No, it’s an educated take. Anything else is probably not an environment you want to live in unless you find yourself inside the privilege party.

Humans will always have vast differences in opinion, that’s the whole point of the USA.

This is a wild thread. Kamala understands decorum and professionalism.

Politics without is just a fuckin’ schoolyard fistfight, and we’ve had too much of that.

Democracy is about being able to have differences in opinion but still be neighbors.

A lot of terms are starting to blend… Now anything that does work a human could also do is AI / robots / automation / machine learning.

anyone have contacts at Delta?

My dear brother in Christ, there’s a reason that you don’t

It hasn’t been like that for most of human history, and the standard of working conditions that I am guessing you’re thinking of is not even experienced by most humans alive today.

I think ideal working conditions should be society’s aspiration and would hopefully pay for itself through superior output. But if businesses can compete unfairly this may not be true. For that reason we should break up companies that get so large as to control entire markets and force them to compete again.

Sadly

Unfortunately for labor, absent of regulation, that’s how it’s been since the beginning of time. B2B dealings are similar… Add value in excess of cost or be replaced.

While possibly true, in reality an employer doing this struggles to keep reliable and quality staff. They would likely calculate that hiring and training expenses, poor output, and other issues are a higher cost than the cost of offering 15 minute breaks and some amount of benefits.

At least that’s how it should work.

AI companies believe the market will give the best rewards for a winner-take-all strategy.

They believe now is the time to accumulate customers.

Their future financing rounds very likely depend on being able to show growth.

Entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors all know it’s not everything it’s cracked up to be (yet). They hope another few billion in cash will get it there. And hope you don’t notice until they already won the market.

I feel like this is pretty much it.

We’re busy AF trying to live and the boomers now have nothing to do except vote.

How to write such laws?

Billionaires don’t receive much income through W2 payrolls. They receive it as capital gains and loans against assets. The first is easy to manipulate and the latter isn’t counted as income.

They can stretch rules about business expenses vs income, using their businesses to buy things for them.

They physically move between several homes, ensuring to never meet tax residency status anywhere expensive.

They are playing a game with a lot of complicated rules but can hire pros who know how to exploit them.

Regular people can hardly afford this, let alone hire anybody to tell them how.

Fantastic, that vid has 78 views as of now, I’m guessing 76 of them from today hahaha

In the 90s and early 00’s it was really common for Universities (for their students and professors) to arrange Unix based shell accounts for email and storage.

The Apache http server was easily configured to allow per user websites and this was commonly done to give everyone a website. They looked something like a “www.example.com/~username” URL which mapped to a public_html folder inside the user’s home directory. Apache would serve up any files or html that lived inside to the public.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/public_html.html

At the time, a lot of people didn’t worry about anyone finding their obscure files, so put them there freely for family and friends.

Wild times!

For quite a long while search engines would return amazing results when you searched for

Dsc-0001.jpg

And so on, perhaps with some variations based on camera model. People uploaded their DCIM folders to their homedirs which were sometimes exposed to the web. You’d see so much private stuff this way.

Just tried and it appears such functionality has been removed from Google, because of course it has.

And not one of them can walk down the street in any city he wants at any time.

Prisoners in their own chains.

I tried to make Fusion 360 run under wine and just couldn’t get it reliably working.

There were problems logging in, problems with resolution, issues with fonts and DLL errors. It just wasn’t stable enough to rely on.

I played Super Mario Bros on a table arcade in a pizza restaurant.

On sites where people tend to sort by low price, keep shipping separate.

On sites where people buy based on emotion, give free shipping to improve conversion rates and close the deal.

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Are there any resources that compile a good counter-argument to this?

Sales taxes vary based on city, county, and state rates. They can also be waived if you, the buyer, have a reseller permit or are purchasing for a non profit.

It’s not underhanded and is annoying for sellers too because they have to know a lot about sales taxes as well. They could show you the price with local taxes included but then most customers would think their prices are too high comparing to other merchants.

So the price shown on the product in a store or online is only what the merchant is selling it for. The price at the register is what the merchant is selling it for plus the taxes they have to collect (unless you’re excluded for the reasons mentioned above).

The tax is a buyer obligation, not a seller obligation but sellers have to be an intermediary. So buyers should be educated about the tax laws that apply to them (in this system).

The receipt should be clearly marked so you know exactly how much went to the product and how much went to tax. You can itemize and deduct your sales taxes from your federal income taxes if you’re so inclined to track it (and it’s a better result than the standard deduction)

It’s more complex than a VAT system but enables local jurisdictions to levy taxes to pay for various things applicable to their area.

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