Your premise is flawed the only reason it falls under the principles of inelastic demand is because of the way our country is structured for cars, if you use the tax to make systemic changes, making public transit and walking/biking possible this is no longer true.
I'm not saying it's an easy transition but it is a necessary one and Norway and Denmark proves it's possible
It's hard for me to self evaluation how often I'm right but if I'm asserting something with confidence I hold myself to rigorous proof.
If I'm just chatting about beliefs it's a bit different but if I'm asserting something as fact I try not to say anything I can't show the receipts for to check myself for misinformation.
If this process is too much work I just say nothing.
Fucking hate capitalism's need for infinite growth, flat sales means you're doing exactly the same as you were doing last year, if it was sustainable last year it's sustainable this year
Especially for a company that is little more than a platform
Sorry guess I should have been more clear. All of your examples are opinions as in not demonstrably fact.
I don't particularly mind any OS one way or the other I'll use the best tool for the job. What I'm saying is a bad take are your proposed scenarios on piracy and ads which there's no evidence to support, in fact there's a lot to the opposite.
This would make what you said an opinion and by my point of view a "bad take". Does that make you wrong to express them? No and I never said as much.
So I guess I just lost the thread on your point because all of those are just opinions. I was just using a colloquialism. Which brings me back to my point that usually when I see people get heated it's because people are being bigoted.
I use notepad almost daily and I haven't noticed any crashing or slow downs. Not all increases in size are bloated I find many of the features they added to be extremely useful and 3MB is hardly consequential
Just saying things "as a test" is indistinguishable from defending it online. Things like body language, tone and intent do not come across as easily.
That being said toxic people exist everywhere on the internet it's a flaw in our biology, we haven't adapted to communicating this way yet.
That being said there's a difference between a bad take like your above examples and condoning oppression and marginalization as some political groups have do.
Unfortunately much like America we have a system that punishes split votes with this is mind the question becomes less who do you want and more who do you really not want?
Trains and trans are a more cost effective and environmentally friendly way to transport the masses. It can work to a surprisingly small populations as evidenced by all of the small disparate towns in Switzerland, Norway and Denmark that depend on them.
Of course no solution works everywhere but cars should never be our first option.
7600x and 6950XT over here, all I see is red!