I have never heard the phrase "everything you like about life is a market inefficiency" before, and I think it is simultaneously horrifying and accurate and my life is now a little worse. I don't know what to do with this info, but I feel I need to share it

I think they're pointing out how all political pundits will blame the deficit on whoever the next Democrat president is. The truth you just wrote won't be mentioned by any of them and all blame will be assigned to the next one.

I'll commit to commenting more. I prefer to lurk, but the fediverse needs me 🤣

I'm pretty sure Ireland is where all the major companies are "headquartered" and technically keep all their money there for tax reasons. Ireland could just freeze the bank accounts of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Intel, ... Or do something similar if they so choose as retaliation. Would be devastating financially afterwards, but would get the US's full attention

I mean they made some strong arguments for their existence. I don't think creating a technically novel piece of software was the goal. This is a technical solution to a legal issue that they expect will soon exist. The sheer existence of this acts as a warning and hurdle for politicians and those funding these laws for the next more invasive version of these laws. I don't expect I'll ever use this, but I'm glad it exists, as its existence is enough for it to work.

I'm no authority on anything involved in such an idea, but I just can't imagine how the economics of a vacuum tunnel could be viable. The maintenance costs on constantly running lots of industrial scale vacuums sounds crazy expensive. I hate trying to keep good suction out my vacuum cleaner and imagine at huge scales things get harder, not easier. Maybe there are clever people who have a solution for that and it's not a big deal though. No clue.

I advocate for a fork of uBlock: adnauseam. It's a bit financially adversarial which I deeply enjoy, at the cost of using a bit of data. In theory if it built up enough users, advertisers would stop buying clickable ads all together.

I've seen it said quite nicely elsewhere on the Internet: It's not Red vs Blue, it's billionaires vs you. Act accordingly.

Tax the property. Tax it so high they have to sell it, creating a greater supply of property which then reduces the price of property and the cost of living. Economics 101

Idk what is going on with this game. But I opened the app and it is 17 - 7 with Bama losing and Bama losing to FL State is going to make for amazing content

That truck looks amazing and I want nothing to do with whatever engine they're putting in it. Someone needs to drop a Toyota engine in there and it could legitimately be awesome

If there are no consequences for your actions, you may see no reason to change your behavior. This person got a consequence and may change their behavior for the better in the future, making society better for all of us.

Looks beautiful!

I sincerely hope this government goes away soon. I also acknowledge it is much easier to ask someone else on the Internet to do it than it is to do the work myself. The more you have to lose the harder it becomes to risk it. Everyone has something they don't want to lose. I think there is a balancing game to be played here by everyone. Support as much as you can while not over extending yourself. Doing nothing is the wrong answer. I don't think one person will come in and save us. A tidal wave of small actions could.

I think politicians are obsessed with messaging and media over actually doing anything. I think protests make for good TV/visual messaging that politicians can't ignore. Perhaps a real path forwards is massive protest turnout and speaking with reporters. Catchy protest signs. I think that is how you speak a politician's language without lobbying money.

Some may go as far as to call them deplorable

It's an amazing building! There is a bar at the top and the only way up is with a glass elevator that is terrifying to ride on.

I think we have the most points for us in FBS at the moment right? We have well north of 100

Man, love all the options 🤣 I assumed there would be one or two, but it seems we have tons of options. Thanks for the great info!

What is the best place for news? I feel like Lemmy is where I get my news. I'm wondering if I should be paying for a news service like ground news or something. These journalists should be paid for the work they do, and I feel like I'm not doing that as of right now. I'm using Adnauseum, so technically every ad is getting clicked then blocked, so the site may actually get some ad revenue, but I'm wondering if a paid news service is the right thing to do. If Apple news is wrong, and Google news is wrong, what is right? Or perhaps what is least wrong?

My understanding is it was originally made for figuring out what grade a child belonged in. Like if a kid came to a school, what grade do you put them in? Give the IQ (intelligence quotient) test to determine what grade they go in. Take what they know (score on top) divided by what you expect them to know at that age (score on bottom) gives you a quotient for choosing what grade to place them in. Highly educated? Higher grade. Lower education? Lower grade. Fast learner? Jump a grade. Slower learner? Redo a grade.

Seems like it used to be a useful tool. I don't think that's how society uses it anymore, but from the start, I bet it probably worked ok.