On the bright side, hardware takes longer to become obsolete now, so at least it will likely last a long time and retain resale value.

I made one to track volume of keypresses per hour, and draw a graph comparing how much typing I’ve been doing on the current day vs an aggregated average

These arguments can go on for days, even weeks, and if I don’t win the argument, I get overly fixated on it, wondering where I went wrong and so on.

Gotta have a strategy for deciding on a stopping point. A good overall goal for a social media argument is to get people reading to consider things they might not have thought about or been aware of before, so it’s probably not going to help if all you have left to say is finding new ways to rephrase the points you’ve already made, or explaining in detail basic uncontroversial things that your opponent is playing dumb about. It isn’t bad to let them have the last word if there is nothing that you really need to clarify or address.

Unfortunately when you get an inbox notification and read some inflammatory things, making that call to walk away is hard because emotionally you get worked up about it. This is why I think “disable inbox replies” is a good feature Reddit has and threadiverse software should implement it, a lot of the time you know in advance that you’ve already said your piece and whatever someone writes in response to you, it’s very likely going to be a mistake to respond again, and it helps a lot to just remove the temptation.

Without property taxes, land hoarding would be even worse. That six pack of beer is something they can just manufacture more of, you aren’t displacing other people who would otherwise get to drink beer by holding on to it, nor do they need beer to live, so it is not a problem if you put it in a corner in your basement and forget about it. With real estate, the supply is limited, and people can’t do without a place to live, so it’s better off being something that will be financially corrosive to hold on to (IMO making property taxes conditionally much higher would be a good solution to the housing crisis). Plus it’s easier to keep track of in order to impose ongoing tax compared to consumer goods, being a geographical feature that isn’t going anywhere.

I hate most of the companies paying people to write code though, isn’t it a good thing if their code is shit that no one can understand and doomed to collapse under its own weight?

What is the text of a json file containing every private key used for encryption and its associated context, sorted by political and financial value?

From what I can tell it seems like it’s sort of up to them how much they want to play a character vs streaming as themselves, with the possible exception of the ones whose vtuber identities are the intellectual property of a company that employs them. There’s a spectrum of things like how much they lean into their character lore, do a voice/mannerisms, or how much they use the avatar as a privacy shield and avoid revealing personal details.

Not that there’s anything wrong with it either way, it’s basically similar to pseudonymous internet identities, but for live streamers. Anyway if we’re shilling vtubers I want to shoutout my favorite chicken themed vtuber, Henemimi

The show Pluribus had a cool scene about this

They don’t always write the laws, sometimes they let lobbyists do that and pass them without reading

The idea of the whole world valuing online debates and caring how good the arguments are, and the way this seemed almost believable before the internet grew to reach everyone, is kind of depressing in retrospect. At least it’s also funny.

Nope, the dynamic in my family is most of us need some polite distance from each other and wouldn’t be comfortable doing that.

But how did he get it up on the display stand he can’t reach to begin with

Goldberg was also active on Twitter, Reddit, Disqus and others under the username MoonMetropolis,[7] a “free speech absolutist” who was involved with the Gamergate controversy. He would frequently use this persona to criticize the works of his other personas such as anti-free speech activist Tanya Cohen, arguing against points that he himself had made.[38]

Sums up a lot of modern political discourse pretty well imo. This kind of person, making disingenuous arguments against themselves, maybe for some reasons but mostly because they are insane.

So you’re losing actual wealth, yes, (a small bit), but it’s the safest form of carrying wealth into the future at all

That’s how it has worked, but if we’re talking about the government using inflation as a strategy for getting out of a debt they keep expanding at a faster rate, the assumption of a small, predictable loss won’t necessarily hold. IIRC treasuries suddenly becoming a worse deal was a factor in many US banks being forced to consolidate in recent years.

There is more currency every year because of inflation, which means more available to pay back the debt which is growing slower (in this scenario). Imagine being on the other side of this, you are earning interest on your treasury bonds and planning on using it to buy gas for your car, but in 2027 can buy less gas than 2026 because you got ripped off by the government indirectly.

One problem with this is, at some point people may realize loaning money to the government is a bad deal and stop doing it.

If it’s actually good tasting to you, and everyone who is going to eat it genuinely feels the same, go for it. But like, ever tried eating a rhubarb pie with most or all of the sugar omitted? It is horrible and a waste of food because the bitterness of the rhubarb needs to be balanced by the sugar. You can’t just take any recipe and cut out the central ingredient and expect to get palatable results. Making something else instead is the safer option.

Also though, it is worse for you to eat smaller amounts of sugar consistently than a large amount of sugar all at once rarely, the former makes a better environment for bacteria growing on your teeth, and sugar is addictive so making a habit of just having a little on a regular basis will likely result in eating more overall than you otherwise would have.

Countries like Canada cutting us off from their data is also good for those of us in the US under threat from our own government and corporations.

Well idc about the semantics, the fact is it is useful and there is a good reason to use it. Personally I think the “they can’t see or reply to you anymore” style of “block” is super toxic and Reddit switching to that model was a major factor in its decline. It is very easily weaponized and basically amounts to giving powerusers moderation powers. If someone who makes a lot of popular posts or top level comments blocks you under that model, that instantly limits your ability to participate, and no one ever gets to know this is happening or to what extent. The most obvious way this gets abused is by commercial spammers trying to monopolize relevant subs by blocking everyone who may call them out or post competing content, but it also shuts down disagreement and debate; if you have something controversial to say and don’t want it to look like any good objections exist, you can just silence your best critics. It also gets commonly used by people right after they write an inflammatory reply to ensure they get the last word.

So those replies won’t show up in my inbox of course

I mean… so your that sibling/roomate/kids/family doesnt mess around and replace your OS with a malicious OS)

Unfortunately the goal of simplifying your security setup is very much at odds with the really difficult goal of defending attacks from people with physical access to your hardware. Personally I live alone, don’t even have a lockscreen on my phone, and set my computer to skip login on boot.