wonderingwanderer

What in the fuck…

He must have believed the russian propaganda about them being imperialist aggressors or something…

So let’s recap…

You gave NATO and all your allies the middle finger by cutting their budget, tariffing them, insulting them, attempting to bully them into complying with your will, and threatening to invade some of them…

You seemingly forgot their contributions to America’s previous pointless wars in the Middle East by saying they “weren’t on the front lines”, when most of them had sent people who lost their lives…

You end US funding for Ukraine’s defense because you didn’t think it was your problem, and you told Europe that it’s their job to foot the bill…

You give the UN and NATO the middle finger with this farcical and extortionary “Board of Peace”…

And now you launch a pointless invasion of Iran and complain that NATO, a defensive organization is “rejecting” you by not participating in it?

Get fucked, old man!

Jensen Huang has all the GPUs, he can probably play games where each character has its own dedicated GPU and every atom and molecule of the environment is rendered in real time with a hyper-realistic physics engine, with built-in AI that plays for you so that even your idle pastimes are automated giving you more time to WORK AND PRODUCE VALUE FOR THE OWNER-CASTE.

“This game only needs two GPUs to run, what’s the problem?”

I’m not saying their net worth statements aren’t inflated, but that doesn’t matter to this conversation because it’s not net worth that gets taxed. I already explained how they reduce their tax liability, which is primarily capital gains tax for them, and I mentioned things that could be done about it. This whole argument about their wealth being inflated is a red herring.

Although I don’t believe you’re being genuine, if you really want to you can look into circular lending and how corporations make a gagglefuck with each other by lending money to each other that they borrowed from each other. But I’m not going to break it all down for you any further because you’re clearly not arguing in good faith. If you’re just mentally challenged though, I apologize for being harsh.

“the billionaire don’t have a billion dollars”

Oh yeah, I forgot “billionaire” is what we call someone who doesn’t have a billion dollars…

“No one has figured out how to tax them”

I just explained it in detail, which you continue to ignore. People have figured it out, it’s not that complicated. It just doesn’t get implemented because politicians are bought by corporate dark money lobby groups, and people like you do a lot of footwork obfuscating the situation on the internet by pretending billionaires are poor and penniless.

“the ‘wealth’ elon has is backed from stocks at 350 p/e. That money isn’t real”

Yes, their net worths are inflated (which gives them benefits on loans, which they use to further inflate their wealth). But that’s easy to fix. Either don’t let them declare worths that are higher than reality, or tax them at the net worths they declare.

Either way, that doesn’t change anything I said about how capital gains are taxed, or how they should be taxed.

Get a clue.

You’ll have to specify what you’re referring to, and somehow quantify “the whole country being sad” about it.

Otherwise you’re just a troll.

“The consumers don’t know what they want. I, the CEO, know what the consumers want. And the consumers want to give me money!”

I notice FOSS tends to give you more options, because anyone can fork something or contribute to a project and add the features they want. Corporations try to force their “vision” on everyone who doesn’t want it, but FOSS projects let you own your own operating system and configure it how you want.

Yeah, some of the bigger projects seem to follow corporate trends, because they’re mostly run by is non-profits very similarly to a corporation, and they need to appeal to a large base to get people to switch. Canonical even has for-profit motives, but if you’re not using Ubuntu/Gnome then you don’t need to give a shit what canonical does.

I was originally going to choose Zorin, but I decided against it specifically because I didn’t want anything associated with Ubuntu. I considered LMDE, but I went with Endeavour and I’m happy with my choice.

Are you deranged? They have net worths in the hundreds of billions of dollars. They make billions more dollars each year. I just explained in detail how they game the tax system to avoid paying taxes on their gains. I’m not going to write it all out for you again just because you missed it the first time.

Yes, obviously their revenue comes from the consumers. In the same way your salary comes from your employer. Money changes hands, that’s the whole point. What difference does that make?

By the way, a significant portion of their revenue (with increasing emphasis lately) comes from business-to-business sales. Not the consumer.

And no, China doesn’t pay the US tariffs. The US importers do, and they pass the costs on to their consumers. What kind of idiotic strawman/red herring was that supposed to be? If I was a moron who thought China pays US tariffs, I wouldn’t be here saying “tax the rich,” would I? Stop deflecting from your plutocrat apologia.

I’m so glad I bought my laptop when I did recently, with plenty of RAM and storage. Just in time before that stuff becomes impossible to find or impossibly unaffordable.

This generation of hardware will probably be the plateau. The decline and fall is just around the bend. Maybe another generation of CPUs before those go for bust, too. They can rent out GPUs, RAM, and storage, but as far as I’m aware the CPU needs to be local on the device. At least, a CPU needs to be on the device…

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this trend is occuring just as NPUs are starting to hit the market. Those chips are too powerful to let the plebeians own and use without restriction, in the corpo’s view.

Whether a better system replaces this one after it falls, or we enter an era where consumer hardware is a thing of the past, remains to be seen. Maybe when the AI bubble bursts, tech companies will have to liquidate their data centers and secondhand servers will become cheap. That would do wonders for the fediverse and the decentralized web…

Tell corporate to give you more RAM or let you choose a lighter operating system 🤷‍♀️

As long as you’re getting paid for those 30 seconds, it’s the shareholders’ problem. Keep your blood cool, take a sip of coffee and sit back. Twiddle with a thingamajig on your desk.

If your supervisor asks what you’re doing, say “waiting for Windows to load”. Because that’s what you’re doing, and if they don’t like it then they should let you use a different OS.

“Modern design” somehow seems to mean “flat gray, bland logos, and simple block letters” to an unfortunate proportion of the marketing/design industry.

Like why do so many companies spend millions on rebranding to these dull husks of what they were? Do they think that’s going to convince people to spend more money there?

No one thinks “Oh look, Qdoba’s logo is much simpler and modern! I should eat there more often.” If anything it alienates the loyal customer base, like you see with the cracker barrel blowback (not that cracker barrel customers are worth their loyalty, but I digress).

Billionaire shareholders and C-suite corpos are so out-of-touch it’s not even funny…

YES! THANK YOU! I fucking hate these new website that look like they cost a million dollars to design, but they don’t function for crap, it’s hard to find the information I need, it jumps around while different “features” load, and keeps doing unexpected things while I scroll or hover over stuff.

Give me a nice, clear side bar with submenus that make it easy to find what I’m looking for, and pages that load quickly and behave statically until I click on something.

Fuck this emphasis on “modern” design. That’s just a bunch of self-fellating rich people getting off on marketing and sales pitches while ignoring user experience…

We just need to extend graduated tax brackets all the way up. Currently the highest tax brackets end somewhere at like six figures, and anything above that is taxed the same.

Even 90% taxes on a billion dollars still leaves you with a hundred million in spending money. There’s no way someone needs more than that. In one year? That amount alone could be put in a CD with a 3% APY and you’d make $3,000,000 in interest in one year. There’s no way someone needs even a net-worth higher than $100,000,000, but no one can complain about “only” making that much after taxes in a year.

Especially when you consider that tax rates only apply to the income above the amount specified in the bracket. That 90% would apply to your second billion made in a year. Everything below the first billion gets taxed at the same rates as everyone else in a given bracket, i.e. your first $100,000 in a year gets taxed the same as anyone else’s first $100,000…

Billionaires have no room to complain.

Oh, and those graduated tax brackets should apply the same between capital gains and regular income. Currently, the highest capital gains tax rate in the US is about 20%… comparable to someone making about $45,000 a year in regular income…

That means the highest tax rate someone making money primarily from investments would pay is the same as someone who would be considered at or below the poverty line in most states… And the billionaires are only paying that rate on their “taxable” interest, meaning it ignores all the money they launder through shell companies and writing off large purchases as business expenses…

Poor people can’t write off rent, food, and utilities on their taxes… so why can billionaires write off mansions, yachts, and paintings…?

If they have billions of dollars, they’re not strapped for cash. They have a whole culture and industry designed around tax “optimization” where they buy private yachts, mansions, paintings, and other “real” assets under shell companies to write those purchases off as “business expenses” to reduce their tax liability. That’s why they “don’t have cash”. Because they deliberately avoid holding cash across fiscal years.

They also have sneaky ways of avoiding capital gains tax by reinvesting dividends in ways that defer taxation indefinitely.

That all needs to change, and the only way to change it is through tax policy.

The only way to defer capital gains taxes should be through certain retirement plans, which are generally used by the working class because billionaires don’t need 401Ks. And they still get taxed at the end of term when the money is withdrawn, and they can’t be withdrawn from early without a tax penalty.

All these exceptions for billionaires written into the fine lines of the tax code that you need to be able to afford a personal accountant and layers of shell companies in order to utilize needs to go away.

Billionaires have the money to pay taxes; we need to stop allowing them to pretend they don’t.

Financial obesity? More like socioeconomic cancer.

It’s not just an excess of adipose tissue. It’s a malignant tumor, and it’s capable of metastasizing. It’s already in society’s lymph. We’re cooked.

If you have $100,000, then $1 is worth about as much to you (relative to your net worth) as $1,000,000 is to someone with $100,000,000,000…

Let that sink in, and then ask yourself why billionaires don’t pay more taxes…

As if they were one homogenous voting block? The reason the French government is in a stalemate is because the people vote for so many different things that no coalition can form a governing majority.

Trying to describe that as “they all hate freedom because of the way they vote” is kinda weird, and quite ignorant.

I don’t think any country can be described so singularly as “what the people vote for”. There’s always a diversity of opinions. Some countries suppress dissension, censor opposition, and only allow certain voting choices (e.g., Russia, China, Belarus, etc.); but even those countries have dissention, the dissention is just kept quiet by the repression and censorship.

But the French? Dissention is part of their culture. Political opposition is alive and well there. So try understanding what you’re talking about before posting something ignorant next time.