Huh, I remember reading that Imgur was geoblocked in some parts of the world now because it doesn't require proof of age, maybe that's the problem.

It's just the Am I So Out of Touch? Meme.

One can always say "laws are pointless if nobody follows them so why bother passing laws?"

It's still worth doing.

Classic.

They picked the right director, Michael Bay movies aren't expected to make sense.

Actually, a lot of us are.

We thought that they were withholding the autopsy because it contained uncomfortable deep cuts about the mistakes that the Democrats made, things that they didn't want to think about or correct.

Turns out they were actually withholding it because the autopsy is pathetic. We knew the DNC was incompetent but this goes beyond our expectations.

There is a basic illiteracy about economic matters that makes me despair for democracy.

Sales taxes are inherently regressive taxes. They take more money from the poor than they do from the rich. This is harmful to the velocity of money, ie, bad for the economy.

Income taxes, when implemented with multiple tax brackets as we normally see it, is inherently a progressive tax. It takes more money from the rich than from the poor.

If you're putting something like this to the vote it should be an absolute no-brainer. But "no-brainer" really does seem to describe the electorate most of the time, so it's a tossup I guess. Depends whose slogans get more advertiser time.

Literally half the threads on one of the technology communities I am on are complaints about how much AI sucks. Probably a similar ratio on the other technology communities, I didn't count for those.

Perhaps if one wanted to, one could set up the cryptographic wallet with a "smart contract" built into it that lets you use more sophisticated controls - keys that only allow small amounts of money to be taken out, backup keys that can lock the wallet down if keys are compromised, and so forth. Since you'd be the one who assigns the smart contract to your wallet you'd still be the one ultimately in control of it. And, ultimately, you'd be the one to take responsibility since the money is under your own control this way.

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm describing Ethereum. This is what cryptocurrency is for. It's what it's been for for a decade already, eighteen years if you go back to the start with Bitcoin, but most people just think "Monkey jpeg NFTs and ponzi schemes, scam!" And dismiss it.

Guess that leaves everyone at the mercy of the banks for managing money. Oh well, maybe someday someone will invent this thing that we've had all along.

It'd be nice if there was a way to store and transfer money electronically without any sort of central organization to grant or withhold permission.

It's against the Geneva convention to conscript POWs. Add it to the pile of war crimes, I guess.

I heard he started to lean left.