DougPiranha42

What an excellent meme. The look on the face of the guy in the back is just perfect for the occasion.

I don’t understand. If your work can be done quickly and well with a tool (AI), why don’t you use that tool and be done with your work quickly? Why does your heart break?

Can we have an !explainthejoke?
(No fr that sub was the strongest proof of dead internet theory)

Right. It’s not like they can on paper move their assets to whatever organization, estate, jurisdiction, subsidiary, shell company, offshore account, or arcane vehicles we never heard of, to avoid paying wealth taxes!

Edit: I’m not saying that a wealth tax for extremely high net worth individuals would be a bad thing. I would support that. I’m just saying that a wealth tax would never be enough to rein in the wealth and power of an oligarch, because they would be able to evade it.

I’m in Neuroscience. My favorite way to keep up is rss feeds of the 5 best journals (100-200 titles per week), rss feeds to the relevant pubmed search terms (20-50 titles per week) an google scholar email alerts to some of the most relevant researchers in my field, auto forwarding to kill the newsletter, and read through rss (50-100 titles per week, lots of duplicates). So every day I aim to open the rss reader and burn down the unread count. Papers that are really relevant to my research tend to show up 4-5 times over 2 weeks this way, so it’s hard to miss it. Which journals: you know that if you have been in the field for a while, if not, ask your colleagues and mentors where they publish and what they read.
Bad papers sliding through the cracks: it happens, you don’t know unless you read it.

Good job! It sucks to be poor but it can also be difficult to do just a little better than the rest of the family. They can think like “you always have it easy” and assume you can easily afford anything they can’t or don’t want to pay for.

So do I understand correctly that the top income tax bracket is 0% today? Or is this just another shitty ragebait headline. Oligarchs shouldn’t exist, but almost none of their money comes from wages or capital gains anyways, so any polemics about income tax are mostly meaningless for this issue. Any type of wealth tax is fairly trivial to evade at that level.
The only thing that would work would be to enforce existing anti fraud laws to prevent oligarchs from gaining power in the first place, as well as convicting them for the white collar crimes they commit open daylight, and use fines as a way to get some of the absurd concentration of wealth out of the system.

Maybe there is a FOSS self hosted solution for mixing good old tv ads into the mix!

Thanks for the fun fact, it totally makes sense, I never thought about that!

And the hopelessly hardcore type: kill the end boss 1000 times.

If you get all the achievements for completing the game, what are achievements actually for? They are there to create fun or not so fun challenges above just completing the game. It’s not like someone will punish you if you leave some achievements incomplete. On the other hand, completing a tough one can feel like - an achievement!

Can someone familiar with it give a brief rundown of what this organization is? I looked at the website but didn’t get much of the specifics.