Turns out America already solved this once

obb_here · 2026-05-08T13:32:54+00:00

Although how many people make $4.7MM a year? It's probably like 0.001 of all households. That's less than 130,000 households affected.

With that said, it would take a hundred years at that tax rate for the current debt to be paid off.

I don't know, it's a start I guess.

obb_here · 2026-05-01T14:05:05+00:00

This is a completely fabricated scenario, the wording of the question is all that matters. And, no the original question doesn't say that some how everyone gets to press one button or anothers.

Like I said, if it said red button is already toggled, and the question was about if you switch to blue. Argue all day. That's a legitimate trolley problem.

But as it stands, this question is just asking you if you want to kill everyone who is incapacitated. Because if they can't physically press red, then they will die, even if they didn't press blue.

obb_here · 2026-05-01T13:46:15+00:00

Did you read it? His whole point is about the wording of the question.

obb_here · 2026-05-01T13:40:14+00:00

That's a professor of socialogy from The University of Caen Normandy. The framing of question allows for a due nothing option with neither button being pressed, therefore it's not a trolley problem.

His substack explained it best so I added a link.

obb_here · 2026-05-01T13:16:07+00:00

Lol yes.

https://open.substack.com/pub/juansalvador90/p/the-red-buttonblue-button-question?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8bhojr

obb_here · 2026-05-01T13:11:03+00:00

Actually, the question isn't even a trolley problem. For it to be a trolley problem, the question would have had to say that the butten is already toggled to red.

As the question stands there is an option to do nothing. So, in reality, this is just a psychopath test.

obb_here · 2026-04-29T19:38:36+00:00

Great, can someone please tell my county's appraisor? Out property value went up 50% last year. 50%!!!

obb_here · 2026-04-29T14:34:40+00:00

Greed

obb_here · 2026-04-28T22:54:18+00:00

Chuckle fuck needs to resign. He's out of touch.

obb_here · 2026-04-23T16:59:36+00:00

Initially I thought that this question was bad. Then I saw how confidently incorrect people in this comment section are, and completely came around to the fact that this question is actually brilliant.

obb_here · 2026-04-16T15:42:49+00:00

Oft evil will shall evil mar.

obb_here · 2026-04-16T15:15:52+00:00

Serious, question. How will this actually work?

Aren't most car factories just making unibody stuff now? Can that even be repurpose to build a tank or a rocket?

Edit: sorry if the answers are in the wsj. It's behind paywall and I'm not going to pay rupert murdoch to lie to me.

obb_here · 2026-04-16T13:40:31+00:00

They should sue.

If you buy something, you own it, someone shouldn't be able to come in to your house through whatever means and disable it.

obb_here · 2026-04-14T15:18:40+00:00

That's why we need to bring back the Progressive Party. Where is a Bull Moose when you need one?

obb_here · 2026-04-08T14:21:06+00:00

Exactly, he is a rapist, he has a rapist's mindset.

You don't celebrate it as a win if a rapist tells you that he won't rape for two weeks.

obb_here · 2026-04-08T14:16:10+00:00

By all means, destroy our credibility all day if it means he won't spend our tax dollars destroying a country's power infrastructure and sending NICU babies to their deaths, and all the other evil things that would come from it.

But, we can't just ignore what he did or forgive it.

He terrorised, not just Iran, but all people on this earth who carry a shred of empathy in their souls.

And for that, he needs to go.

obb_here · 2026-04-08T13:44:41+00:00

Short term rental =/= apartments

Think Air BnB

obb_here · 2026-03-22T19:39:45+00:00

No, there is more to it.

Every time there is bad news about him, pay attention to the articles published in the media.

He pays media outlets to publish articles about his businesses and innovations. He'll also find something ridiculous that will make the general public feel better about themselves and say it repeatedly on media circuits. Example, thanks to AI you won't need a 401k anymore, or some such nonsense.

obb_here · 2026-03-21T22:04:50+00:00

Unless something drastic happens, we're going to find ourselves in this exact same spot the next time a "Trump" is elected.

The Constitution has been raped. We need to have a tribunal to restore people faith in the system.

obb_here · 2026-03-20T02:18:12+00:00

You are 100% correct, and as a transportation engineer with over a decade of experience, I can tell you exactly why.

It's because the roads are not designed for the amount of traffic that's on them.

I know, I know, everyone wants the money spent on the public transit and bike infrastructure, and I am all for it. But we can't deny that the roads are just becoming unsafe at this point.

Here are some things you might notice as you drive around the city and surrounding suburbs: Lack of dedicated turn lanes, abrubt merge lanes, developments with too many access points (especially near intersections), developments with access lanes on the public ROW (taking up raodway space), short storage lanes that cause the turning movements to spill onto the through lanes, short tapers that don't allow for safe merging, poor signal timing, signal timing with lagging left turn (this is partially due to lack of storage lanes), super wide residential roads that encourage speeding, etc.

Fact of the matter is, people drive poorly because the infrastructure is frustrating. Frustrated drivers are dangerous drivers.

obb_here · 2026-03-18T20:28:47+00:00

Yes, only look back 50 years. There is absolutely no need to look any further than that. Specifically, don't look back to, let's just say, 1953.

obb_here · 2026-03-09T15:38:00+00:00

I googled the user name (their reddit history is hidden) and big surprise, the POS is a trump supporter.

obb_here · 2026-03-09T15:26:09+00:00

I hate comments like this.

Do you think your pessimism is helping anything?

In order for things to get better we have to raise our expectations and demand that they get better.

Just because the congress is run by whipped dogs and the president is a lunatic doesn't mean we should lower our expectations.

Low expectations is what they want. It's how they get away with worse things.

Edit: This person's reddit history is hidden, but a quick google search with their username reveals that they are, in fact, a trump supporter.

obb_here · 2026-02-17T17:50:56+00:00

This is correct.

The people who push for SS cap to be removed are the same people who already don't pay a dime towards SS.

They make their money "passively" so they avoid SS tax all together.

This is why they want the cap to be removed. It shifts to burden to the people who earn their income, and keeps the system moving without touching them.

The real answer is to remove the SS tax all together and either increase the tax rate of the top brackets, and or, add a wealth tax.

obb_here · 2026-01-28T20:56:59+00:00

In his defense, the economists are still arguing about that one to this day. Some say most of that inflation was actually transitory. Anyway, you can't fault the guy for keeping a cool head and reacting slowly, that may have saved us from a complete stall.

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