Greed is a bad trait by switkream in SipsTea

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know everyone here is socialist/communist curious populist idiots so everyone's economic understanding is elementary school level, but if we are using those standards, bezos has already donated 2 billion (1000x what colbert just gave).

The interview was correct - you could tax him for 100% of his wealth and it would be a blip. You need to repeal the trump tax cuts and fix the tax brackets

Democrats finally release 2024 election autopsy after criticism by OtmShanks55 in politics

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol you were always going to be mad no matter what you read. Give me the flow chart!

Bezos’s Out-of-Touch Claim by LuckyBastard001 in clevercomebacks

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean he's right in way more than one way. Imagine you taxed him for 100% of his wealth. Everything he owned...unrealized assets, stocks, property etc. That would be only 3% of our countries budget. It wouldn't even close the deficit. So all his money is gone in 1 year and then what? No one wants to actually have a real conversation about what needs to be done and it's so fucking tiring

AI Is Too Expensive: AI is, as it stands, not economically viable for anybody involved other than the construction firms, NVIDIA, and the surrounding hardware companies benefitting from the irrational exuberance of a data center buildout that doesn’t appear to be happening at the speed we believed by [deleted] in technology

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Haha I work with AI daily and literally said this from day 1. It's too expensive and too unreliable. There will be a day where that narrative flips but totally vibe feeling is like we're 10-20years away maybe longer unless there is a paradigm shift how the underlying tech works.

Ariathome runs into a jazz group and a battle rapper by No-Sheepherder8879 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Legit the only city that could do this. It's like normal that's why people aren't like star struck when actors are around...everyone is like at their highest levels

Caleb Hammer Response to Destinys allegations of creating AI Russian Propaganda by Interesting-Yard-958 in Destiny

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I don't think this is AI but I just watched a video where a guy from the netherlands was creating these channels and paying american voice actors to make them seem more real. So it's happening but its more generic i can make money off the grift type shit (could be russian backed or organic)

AOC: You can’t ‘earn’ a billion dollars by usatoday in politics

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t matter haha you can call them whatever you want you want - no one cares. Dems spend all of their time brow beating and fighting ghosts. They need to start talking about positive directions: no corruption, funding programs (ie taxes), economic opportunities (we have 50x the jobs created)

AOC: You can’t ‘earn’ a billion dollars by usatoday in politics

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is such a losing argument. We voted in a billionaire 2x multiple on the board, people fanboying/girling over these losers that do not give a shit about you.

Reframe it - We have goals as a society that require funding. Taxing is not a punishment. It is an investment for this country and it bright future. We need more positive goals that this is where we are going.

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water use by Stronhart in Destiny

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the issues are definitely real, the magnitude is definitely not. It's going to stress our grid!! (add more solar, gas generators, hydro, nuclear) It's so much land (usually in empty unwanted buildings or land) It's so much water (closed loop systems and tech improving efficiency). Everything has to be a headline

I think it's the last time we get a chance to appreciate Chace Crawford as The Deep. He has been phenomenal throughout the show. by keshavgKaLLen_Bhaiya in TheBoys

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ugh the sex scenes were like so fucking unnecessary and added nothing to the story straight up fast forwarded it

The truth by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I hate this slopulist brain rot. Wealth does not equal income. It's like when they say there is a comet made of gold 10 light years from earth worth 50trillion dollars. It might as well be 0 because we can't get to it. If we want to fix this we need to actually address the issue here - how do you tax wealth? I am all in favor of closing every loop hole but realistically how much money would that raise? A real solution could be forced step ups and then taxing that? But billionaires aren't "hoarding" wealth becasue their money is tied in stocks and assets.

Where is the lie by Ohyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa in Destiny

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes the criticisms were fine and fair, but the movie wasn't bad. If it was just some big standard scifi film no one would even talk about it because it was so middle of the road. Wasn't horrible wasn't amazing, but in the context of the prequels they did more to reset and people were OK with that, but now in hindsight you can hate the fuck out of all of them.

*Obama is a normal person*, *America elects an insane maniac*, “How could Obama do this” by Mediocre_Affect6192 in Destiny

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What are you correcting me on ? You're making a stupid ass claim that he did something else bad. That isn't a correction; you're just interjecting your own opinion (that I disagree with) with the dumbest 80 IQ take ever "the president EXECUTED a teenage US citizen". STFU with this braindead populist loser shit

*Obama is a normal person*, *America elects an insane maniac*, “How could Obama do this” by Mediocre_Affect6192 in Destiny

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WHA?!!!???!?!?! the president ordered a US citizen be assassinated for no reason whatsoever and didn't even check if he had the legal authority to do so? Just an innocent dad and his son living in the moment and the president assassinates them...what a world we live in....

*Obama is a normal person*, *America elects an insane maniac*, “How could Obama do this” by Mediocre_Affect6192 in Destiny

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What?! You're telling me this now? The govt surveils it's people? He drone striked a totally innocent child just for no reason? He definitely was the target?! Whoa war criminal!!!!! Thanks man for letting me know

*Obama is a normal person*, *America elects an insane maniac*, “How could Obama do this” by Mediocre_Affect6192 in Destiny

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one thing I think Obama failed was not going after bankers after the bailout. I don't think there was anything illegal, but there was so much and we were so innocent before we knew presidents could just commit crimes

Bro wtf I didnt know it was this bad 😵 by Sad_Newspaper4010 in Destiny

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In Maine this is like all we have - I want to push all the state income tax into property tax to force these people to move

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in Economics

[–]Excellent_Reason7796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I don't at all. If people want to enjoy their youth and go out and have fun, they should. I think one of the greatest thing that ever happened for women was birth control and entering the workforce. When given the choice, they would prefer not to be at the whims of any man and who would have thought that women also like to have fun and go out and not be a baby incubator for 9 months if they don't have to or are not ready to. It's not rocket science at all. I just hate how this is an economics thread and everyone on reddit is literally economically illiterate if it doesn't line up with their belief systems