Veraxus

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Political parties exist for the sole purpose of rigging politics by disenfranchising the public. Their entire existence is a kind of corrupt, elitist caste system.

These organizations need to be treated the same way as corporations that get too big: they should forcibly split up. Force parties to form coalitions to get anything done, like in other parliamentary systems. Take away their corrupt levers - like FPTP voting (force RCV instead) and dark money, and return power to the people instead tolerating it in the hands of a couple private, invite-only cabals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really... and what little we do have usually goes unenforced.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The data was already there. Twenty years of it. Remote work is not remotely new. They chose to ignore it because executive fee-fees are more important than facts and data.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The way I see it, if you make enough money to buy a nice, moderate house in California or Hawaii once per year, you are already making too much money. My cutoff would probably be closer to $2-3M... though I'd be willing to go higher if paired with an annual "wealth tax"... say, if you have a value of over - for example - $20M (incl. stocks and any other non-liquid assets) you must pay 20% of any excess value in taxes annually. That would be on top of the 95% multimillionaire income tax.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When did France's government get taken over by US Republicans?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Chatgpt is similar to if someone were to buy 10 copies of different books, put them into 1 book as a collection of stories, then mass produce and sell the “new” book

That is not even close to correct. LLMs are little more than massively complex webs of statistics. Here’s a basic primer:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah! Let’s burn fair use to the ground! Technology is scary! Destroy it all!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We need a 95% tax bracket for anyone that makes more than a few million/year.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thin sliced, pan fried, and served with eggs and fluffy rice. Magic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"36% of Americans think a violent, criminal, rapist dictator is acceptable."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too!

I've been 29 for over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Apple's leather cases have never aged well for me. They start to tear and fray, and never get that "distinguished leather" look that leather products usually get with time. If you want a leather case for your phone, there are plenty of third parties and indie creators that make great alternatives that actually do age well.

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