julietOscarEcho

joined 2 years ago

Gell-mann amnesia. Might have to invent a special name for the AI flavour of it.

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I once fired a 22 round through the middle of a polo mint without breaking it from 25m away. I framed that shit because likewise, knew that wasn't happening again. That's part of the fun of the sport as a an amateur, occasionally chance does funny things.

Not quite never. You just need the tax rate plus marginal change in lost benefits/increased obligations to exceed 100%. For example there's a breakpoint in the UK around childcare over 100k income that makes it way worth salary sacrificing to get below if you have kids. I can imagine there are similar niche things for small businesses around audit requirements or whatever, but not enough of an expert to know.

Do you think sitting on your arse claiming there's nothing to be done is more or less demoralising than singing in the streets with like minded people?

Maybe you work different than most humans, but I think the answer to that is pretty obvious for the rest of us.

US economic output is more than adequate to achieve this already, but we choose instead to concentrate the benefits in the hands of a few.

Regarding tarrifs bringing back manufacturing: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/trumps-tariffs-what-is-behind-them-and-will-they-work "but this is very unlikely to work. Manufacturing has changed, with production now spread across multiple countries in so-called ‘global value chains’. Moving whole supply chains back to the US is going to be prohibitively expensive, result in rising consumer prices and make US-produced goods internationally uncompetitive. The model of manufacturing that underpins Trump’s approach simply hasn’t existed for the best part of 40 years, and is not coming back."