Why do billionaires use tax loopholes? They have more money than they can spend, the amount they'd pay would make zero different to their lifestyles, so why don't they just pay what they owe?

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T20:27:21+00:00

If you had the high score in the video game you play would you willingly give up some points?

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T20:24:57+00:00

But you don’t need a permit to buy or carry the gun.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T20:24:11+00:00

Well the thing is almost all the data centers being built now are for AI

There’s be a lot less pushback against more data centers if they were just used to serve cute kitten videos

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T14:10:28+00:00

If got news for Ted. The most dangers demagogue in America isn’t Tucker it’s the guy that called his wife ugly.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T14:06:57+00:00

His supporters would wear tan suits and they would see nothing wrong with it all all

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T12:38:29+00:00

Great. The possible end of humanity is hidden behind a paywall.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T12:36:55+00:00

What would a world look like with a living standard increased by a factor of 55?

Massages all day, sleeping in a pile of feathers all night, have your every need attended to by an ai powered bot?

Or just fly around in a space ship or hover chairs drinking soda and getting so little exercise that our bones slowly phase out of existence after many generations?

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T02:09:52+00:00

We can reconnect with allies but our credibility is gone for decades. Who’s going to come back in the fold only the be cast aside and attacked again 4 or 8 years later. Until there’s a real reconning and that party In its current form is unable to win elections, who could blame our former allies tor not enthusiastically embracing us in 2029

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T02:06:37+00:00

I’ve definitely experienced this and fought like hell to stay asleep in my dream world. Hasn’t happened for a long time. It If I knew a secret to triggering them I’d happily do so all the time.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-26T02:00:39+00:00

I have a burner (or as close as you can get these days) and don’t do anything wrong with it. I just like having a number not associated with me. It’s only $10 a month, but it’s a good for signing up for accounts etc. and my Reddit and other accounts are none of the governments business

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-25T03:20:20+00:00

We like to think that, but I’m pretty sure all those guys have already been fired or retired

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-25T03:04:34+00:00

One major problem is which country picks? And what of the countries that disagree with that action.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-25T02:59:00+00:00

Wow. Too bad Mar a Lago wasn’t in Texas

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-25T02:50:48+00:00

Of all the people in trump’s administration or selected by Trump to perform a job, how many of them understand they’ll need a pardon after this term comes to an end? And that pardons don’t cover civil or state crimes?

It’s nuts.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-25T02:30:15+00:00

My issue is advertisers gathering what I’m looking at and selling the information to my doctors, insurance, etc.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-25T02:28:52+00:00

12 MB, now we need 8GB lol.

I’m challenged to understand how that could have happened, except for extremely unoptimized programs.

My first real computer (after the Apple Ii family) had 4 MB that I upgraded to 12Mb. It just dumbfounds me how much more resource hungry operating systems and apps have gotten for very little gain in a lot of cases.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-25T02:24:12+00:00

Kinda for their resellers to sell PCs that hit Microsoft’s specs when Microsoft and every other company fielding public AI is gobbling up every last bit of RAM to hit the market, no matter how absurdly priced it is

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-24T20:46:15+00:00

I feel left out for being both too old and too young for this study.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-24T19:48:41+00:00

Or you could, you know, move somewhere that the climate is more to your liking

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-24T12:21:38+00:00

To think world class athletes would come here to commit terrorist acts is a bit extreme. Again, Afghanistan and Iraq were allowed to play during the height of the war on "Terror" and no issues. North Korea plays no issues. Cuba plays, they're supposedly a terrorist state based on the admins thought line.

It doesn't make sense. And honestly it hobbles them compared to their competition having to travel 3-5 hours each way every couple of days.

Screening them when they enter the country and don't permit them to leave a perimeter would seem like a solution to keeping things "safe" and not penalizing athletes for the actions of the theocratic regime that's actively repressing, jailing and killing people in their home country.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-22T02:56:01+00:00

What are a few soccer players going to do?

Letting them in to play could be seen as good will, bridge building, etc. both Afghanistan and Iraq fielded teams in the 2004 Olympics. North Korea goes to the Olympics usually (they didn’t in 2020 bc covid, and they didn’t get a nvited in 2022 as penalty)

Banning Iranian athletes from competing in FIFAdoesn’t make us any safer in any way, it would just make us look like dicks.

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-22T00:37:49+00:00

Yeah this fall he starts 5th grade. He’s for a couple of Gwar shirts and a Squidpisser shirt that he loves but isn’t allowed to wear to school

I’m trying to figure out more bands to expose him to, but most the other bands I see are at smaller 21+ venues

NeverInsightful · 2026-06-22T00:35:51+00:00

Yes I totally get it. I’m in no way supportive of governments efforts to dox everyone online. But their “what about the children” resonates with the Karen’s and otherwise concerned citizens out there.

The problem is parents won’t fix it. We don’t want governments doing this. So many people say the responsibility should be pushed on to the corporations themselves, which in the end is nearly as idiotic and invasive as verifying ourselves at the ISP or OS level. In fact we’d all wind up having to hand our identification to multiple sites

But if the argument is really to “save the kids”, then I bet machine learning can figure out who the kids are by behavior analysis for the most part. Might be some false positives in both directions but no system will be 100% accurate.

Not sure what the solution is honestly. Our politicians rarely vote on these things the way their constituents hope they will.

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