I think the only actor I absolutely can’t stand because of RL actions is Mark Wahlberg.

Dude committed multiple hate crime assaults before he was famous. Then he tried to brush them off as water under the bridge when they surfaced, without even giving reparations to the guy he partially blinded.

And then he repeatedly plays the “misunderstood heart of gold tough guy” in all his movies.

Just can’t look past it.

They also murder other insects.

My brother genocided his yellow jacket population because they were murdering his bees (small hobby farm).

A few months later, there was a massive spider and other bug bloom. Like out of a horror film. Everywhere.

They’re an important part of the ecosystem. But they’re also assholes.

It’s really just a way for former coworkers thatdon’t know your personal email or phone, or don’t feel comfortable using them if they do, to reach out to you if they have an opening or are looking for one after a layoff or something urgent.

And they also got tangled easy, caught on things, and winding them up to put them away was annoying.

Also a very litigious society. Even if they mean well, going off the page and trying to figure out a “Haus” solution is just putting themselves at risk.

They have to check all the boxes for your insurance. They have to check all the boxes for their own malpractice insurance. Even if they followed procedure, they might get dragged through the legal system to defend themselves if a client feels wronged.

That turns you, the client, into a number in a dispassionated machine.

And I don’t have a solution to it.

Edit - that was a bit too bleak. There are a lot of doctors trying their best to retain humanity in a system aimed at destroying it. The whole med school journey is aimed at weeding the people out who are just in it for the money. It’s designed to gatekeep the industry to require a massive amount of passion to get your foot in the door. But the realities of the industry do their best to squash that.

I consider it animal abuse, but I can understand that there’s an argument that it’s not. I think the distinction of requiring scientific evidence supporting their claim is a reasonable requisite to allow the discussion.

It seems like things worked out here. My knee-jerk reaction would be to classify vegan diets in carnivor pets to be animal abuse and probably would have reported. But discussion happened to allow for discourse, and they rolled back the decision to at least allow for transparency.

And to be clear, I still think it is hands down animal abuse and hope that others come to the same conclusion. Animals don’t have the ability to make an informed choice. Subjecting them to a dangerous diet to satisfy your own niche moral compass is evil.

It’s not about you, it’s about the animal. Get over yourself.

But again, I think it’s OK to have the discussion, and I hope the community buries their side into oblivion.

Also a word thing to focus on during a World War.

You forgot the open carry

Oof. They even have a photo of Trump’s dad with a Hitler stache in 1950.

And the American people voted his son into our highest office.

Wild.

I find it useful at a glance, specifically when I don’t recognize a niche source. There’s a lot of “alt” media under random names. This helps flag them.

For mainstream, you can easily make your own call. You should be exposed to enough of it.

The fuck? I’m an elder millennial, and I was PvPing my entire life. First over serial cables, Doom 2, Dune 2, Warcraft 1/2, C&C/Red Alert, Heretic/Hexen off the top of my head.

Then internet gaming came along in middle school. Ultima Online, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, CS (HL2 mod), etc.

And that’s just PC. Shit ton of local pvp on consoles from the start. Spy vs Spy on NES is the first console heads up pvp that I can remember.

I just don’t play much PvP now because I’m old and don’t have the energy or free time.

And into a submersible held together with duct tape.

Yeah. That would be called “context”, of which we have zero of. And which you acknowledge matters.

How is context not important? We don’t even have a full second of clip before he throws the punch.

Is context only not important when it’s a man hitting a woman?

Would you say the same if it was a 2s clip of a woman punching a man?

My DM once gave me a cursed sword that required me to kill a humanoid daily.

It then devolved into side bars where we had to negotiate taking a kingdom’s prisoners with us in the hold of a boat on our mission to save the queen or whatever. For murder sword food.

Still one of my favorite campaigns. I do think he regretted giving me an excuse to derail his campaign to go murder-hoboing, though.

Yearly would be fine, but it could be done quarterly to. The capital gains tax on stock profits is already done quarterly.

… is that seriously what you’re talking about? You can’t imagine being able to estimate the worth of traditional investments? That’s already implemented.

You already pay capital gains on what you earn in a year. It would be very easy to factor those investments into a wealth tax. Like… trivial.

High minded speeches? Seriously? There are plenty of feasible options.

If it’s a public company, you can take the median price for the quarter. If they’re holding over $500,000 or whatever amount as calculated by the median share price, they’re taxed. You can make it tiered, and tax the shit out of anyone holding over $500m or whatever. If they want to avoid that tax, they can sell, and pay the capital gain.

Or they could tie it to % over median employee shares granted per year. So if you have lopsided profit sharing, tax the fuck out of the greedy C level.

Private is harder since it’s less obvious what the tangible value is. But you could use the % shares granted yearly again. Maybe have it tiered to a companies net worth or whatever other metric that would be most appropriate.

It’s fucking ridiculous that we have articles like “Bezos lost $1 billion after shares took a dive this week” kind of articles. That’s a single person hording billions and billions in shares while the workers doing the actual work get pennies.

We can defederate them now. Content will move as it reaches fewer eyes.

And why shouldn’t they be forced to sell?

If there’s a huge tax penalty to hording company shares, maybe, just maybe, they would be instead incentivised to profit share with their employees. To focus more on retention than to do waves of layoffs to give their massive holdings a bump.

But we can’t have that. We need to incentivize narcissistic mega billionaires to have all the money in the world, and still clutch to every last penny while they work their peasants to death.