Don’t

doing what I can to spread awareness about this:

There is a potential proposition which claims to be protecting your retirement savings. In actuality, it’s designed to nullify the 5% billionaire tax.

Link

Giving everyone another year or so to get comfortable with Linux, I see.

Its fine if it doesn’t come with one by default. If it is fully capable of running one but it stops you from doing that, forget it.

Your comment made me laugh.

It’s practical advice for the naive, who live in temperate climates. Those with actual inhospitable summers are just not having it.

I’m doing what I can to spread awareness about this:

There is a potential proposition which claims to be protecting your retirement savings. In actuality, it’s designed to nullify the 5% billionaire tax.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Prohibit_Taxes_on_Retirement_Holdings_and_Personal_Savings_Amendment_(2026)

Yo mama

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I’m not disagreeing with you or defending obscene wealth but I think he’s trying to say that this $1 trillion is similar to everyone’s 401k’s. If we all tried to go and collect the value of these stocks, we’d all find out that there isn’t actually anything there. There’s no actual tangible value backing any of this other than perception and demand.

Correct interpretation: blue and black in an overexposed image

Misinterpretation: yellow and gold in an underexposed image.

The area of the picture that isn’t the dress is washed out in white and the overexposure is even bleeding over top right corner.

Anyone misinterpreting must either be bad with visual context or not understand photography.

You’d think, intuitively, that it works this way but you’re missing the key concept: fractional reserve banking.

The bank doesn’t take $10 from a savings account, loan it out, and then get something like $11 back, thus creating $1 from somewhere.

What the bank actually does is takes $10 from a savings account then magically creates $90 and loans out $100, because somehow they’re allowed to do this. This is fractional reserve banking. They only actually have a fraction of what they loan out.

Banks create money by giving out loans. When loans are more expensive, fewer are given, less loan money is created and the amount of total money in circulation (and inflation) are reduced.

Or at least that’s what I’ve read.

I’m no economist but here’s my understanding: When interest rates go up, borrowing money becomes more expensive. This leads to less borrowing, which reduces the money supply. (When you borrow money from the bank, the bank just creates the money. They’re mostly not giving you existing money.) By reducing the money supply, inflation may be reduced.

Higher interest rate -> decreased borrowing -> decreased money supply -> decreased demand/ability to purchase/inflation/ decreased price increase

He also recognizes the need for more privacy protections for cell phone and internet users but is clearly only interested in having a little tantrum and not in actually helping anyone.

It looks like you can download the most recent apk here

https://github.com/digital-grease/fauxx/releases/tag/v0.2.9

Thanks. I hate it. Do we know if mullvad is doing anything to fix this?

I advocate piracy

People see your face every day and its no big deal but imagine if the same person was staring at you and recording you with a cell phone every day, and that this same person was showing up at more and more street corners. If this same person were staring at you and recording you everywhere you went, wouldn’t you find that disturbing? Now imagine that the person uploads all thier recordings to a computer for the police and government to access.

Did you say, “well, the way I remember it is Unsolicited Dick Pics versus Tasteful Consentual Penis”

How do you know which one is illegal? It’s the one that’s going too fast.

Ebikes are an excellent, relatively inexpensive solution to several problems. They’re going to try to regulate them until they become impractical.

I agree with all of your points. However, in California, ebikes are already regulated:

https://riding5.com/blogs/news/california-ebike-laws-class-1-2-3

The only “wild west” thing happening is that some people are riding illegal, (they’re already illegal. We don’t need new laws) unregistered electric motorcycles. The 30+ mph “ebikes” you refer to: those are motorcycles.