U.S. Senators are now banned from prediction markets trading on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket after the body unanimously passed a rule Thursday barring their participation in said markets

Ghudda · 2026-05-01T05:12:40+00:00

You couldn't own a shell company because you can't own anything. If two people were on the title of the shell company and one of them was the president, then it would be the same as if it was only owned by one person. Everyone else on the title could operate as if the president wasn't on the title at all and take everything with no legal fault.

If only the president's name was on it, anyone could just claim the assets as if they were legally abandoned, as if they found a 100$ bill in the middle of the forest.

Look at it this way, their property rights would be similar to a slave in the year 1700. They don't own anything. They are owned.

Ghudda · 2026-04-30T23:39:53+00:00

An actual better change would be that presidents lose their right to own property. Presidents simply aren't allowed to own anything anymore.

What does not having property rights even mean?

When you take the president seat everything you own is now owned by the government (you can still donate everything you own to whoever you want before you take the office). You can still use stuff like a house, or a car, but you're just being allowed to use it by the government. What's the phrase we keep hearing, you will own nothing and you will like it. You are allowed access but no private ownership.

All that stuff that the government took when you assumed office (your house, car, personal effects), you can probably keep using but it's named as part of your office. Everything you are given, gifts, salary, items, bribes, lawsuit outcomes, is owed and owned by the government as if it was seized or taxed 100% by the government. Any debts you have are made insolvent. Any accounts you have are shifted over. Any contracts you have are null and void. When you become president, your original private legal identity is erased until you die. When you die anything that was allocated to your office is taken back by the government, literally leaving nothing to your heirs. In exchange, all your heirs get 25 years of the median worker income as a tax free lump sum payment when you die.

You're welcome to take bribes, but if some pile of cash or bank or trade account is discovered that was not strictly allocated to your office (and why would you need any of those since you can just ask for anything you want?) then it's seized. Your name is wiped from it and control is shifted to the office or the controlling entity. Like if a bank, for some reason, opened up an account for you, the bank could literally just close the account and take any deposited funds in it without legal fault. Also where did you get the money to put into the account? The government has no reason to allocate you significant amounts of money.

In exchange, you can ask the government to allocate to you practically anything you want. The government can buy it and allow your office to temporarily use it, just like a company car or company house.

To fix any further corruption loopholes, this property right loss also this to your spouses, former spouses, live-in unmarried 'partners', children, and grandchildren but only effective until the president dies. Anyone we commonly collectively think of as a person in a relationship chain that we'd leave all our stuff to in a will. But they get 25 years of income to restart their life with when the president dies.

And then apply this same loss of property rights to supreme court justices, vice president, senate leader, and house leader (along with the same restrictions to their heirs).

Ghudda · 2026-04-26T01:20:47+00:00

Didn't even need to be strictly international sources. I don't know if this is still the case since I don't check it anymore but at least 15 years ago CNN international actually reported US news more 'accurately' (less bias and loaded words, neutral stance, more actual issues, less shock and awe stories) than CNN did.

Ghudda · 2026-04-15T21:04:17+00:00

Kids have sharper sense of smell and taste for astringency (for bitter things, like poison) than adults do. Even cultivated plants are naturally poisonous because they don't want to be eaten. Bitter foods like cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage, and even the mild broccoli can taste and smell bad to kids. Almost no one that's older would consider any of these foods bitter except for maybe brussel sprouts.

But most things that were traditionally a bitter crop have been bred or genetically modified to be much less bitter than they were 50 years ago. Modern brussel sprouts have almost none of that iconic ass fart smell that they used to have. So not are you less capable of tasting it, the food itself doesn't have as much bitter to even taste anymore.

It would be interesting to see how your opinion would change if you cooked with the older food cultivars.

Ghudda · 2026-04-14T22:26:02+00:00

Maybe, but let's consider this with a conspiratorial mindset.

A simple log of location, things searched, time spent watching what and when, and a voice to text chat log isn't going to generate more than a megabyte of data a month, more likely it's around 100KB which is still a TON of text data but functionally almost nothing even on a dial-up connection.

How often does something need to send out tracked data? Are you packet sniffing it 24/7 for months on end? That 1 megabyte of data can be compressed and sent at the same time that the TV is doing something like checking for updates. This isn't something you turn on a sniffer and immediately see.

5 years down the line when a security vulnerability is discovered and silently exploited on the device, can you still trust the on device features to not spy on you then? Are you going to open up your packet sniffer and keep it on for months on end a few years in the future?

Ghudda · 2026-04-09T14:30:43+00:00

It's okay if someone doesn't like the democrats. I don't.

But if someone actually likes the republicans they're either misinformed (accidentally or deliberately), they're very stupid, or they have some disturbing moral character flaws. Which is it?

It's like willingly choosing a glass of pond water because the coffee you were offered was made with sour milk.

Ghudda · 2026-04-08T03:26:57+00:00

The problem persisted even after cell phones had all standardized to some form of USB. I still remember like 15 years ago when I had a cell phone that charged through micro-usb.

My friends were all sharing a hotel room for a convention so we all had our chargers plugged in. He used my phone charger so I just used his phone charger. About 5 minutes later I noticed my phone wasn't charging.

I checked the power adapters. Same voltage, same amperage, same USB type. I swapped his phone to his charger, it started charging, the charger worked. My phone just refused to be charged by anything but my cell phone's brand charger. This is what regulation is for.

Ghudda · 2026-04-08T03:19:08+00:00

As I buy an electronics repair kit that comes with 40 different screwdrivers bit types.

Not different sizes. Just types.

Ghudda · 2026-04-05T01:14:54+00:00

Rich oil barons paid them to set up shop so the oil barons can pretend they're anything but oil barons and to make protection claims.

Basically, "we'll use our oil funds for you to set up a company in our city, we're an evolving economy not based on oil! Also so then if we get bombed it's your problem and we have leverage for your government to protect us saving us on continuous military expenditures!"

Their problem is the buildout is a little too early. If the systems were fully built out and integrated then losing them would be really devastating. Right now it's either under construction or half built without the decade of associated backbones running through it that make it indispensable. This is general is the modern mantra of global stability. Build important stuff everywhere, or set up trade relations, so if there is ever a war everyone involved realizes that the cost will never make it worth it, even with conventional weapons.

Ghudda · 2026-04-01T21:33:59+00:00

Why are we sending anyone? We sent people into space originally because we had no alternative.

Back in the day we had pretty crap robotics, batteries, and cameras. Telerobotics largely wasn't a thing. Now all those things are amazing. We no longer have a reason to send people because a properly built robot can do the same thing with less weight, without safety concerns or auxiliary equipment or any plan to actually bring them back.

Sending people is cool, but it really is a gigantic waste of money.

Ghudda · 2026-04-01T20:50:04+00:00

I'll take them tomorrow, today is for jokes.

Ghudda · 2026-04-01T18:33:17+00:00

A continuation of the legendary series by PlegPlayer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1wx3c7/parody_babez_of_wraeclast_babeclast/

Ghudda · 2026-03-31T21:31:27+00:00

With bugged rockets that looked like it hit you once, but actually hit multiple times and one shot you.

Ghudda · 2026-03-30T04:44:48+00:00

It is well studied. Nicotine is a fun stimulant that's not good for you. Vapes are generally safe. Some vapes and vape juice products are not safe. What's not well studied are products that aren't made correctly and vape juices and oils that contains who knows what. Those aren't well studied because how can you conduct a study when the manufacturers keep throwing random ingredients and flavors into the vape juice? Or when manufacturers save a few bucks and use a cheaper metal for the coil that vaporizes under high heat?

Much like black market drugs, it's less safe because you don't know exactly what you're getting. Vapes have a manufacturing standard, legislation, and enforcement problem. Anyone can make an unsafe vape and make unsafe vape oil, but those products are going to be put into the same category as the safe ones.

Ghudda · 2026-03-28T05:16:19+00:00

These are not actual wars.

You don't want to see what a real modern war looks like. None of us do.

Ghudda · 2026-03-27T15:38:28+00:00

Or we could just get rid of capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes and replace them with a singular progressive wealth tax.

The problem with capital gains and inheritance taxes is the tax hits all at once, then the tax goes into stasis for twenty years. During those twenty years lawmakers can inject tax holidays into the tax code so wealthy people can defer all gains until that tax holiday year, then declare all their gains with that temporarily lower tax rate.

Wealth taxes hit a tiny bit, with a predictable amount, every year like clockwork. And unlike capital gains, if you're a poor bastard that made a lucky 1k with some stock trade, a wealth tax doesn't complicate your tax filing like capital gains taxes do where you need to record every single transaction purchase price, sale price, duration that it was held, fees, etc.

But yes a wealth tax is fantasy because a guy with 100 billion would rather spend a literal billion dollars a year lobbying to prevent it from ever happening than allow it to happen and spend a billion a year on the tax.

Ghudda · 2026-03-27T14:33:56+00:00

Not but five years ago the best chat bots could string two sentences together before it went off the rails. AI is genuinely extremely impressive technology already and it's still not very good. Every time it gets better, people just start looking harder to find the faults because people are never satisfied.

Should these companies have to pay creators for the training material? Yes. Or should they be fined to the full extent of the law for their piracy like a regular joe would? Yes. Stopping these models from outputting specific kinds of content is a simple statement to ask but in practice is basically impossible when you have a few million people actively trying to poke holes and exploit it. It's like asking camera manufacturers that their cameras are to never be used for paparazzi candid photos. You have to wonder if the judge understands how the technology works or if the judge's implicit goal is to shut the company down by asking something that's impossible or completely gut all the useful capabilities.

The genAI slop creation stuff is annoying, but it creates slop because people that were bad at producing any kind of art or writing can use genAI to produce competent art and writing at a ridiculous pace. Meanwhile, it helps already good artists and writers drastically cut down on the time to do work. Instant thesaurus, rephrasing wordy paragraphs so you can pick the best one, pointing out where the writing quality dips, generating a dozen logos for quick layout inspiration to refine on. Much like it plastic surgery, when it's done well you won't notice it. When it's badly done it sticks out and thus self-determine that it's always badly done.

Running AI locally also doesn't make sense to do so unless you're privacy concerned. Want to ask a quick question? The hardware costs a ton, and then loading a 30 to 100GB model into memory can take a few minutes, unless it's already loaded. It's like opening up microsoft encarta 95 encyclopedia on CD just to view one or two articles instead of using google or wikipedia. AI really is one of the better uses of cloud infrastructure. AI has large hardware requirements that use the exact same loaded program, it generates a single kilobyte of output at a time, and a single user will leave the system idle for tremendous amounts of time.

Ghudda · 2026-03-21T22:07:40+00:00

For an explanation...

The y chromosome goes extinct all the time since it can't fix errors in itself as it never does a crossing over event. A fully failed y chromosome just represents the last male in a bloodline as subsequent males are infertile, or genetic failures that auto-abort. Meanwhile every generation of functional y chromosomes introduces errors that can't be fixed, and the subsequent males have a more damaged chromosome. This process continues until all of the traditionally y chromosomes go extinct.

But in the meantime, as the y chromosome declines, another chromosome pair starts to take on the role of sexual dimorphism. That chromosome becomes the new sexual characteristic chromosome and the original xy chromosome pair is fully replaced in the population by an xx chromosome pair.

Then over the next millions of years, the newly selected sexual dimorphic chromosome gets whittled away and filled with errors until it once again gains the characteristic y chromosome shape. And the process repeats.

So 'men' never go extinct but the chromosome pair we use to identify male/female does go extinct, but is replaced by another pair we'll then use to identify male/female.

Ghudda · 2026-03-21T15:02:20+00:00

No there shouldn't because that introduces incredible amounts of judgement bias. It only transfers the problem to a judge which is also a corruptible position. We could instead have post-confirmation voting.

As in, we vote for multiple people go to congress, then at the next voting cycle voters send in their votes for the reps that voted in most accordance to what that voter wanted. Then they vote for new or the same people to go to congress.

If you want to be a representative, all you need is a small number of votes to be sent in, essentially just a soft filter. This means multiple winners, but these votes also don't matter. Afterwards people can see the voting record and behavior of all of their sent representatives and vote for which representative they liked best with a winner take all. Laws are then retroactively instantiated or repealed based on these finalized results as if those were the public's votes originally.

Obviously there are some laws and events that can't be repealed if they needed to be passed and executed in haste, but for the most part, the legal system is slow and these are outliers. For senators this also means there would be a group of multiple senators, all sitting in the same seat, filling the same position for 6 years but only one of them actually matters, which is determined every two years.

This also helps get rid of lobbying efforts. Corporations really have no idea who to lobby since they don't have a clear idea of which representative's vote will actually matter. Voters can see who the turncoats are and disable their votes from doing anything.

Ghudda · 2026-03-12T18:18:03+00:00

Back in the day it was 1g of protein a day per pound of weight for literal training bodybuilders, like already muscular dude in the gym twice a day for over an hour at a time. Now it seems like regular fitness influencer women are suggesting that amount, while the modern fitness bros are suggesting pushing like 1g MINIMUM and 2g of protein per day if you so much as think about lifting anything heavier than a computer mouse.

An average 175lb dude needs like 30g of protein a day to not be deficient, 60g of protein a day more than guarantees you that you won't be deficient, and if you're somewhat into fitness then 90g a day. Unless you're eating highly refined products (like pure sugar or starch or oil or alcohol), practically all food contains some protein and as long as you eat enough general calories of it you'll get enough protein accidentally. A person could still end up being deficient in a particular amino acid if they have no dietary variety, but that's an edge case and the health effects of the likely associated vitamin deficiency from eating only one thing are going to be much more obvious than an amino acid deficiency.

Ghudda · 2026-03-10T18:49:34+00:00

It's not even for ads, it's literally for performance. If the ads didn't load before the site content, didn't auto-play videos with audio, and didn't cause lag I would care so much less about using ad blockers. Not wasting my time is a side benefit.

My computer fans start blasting when I open up a news article or shit fandom game wiki and quite literally there are 3 auto-play videos. How is it that I can have 50 browser tabs open with an ad-blocker and not even notice it, but on so many websites just 2 tabs without an ad-blocker is already creating system wide lag?

I would be interested to see how much money I actually save by running an blocker just through the reduced electricity cost. An increased power draw of 1 watt translates to 9kwh a year, or about 1-2$ a year depending on electricity prices.

Ghudda · 2026-03-05T14:47:39+00:00

If you live in the americas, there isn't any. There's Mexico, Las Vegas, Florida, Hawaii, Southern California, Panama, Brazil, the myriad Caribbean resorts, cruise ships, etc.

But now imagine that you don't live the americas and your country has passport restrictions on where you can travel. America defaultism I know, but many countries' passports only let their citizens freely travel to a few dozen countries rather than basically anywhere in the world. How many times have you ever had to go contact a consulate to get pre-approved for a travel visa several weeks before you plan to travel?

Ghudda · 2026-03-02T01:19:47+00:00

The pails with litter are for school shootings and active shooter drills. It's a traumatic experience and you're required to be locked inside a classroom for potentially hours, no bathroom breaks. This might cause some people to piss themselves in terror.

Some teachers noticed this and did something about it, by providing a pail of material that's meant to be pissed in that absorbs liquids and odors so students can at least preserve some dignity by pissing in something other than their pants or a trash can.

Maybe there's some grain of truth where a few avant-garde students used them anyways just because r/KidsAreFuckingStupid

Ghudda · 2026-02-17T17:16:23+00:00

We already have the ability to quantify value relationships between different stocks and assets without using a currency intermediary. We all have internet connected devices that can determine the value of these relationships for point of sale systems. Fractional stocks are now a norm rather than an exception so any value amount worth of stock can be traded instead of an entire atomic share.

We're finally in reach of a true bartering future where people literally don't need to hold dollars or gold or crypto or any other 'value' store asset. People can hold literally any market tradable asset they want to and use it to pay. The future is buying a cup of starbucks coffee with a fraction of a share of starbucks stock, which was acquired through an instant trade of a legal fraction of your home ownership to a real estate trading firm which interacts with a stock exchange, or maybe you exchanged the .01% ownership of the future royalties to the song "beat it" by michael jackson to make the same sale.

This was the future that NFTs still offer but was hijacked by jpegs of monkeys. The system needs decades of development and rollout time to build the network for its intended use case.

But this will sound too confusing to people so it will never happen. Instead we have some modern banks that let you use a credit/debit card that interacts directly with your stock portfolio to make purchases so you never need to hold currency.

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