not get taxed on anything simply because you're not a resident. California makes money on property taxes, it only ostensibly doesn't raise your property taxes dramatically unless you make significant improvements. If you want to own a lot of California, you're going to pay.

But once again, the billionaires can feel free to leave. California will make new ones, because it's rich land, and all wealth is derived from the land. But the reality is, they're not making more California. The last pieces of it which are pleasant to live in which haven't already been made stupendously expensive (on the North Coast) are being sold out now. Amazon is trying to come in at this moment. You're underestimating the value of a climate that's livable without air conditioning all year round. That's only getting scarcer.

Speaking only for myself, a 4xxx series card. Their Linux drivers used to be pretty good, now they are real bad. When I do a driver update it's about 50/50 whether they will break sleep. For once I wish I had AMD graphics.

It doesn't do any good with my paltry income for me to pay extra money. That's not taxes that's charity and charity has existed for thousands of years and has always failed to meet people's needs.

You don't get to opt out of civilization. Especially in 2026. You're going to pay your dues to the club of civilization whether you like it or not. In exchange for that you will get reliable access to food and shelter and medicine and education and transportation. You get to pretend you are a big boy who does everything on his own while doing that too.

This isn't about Fair share. This is about a functioning civilization that services and improves the lives of a social species. Because of human beings aren't a social species then we are eventually going to go extinct. You can't have nuclear bombs lying around with a non-social species.

You're thinking is basic, it is grounded in the thought processes of a 12 year old child who never grew up and hopefully you will eventually be in the minority. Because if not then we're about to Fermi paradox ourselves.

Learn some nuance, read some books especially some history books. Go start with A people's History of the United States. Maybe read some of what's senator Warren has written. The two income trap is a good start.

If they wanted to raise your taxes they would just raise your taxes like how Trump did it using tariffs.

This isn't about getting revenue this is about curtailing the power that comes from having that much money. This is about saying, hey you Mr billionaire you can't order me what to do just because you have fuck loads of money because I'm going to take that money from you. You'll still have a lot of money so you can pay me to do stuff and I will do it but you won't have so much money that you can utterly destroy my life at the drop of a hat if I even slightly annoy you.

Don't you get tired of being a billionaire bitch? I don't mean like how you're repeating there talking points which you certainly are but what I mean is they can order you to do whatever the fuck they want and you're going to do it or they're going to effectively kill you. Maybe they won't put a bullet in your head like they do in Russia or China but they can make you completely unemployable and they can kill any business you try to start.

The only reason you're safe is because they're busy with other targets. That's no way to live your life son. Always pretending that you are your own man when you really belong to somebody else because they called the shots.

California billionaires.

It's not their money. They stole it.

And they're coming for your 401k too. You better start picking out your favorite flavor of cat food and you better decide on a dry choice because you're not going to be able to afford the wet stuff every week.

Or do you honestly believe that Elon Musk does 40,000 times more work in an hour than you do? Do you really think he invented rockets and the electric car? Are you genuinely unaware that he has an entire team of people at every company he owns whose sole job is to prevent him from making decisions because every fucking time he does it's a colossal disaster.

Even if by some bizarre miracle you really think that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are geniuses we could not possibly live without, why not cap their incomes and then get them out of the way and let somebody else take a shot at it?

When was the last time any of these tech bro wannabes produced something new and useful that made your life better? How long has it been since we got new electric car tech that didn't just actually come out of a public university? How much better is muskrats rockets than what NASA was already doing?

We always talk about losing these billionaire geniuses if we tax them but it's like, there's 340 million people in America why don't we let one of them take a shot at innovating? Because as it stands you can't really even begin to compete with these guys they will just buy you out and shut you down or run you out of business.