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Not sure Dr. Oz would have been any better, though...

Sure, but that's not what's going to happen as a side effect of taxing unrealized gains, like what was discussed in this thread until now. A gradual transfer of ownership to the workers would have to be nudged in some other way.

In competitive industries (read: tech) this does happen to some extent in the form of stock being part of the compensation, but that's not going to happen organically for every employment situation.

Most countries don't pay their farm workers below local minimum wage, and yet somehow they produce food.

It is often done by foreign workers, though. Just above board, above or at minimum wage, which goes a lot further in their home countries.

Give up control to whom? Some megacorp with infinite money would just buy a majority stake (often referred to as a hostile takeover) and wind up owning everything to an even larger extent than today.

Running copper between different buildings like that is risky, because if they have different ground potential you could get current traveling through the cable and zapping the equipment. A lot of people use fiber for those runs for that reason.

If you want to solve your issue as cheaply as possible while eliminating the aforementioned risk, move AP2 to where AP1 is and replace AP2 with a PoE-powered access point. This will ensure all devices are powered from the same house, and you get rid of the failing device.

I'm not afraid of voicing my opinion, but what's the point? Everyone is firmly in their trenches, so at best you get approving nods, at worst you get an argument which is equal parts futile and frustrating.

The only times I mention it is when my opinion is across the grain. For example, whether to require voter ID is a hot topic, and in my opinion it's being discussed all wrong. Why is no one pointing out that everyone should be able to get a proper ID? That's the real problem we should solve. So much stuff other than voting requires ID, so life must suck if you don't have one. Let's fix that!

The issue with realizing the gains is that you have to relinquish control of your company bit by bit. However, you could have the company (which you likely control) give out dividends, or you could use the stock as collateral for a loan. Or just pay yourself a bigger salary.

The state is a pretty big employer, so that portion might be held back for a while. That would still have to be paid by the end of the year, though.

Somehow property taxes are okay, though, even though we haven't realized the gains!

Yeah, that's fair, but what I mean is that at some point the slur just takes over. When you hear the B word you no longer think about a female dog. Westerners usually don't think Buddhism when we see swastikas either.

From https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/mayoral-election-first-round-results-cuomo-mamdani/:

In this ranked-choice primary election, Lander cross-endorsed Mamdani as his number-two pick, meaning that many voters who selected Lander are likely to send additional votes to Mamdani in the final tally.

So I'm guessing Cuomo didn't think round two was going to do him any favors.

I've only ever heard that used about people, as a slur.

If it's a matter of days you could probably just lie about the timing of your last period. Those weeks are calculated from the date of your last period, not from the date of conception, so as long as you're the only one who knows your cycle you could probably lie a little bit.

Which also makes a 5 week deadline more insane than most people realize. Given a steady 4 week cycle, you have 1 week to realize your period is late, schedule and perform an abortion. A lot of people do not have a steady cycle, and those may very well not notice until it's too late, even if they track their cycle.

You're all complaining about the gaps, but I once walked into a bathroom which had 5ft doors. The moment I walked in I locked eyes with a guy taking a dump.

Not the most famous by any means, but about 30 years ago I saw an episode of Cheers where Frasier Crane's ex-wife was trying to win him back, and she supplies her phone number through a singing doll. The doll repeated the number so many times that I still remember it: 555-6792.

The first was probably Duke Nukem 3D, released January 29th, 1996:

https://dukenukem.fandom.com/wiki/Water_mechanics_in_Duke_Nukem_3D

If you consider their hacky approach to 3D cheating (they didn't support one part of a level to be above another, and implemented looking up/down by just distorting the image, so all corners were too pointy), then you'd have to wait a few months for Quake.

The first actually 3D first person game was Quake, released June 22nd, 1996, and it let you swim:

https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/Water_(Q1)

Soapy water! And a filled kiddie pool at the end of the runway to stop.

It looks like you're relying on media automounting to access the drive, but this is happening too late for Docker.

I would suggest creating the empty folder and explicitly adding the mount to /etc/fstab instead. This should mount early enough, and even if it doesn't it needs an empty folder for the mount point anyway.

Edit: Make sure you reference the partition by UUID, because the device name of USB devices sometimes change after a reboot.

If they voted for Netanyahu they asked for it, and I have no sympathy.

I think it might be boiled.