I would argue that even before the point where the conspiracies I mentioned were conclusively proven and accepted as common knowledge, it still made sense to seriously consider the possibility and not dismiss people doing so only because they were engaging in conspiracy theories (which absolutely happened). That mindset just helps them get away with it.
Not really, I always strongly disliked Twitter and the idea of something that's basically like Twitter never appealed to me. Might try that stuff eventually though.
Sure, but it works the other way around too; you can't automatically rule out conspiracy theories as false just because they fall into the category of conspiracy theories. This is itself a plausible conspiracy theory; that the trope of conspiracy theories being associated with crazy idiots, and the prevalence of very stupid conspiracy theories, is supported and encouraged to provide additional cover for the real ones.
This whole premise seems pretty scammy. The owner isn't paying for the property with their own money, the bank is mostly not using their own money as it was newly created by the loan, but they both get to share in the value of what was bought with it, just because they are a bank and a rich person. But now since the factual and legal premises of the loan are turning out not to be true, they collude with each other to hopefully keep it anyway if circumstances change.
This just isn't a good system for deciding who gets to own buildings in important locations to begin with. Even if everything had worked out and rents were kept at market rate with active businesses operating out of the building for the full duration of the loan, that's still a bad outcome because it means that the wealth disparity that is the core problem of our society has gotten that much worse, and the beneficiaries weren't even really limited by their own capital.
can learn how to be rejected without getting violent, or even mildly annoyed, anyone can. The reason people don’t is because they don’t want to
it’s because they’re pieces of shit and it reflects on their personality, and no one likes people who have a shitty personality
Rejection makes people feel bad as a rule. That's not an excuse for treating others badly, and there's ways to learn to have a healthier mindset, but I think it's worth mentioning that it's ok for people to at least feel the way they do and that having the "wrong" emotions in response to things doesn't make you a bad person. It just means you might have to work harder to make sure to treat others with decency.
I've read that there are more effective ways to deanonymize tor traffic that goes through exit nodes, as opposed to accessing onion services which is more secure
A bundler, a transpiler, a runtime (designed to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js), test runner, and a package manager - all in one.
Bun's single-file executables turned out to be perfect for distributing CLI tools. You can compile any JavaScript project into a self-contained binary—runs anywhere, even if the user doesn't have Bun or Node installed. Works with native addons. Fast startup. Easy to distribute.
It will definitely affect incentives, which is worth considering imo. With property taxes, there is some controversy, since someone can be forced to sell if their home value balloons past their income level, although it also has arguably positive effects like disincentivizing holding on to hoards of vancant properties and doing nothing with them.
I don't really know exactly how it would go, but my first thought is people would sell stocks more readily and often, both because they need to in order to cover taxes, and because selling triggering capital gains wouldn't be a thing to worry about anymore.
Part of the headache here is that this situation inherently props up a few monopolistic platforms, rather than allowing people to use whatever payment system is available in their own countries. Some of this can be worked around using cryptocurrencies – famously, the Mitra project leverages Monero for this very purpose, although I'm told it now can accept other forms of payment as well.
Hell yeah, I didn't know about Mitra. It sounds like it's a Patreon esque kind of deal with what the payments part is for.
Not quite as bad as property tax on a home, since that taxes the total value rather than just the difference between what you used to have and have now.
Good thing it's mostly reversible