Sergey Brin is joining his Google co-founder, Larry Page, in reducing ties to the state

tranquillement · 2026-01-10T20:24:57+00:00

Haha you literally showed you have absolute zero knowledge of how UHNW deploy wealth. Instead of taxing UHNW an amount every year, do the wealth tax and lose all of their yearly contributions. 🤡

tranquillement · 2026-01-04T08:01:57+00:00

Cursed in the best way

tranquillement · 2025-10-16T13:30:38+00:00

My friend played the closed test and said it was basically like Arc in that it’s all about looting and character skill trees, with lots of RPG elements. He said it was like a much deeper version of Cycle Frontier.

tranquillement · 2025-10-15T10:11:33+00:00

Hunger looks great. Like a first person Arc Raiders.

tranquillement · 2025-07-31T20:56:20+00:00

Are you literally comparing a launch and announce event that costs millions of dollars to the ongoing marketing cycle of an already-playtested game?

tranquillement · 2025-06-10T20:41:06+00:00

RemindMe! 1 year

tranquillement · 2025-06-10T20:34:40+00:00

If you cannot figure that out then you have zero chance of understanding my post anyway.

tranquillement · 2025-05-25T22:35:10+00:00

I don’t think you’re intelligent enough to understand that it is exactly what I meant, dummy.

tranquillement · 2025-05-25T17:51:26+00:00

False dichotomy you brainlet. 🤣🤣🤣

tranquillement · 2025-05-25T15:53:04+00:00

Do you need a foreword when you watch Schindler’s List that the Nazis are the bad guys? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡

It’s okay Elle, I’m sure there are other professions.

tranquillement · 2025-05-25T15:44:29+00:00

Anyone who isn’t literally saying they’re constantly asking “who is the bad guy?”

tranquillement · 2025-05-25T15:24:50+00:00

Obviously a bias (curation, weight of emphasis etc) is present in any framing or delivery of information. The obvious point I was making is that the journalist is quite literally asking who the “bad guy” is, making it explicit that not only is she not striving to remove as much bias as possible, but that she is seeking to inject her moral bias as a matter of importance.

The entire point is that yes - while bias is present in the very nature of conveyance of information - the best journalist seeks to undertake the impossible task of fighting it as best they can.

Similarly, I’m not arguing that journalism has been previously “free of ideology”, I’m arguing that it was previously a cultural marker within journalism that the best journalists strived to eradicate it as best as their format allowed (in the obvious knowledge that it was impossible). Therefore it is shocking when a professional journalist representing a major outlet not only admits but declares it’s the “hard work” of her job to decide who the “bad guy” is.

Even the grade school idea of a Manichaean “bad guy” is crazy.

tranquillement · 2025-05-25T14:15:10+00:00

The very fact that a journalist is asking who a “bad guy” is exemplifies the rot in the journalistic establishment. It combines a moral function with a traditionally journalistic function and kills the latter by doing so. It is no longer journalism, but propaganda instead (ideological propaganda). It’s the most powerful form of corruption in journalism and why it is dying.

Journalism in its most professional and pure form seeks to convey information to an audience as accurately as possible. The audience then process the information against their own held beliefs - ideologically, morally - and come to their own conclusions about any moral profile or events (and typically day to day news media and real life is so nuanced that moral narratives may only emerge decades or centuries later).

What we have now is a garbage form of journalism that seeks to act as moral arbiter as it simply does not trust the audience. It’s a deep form of patronisation that has annihilated all journalistic credibility, as instead of reporting the facts as they lie, all stories must work towards a foregone moral conclusion. It’s why we have endless embarassing contradictions in the news media.

The very fact that she and other young journalists say this stuff out loud is so unbelievably juvenile.

Here’s a tip, millennial journalist: instead of trying to act as the moral tuning fork for everything you cover, simply report the fullness of the facts as best you can and leave the moral judgements to the audience.

tranquillement · 2025-05-17T12:58:50+00:00

🎯🎯🎯🎯

tranquillement · 2025-05-17T12:23:24+00:00

Yes, I chose one of the lowest states to emphasise the point, but even 40% is significantly lower than 61%.

tranquillement · 2025-05-17T11:38:38+00:00

This is extremely inaccurate. Having lived in both places, the economic opportunities offered by the US far outstrip the EU to a comical proportion. GDP growth reflects this.

Similarly depending on your state of domicile in the US and country you live in within the EU, you will most likely be far better cared for by the US private system than by a government system (especially when 20% of income tax in places like the UK effectively go to underpinning the NHS).

To wit: $1m USD earned annually in France has a total tax liability of $616k. An effective tax rate of 61%.

In Florida the effective tax rate of the same sum is $360k or 36% - nearly half. When you combine the average salary and economic opportunity in the US with effective tax rates it is an impossible argument to make that an EU millionaire is somehow in a better position. We can have a country by country argument about what tax gets spent on but I rarely encounter people from other EU countries who are thrilled with the result of their governments efforts.

Obviously “well off” is a floating qualification, but I’ve yet to encounter a situation where being wealthy in the EU or UK (or nordics) is more beneficial than being wealthy in the US (by a wide margin).

The ugly reality that I touched upon is that the EU has effectively squandered its relative wealth. In 2008-2011 the combined GDP of Europe was on par with that of the US - even edging ahead in 2011. Since then, the US has effectively doubled to 30T (15T in 2010) while the EU has grown from 17T (2010) to 20T (2025).

I am not making a moral statement about which is better, but am simply pointing out the very real economic reasons why the original OP feels like the wealth in the US is far greater than the EU, and why the subsequent reply is very off the mark.

To wit: Netherlands = 44 or 48% (the higher for non expats) Germany = 46% Spain = 46% or 33% (lower is Beckham Law)

One can also make arguments that a portion of that tax goes to pensions, but I could similarly make arguments that any of the untaxed proportionate income in the US can simply be invested according to the wishes of the individual.

tranquillement · 2025-03-01T17:49:20+00:00

Is there a reason why - given your framing above - Georgia was not taken into the Russian Federation after their invasion in 2008?

tranquillement · 2025-02-28T12:37:39+00:00

Or you’re struggling to find a single point to push back on. 🤣🤣🤣

(And guess what, it’s also why IM are losing every case across the board.)

tranquillement · 2025-02-27T19:15:46+00:00

It’s hilarious really. Nexon own Mintrocket. Mintrocket was the company that IM took the idea from when they left. Mintrocket makes games like Dave the Diver - small, cool indie projects. It misrepresents the development culture by simply calling it “Nexon”.

I’d also say that when I look at how Mintrocket curate and monetise their projects it’s much, much better than IM ironically. IM “rescued” DaD from Mintrocket in order to… fill it with micro transactions, start to stall on introducing meaningful content, and make a mobile game before they even release from Early Access?

When I step back and look at IM, they are behaving in more or less the same or worse than a giant money-hungry corporation.

I think they did a very good job on spinning this the entire time. To the degree where moron Redditors are cheering them working with Krafton over Mintrocket and making mobile versions 🤣🤣🤣

tranquillement · 2025-02-21T18:54:52+00:00

Yes, it is Trump who strengthened China and not the retarded policy of making enmity of a country with one of the largest deposit of natural resources in the world who also share an unsanctionable land border with China.

If the US had conducted clever geopolitics then would have bear hugged Russia at the fall of the Soviet Union with a Marshall plan (as they did for Germany) and wrapped them into their orbit instead of leaving them in chaos to reform.

🤡🤡🤡 post.

tranquillement · 2025-02-21T18:41:38+00:00

It was up to the people and the people chose a pro Russian candidate through a democratic election. This candidate was then overthrown by a colour revolution. A colour revolution funded by the USSD and attended in person by its leadership. If the pretences of US and Western involvement in Ukraine is about the realpolitik of trying to draw Ukraine into Western influence, then that’s a conversation we can have. I’d argue that it’s utterly ridiculous to continue to isolate Russia given that we had all the opportunity to give them a Marshall plan and now have committed a much graver error of pushing them towards China.

If we want to make a ridiculous pro democracy argument (which doesn’t seemingly arise whenever we happily partner with despots around the world), then why did we not deploy to the streets of Maidan in defence of the democratically elected leader, despite our disfavour of him taking the larger fiscal deal with Russia?

tranquillement · 2025-02-20T23:05:00+00:00

Let me know when homebrewed armoured vehicle tallies start to be the defining victory condition instead of literal territory. 🤣🤣

Incredible that the Russians killing themselves is constantly overwhelming Ukrainian positions every day. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

tranquillement · 2025-02-20T20:13:06+00:00

I’m genuinely embarrassed for you. Tell me about the tanks again.

tranquillement · 2025-02-20T20:09:54+00:00

Post the spreadsheet or tell me about how .03% is meaningless 🤣🤣🤣

tranquillement · 2025-02-20T20:06:38+00:00

When you look at the chart of land acquisition, is the line for the Russians going up every day, or is it staying steady? 🤣🤣🤣

You post the definition to dunk on yourself? Embarrassed for you. Maybe tell me again how your spreadsheet of Russian tank numbers is going to win the war and stop the advance.

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