Amju Wolf

Have you considered drinking unsweetened stuff? Either plain water, or “flavoured” water. Basically soda without any sugar or sweeteners. It’s surprisingly tasty, and pretty much as healthy as pure water.

Alternatively there are tons of different sweeteners. Some like stevia should be fine even if you have issues with, say, aspartame.

I mean, that’s somewhat dependent on the coffee/tea. But yeah, if you have good quality, then the taste doesn’t get masked by sugar.

FFS. That’s not how any of this works. I’m kinda tired of pointing out the issues because your mind is clearly set, so it’ll be just a few.

Example: you own 3 businesses worth 500 mil $ each (or whatever combination makes sense to you). To make business in a country with this mindset or even travel through it, you can only own up to 999 mil so you either give away 501 mil worh or you are banned from said country.

Ahh I see. My bad, that’s even dumber than I thought. For starters, you do realize that net worth is a made up number that cannot actually be calculated, right? It’s an educated guess, at best.

There is a lot wrong with this thinking, like the fact that “net worth” is not some official number you can actually calculate, it’s just a guess.

Your argument is in bad faith because you‘re not actually in the position to be affected by the negative impact of this

So because (you think) it doesn’t affect me I can’t voice my opinion on it and it’s automatically bad faith because I disagree? Wow, what a way to discuss.

If your idea led to a change in economy (which it most definitely would), it would affect me. It’s kind of sad you don’t realize that that is a possibility. Comparatively tiny changes in taxation have had massive impact on some industries, companies, and thus the people employed there.

Billionaires arent smart, they start privileged and are ruthless. We dont need ruthless to survive as a species, nor do we need it to live a good life. I say we need to get rid of it to survive.

I see you’ve met a lot of rich people and know how they operate, why they do what they do, and that all their wealth has been obtained immorally to say the least. That kinda tells me all I need to know.

Additionally, in opposition what daddy corpo tells you, competition is what makes things evolve. All companies that have killed off competition have slowed down improvement, made everything worse for the customers. Competition between companies is what keeps them improving, not monopolisties.

I’m talking about competition for your country (or whatever region that would enact such rules). That’s not a good thing, not for the people living there who would (supposedly) push for such change.

Like, look. I get your sentiment, I also don’t like how companies evade taxes and that there’s a squeeze on the middle class where a tiny fraction ascends to the 0.01% of wealth while everyone else is pushed towards poverty. That all sucks and should be addressed. But the way you think it can be fixed is just nonsense and sounds like something a 15 year old with no idea how the world works came up with.

That makes absolutely no sense. For one, it’s not like there are people who have a billion dollars salary - that’s just not how it works.

Second, if you make a hard cutoff like that you disincentivize producing anything above that cutoff, so nobody would ever bother actually making that money if you take it all away anyway.

Third, if your taxes are too too drastic you’ll just drive those people and their investment (which - like it or not - still usually has some positive impact) away creating competition for yourself in regions with less strict taxes effectively kneecapping yourself.

I’m not against them but there are definitely better places for solar panels (like rooftops), and replacing valuable topsoil with anything is a bad idea.

Meanwhile solar energy plants where I live took up valuable agricultural land and they spray the topsoil with horrible herbicides because mowing it is too much work.

It’s best for the environment, period. It has good properties and you can grow a ton of in a given area.

The only better alternative would be to actually lower oil consumption, but that isn’t going to happen.

I mean if it has the potential to kill the value of real CSAM that’s kinda a win though… Sure, it’s disturbing, but I’d rather people don’t actually get abused in order to create such content - which will inevitably happen anyway.

OIC, makes sense.

Which, as I understand it, is kinda the point of the bills too. As in, if there is documentation and it’s reasonably easy to dis- and re-assemble, there can be a (bigger) market for spare parts.

There is nothing experimental about self-hosting Zigbee stuff. It’s an open protocol, so as long as the devices follow it (at least somewhat correctly) you can work with it.

And the actual “hard work” has already been done by others - Zigbee2MQTT, for example, supports over 3000 devices, so the ground work of having device definitions with easy use has already been done. What Matter aims to do is to provide standards for devices so that they all have some minimal basic functionality, expose the same fields in the same way, etc. so you don’t need a hand-maintained library like that. There isn’t even really a reason to be skeptical; considering all this stuff already works well enough, it can only get better.

It can definitely be hard or tiring, but you wouldn’t be an early adopter. It’s like saying that switching to Linux now (or even 15 years ago) would make you an early adopter. It wouldn’t; it already works, plenty people have done it, but that doesn’t mean it won’t get better with time or that it’s easy or for everyone.

I like how your rebuttals both say that supplements are both not able to give you vitamin D but also simultaneously a risk of overdose.

You do realize that you can be both chronically deficient of something while also acutely overdosing on it, right?

Pretty much all LED “lamps” are made of many separate LEDs. Nothing would prevent you from having a few UV LEDs in there.

Or if you are technically inclined you can buy Zigbee or Z-Wave stuff, get your own dongle for it and run Home Assistant on your home server, and do everything 100% locally and it can still be really “smart”. You can also do anything with it. But it’s definitely not for everyone.

Hopefully Thread/Matter will help with this, which is an initiative to make interoperable smart home … stuff.

But you can do that in vanilla JS, too.

Even better, don’t use JS at all if you don’t have to.

You can write shitty code in TS too.

100% agree. Typescript is just a bandaid on top of a broken language. Sure it’s better than bleeding, but it’d be preferable not to get injured in the first place.

And you can still apply the bandaid wrong.

I also noticed a significant decrease in quality of content on Reddit on the subs I used to enjoy. The people who used to post and comment on there just simply don’t, and garbage posts get to the top of my front page much more. I consciously decide to use it less (even though my mobile app of choice, Relay, still works for free for now), and it’s not even all that hard.

Doesn’t help that middle management feels threatened since it is becoming obvious that nobody needs them. You can pretend like you’re working when people are in the office, but suddenly when noone needs you?