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DougPiranha42

@ DougPiranha42 @lemmy.world

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  • Its illegal in the USA to advocate for the violent overthrow of the government, yet its legal to own and carry weapons that is meant to facilitate such acts of rebellion... 🤔

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  • I think what OP is referring to is that many supporters of “gun rights” like to use the argument that the second amendment is key to the freedom of America because an armed populace cannot be controlled by an authoritarian government. I don’t particularly care for that argument, but if you run with it, it would make sense that the right of the populace to organize armed rebellion is just as important as their right to own and carry weapons.

  • 😎😎😎

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  • What an excellent meme. The look on the face of the guy in the back is just perfect for the occasion.

  • Despite all the AI nonsense happening right now, I have a simple question. Do you feel valued? From one human to another.

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  • I don’t understand. If your work can be done quickly and well with a tool (AI), why don’t you use that tool and be done with your work quickly? Why does your heart break?

  • Community like r/unexpected?

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  • Can we have an !explainthejoke?(No fr that sub was the strongest proof of dead internet theory)

  • Study: Billionaires Paid 91% Tax Rate in 1960, Now they pay 0%

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  • Right. It’s not like they can on paper move their assets to whatever organization, estate, jurisdiction, subsidiary, shell company, offshore account, or arcane vehicles we never heard of, to avoid paying wealth taxes!

    Edit: I’m not saying that a wealth tax for extremely high net worth individuals would be a bad thing. I would support that. I’m just saying that a wealth tax would never be enough to rein in the wealth and power of an oligarch, because they would be able to evade it.

  • How to keep up with the latest peer-reviewed research in a particular field?

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  • I’m in Neuroscience. My favorite way to keep up is rss feeds of the 5 best journals (100-200 titles per week), rss feeds to the relevant pubmed search terms (20-50 titles per week) an google scholar email alerts to some of the most relevant researchers in my field, auto forwarding to kill the newsletter, and read through rss (50-100 titles per week, lots of duplicates). So every day I aim to open the rss reader and burn down the unread count. Papers that are really relevant to my research tend to show up 4-5 times over 2 weeks this way, so it’s hard to miss it. Which journals: you know that if you have been in the field for a while, if not, ask your colleagues and mentors where they publish and what they read.Bad papers sliding through the cracks: it happens, you don’t know unless you read it.

  • Paid off my last non-mortgage loan yesterday and...

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  • Good job! It sucks to be poor but it can also be difficult to do just a little better than the rest of the family. They can think like “you always have it easy” and assume you can easily afford anything they can’t or don’t want to pay for.

  • Study: Billionaires Paid 91% Tax Rate in 1960, Now they pay 0%

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  • So do I understand correctly that the top income tax bracket is 0% today? Or is this just another shitty ragebait headline. Oligarchs shouldn’t exist, but almost none of their money comes from wages or capital gains anyways, so any polemics about income tax are mostly meaningless for this issue. Any type of wealth tax is fairly trivial to evade at that level.The only thing that would work would be to enforce existing anti fraud laws to prevent oligarchs from gaining power in the first place, as well as convicting them for the white collar crimes they commit open daylight, and use fines as a way to get some of the absurd concentration of wealth out of the system.

  • Service for TV-like programming?

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  • Maybe there is a FOSS self hosted solution for mixing good old tv ads into the mix!

  • https://council.science/news/isc-fellowship-call-2026/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=isc-fellowship-call-2026

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  • Can someone familiar with it give a brief rundown of what this organization is? I looked at the website but didn’t get much of the specifics.

  • Does purchasing a game on GOG.com really grants ownership of the game and not a license to use it?

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  • Oh man I feel for you, you are really patient. These guys will never engage with your argument because apparently “there are multiple types of games on Steam” is too much nuance to process…

  • Is it true that the education system is crap in America?

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  • I look at your post with a bit of suspicion- do you want to learn something, or do you just want to talk negatively about America and provoke others to join in? There are terrible and absolutely fantastic schools from infant care to postgraduate education. Many of the world’s best universities are in America. About half of the students in those universities come from American schools. The US has by far the highest number of Nobel laureates, many of whom immigrated after previous education abroad, but not all.While it is difficult to say anything general about K12 education in a continent-spanning country consisting of 50 states, I wouldn’t summarize it in one word as “crap”.

  • Are you a principled person?

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  • I think I am principled in some things and not so much in others. Reddit has nothing to do with it. I left Reddit because it was no longer fun. I don’t want to scroll reposts of engagement bait and read the dumbest bot comments under it. I would happily keep using it if it was fun.

  • AFFORDABLE selfhosted nocode relational databases? (à la Baserow/NocoDB, etc.)

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  • I use self hosted baserow free tier at work and no issues in 3 years. Why does it not work for you? My only complaint is the API can’t use the views that exist on the web interface.

  • The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it

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  • What a crap headline. Of course neither the US government nor or the fed nor the treasury is insolvent. The national debt is a large number, has been for a long time, and can be an even bigger number forever. Has nothing to do with insolvency. The fed will always be able to conjure money out of thin air so there can’t even exist a situation in which the government is insolvent. Whether the world economy will forever cherish the dollars they print as a reserve currency is a different question (no it won’t ), and something that deserves scrutiny and public attention. But stupid fearmongering articles like this don’t add anything of value to that discussion.

  • Is no one held accountable if a driverless EV ran over a pedestrian?

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  • OP is asking about an accident and responsibility, not a trolley problem.You pretend AVs can’t make mistakes just face difficult choices. That’s false.You also pretend AVs are safer than human drivers. Nobody knows if that’s true so let’s not pretend it is.

  • Moving - Go big?

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  • Moving to a new country is a big change in so many ways. You probably shouldn’t do it for the lulz. Do you have a good reason to move to a specific place? Is there a unique career opportunity, a unique natural resource or community for one of your hobbies, a very important friend or family member living there? Those could be good reasons.If you have your reasons, bite the bullet, rent a container, and take your stuff with you. Even better if your new employer covers relocation expenses.

  • What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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  • It would be important for people to understand that what separates good people from bad people is decency and basic human kindness, not political ideology. In reality, the good people are in the center, and the bad people are on the extremes. Yet, due to the polarization of public discourse, a left leaning person may be convinced that the good people are to the left, and the bad people are to the right from them. If they keep drifting towards the extreme, and keep thinking that everyone to the right is a bad person, eventually they will hate all the decent people in the center, while everyone still to the left from them is an actual monster. Needless to say, the same goes for people who start right leaning and keep drifting to the right. I wish more people realized that the enemies are the crazies on either side, not the moderates on the other side.

  • What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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  • Who said this is a forum for the working class? I have not seen this mentioned anywhere. Read the sidebar: this is a generic forum for everyone. I’m inclined to think you are making this up.

    Why do you want people with extreme views (left or right) in your community?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    DougPiranha42 @lemmy.world

    What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?