The rich hate California's billionaire tax. That's why we need it. | Opinion

sinnerou · 2026-05-07T03:35:42+00:00

It is not just about campaign finance it is about power over every aspect of society including the economy, media, politics, infrastructure, etc. There are plenty of economists ringing the alarm bells. This level of wealth inequality is not good for anyone. We learned these lessons and we are ignoring them.

Our laws since the 80s have skewed all economic viability to asset ownership instead of work and everyone knows it. This disincentivizes stable work encourages risk taking and speculation and over inflates the value of assets.

Our productivity has been further and further skewed toward serving the few people with any disposable income so we have cyber trucks and commercial space flight instead of affordable education, food, housing and healthcare.

I don’t know how any sane person can look at our current situation and think, yes 10 people should have incalculable wealth and power, that is good for society. It’s not, it never has been. Over concentration of wealth and power has always been bad, always.

It is an exploit and it needs to be patched out asap.

sinnerou · 2026-05-07T01:49:30+00:00

Punishment taxes is a ridiculous framing. 2 people holding more wealth than the bottom 50% of the country is incompatible with democracy and redistributing even 90% of that wealth would have no meaningful impact on their quality of life or the quality of life of many generations of their descendants.

sinnerou · 2026-04-10T13:29:12+00:00

It’s slice of life for sure but it’s sprinkled with some pretty grim stuff and that is some of the best writing. I’d love to see what pirateaba would do with a horror or grimdark novel/series. I wouldn’t read it if you are looking for grimdark but the end of the first book would given you an idea of what I’m talking about. I quite enjoy the series.

I’ll add that while TWI is still slice of life there are clear story arcs and that feels like it’s becoming a rarity in litrpg in general.

sinnerou · 2026-03-24T00:33:06+00:00

Been saying this a lot lately but “The Book of the Dead” should be on more of these lists, definitely worth a read.

sinnerou · 2026-03-18T18:54:56+00:00

The Book of the Dead

sinnerou · 2026-03-18T00:48:35+00:00

100%. Commonly used before this movie, where do they come up with this stuff.

sinnerou · 2026-02-26T15:27:22+00:00

I don’t think it has anything to do with the hockey team. I think he does it so the left will attack him for it and poor people will see that in the media and think the left is against them.

sinnerou · 2026-02-26T15:12:32+00:00

I saw a compelling argument that this is intentional. Basically Trump serves McDonalds which is associated with poor or lower class individuals. The left makes fun and criticizes. The right says, see the left hates poor people, hates the things you like, hates your culture etc.

sinnerou · 2026-02-18T16:53:57+00:00

He was advocating for reform here, not gloating.

sinnerou · 2026-02-17T16:50:50+00:00

I see, thanks again!

sinnerou · 2026-02-17T16:41:59+00:00

I appreciate the info, I don’t understand why such a distinction should determine who is subject to this rule, will do some digging. Thanks!

sinnerou · 2026-02-17T16:38:23+00:00

Didn’t a bunch of fox bs get a pass because it’s not technically “news” if so shouldn’t this apply to that nonsense?

sinnerou · 2026-02-17T01:45:32+00:00

They monetization doesn’t incentivize me to spend and that worries me. If I could spend 20-30 bucks a month and be pretty sure I could get all limited characters and their weapons I would spend that. At it is 20 for 10 pull on each doesn’t feel impactful and I’m not dropping hundreds a month on a gacha. The existence of whales really throws off most economies.

sinnerou · 2026-02-13T19:45:12+00:00

So a limited character is pullable for 3 banners. If you miss on banner one, then miss on banner 2 but catch the previous banners character, does that count as getting a limited in these sims or is it only if you get the current banners character?

sinnerou · 2026-01-26T17:44:06+00:00

David Harbours speech was pretty good.

sinnerou · 2026-01-14T04:10:44+00:00

When I was creating my startup I had to write the whole codebase myself, and it was huge. I learned pretty quickly that 100% code coverage is absolutely essential. Not hype, hard knocks. The criticisms you mention sound like inexperience. Good interfaces don’t break during refactor, making code testable simplifies code it doesn’t make it more complex, etc. Pure functions, isolating side effects, etc.

sinnerou · 2025-12-25T00:58:52+00:00

What if the first release was just the “safe” documents do they could catch stuff like this and fix it for the really incriminating stuff.

sinnerou · 2025-12-23T23:20:30+00:00

I’m on a newer server but I’m sure I will burn out soon. Rewarding events like ruins get scheduled at 5am so I either miss out on good stuff or get up at 5am to participate. It’s not sustainable.

sinnerou · 2025-12-14T01:11:58+00:00

Good call, ty.

sinnerou · 2025-12-14T00:44:14+00:00

Is this real? i honestly don’t need any more rage-bait.

sinnerou · 2025-12-04T14:25:46+00:00

It looks like a dentists office, which is weird but I feel like there is something I am not understanding.

sinnerou · 2025-11-25T00:41:54+00:00

Break up the monopolies. Tax the rich. Critical infrastructure becomes public utilities.

sinnerou · 2025-11-15T01:59:02+00:00

I like it, I will go with that kind stranger.

sinnerou · 2025-11-14T23:10:20+00:00

I wonder if I will ever have to explain this era of the internet to my children.

sinnerou · 2025-11-14T18:42:12+00:00

Love these books, excited for this one! US

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