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Nah man, billionaires shouldn’t exist. It is literally impossible to amass that type of wealth without exploiting (stealing surplus value from) people working for you. Aside from that, it is more money than a person could ever spend and takes huge amounts of money out of the economy, slowing the velocity of money.

You should care, because it actively harms the economy to have that kind of wealth hoarding.

And I do vote, but that doesn’t help in a broken system built by people like this to enable and encourage exploitation. Do you really think that the people in power actually wish to hold people like this accountable? Of course they fuckin don’t, they’re the same goddamn people.

I work in tax and i can tell you the tax systems are broken once you pass a certain level of wealth most of us will never achieve in our lifetimes. This is by design.

I think that’s just more the nature of adaptations. Dune is an incredibly difficult story to adapt, and his version is the best adaptation that currently exists. It’s also subjective and your opinion is hardly the consensus.

Why are you trying to ingratiate yourself to billionaires that would squash you under their heel in an instant like an ant and not bat a fucking eye?

😧

The more the merrier! I have a compact SUV and park in the middle of the space :)

Literally! Anytime I go to Costco i intentionally go to the furthest spots because they’re likely to be open and I’m fully capable of and enjoy walking.

Fair enough! I appreciate that you’ve considered the possible bias

While its non-profit nature may prevent this kind of corruption because it isn’t publicly traded, there’s still the matter of influence from funding.

That being said it’s less likely to happen without being caught, what with the annual audit requirements of non-profits and auditors being required to report funders with significant influence.

Though crooked auditors do exist, sadly.

Sound advice!

Anyone know how to afford moving costs?

That’s because I want my computer to do what I tell it to, not to fucking guess.

You ever heard of a hyperbole?

So fucking stupid.

So you want me to just trust you that the clothes I’m buying will fit the way I want them after never actually having seen them at all, let alone on a real person? Like, if you’re using ai models, then the clothes on them are also ai and not real.

In any respect a long conversation is in order to see how you two can move forward honestly.

Aight dude

I definitely saw several comments that strike me as political, which is exactly my point, everyone has a different definition.

When every aspect of your life is affected by politics, everything is political.

100%

Internet by the people, and for the people, truly.

The problem is politics impacts everything and the word “political” means different things to different people.

To some, talking about being gay is political, even though to people who are in that community, it’s literally just talking about their lives.

If you allow wolves and sheep into a space, that is a wolves-only space.

(For context, I agree with you.)

Sure, if you think of it as purely semantic, or a zero sum game with no nuance, but it’s not.

Gotta be intolerant of those being needlessly cruel to those just trying to live their lives, and gotta be tolerant of those just trying to live their lives that don’t affect you, even if you find it cringey.