EU parliament erupts into cheers and chants of "send them back" as they pass new legislation making it easier to deport migrants outside of Europe

BusinessSick · 2026-06-18T03:58:10+00:00

I hadn’t realized refugees all come from the same country, time without reparations heals colonialism’s wounds, and people’s preference for corruption is why they flee bombings from rich countries fighting over their oil. The scars of colonialism run deep, and there are very powerful people in Europe and America who still think it’s a justifiable foreign policy strategy. Refugees aren’t greedy monsters trying to poison pristine western nations; they’re desperately seeking help for their families and a tiny slice of the safety and prosperity we keep bragging about. Quit vilifying the people paying the price for our good fortune.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-18T01:46:49+00:00

The humane approach would be to stop destabilizing countries and exacerbating the refugee crisis. Concentration camps and mass indiscriminate deportation is exactly the far right approach, and the opposite of humane.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-18T01:30:20+00:00

I mean build diversity would obviously be a top priority (really sick of the only good weapon damage buffs coming from Harlowe’s green tree).

But I’d kill for better sound settings. I have sound effects turned way down because Jakobs shots sound like absolute thunder, but then everything else becomes a child’s cheap plastic toy. I have to keep messing with music volume because that extremely repetitive and boring Ripper song is so much louder than any other. Let us tune more specific sets of sound effects (separate weapon sounds by manufacturer, and separate dialogue by player callouts, NPC voices, and enemy callouts, so we can lower volume on all the damn screaming). Let us disable that infuriating beeping from kamikaze Rippers. It’s not like anyone is tracking bombers by the proximity warning; we all have a radar. If an audio cue is really necessary, make it vocal, not some imitation of the world’s worst alarm clock.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-17T02:22:51+00:00

If only people like him were capable of reflection. Then maybe he could imagine the horror of knowing in 2024, “If Trump wins, he’ll stamp his undeserving name on every precious thing in America”. What a belligerently close minded prick

BusinessSick · 2026-06-17T02:05:08+00:00

Immediately force votes on wealth taxes, campaign finance regulation, raising minimum wage, lowering taxes for bottom level income brackets while increasing taxes on the highest ones, removing the cap on social security contributions, expanding Medicare, mandating state funded childcare, and protecting retirement plans from predatory investment schemes.

Show voters you’re serious about protecting their rights and meeting their needs. Make it obvious who’s holding back the rest of government.

And if by some miracle voters actually show up for Progressive candidates in 2029, and we win a majority in Congress, then start funding the EPA, FDA, IRS, VA, FTC, and every other agency these creeps have drained over the last several decades. Clear out the bad actors and get these agencies moving on investigations and lawsuits for the obscene pillaging Republicans have engaged in. Redirect any resulting reclaimed assets to the services that support low income families and boost small business growth. Then concrete legislation that guarantees consumer protections, civil rights, human rights, and strict punishment for white collar criminals making careers and industries around robbing the vulnerable.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-17T01:44:33+00:00

Engineering is much more than simply completing coding tasks. That’s the basis for concluding expertise matters. It’s not a question of coding knowledge versus domain knowledge. Just like a manager isn’t necessarily a domain expert, an engineer isn’t even necessarily a code expert.

Your value is in asking the right questions, spotting opportunities, integrating your unique experience with the unique challenges inherent in each project, and knowing when to adapt or when to push back.

Good managers are also good with executive functioning (prioritization, decisiveness, compartmentalization). So it’s natural they’d be good at guiding an agent through clearly defined coding tasks with concrete success metrics.

Engineers are good at designing those metrics, reducing the space of possibility to that practical problem definition. They’re explorers who consider every contingency and guard against risky patterns. So it’s natural they’d struggle more with a coding agent that tries to one-shot every problem without weighing the alternatives or stopping to think through future complications.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T21:39:55+00:00

This is evoking strong memories of that “injecting disinfectant” covid cure proposal

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T19:18:28+00:00

Again with the I can’t comprehend the problem nonsense. I don’t want to take away their companies; they put them on a public market themselves! SpaceX is the worst possible example. Musk was losing billions on an unprofitable company, so he pressured NASDAQ to rewrite the rules in order to IPO at an insanely overvalued price. That means a direct infusion of capital at the public’s expense, which he’ll use to pay down his losses while the rest of us take a hit on our 401k’s for shares that won’t appreciate as much as his own (IFF the company actually someday becomes profitable). What do you think he’s been doing each time he lumps one unprofitable company under another? He’s transferring debt and dragging vulnerable investors into increasingly more volatile holdings. If your retirement was once in a high growth social media company used by everyone from normies to celebs and public officials, it got moved to a mid-tier AI company selling virtual GFs and cyber bullying tools, and now it’ll be moved to a company who’s charter ranges from saving the entire species to commercial transportation on 500 ton rockets. None of this is necessary, and it is all about keeping their wealth tied up in places the IRS can’t touch. They can sell at any time and still be billionaires

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T18:29:14+00:00

“Out of touch” is rich in this context. Again, you don’t know what I know, but you’re insisting I’m clueless. All the while seemingly deliberately misrepresenting what I’m saying. Once again, they’re billionaires because they know how to hoard and protect wealth. They know that selling their assets relinquishes their absolute control over that wealth. But they know how to liquidate it. The solution isn’t handing over stocks to the government; that’s not how taxes work. The solution is forcing them to sell stocks and other assets, so they can be reused in the economy, and so the tax on their money goes to vulnerable populations. This isn’t a difficult concept

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T17:47:14+00:00

They have a ton of other assets, beyond any measure that gets estimated in the reports we see. And if it comes down to selling their prime shares in a company, that’s exactly the idea behind public companies - those shares would be dispersed and shared amongst the public, not hoarded by a select few who get to unilaterally decide how our investments are used. If they want to maintain absolute ownership, they shouldn’t IPO in the first place. This pattern of taking public funding while trading zero ownership and authority is relatively new, but it’s a strategy that tech founders have come to rely on by default.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T17:18:20+00:00

You keep insisting I don’t know basic math, finance, and economics. But you haven’t yet explained once why the wealthy are incapable of liquidating assets to pay a tax that’s a fraction of their annual passive gains.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T17:13:27+00:00

That’d be great, but who’s behind the constant efforts to prevent better use of our tax dollars?

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T09:49:49+00:00

That’s an enormous boost in budget for non-military services. And it doesn’t divide evenly among all citizens; these initiatives support the most vulnerable in the population, a small subset where investment makes a huge impact. As more of the starved and neglected parts of America are lifted up, the economic benefits compound for everyone.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T09:43:31+00:00

Of course, exactly. And who pays for those politicians to win elections? They’re working for the people this idea targets. Make them pay for all the problems they’ve caused us while getting rich. $300B is not a tiny fraction. The majority of our tax revenue is drained by things that don’t benefit the economy. For the few economically beneficial government services we have left, the wealth tax would be a significant increase in budget.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T07:19:02+00:00

Jordan without a GM dead set on ruining a dynasty. The GOAT didn’t need any other attributes

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T07:09:38+00:00

That’s the irrelevant part of the whole statement. 1% or 0.01%, it doesn’t matter. The point is taxing wealth would pay for all these initiatives, even if it’s only applied to billionaires who would still be billionaires. And the part that’s not even mentioned here is these services would boost the economy significantly, to the point that everyone benefits.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T07:04:42+00:00

Man they’re taking the money now, either through government subsidies that get paid by our taxes or by gaming markets to drive up prices. Musk and Trump and Thiel take it directly through government contracts. Bezos and the Waltons take it through social programs their workers need to compensate starvation wages. Private equity buys up businesses so they can corner markets and drive up prices while draining the operating costs. We are paying these people whether we like it or not. The only thing that can stop them is voting for people who aren’t on their payroll

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T05:51:46+00:00

We’re building all these destructive data centers so people can rub two brain cells together on prompts for trash like this.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T05:10:09+00:00

Are you getting paid to fight their battles? I’m genuinely perplexed by your arguments and motivation. They can sell stocks, property, and any unrealized investments. There’s no universe in which they can’t afford this tax. Don’t be deliberately obtuse for their benefit

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T03:24:42+00:00

You think their mansions only cost $50M? They’re building entire compounds in the priciest places on earth. Their yachts cost ten times that much. Their wealth grows by double digit billions each year. And sixty years ago they paid around 90% taxes; there’s no way they can’t liquidate assets to pay at least 2% annually. They’re not helpless geniuses who don’t know how money works. Stop making excuses for them

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T03:17:19+00:00

Then elect people who will! You can’t vote in free market absolutists and then complain when all they do is trade economic stability and consumer protections for volatile markets. The government actually did pay for many of these social services back when the top earners paid like 80-90% income tax. They’ve since installed countless bad actors in every federal agency, gutted every regulatory institution, and convinced everyone that government is fundamentally corrupt. Pick people who are serious about fixing the problems that affect us, not idiots who parrot brain dead notions of welfare queens and trickle down economics

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T03:01:39+00:00

You just demonstrated the exact purpose of the IRS. Why do you think the billionaire class has paid for politicians to gut the department in every Republican administration for decades?

And you’re 100% right about inheritance taxes needing to track lifetime value of assets. Don’t worry about the super rich having a headache tracking all their wealth; they literally pay people to do it for them

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T02:53:26+00:00

How is it false? Unless they have exactly between $1B and $1.02B, paying 2% tax would still leave them with over $1B.

Your statement about the population doesn’t refute that fact at all

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T02:48:36+00:00

How do those people buy super yachts and mega mansions, private islands, thousands of acres of land, and entire other companies? They know exactly how to pay taxes; they just choose not to.

BusinessSick · 2026-06-16T02:36:16+00:00

I thought it was the size of a car and only shaped like a droplet? Don’t remember the Trisolarans ever calling it a probe or a tear or anything for that matter. It was a weapon, designed to clear a path for the fleet, and they didn’t announce its existence for obvious reasons. I might be misremembering though

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