There’s no tipping culture in my country but the waiters still smile usually. At the nicer places at least

That sounds completely plausible. Three letter agencies have ridiculous amounts of intel. They for sure know which building and apartment I’m commenting from and I’m a foreigner on a pseudonymous website. Plus there’s the however-many eyes agreement for when you need to get intel but can’t spy on your own citizens.

Honestly I’m reminded of that time when Russians found that guy with 3 copies of The Sims when the security services were obviously told to find him with 3 sim cards so he’d look extra guilty

You mean he’ll hang himself in his cell?

I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but so many things seem off. Dude’s got an engineering degree, pulled off a cold-blooded assassination in broad daylight and evaded capture for almost a week… And then it turns out he’s an absolute idiot who keeps around a “ghost gun” in public, keeps around the same fake ID he’d used to book into the NYC hostel, and keeps a manifesto on his person?

Part of me thinks this is some rando that’s gonna have to take the fall so that the rest of America believes that the police is all-powerful and can find any criminal. Hell, part of me thinks this perfect suspect is all made up.

Or early copy protection

Those don’t affect people as personally as healthcare so it’s unlikely.

Normalize listening to Eminem tbh

A friend I made back in high school told me recently that when he was in middle school (diff school), people would mock him for listening to Eminem and said he should be listening to Tupac and Biggie. I told him that these people can fuck right off, there’s nothing wrong with listening to Eminem or any other artist YOU like. Music snobs suck ass. I like Pac and Biggie, but I don’t idolize them, they’re not special heroes to me because I’m pasty white and from another continent entirely. I don’t know their struggle even. I don’t know Em’s struggle either (shocker, I know, but my mom isn’t a drug addict and hasn’t sued me, nor are my friends getting gunned down), but I like his flow and the anger in his earlier songs. Best part is, we both would’ve been around 1 when Pac died. Some 10-13 years later, the kids saying “oh you should listen to Pac and Biggie not Eminem” are probably saying it because they’ve HEARD they need to like Pac and Biggie if they’re into hip hop. I could barely tell what was going on in their songs when I was 13 or 14, took me until much later to even know anything about the culture.

Eminem’s had banger tracks in every single album he’s done IMO. Tbh I might’ve missed one or two of the newer albums, but I doubt it’s changed. The man can murder with words.

If I was a snob, I’d say you need to be listening to Aesop Rock for style and vocabulary or Immortal Technique for commentary, but fuck that, you can like multiple artists and they don’t all have to be struggling, or have a deep, message, or anything really. Plus eminem is a GOAT in his own right at this point.

Yes I’m a huge Eminem fan, but much of this applies to any other artist too. If your favorite metal band is Metallica… So what? Yeah they’re mainstream and they’re assholes, but the music isn’t bad, you’re allowed to like it.

Because the current tax code is designed for him, not drag. That’s what I would like to change if I was elected benevolent dictator for life with no risk of being deposed by the oligarchs. For the super wealthy, tax all assets, for the super poor, tax nothing and give UBI, and for the working and middle class, a fair progressive income tax, and property tax on homes you don’t live in year-round, but none on your primary residence. In terms of income tax, the tax brackets would go up slowly at first and then ramp up really high. Someone making 100k a year should pay roughly what they pay now, those making less should pay less, and those making 500k+ a year should pay a lot more than they pay now.

You don’t fuck with the tax man. They got Al Capone, they’ll get you, and they’ll get the billionaires, if the laws are right and there’s enough funding to investigate ownership structures of large companies, and the relationships between different major shareholders.

Plus I don’t think anyone has hundreds of family members to hide away hundreds of billions.

Besides, you’d have to divide it before the company gets large enough for it to matter. If your company is worth 800 mill and you’re the only shareholder, selling off half to anyone for anything significantly less than the perceived value of the company, would be investigated as potential tax evasion.

I think a lot of people forget that tax authorities are supposed to look for these cases of hiding wealth. In many civilized countries, they do it for real.

Ultra high taxes on unrealized gains. There are no taxes on unrealized gains presently, nor a wealth tax. Which is why if his wealth increases 2x, his taxation… just does not, unless Tesla pays him dividends or a salary.

If Elon had to live with a, say, 99% tax rate on anything above a billion dollars and it included his Tesla stock not just money he has for real, he’d be forced to sell, or go to jail for unpaid taxes.

Why 99% and not 100%? Just to mock them.

Here’s a small set of proposals, definitely well thought of and not made up specifically for this comment to make a point:

Start taxing them heavily on wealth INCLUDING unrealized gains once it hits a threshold, but no wealth tax for normal people. Force companies to become either co-ops or publicly traded when certain thresholds are met - and if the founder has too much stock, the taxes on unrealized gains will force them to sell. But if it’s a co-op, don’t count anyone’s share in it as wealth for taxation, only any profit actually paid out by the co-op. My prediction is that companies with high profit per employee (think Steam) will become worker-owned co-ops and companies with lower profit per employee will be publicly traded (think Walmart, except of course Walmart is already publicly traded)

These one or three pet billionaires have done a lot of image building to achieve this. They’re trying to be the “common man’s billionaire” and “just like us”. Musk spent a decade trying to appear like a nerdy engineer and when people started realizing he’s a shitheel, he pivoted to the “the elites are after me, it’s time for us to stop them together” shtick.

In general, the right (and I mean individual people, NOT politicians) hates billionaires almost as much as we do, but wrongly associates them with the left - but while it’s true that some billionaires are left-wing socially, they’re damn near all right-wing economically, because no billionaire is going to want to have less money.

As someone that could probably best be described as center-left (guillotine oligarchs yes, UBI yes, abolition of private property and free markets no), I do dare say that not a single common person on the right likes the billionaires either. It’s just that their side of the political isle has been co-opted by the billionaires even worse than the “left” side because being anti-tax and anti-regulation is more useful to billionaires than pro-tax and pro-regulation.

I haven’t seen the show but I went to listen to it. It slaps for sure. Sounds like Voltaire in the beginning there (sorry for the YT Music link, I don’t use Spotify, I prefer ublock origin + youtube music when using a computer)

No man rules alone

I suspect his presidency isn’t much longer for this world.

Epic games launcher is no where best as bad as anyone says.

Is it better now? Last I used it, earlier this year, it still took me half a year for any UI change to happen when I did anything.

To be clear, I hated Steam for ages too. Only maybe 6 years ago I started actually buying games there. Before then I’d just pirate everything. The Steam application often had issues and I had no money before then anyway. But nowadays I find Steam more convenient than piracy. I do not find EGS more convenient than piracy. I do wish Steam had more meaningful competition.

Apparently they very recently got acquired or invested in and are probably looking to increase profits tenfold in under a year so the company can be dumped before it all crashes.

Thanks lah

They already do overlap, 7000 series CPUs have been out for a while. As have the 5000 series GPUs.

I do believe that some companies look at certs for sysadmin roles. As a requirement not a boost and you’d likely need more than just Linux certs then. Probably also some Cisco and stuff.