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PeriodicallyPedantic

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  • What would be a fair wage for the work you do? An actual dollar amount.

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  • The problem is loopholes, but I'm not a tax lawyer, which is why I provi such a vague answer.

    I think that ostentatious wealth is a sign you're not doing your share to help the society that supports you, so the disgustingly rich shouldn't exist. But I'm not opposed to a little inequality as reward for doing important work or going above and beyond, but what we have now is crazy.

    I wouldn't really say that California's tax is especially progressive compared to taxes in the past, like the golden age of the USA. But even then, lobbyists have opened so many loopholes that it doesn't even really matter what the tax rate is

  • What would be a fair wage for the work you do? An actual dollar amount.

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  • I don't know because I think if people got paid fair wages the world would look very different, and the cost of living calculations we currently use to determine fair wages would change in ways I can't predict.

    I think that with aggressive progressive taxes, we'd see the range of incomes get compressed, and lift lower incomes. I'm not entirely sure how that'd affect cost of living, it'd probably go up, but wages would go up more.

    But if I had to guess, if say everyone should be making between $100k and $300k, and I should probably be somewhere in the middle of that.

  • What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized?

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  • Any necessity of life. Any inelastic commodity.

    Edit:Upon rereading, I totally missed the spirit in which the question was asked. Whoops lol

  • Non preppers / Doomers. What's one small thing you're prepped for?

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  • House fire.

    (That's a lie, I'm not and I live in an apartment, but I plan on prepping for it)

  • What is the funniest one syllable word you can think of?

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  • What is the funniest one syllable word you can think of?

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  • Sorry Ubisoft

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  • I think the point of the saying is that they don't recognize the licensing a consumer product as a valid exchange of money for goods or services.

  • Sorry Ubisoft

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  • They have a few indie titles that are fun. I really liked Grow Home and Grow Up

  • How are you doing financially?

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  • Not sure if youre only asking Americans, but in case this is for everyone:

    I'm doing pretty well.Could probably scrape by for a year if my wife and I both lost our jobs.

    Mainly lucked into success:My boss from a summer job when I was in college knew the boss of an internship I was applying for, and put in a good word for me.They hired me upon graduation, but went under shortly after, however a large company was on a hiring spree right at that time and I landed a job there with a hefty pay bump. Then I got laid off there right as a local startup was on a hiring spree to increase their valuation because they were looking to be acquired by a major high-tech company, and they hired me, again with a hefty pay bump. They got acquired, and I started working on a team based on San Francisco. Because wages here were so much lower than the bay area, they were throwing raises at me because it was pennies to them. I've been there for over 10 years.

    As long as AI doesn't make my job redundant, I'll be good for the foreseeable future.

  • Selfish!

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  • 🤣

    But just in case anyone wants a serious answer: no, they're indistinguishable from a regular human on land. Can't swim tho (deep water kills them or something? I forget exactly).

  • Selfish!

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  • I believe that since at least the late 1800s with the prototype of the modern vampire, the novel Dracula described vampires eating solid food.Granted it was mostly done by a crazy vampire, but he didn't seem the bare any I'll effects for the effort.

  • Selfish!

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  • The "vampires can't go in the sun" is such a boring trope. I hate Nosferatu for introducing it. Dracula (not the OG vampire, but the prototype for modern vampires) could go into the sun just fine, it just suppressed their supernatural abilities. That's way more interesting

  • It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

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  • It's hard to find a very of any variety that isn't a raving douche

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    Hope you like socialism

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  • What is your favorite memory from spooky season?

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  • Naw I want it for my kid, glow in the dark and all, and I don't wanna pay a fortune for it 😭

  • What is your favorite memory from spooky season?

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  • It looks like it is out of print, I'm hoping that I still have it on a box somewhere, because it's selling online for stupid prices.

  • I just want to talk

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  • I think the key part is "the LEDs could be made dimmer, or the halogens brighter, the manufacturer chose not to".

    It makes sense for plain ol halogens to share the same socket as plain ol LEDs, because they function in the same way and are the same brightness.

    But bulbs of different characters probably should have different sockets, so that high-intensity bulbs of any kind (eg xenon, laser, led) cannot be used in a regular lighting fixture without the necessary hardware to make it safe.

    But here we have another problem - standardizing car parts is very beneficial to the owner because it makes repairing much easier and cheaper; if every manufacturer uses their own connectors for everything, then vendor lock-in would get that much worse and replacement parts would get that much harder to find and more expensive.If manufacturer we're encouraged or forced to use standards, and we're instead encouraged not to, then they'd all make their own proprietary connectors for everything forcing you to get all maintenance done at official dealership where they can charge extortinat prices.

    So it's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. I think all we can do is regulate the behavior we want to see, and fine manufacturers, garages, and drivers that violate it.

  • I just want to talk

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  • This is why regulations should be about the behavior they want to see and not the technology used.

    The goal is not to blind drivers; companies should be able to use whatever tech they want, but they should get fined every time their tech doesn't work as expected in the real world.

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  • The problem isn't LEDs though. The technology isn't what's making it bright.

    The regulation needs to be specific about what they want the end result to be, not about the specific technology used.

    Like: there should be a mode of operation where oncoming traffic at x distance, seated at y height, on level roads should not experience more than z brightness.