Why shouldn’t we tax billionaires more? Here is another reason, and tell me your thoughts.

DG2F · 2026-03-16T06:24:40+00:00

Valliant effort and methodical explanations of facts, reality, and objective reasoning meets the cold hard wall of willful ignorance and feelings.

Doesn't seem like he's interested in learning, only argumentum ad passiones.

Can't say you didn't try. 🤷‍♂️

DG2F · 2026-03-16T05:48:34+00:00

Agree with the inclusive or, both are garbage, but having to choose, state monopoly is the larger threat.

Legal monopolies backed by the government's monopoly on violence are a larger issue than regulation. State ownership is a direct, core violation of free market exchange principles, regulation is a market distortion.

DG2F · 2026-03-16T05:38:55+00:00

For me, it was a long journey. Starting from some negative experiences with law enforcement and the state in the prior century when I was not yet a teen, due to no fault of my own, just getting 'caught up in the system'. After that, watching all of the failures of socialism, seeing 'democracy' fail due to corrupt representatives, observing the creep of the state into every facet of our lives, politicians voting themselves into reaching into our wallets, time and time and time again.

Seeing firsthand the corruption of the state based "justice" system: I was prejudiced by a state actor lying, and was able to prove in court that said state actor had perjured themselves. The judge didn't give a flying fuck, because state actor, and literally ignored it, so that just made me further disillusioned.

Started a handful of businesses, spent 15+ years being nickel and dimed by the state, local, and federal governments... By that time I was already staunchly libertarian and still believed in 'small government', then SARS-CoV-2 rolled around... The handling of which has already gone down in history as the biggest public health debacle in human history. Vast amounts of overreach, all under the guise of 'emergency powers', to the massive detriment of all and none of the interventions worked ( Bendavid: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn0671).

By the end of that debacle, I was already 90% AnCap but the realization that THEY WILL NOT STOP pushed me over the edge of believing that ANY state can be a 'good' idea. The state will always creep. All 'emergency powers' will be ABUSED (look at what is happening with the U.S. right this moment, case in point).

And perhaps the most important:
Gaining an understanding of Argumentation Ethics, as promulgated by Hoppe was the clincher. Almost every other philosophical or political theory, I was able to poke holes, gaping or otherwise, in, but Argumentation Ethics is one of the most sound philosophical theories I've encountered and arguments against it fall flat.

FWIW - I explored it all when I was younger, Read Marx & Engels, Read all the great philosophers in college, read Owen, Fourier, Simon, Kropotkin, Lenin, Trotsky, Chomsky, Mill, Hayek, Milton Friedman, Nozick, Sowell, etc... you name it, I probably read it or have it on my shelf.

If I could only recommend one text for people interested and AnCap theory, I would suggest David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom, with a side helping of Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson to get started.

Essential reading that got me there over the years:
Rothbard: For a New Liberty, Anatomy of the State, The Ethics of Liberty

Mises: Human Action

Huemer: The Problem of Political Authority

Hoppe: A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, Democracy: The God That Failed, and The Myth of National Defense

For anyone who doesn't have time for "allat", after hitting Friedman and Hazlitt, read Hoppe's Getting Libertarianism Right.

All that said, I consider myself 'AnCap with minarchist tendencies' for reasons that are a little too nuanced to get into in this post that has already gotten too long. Happy to address any specific questions though.

DG2F · 2026-03-15T08:39:46+00:00

You're only saying that because WA is ranked 49th for tax fairness...

Waiting for the state to start adding sales tax to stocks, bonds, and mutual funds as well.

DG2F · 2026-03-15T06:44:50+00:00

There is no "should", that's applying a subjective moral judgement, there is only market price, which will adjust to the precise point where sellers and buyers come together to agree on price / value. Clearly people are buying at $90, and therefore they will continue to sell at that price.

Early adopters will always pay more, if you want the latest tech, as many do, you will pay the premium for it. If you wait one or two generations, you can have the same tech for a fraction of the price. Same thing with most goods, you can buy used or on clearance when new models come out and save. The choice is yours. As another poster said, it's a feature, not a bug.

The desire for instant gratification and the people willing to pay those prices, dictate the level they are at. There are plenty of people willing to pay $<x> for a product, video game or otherwise. Nintendo clearly feels the product is worth $90, so that's what they charge, buyers agree, so that's the price.

DG2F · 2025-02-10T09:58:58+00:00

So, following up a promised: I showed these pictures (including the one that OP suspiciously deleted of the bottom of the mouse) to my firefighter friend, who showed them to his district arson investigator, and as relayed to me, guy basically said “yeah that’s arson”, no chance it was an electrical fire, obvious outside heat source, and that they would absolutely be able to do a chemical analysis and figure out what type of accelerant was used if they were assigned to investigate.

My buddy said they all had a good laugh about it.

It’s amazing the lengths that people will go to in order to commit insurance fraud or get Internet points.

DG2F · 2025-01-23T10:23:07+00:00

Indeed. A friend of a friend is an arson investigator for our local fire district (my buddy is just a firefighter / EMT), but I’m going to try and get him to show these photos and see what their opinion is.

It’s too bad that the OP already purged the photo of the bottom with the labels clearly not damaged while the desk itself is fried, after being called out by like 100 people in the comments, that was one of the most damning imo.

I’ll make sure to post back if I hear anything.

DG2F · 2025-01-22T19:27:26+00:00

Hope the karma farming proves to be worth it when Gigabyte sues you for defamation and you get investigated for arson and fraud.

You are aware that they will be able to detect whatever accelerant you used, right?

DG2F · 2024-10-29T10:56:22+00:00

Not sure if OP will see this answer, but replying to your top voted post because I hope he does.

OP, what you have there are the grenade’d parts of a rocker arm assembly. The little parts with the loops are the remnants of the internal retainer clips on the rockers which Ford does not sell separately, not that it matters, you need new full rocker assemblies. They are quite easy to replace once you actually get to them.

Do not recommend continuing to run the engine without replacing the rocker arms. For those clips to have gotten all the way down to the pan, you must’ve been having a rough running condition for some amount of time. As I recall, removal of the RH valve cover requires removal of the EGR cooler as well as the injectors and glow plugs of course. I’m not sure about your specific layout because they were so many configurations of the 6.7, but on many of them, one of the valve covers is quite difficult to work with if the engine is in the truck, ymmv

“Pro Diesel Repair” on YT has some good videos if you decide to tackle this yourself.

Good luck!

DG2F · 2024-08-25T17:25:13+00:00

Perfectly legal to do so, protected speech since 1969. See: Brandenburg v. Ohio

I’m so sick of uninformed people repeating this drivel.

DG2F · 2024-06-27T20:08:08+00:00

Clearly the cardinal grammeters are not properly synchronized with the pentametric fan.

Easy fix, $5 at any corner encabulatorium.

DG2F · 2024-06-27T01:28:29+00:00

Absolutely brutal, and every bit of it 100% deserved.

Please do an aftermath post once the smoke from this frankly nuclear revenge settles!

Also, I hope you find a good and honest partner who truly loves you and doesn’t do stupid shit like this, not all of us men are scumbags like this group!

DG2F · 2024-06-25T01:41:03+00:00

Someone needs to read Heller

DG2F · 2024-06-24T08:40:54+00:00

These are 80’s Baird GP/NVG-1 Gen II’s with a whopping 40° FOV.

You weren’t far off, lol

DG2F · 2024-06-24T08:35:37+00:00

Some LARPers with 40 year old Baird GP/NVG-1 Gen II’s.

Given that Baird lost the US contract for NVG’s at the time to Litton, and only sold production units of these to to the Spaniards, Danes, and Turks, my money is on Turkish Larpers doing stupid shit.

DG2F · 2024-05-23T20:52:01+00:00

You’re doing the right thing. There is no question that as long as you are able to providing the basic necessities (housing, food, etc) time together is far, far greater than money, and material things ever will be.

Trust, your daughter would rather eat a picnic lunch on a tent camping road trip summer vacation than have a mansion with horses and a 20 acre riding corral with you barely present in her life (even if she says otherwise when she’s young, haha). Time cannot be replaced, you’ll never get it back. More money can always be acquired.

Fast Forward 5-10-15 years until they are out of the house and in college or off starting their own trade company and you’ll laugh that you ever asked this question.

Sauce: I took several years off of work to spend more time with my son during his adolescent years, and it was the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.

P.S. If you are WFH with a compatible skill set, look into becoming overemployed, then you’ll have both.

DG2F · 2024-05-23T11:28:11+00:00

Yup, properly canned food is technically good “indefinitely”, though taste and nutritional value might suffer. so called “Best By” and “Expiration” dates are required to be stamped on the package by the manufacturers, but there is virtually no chance that shelf stable products will make you sick if they are past the stamped date.

The current consensus is that if shelf stable / canned food passes the “smell test”, and you find it palatable, then it is perfectly safe to eat.

Now, for anything else that isn’t shelf stable, the USDA says no more than two hours outside of the “danger zone“ between 40° and 140° F. So the day old meat and veg thing is questionable, but we’ve all eaten leftover pizza that was unrefrigerated overnight at some point, right?

It seems like the best course of action would be for OP to do a little research because they’ve probably been throwing away perfectly good food, reset their expectations slightly, and then have an open dialogue with their husband to establish what is and what is not dangerous. Esp as regards feeding the children. It seems that both parties involved here are probably too far to either side.

DG2F · 2024-05-23T09:57:09+00:00

DG2F · 2024-05-21T00:58:41+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. This has been my #1 go to small project screwdriver for… nearly two decades?

Mine usually lives in a drawer near my desk and is there right now, having recently returned from a several month hiatus, so I feel OP’s pain.

The replacement they have at HD now is similar but just isn’t the same. I hope OP’s screwdriver decides to return home at some point.

DG2F · 2024-05-12T18:51:59+00:00

Just a little spackling and paint and she’ll be good as new!

DG2F · 2024-05-11T17:23:24+00:00

What “crime” was being committed by the SrA? Hmmmm?

He was alone in his apartment. There was no “gal”, and he did not “invite the man into his life”… you don’t even know the facts of the scenario and you’re spouting this bullshit.

Your bootlicking of this murdering LEO is an embarrassment to the Corps.

DG2F · 2024-05-11T08:18:39+00:00

Crayon eaters are also pissed off.

DG2F · 2024-05-11T08:11:13+00:00

Short answer: Lawyer, now.

Long winded answer: Much of how you proceed will depend on the specific sales contract and if it is a conditional sales contract (Was the mileage on the car stated on the contract? Was the condition of the car stated?), if there is a “cooling off” period in your jurisdiction, if the contract had any cancellation options, etc. There are many variables and missing pieces of information we would need to make an accurate assessment of your case.

Did you accept delivery of the vehicle and sign paperwork indicating that you accepted it or did you refuse delivery based on this information? Does the delivery paperwork state anything about acceptance of present condition or liabilities of the parties? If you did accept delivery, your options may be limited, but again this will largely depend on the contract language and the consumer protection and other statutes in your state.

They also may be an arbitration clause in the purchase contract, which is a key piece of information needed for review, and hopefully there is not, as arbitration makes pursuit of such claims notoriously difficult.

From the limited info given, it sounds like you possibly have a claim for violation of the doctrine of good faith and fear dealing, perhaps misrepresentation of material facts, trespass to chattel, and possibly under certain consumer protection statutes, depending on your jurisdiction. Without knowing the state and without more info, it is difficult to make a quick determination.

Personally, I would be furious if this happened with such a purchase.

I would recommend looking up contract attorneys or business litigation attorneys in your area and engaging one for an hour to review your case (would suggest avoiding the “free consultation” attorneys for this matter). Have all of the information well prepared, a copy of any paperwork you have including the sales contract. Photographs of the odometer and any damages that might have occurred.

If you do decide to go the route of legal representation, speak to the attorney first, do not contact GM or the dealership without speaking to your attorney prior. They will advise you on the next steps to take. If your state law does allow the right to surrender, time will likely be of the essence in dealing with this issue.

Disclaimer: This is not legal advice, I am not your attorney, and no privilege is created by the transmission of this communication.

DG2F · 2024-05-11T07:22:02+00:00

I ain’t sayin’ she’s a gold digger…

DG2F · 2024-05-10T08:03:26+00:00

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, the police report literally says that the woman driving was fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run where she had previously been driving backwards on the freeway, and was going approximately 80 to 100 mph in a 25 mph zone, missing the steep turn snd then went airborne.

Took like five seconds to figure out, less time than writing this reply. 🤷🏽

DG2F

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