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by wtcactus 1y ago
We don’t live with 1930s standards of housing, education, welfare, material wealth, services, etc, etc, etc. Compare the taxes you pay now with the taxes people paid in the 1930s.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
The title and the propaganda around this, is highly misleading. Iceland reduced the weekly working hours from 40 to 36. That’s it, it’s not some grand 4 work days a week experiment gone right as they are trying to paint it.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Yes, the ones that finance, develop and operate those tools to feed all humans, should absolutely be entitled to have more than the ones that do nothing and benefit from them. Otherwise, soon, those tools will not exist anymore.
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The Floppotron (2019) [video](youtube.com)
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by wtcactus 2y ago
They keep mentioning the RTX 3090 (with 24 GB VRAM), but the model is only 14.1 GB. Shouldn’t it fit a 5060 Ti 16GB, for instance?
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Yes, OLED burn in it’s still very much a thing and it didn’t improve significantly- or at all. You can see this YouTube channel (my go to when choosing monitors) and the tests they did on that particular subject: https://youtu.be
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Philip K. Dick should have been one of the 1st ones realizing that such a brilliant and creative work as that coming from Lem, could never have been created by a committee, much less by a communist one.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
His actions have real consequences for all the economy, stock markets can't simply disregard him.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
You should take one in Portugal, where it’s also government run…
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by wtcactus 2y ago
This all tariff imbecility created solely by Trump it’s atrocious, still, if EU response is to hit the main players in Nasdaq - where there are a lot of chip producers necessary for the ongoing AI revolution - we are just shooting ourselves
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Democrats have been saying exactly the same since Bush Junior was elected: "OMG, this will surely become an autocracy by the end of his mandate! There's no way we will ever have democratic elections again!" Really, I don&#x27
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I'm not sure if you realized, but you are not any kind of intellectual authority in any matter related to art. The idea that all artists are leftist is just imbecile, to say the least. You are just part - probably only a satellite - of
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Negative trends of what? Exchanging highly paid services for cheap goods? EU needs to start taxing heavily any services provided here by the USA. Having the USA moron in Chief pretending that the comercial balance is solely made of physical
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Well, Chinese don’t have proper elections so there, I don't know. But you can be sure that in the USA, this will all stop in 2 years with the midterms, and be reversed in 4 with the presidential elections. No one other than Trump’s fan
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by wtcactus 2y ago
“Buffett likened the situation to a wealthy family gradually selling off parts of its estate to sustain its lifestyle” Yet, actually the proper analogy, would be a wealthy family using their disposable income to buy products that make their
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I don't see this as being better or worse than all the reboots, remakes, and pointless sequels for movies that make the bulk (in financing) of Hollywood's present production: these also make the same "assumptions" of how
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by wtcactus 2y ago
But, Dadaism, for instance, was a far left movement. Its followers, were people that held radical or even far left views. [1] Marxism is really a cancer that destroys everything it touches. Its final aim was always to destroy everything tha
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by wtcactus 2y ago
That is general knowledge, but if you really want to go down that way of "where did you get this narrative from" to try and avoid the subject. Well, you can see it, for instance, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for star
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Erudite music (i.e. what we call classical Music)? I think it managed to hold off a bit more, we still have Bizet, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, even Stravinsky and others composing great (fantastic, in some cases) pieces in the first half of the
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The fact that this modern "art" needs to be subsidized by the people that actually works with their taxes, is all the argument needed to tell you that indeed this is nothing more than fake intellectualism. I'm not missing on
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I have a doubt for some years about the US, but never really got good info on it (maybe because it’s a silly doubt). So, when I sell something to the USA (on eBay) for instance. It doesn’t pay VAT automatically. Do Americans pay VAT when it
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The linked article is written in an absurd way. Clockwise is not a fundamental measurement, it's relative to the viewer. What the original article explains, is that this is relative to our observer point of view (obviously). It's
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I don't believe there's a single person in the USA that's so poor they can't pay $3 for toothpaste every 3 months. I also believe that having such a low personal hygiene where you don't brush your teeth altogether,
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by wtcactus 2y ago
There's no such thing as "free" when something is "given" by a public entity. It always costs the people that actually work and are forcibly taxed, something.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
They aren’t really scientists though, they are social “scientists”. I.E. someone that feels the need to validate their pseudo science as actual science in order to fake credibility.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I think there is a lot of denial going around right now. The present path of IA is nothing short of revolutionary, a lot of jobs and industries are going to suffer a major upheaval and a lot of people are just living in some wishful thinkin
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Did it really shatter their self image, or it just made every Dane realize that the tabu their society created against speaking badly on the absurdity high taxation they face is actually felt by everyone that is a net contributor of their s
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by wtcactus 2y ago
So, let me see if I've got this straight: - India had been practicing slavery since immemorial times [1] - Then, the British started ruling the place and after only 2 years in power they abolished slavery in all parts of India they con
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The worst offender in the present is India with 8 million slaves. Who do you argue is colonizing India at the moment?
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Colonization ended 50 years ago and yet, there were never as many slaves in the world as there are today. There are more than 40 million people enslaved now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Slavery_Index

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