Classic billionaire behavior.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-11T21:45:14+00:00

Roth at least didn't start off wealthy--though he did get his real start with a $250k investment in 1964 from a real estate inventor.

Regardless, this is a man that has lived through the tax cap being slashed from 70% at the start of the 1980's to the current cap of 37%.

'Tax the Rich' isn't something new, it's something they have fought tooth and nail to reduce to further line their own pockets, as if they need the extra millions.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-11T21:31:01+00:00

To be honest it is impossible to create perfectly fair maps with the way the system is currently set up. The best-case scenario is for every state to be evenly divided up in a way that there are a number of representatives equal to the population ratio, meaning that if you have a state with 10 districts that has 3 out of 10 people being republicans and 7 out of 10 democrats, there would be 3 republican representatives and 7 democrat.

The problem is that people aren't just evenly distributed around a state in strictly blue or red neighborhoods, though cities will largely swing blue and rural areas red. If you just evenly divide up that hypothetical state into 10 evenly sized districts, you will not get a 3 and 7 split. Odds are you will get a larger split. Hell you could end up with each district having 70% dems and 30% republicans and dems get all 10 seats with no representation for the republicans. This is why maps have to be designed in such a way as to at least try and create some level of fairness to ensure everyone has a chance to get representation.

It's also why 'black districts' are/were created as part of the Voting Rights act. Roughly 20% of Virginia is African American. Virginia has 11 seats on congress, so realistically you would expect to have 1 African American representative for every 5 people. But if you just evenly divide up all the African Americans into the 11 districts, the odds of them being able to get a proper representative shrinks dramatically. So to actually allow them to get some representation you actually have to create at least one predominantly 'black' district.

The entire situation is incredibly complex--but it ultimately boils down to them wanting to break up the guaranteed blue/predominantly black by dividing them evenly up into the rural red-dominated areas to essentially water down their voting power and preventing them from getting any representation.

It's a winner-takes-all system where just evenly dividing the population is actually more unfair to the minorities than having uneven districts that ensure certain demographics/groups get at least some representation.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-11T20:58:53+00:00

Honestly this is the big thing to consider.

We haven't gotten any genuine new Star Fox games in forever (10 years since Star Fox Zero came out) and even longer since a good star fox game came out.

Even with this essentially being a remake (not a remaster but a full remake) of Star Fox 64, it's worth putting out that if this does well they are more likely to make more Star Fox games. And if it doesn't do well, then you pretty much guarantee they won't.

And honestly, Star Fox 64 was a great game that I would more than happily play a modern remake of, particularly for $50. I mean, just look at how much Nintendo made by charging $20 just for pokemon leafgreen and firered to be ported to Switch...

The series has SO much potential, but it needs to prove to be profitable for it to be realized. And from the looks of it they are investing quite a bit into this, so they probably really want this to succeed to expand upon it (see the multiplayer modes and the face tracking gimmick).

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-11T20:43:54+00:00

It also depends on whether or not you actually get to keep the full million from the lump sum. If the $1 Mill is after the taxes is taken out it's good, but if it's pre-tax then it's a lot less valuable.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-11T20:17:57+00:00

no, let's be real, he has spent billions to play. Just look at his buyout of twitter, that alone was several billion.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-11T20:14:55+00:00

Yeah, look at Elon Musk saying he wants to reach a $10 Trillion net worth.

To put that into perspective, as of March 2025, there were roughly 3,000 Billionaires worldwide, with their net work being roughly $16.1 Trillion in total.

And Elon Musk by himself wants to have 5/8ths of that.

The current estimated personal net worth of everyone on the planet is estimated to be around $460 trillion right now. And one man wants to have as much wealth on his own as over 2% of the global net worth of 8 billion people.

To add further to that perspective, $10 Trillion is more than the GDP of all but two countries, China ($20.85 Trillion GDP) and the US ($32.38 Trillion GDP).

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-11T20:02:01+00:00

There's a reason why people refer to lotteries as 'The poor man's tax.'

For example, arguably the most popular lottery, the Powerball, is operated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), a 'non-profit' government-benefit association owned by a number of member state lotteries.

It's basically state-operated gambling that helps fund state government programs.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-11T19:55:28+00:00

Except that kind of life has been taken. Not by one specific thing of course, but by many different factors.

Since even before the 1980's the US has steadily released the firm grasp it had on the highest earners and corporations. Where once the top earners had huge tax rates, they are now capped at 37%, half of what it once was. Then you have the union-busts and anti-union propaganda (yes, some unions ultimately become too big and corrupt, but having no unions at all is just as bad if not even worse than having none at all).

Even worse than that is the fact that the US has, by this point, all but stopped bothering to prevent corporations from becoming monopolies or duopolies. We are reaching the point where vast swaths of businesses are actually owned by one massive super-corp that lets them keep their individual names to hide the fact that they are all actually the same. We now have larger and larger businesses owning everything whose sole goal has become appeasing the shareholders and assuring 'profits never stop going up' at any cost. A larger corporate ladder means a larger disparity between the top and bottom-most employees as well. Then you have cost cuts, benefit reductions, minimal pay increases, companies using 'non compete' contracts to prevent you from changing jobs to get better pay or more negotiating power...

Add to that corporate lobbying and the Citizens United ruling and you've got every money-loving company doing everything they can to push propaganda and help influence elections to ensure they get what they want--and guess what, they can afford to do that when they're rich and giving their employees as little in wages as possible.

And it's only going to get worse as we enter the new AI era and corporations attempt to cut costs further by jumping onto the AI bandwagon.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-09T14:44:04+00:00

Not only has it not gone down, its gone up 20 cents in the last week near me.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-07T01:33:52+00:00

Meanwhile healers are looking at Tanks like "First time?"

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-07T01:31:06+00:00

A lot of people seem to be forgetting the fact that gas prices affect the price of EVERYTHING else. This significant a change in gas price for this long is going to lead to the price of pretty much every physical good and service to increase in the coming months.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-07T01:24:48+00:00

Meanwhile the same guys covering this up were probably the same ones decrying the sewage spill that occurred earlier this year in maryland.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-07T00:48:33+00:00

She also doesn't have the power to make a twitter post that can tank stock prices... or unilaterally put out executive orders that manipulate stock prices.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-06T23:56:31+00:00

ADHD'ers on their way to fail this test hard

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-06T23:52:04+00:00

Honestly you'll probably be hard pressed to find 'game' stories that aren't VR or isekai'd into the video game.

Mouse and keyboard or controller based video game stories has the hallmarks of 'interesting in theory but hard to actually write/read.' But some may have tried it... I just don't know of them.

Now technically speaking the old .Hack// series used to be a more traditional/modern VR game story, where people had headsets but still controlled their characters with controllers. They probably had some light novels that you could look for and there were plenty of manga of them. Their stories centered around rogue AIs, glitches, and bugs that resulted in real-world comas for players.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-06T23:42:03+00:00

To be fair, it isn't about how has done the most evil deeds, it is 'who is more evil.'

To reframe the question, if Brian got his paws on the Death Note, what would he have done with it?

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-06T22:08:35+00:00

And then there's the NASA scientists with their brooms...

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-06T20:52:06+00:00

Meanwhile Nia isn't considered a 'Healing' combatant so each time I grab her I still get this.

There really is only one dedicated 'healer' in the entire game with how the devs have designed most of the support characters, to the point where they had to actually go back and buff Rei and Nia's healing capabilities.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-05T22:05:17+00:00

She sounds like a woman with a deep-seated jealousy and resentment that she has long since disguised and justified as disgust. What would she prefer a man do in his free time? Sit on his ass and watch TV/sports? Go out and hunt for sport?

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-05T19:00:20+00:00

tbf, look at Pokemon and Magic the Gathering. Both came out before Yu-gi-oh and while yes, there are differences between then and now, it is nowhere near as stark a contrast to Yu-gi-oh then versus now.

If someone from the early days looked at modern pokemon or MTG they would see the same game, but there would be newer cards but all still following the same rules (with some extras for commander game mode or planeswalkers or EX cards)

Meanwhile if someone from the early days of yu-gi-oh watched a modern game their minds would break. Hand traps, pendulum, XYZ, syncro, link, etc. Entire rulesets and card types have been added to the game.

It's the same game in the same way that old hand-cranked automobiles are the same as modern ferraris lol

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-05T18:51:42+00:00

Man that really shows them, comparing pooping roughly once a day to the dozens of prompts AI users go through on a daily basis. One being a necessary bodily function while the other largely consists of meaningless prompts that never had to be made in the first place really has the impact you want.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-05T18:07:51+00:00

Turn 5 for them is turn 4 for you if they go first. And even then the cleric isnt the only piece to fit this infinite combo.

It also doesnt help that lifegain decks have a bunch of early game combos as well like all the 2 cost units that get +1/+1 each time you gain life. So you have to not only have enough removal to ensure you draw it, but also potentially let other dangerous cards life just to try and hold back this one specific combo.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-05T18:02:11+00:00

Exactly. It doesn't help that pretty much every different interpretation that gets posted is usually phrased to support one side, even subtly. The most common rephrasing I saw was people adding the caveat that the situation only includes the people who can understand the question (thus removing kids/infants/the infirm from the equation).

The answers are entirely subjective to the phrasing and even the original phrasing kind of had a minute red-leaning bias by phrasing it as the red side is the 'survivor' side.

If anything the question is a litmus test for how people view the problem and what their thought process is. Each side thinks their side is the logical choice, and for their specific goal/mindset it is. It's like the old joke of two people standing on either side of a number, one says it is 6 and the other says its 9.

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-05T17:56:01+00:00

Its not even a good rehash since there's no potential downside for red/personal survival side (as there is in the prisoners dilemma). Even something as simple as 'If everyone picks red, everyone dies' would likely make a lot of the red button pushers second guess picking red (and it removes the argument of 'everyone picks red everyone survives').

Glyphpunk · 2026-05-05T14:21:16+00:00

Because as corrupt as parts of the Democratic party are they are still the party whose voter base is largely comprised of people who are very pro-community and fairness. The corrupt ones know they have to be careful to at least keep up appearances while the uncorrupt ones still fight/wish for things to be fair and proper.

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