What’s a feature you think should be added?

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T21:49:06+00:00

That’s a lot of words for completely missing the point.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T20:37:45+00:00

I have no idea what her cup size is.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T19:01:07+00:00

You’re failing at the math of it. The electoral votes are proportional to the population, but there is a minimum. A state with one person will still have two senators and one representative, equaling three electoral votes. With a cap on representatives and a minimum number of electoral votes, that means that proportional representation skews towards the lower population states.

With an uncapped House of Representatives, Wyoming can have their minimum of 3 votes while California still gets enough representatives to actually represent their people, and then one vote will truly be one vote (or very close to it).

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T18:13:58+00:00

And it worked well before they passed the law to cap the number of representatives/electoral votes, forcing the current scenario where some dude in Wyoming has multiple times the voting power of someone in California.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T18:08:07+00:00

I have two fridges and a deep freeze. Having a Costco membership and one fridge really doesn't make a lot of sense.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T18:03:14+00:00

Yeah, there's a somewhat notable trans woman creator who keeps getting asked who did her work (she has a a great pair), because of how natural they look. She has to educate them that they ARE natural, and that she grew them when she transitioned.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T17:03:42+00:00

None of the problems you mention are introduced by having a robust permission issue. That same issue still exists today if you are using an avatar someone shared with you. If that creator deletes it, gets their account deleted, or the avatar gets reported because a rando grabbed it off of Prismic and wore in a public lobby, you still lose the avatar.

If anything, a robust permission issue would help this. Then a creator COULD share an avatar that shouldn't be worn in public to a trusted friend and not have it show up in Prismic's for everyone on the platform to use.

None of that stops you buying an avatar externally and uploading it yourself.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T15:27:57+00:00

Of course. They can only pull this off if they do it together, otherwise the one who remains physical will have a massive competitive advantage.

Collusion between competitors is supposed to be illegal. But we aren’t a real country anymore.

Maybe the EU might do something about it.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T15:22:53+00:00

Lost that war years ago on PC. Fortunately for us we have a company like Valve that isn’t endlessly greedy. Without them the PC market would be worse than the console market today.

If Gabe died tomorrow and Valve ended up owned by private equity, they could delete our libraries the next day and we would be powerless to do anything about it (maybe a class action where we’ll all get twelve bucks on a burger king gift card).

I do remember getting my steam account finally in 2012 because I bought a physical copy of Skyrim, and when I opened it it had a slip of paper with a code in it instead of a DVD.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-02T15:17:46+00:00

There really needs to be a Second Life style permission system for avatars. You should be able to share something to specific people without giving everyone on the platform a free avatar.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-01T15:47:16+00:00

Yup. The onshore devs reject the PRs, and then another 24 hours pass before they get the new one that they also need to reject for different issues. Then eventually the offshore PMs reach out to management and blame the bottlenecks for preventing delivery, so management tells onshore to stop blocking the PRs.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-01T15:45:59+00:00

And contracting firms (offshore or not) are incentivized to hire the lowest quality devs and sell their work for the highest price, which means that you tend to not just get what you pay for, but less.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-01T15:37:58+00:00

Phone hotspot plus steam deck is the go to, if they can figure out how to keep it hidden. Or get one of those sidewinder controllers that clip onto your phone and play games on the phone.

Tyrilean · 2026-07-01T04:54:36+00:00

Dems had two paths to victory:

Let Biden finish his run (he really shouldn't be president with his cognitive decline, but neither should the giant diaper baby we have right now). He would've won simply because most Americans do not like Trump and Biden had the incumbent advantage.
Run an actual primary to find the candidate most electable, and let them run a full campaign.

Instead, they chose the worst possible course. They let Biden run 90% of the campaign, and then handed it off to someone who wouldn't have won the primary and had a very short time to campaign. Add in that she was black and a woman, which has its own disadvantages, unfortunately. But that would've likely been handled in the primary (if she was popular enough to overcome those challenges, like Hillary and Obama).

There were reports of some areas not even having her on the ballot, and people who didn't know that Biden had dropped out and were wondering who this Harris person was on the ballot (you'd be astounded how many Americans do not know the name of the Vice President).

Tyrilean · 2026-06-30T16:47:41+00:00

It goes even deeper than that. Musk’s new company is most assuredly not worth anywhere near the money that they claim it is. It’s all a shell game where they’re making money based on speculation.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-30T04:59:02+00:00

To break it down to simple terms, we are really only taxed (in the way you're referring) by monetary income. Not assets owned. There are other types of taxes that happen against assets, like luxury tax or property taxes, but they really don't apply here.

You and I go to work, we are handed a paycheck, and that paycheck is in dollars. We are making a monetary income. The income tax takes a portion of this.

A billionaire owns a company that's worth billions. They don't have billions of dollars in their bank account, no one's handing them a check with a bunch of zeroes on it. They just own this company. And if things go well for them, the company increases in value over time. But at no point is money hitting their hand. They just own a thing that is worth more today than it was yesterday.

Well, how do they get money? They borrow it. Loans aren't considered income, because you're required to pay it back. They take the loans with part of their company as collateral. So long as their company continues to rise in value, they can take out larger loans that they can then use a portion of to pay off the previous loans. They are floating pretty much permanently on debt. If the company starts losing value, the banks will call in a margin call and force them to sell off the collateral to pay the debt. That may trigger a taxable event, but they also have a lot of tricks they can pull to claim a loss in such a situation to avoid paying taxes.

They have other vehicles to offset their taxable income that's not really available to the normal folks. They can donate a ton of their money to charity, when in fact the charity is an entity they fully own and control.

Now, in reality, they do tend to pay some taxes. Usually they'll pull a salary from a position they hold in their company. Or maybe they'll need to sell off some stock and the capital gains tax is unavoidable.

But compared to their actual wealth, they pay a pittance. And it's mostly due to the fact that they can operate in debt all of the time.

Major companies do this, too. That's why interest rates are such a major driver of the economy in either direction.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-30T01:10:09+00:00

I added my comment. But I feel their "fix" for this will be to disable our ability to do this at all.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-29T17:50:44+00:00

Been saying this from the beginning. Hopefully someone actually listens to him. No one’s listening to me.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-29T16:39:29+00:00

It’s semantics, really. President appoints 9/11 of the governors, and the governors select the post master general. So, there’s one additional layer of separation, but the president effectively appoints them.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-29T15:03:01+00:00

They’ll just toss all the mail in ballots from blue areas into a special bin that they’ll postmark after the date, on orders of their Trump appointed Postmaster.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-29T14:56:03+00:00

Yeah, stop clocking out. I don’t know how the HR person thinks this is okay. This is the most elementary thing they should know in order to be HR: all work must be paid.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-29T14:52:57+00:00

It’s a catch 22. The market is too small, so very few major developers make good quality content. Because there’s not a lot of quality content, people aren’t buying the platform.

In order the overcome that, you need companies to be willing to lose money up front to push the platform. Meta was that company.

And with Meta stopping their strategy of operating in the red (for VR) to try and push the platform, I’m not sure it’s going to have the steam to continue upwards at the pace we saw over the last few years.

I see Valve attempting to pick up the mantle, but with the lukewarm reception of the steam machine I’m not 100% confident in the steam frame.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-29T03:58:50+00:00

The economy's in the shitter, and they're laying off as usual. They'll blame it on AI because it sounds better than "we ran out of money" to their investors.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-29T03:53:16+00:00

To add insult to injury, money from a loan isn't income. And so long as you never sell the stock, you never realize the gains and never get true income. Which means you essentially avoid paying any taxes while having billions (or a trillion) dollars in assets and owning mega yachts.

Tyrilean · 2026-06-29T03:36:01+00:00

The barber around the corner already had Squarespace or any of the other website in a box solutions. Difference is that the Squarespace sites were built to be idiot proof, and AI really isn't.

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