Just a note. You don't pay income taxes on stocks. You pay capital gains taxes.
> Are taxpayers funding the government? Yes. It certainly isn't the billionaires as all their wealth wouldn't as the OP noted. > Last year, federal tax revenues were $3 trillion less than federal spending. A once in a…
Wrong. Business is about relationships. Be competent and do what is minimally required. Do extra networking or befriending your manager/boss/etc. People who get ahead build relationships. The slaves stick around to do…
> I sincerely doubt you would, since I asked you for the citation and we're discussing moderation in this thread. I will if I get assurances that I will not be penalized. > In the absence of this, what is anyone reading…
This is so sad. Stop trying to pretend you are a mod. > "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." That's precisely…
> If the US confiscated all of the wealth of the billionaires in the US (which would absolutely wreck the economy as well as that wealth, since much of that their wealth is tied up in stocks)...it would fund less than a…
> At some point public interest turned against cigarettes too despite moneyed interests being in favor of poisoning millions... Wrong again. The monied interests turned against smoking first and then the public followed…
Considering MAD existed and most nukes would have been dropped on the US and USSR, not Germany, I don't think that's the issue. We and the russians had far more to worry about than the germans. Of course MAD pretty much…
Maybe it's a temporal vs spatial vs cardinal issue. I'm sitting "between or in between" two people ( open boundary or exclusive or non-inclusive ). Seems spatial is always open boundary. Park your car between those two…
> There is no assertion in my post that the nazis invented unethical medical experimentation which would be absurd. But you asserted it's why we stopped. So your logic is we were okay with experimenting on black slaves,…
> The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys…
The nazis didn't invent human experimentation. Human experimentation happened in the US before the nazis. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cruel-medica... Also, we created the largest human experimentat…
> Is there any evidence this is actually true? Apple stock hasn't cratered so the markets don't think much of this story. > Literally every year at this time, Bloomberg or the WSJ reports that Apple is due to cut…
> could you provide a link to an example? I was going to link to an example but removed it before posting because I'd get in trouble. It's the "chilling effect" of censorship. You probably think I'm lying but actually…
So the definition of "nonconsenting prisoners" is "killing a person without their consent...". That makes every organ transplantation of prisoners "nonconsenting" since nobody consents to their own execution. It doesn't…
It's so strange to see the same people denouncing censorship everywhere celebrating censorship here. I know, I know. Moderation isn't censorship. Moderation is censorship you agree with. Censorship is moderation you…
In other words: Ignorance is bliss.
> Climate science is politicized because moneyed interests have a strong incentive to continue to deny the science and conservative individuals have both a shared financial interest with liberals to conspire with those…
So that's what dinosaur tastes like.
> You believing or agreeing that climate change is an existential risk to humanity makes no difference to the evidence we have. It's not me "believing", it's no sane person believes it. What "evidence" are you talking…
> Credit where credit is due, we all WISH nix had something like PowerShell. Who is "we". I've worked exclusively on a windows stack so used powershell on the job. But at home, I use bash. I don't want something like…
As others have pointed out in this thread, why doesn't india create their own tiktok or instagram instead? Just clone them if they can't come up with something new. Neither instagram nor tiktok is rocket science. The…
> The difference is of course Consequentialism. Which is just rationalization to justify something you agree with. > If you believe that your actions that will contribute to death and deprivation of future generations…
And of course this would affect all their properties including search. There was a time, long ago, when we expected objectivity from google in search, etc. Those days are long gone as google is a political actor. What's…
"This means that we will support Republicans, Democrats, and Independents - as well as candidates identifying themselves as Forward Party members." It's not a party. It's more of a organization to fund politicians who…
Just a note. You don't pay income taxes on stocks. You pay capital gains taxes.
> Are taxpayers funding the government? Yes. It certainly isn't the billionaires as all their wealth wouldn't as the OP noted. > Last year, federal tax revenues were $3 trillion less than federal spending. A once in a…
Wrong. Business is about relationships. Be competent and do what is minimally required. Do extra networking or befriending your manager/boss/etc. People who get ahead build relationships. The slaves stick around to do…
> I sincerely doubt you would, since I asked you for the citation and we're discussing moderation in this thread. I will if I get assurances that I will not be penalized. > In the absence of this, what is anyone reading…
This is so sad. Stop trying to pretend you are a mod. > "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." That's precisely…
> If the US confiscated all of the wealth of the billionaires in the US (which would absolutely wreck the economy as well as that wealth, since much of that their wealth is tied up in stocks)...it would fund less than a…
> At some point public interest turned against cigarettes too despite moneyed interests being in favor of poisoning millions... Wrong again. The monied interests turned against smoking first and then the public followed…
Considering MAD existed and most nukes would have been dropped on the US and USSR, not Germany, I don't think that's the issue. We and the russians had far more to worry about than the germans. Of course MAD pretty much…
Maybe it's a temporal vs spatial vs cardinal issue. I'm sitting "between or in between" two people ( open boundary or exclusive or non-inclusive ). Seems spatial is always open boundary. Park your car between those two…
> There is no assertion in my post that the nazis invented unethical medical experimentation which would be absurd. But you asserted it's why we stopped. So your logic is we were okay with experimenting on black slaves,…
> The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys…
The nazis didn't invent human experimentation. Human experimentation happened in the US before the nazis. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cruel-medica... Also, we created the largest human experimentat…
> Is there any evidence this is actually true? Apple stock hasn't cratered so the markets don't think much of this story. > Literally every year at this time, Bloomberg or the WSJ reports that Apple is due to cut…
> could you provide a link to an example? I was going to link to an example but removed it before posting because I'd get in trouble. It's the "chilling effect" of censorship. You probably think I'm lying but actually…
So the definition of "nonconsenting prisoners" is "killing a person without their consent...". That makes every organ transplantation of prisoners "nonconsenting" since nobody consents to their own execution. It doesn't…
It's so strange to see the same people denouncing censorship everywhere celebrating censorship here. I know, I know. Moderation isn't censorship. Moderation is censorship you agree with. Censorship is moderation you…
In other words: Ignorance is bliss.
> Climate science is politicized because moneyed interests have a strong incentive to continue to deny the science and conservative individuals have both a shared financial interest with liberals to conspire with those…
So that's what dinosaur tastes like.
> You believing or agreeing that climate change is an existential risk to humanity makes no difference to the evidence we have. It's not me "believing", it's no sane person believes it. What "evidence" are you talking…
> Credit where credit is due, we all WISH nix had something like PowerShell. Who is "we". I've worked exclusively on a windows stack so used powershell on the job. But at home, I use bash. I don't want something like…
As others have pointed out in this thread, why doesn't india create their own tiktok or instagram instead? Just clone them if they can't come up with something new. Neither instagram nor tiktok is rocket science. The…
> The difference is of course Consequentialism. Which is just rationalization to justify something you agree with. > If you believe that your actions that will contribute to death and deprivation of future generations…
And of course this would affect all their properties including search. There was a time, long ago, when we expected objectivity from google in search, etc. Those days are long gone as google is a political actor. What's…
"This means that we will support Republicans, Democrats, and Independents - as well as candidates identifying themselves as Forward Party members." It's not a party. It's more of a organization to fund politicians who…