damnthefilibuster @ damnthefilibuster @lemmy.world

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Don’t have time for a longer post right now. But here’s my question about the wealth tax -

Trickle down BS and Invisible Hand BS all say that if people have wealth, they WILL reinvest it. That’s the correct thing to do.

When you drive a car, the correct thing to do is drive safely and at a logical speed. If you do irrational driving, you get a ticket.

So why isn’t it logical that if you are participating in a capitalist economy, and not doing the correct thing of constantly reinvesting your money, then the govt should fine you for it?

Wealth shouldn’t just sit around and do nothing, specially in foreign bank accounts. If it does, it should be fined… or taxed.

external 14 TB drive that’s slowly failing. I don’t much care about the content on it. I will just download stuff again if it craps out.

Instapaper. I gave in and started paying for their subscription. It’s worth it. No other tool has come close to the simplicity, cleanliness, and power of Instapaper for me. It can handle most links, most ad removal, most paywalls.

The team became stagnant for a long time. But they recently declared they want to start reinvesting time into the product. That included doubling the premium pricing. But it’s the first change in pricing in almost 10 years. So it’s long overdue.

• LinkDing for bookmarks
• Memos for notes
• FreshRSS for rss
• homebridge to connect to IOT devices like Kasa Bulbs that aren’t on Apple’s Home service.

For iOS folks, a-shell and iSH can do what termux is doing on Android. Ffmpeg, most userland Linux things.

Both are open source.

Which one??

Haha no.

I dunno. It seems pretty clear that charged in this case means the government sicced the dogs on him for being a… checks notes… good Christian.

Keeps getting blocked of course. Gets into arguments frequently online.

W3s is where is starts for me. Then move to MDN for more specific and in depth things. W3s just gives the best examples and has that lovely playground for every documentation step.

Would love to see salt crystals too!

Anyways my point was invalid as you’re talking about New Yorker and not New York Times.

Has he made a statement to the contrary?

Talk to me about Babylon 5. What all is woke in it. Never watched it so I don’t know.

The utter lack of agility from the other major party in the country is mind-boggling. Congress has allowed AAP to fast become a national political party all while destroying any chances it had of regaining power from BJP in the Parliament.

I know it’s simplistic to say “just get rid of the Gandhis”. But seriously, get rid of the Gandhis. That’s the only way forward for Congress.

I read that as ASMR and was bloody confused for a good second.

1. Stop buying it. Starve yourself of it by just not having it around.
2. Keep a tall glass or bottle of warm water with you when you’re junking on content. Keep sipping it. Slowly. Over time you’ll finish the bottle and get up to pee. That’s there number 3 comes in.
3. Recognize another harmful pattern here. Is your approach to watching content affecting your mood or causing you to spiral into junk food addiction? Maybe cut down on the YouTube videos. Or if you enjoy them a lot, combine them with some other activity you can do with your hands - drawing, writing, lifting weights, anything. Basically understand that your hands are idle while your brain is engaged and that’s causing you to reach for that packet of food.
4. Recognize that junk food is an addiction. Deal with it as you would an alcohol or nicotine addiction. You can go cold turkey or taper down. But you have to commit. You have to hold yourself accountable. But do not let yourself get bogged down by failure. Addiction is difficult to deal with. Deal with it anyway.

Fuck you. Where’s the paid upvote on this platform? You deserve it.