I can’t even really disagree with you, but not trying still isn’t an option. It’s our job to at least try to convince our immediate peers.

It’s trivial to design an inheritance tax that doesn’t tax a family’s (first) home and starts above a certain amount (500k, a million, two, make it 10 for all I care) that still allows lower and middle classes to build reasonable wealth. It’s also not that hard to not have a million loopholes for the excessively rich. That only gets difficult when people fall for the usual lies, like “businesses will close down and you will lose your jobs”.

Start penalizing tax havens like Ireland.

Tax based on passport, allow for taxes at their place of residence to take priority (so, you can pay low taxes in Ireland, but if it’s less than our tax, you pay the rest here), tax them a lot if they relinquish their passport. No need to start international beef about this.

Tax property, tax inheritance, tax capital gains no matter if realized or not, tax passive income of all kinds. Tax them progressively and tax the highest brackets high enough that these giant fortunes actually shrink. There is no other way (well… besides revolution) to reduce the spiraling inequality which is at the root of major problems all over the world.

I don’t like sand.

I use 2 8bitdo ultimate 2c wireless on my steam deck. Had to put the 2.4g dongles on short extension cables because of interference from the dock’s USB ports, after that they work flawlessly, both via 2.4g and via bluetooth.

What definitely did happen to me is I booted into windows, shut down, on the next startup there was no more grub menu, just instant boot into windows. (Separate physical drives).

I hear it every time: But Muh Windows is better, because you dont have to install Drivers!!!11!11elf

I come from a time when you (in Windows) had to hand pick the correct driver for the individual device from a very long list of options to make anything work, not just graphics. Not just “the nvidia driver”. Think “driver for the Sapphire RTX 12345.6.7-8 pro super max whatchamacallit RGB edition with anime waifu on the backplate, manufactured between May 21st and august 15th, quality controlled by Jeff and packaged by Tony”. If your card was packaged by Bertha instead it wouldn’t work. (Mine was always packaged by Bertha. Fuck Bertha.)

I feel so fucking old when I read complaints like this (yeah, I know, it’s because I am). Is clicking the highest version number behind the word “nvidia” considered complicated nowadays?

Not school, kindergarden. I drew a rocket, in space, with flames shooting out from the engine. The teacher declared fire = violent, I had to stop drawing. I think she also talked to my parents, but I don’t remember more than that.

“What do you mean you’re working? You’re just sitting in your room all day.”

And just like that we’re at silly made up hypothetical situations to drive fear and an agenda. That’s not even worth entertaining.

It’s all hypothetical until it isn’t anymore. You’re literally the slowly boiled frog.

Ok. You’re often tired, but coffee gives you super strength, Popeye style.

I think anything that uses any kind of item that doesn’t come packed with the bread belongs on the “lawful” side.

We once narrowly avoided something like that because the owner of the place had overheard that our friend who puked under the table had just got dumped by his gf. She was very chill about it, just asked us to get him home and maybe stop him one drink earlier the next time we were coming.

Some bar in Amsterdam. We were there for a Bachelor’s party/trip, it wasn’t even that late at night but two guys in our group were already drunk to the point of half falling asleep and kept dropping their drinks on the floor. The waitress warned us the second time and kicked us all out the third or fourth time it happened. When we all got outside, one of the two jerks had the nerve to ask “What happened? Did we just get kicked out? Why? Couldn’t they have at least warned us first?”

Til Schweiger and Kristen Stewart, they each know exactly one facial expression.

MS execs blathered about “the age of software running locally being over” long before Chromebooks.

You can work on them in libre office.

I am thinking of the words, I’m just not hearing them. Why would those be one and the same?

Oh, we can do that, just without the voice.

I used the internet without an ad blocker.