Are you here because you believe in something and actually want to see it happen, or are you here just to stroke your own ego. Ain’t nobody got time for that second part. Get real.

Any recommended firewall block lists (or allow lists) for Roku?

Headphones do all this already. No mind control is a nice little benefit too.

So by “encouraging”, I take that to mean a mixed system? I’m all for the Nordic model. I think a hard-line approach is ultimately too disruptive and unpalatable to a majority of people’s current personal situation, and I feel like it’s important to communicate that for buy in.

Genuine question. How would a transition to socialism work in practice?

Eating the billionaires and “nationalizing” publicly traded companies is the easy part. Saying “you can still possess your car” is also easy. The hard, and ultimately unpopular, part is everything else in between. Summer cottage? Family farm? What happens to pensions/retirement savings, land ownership, inheritance, small businesses, the apartment your are renting out to pay for your own rent…

Yeah, I know, these things tend to be out of reach for younger folks these days, precisely because of hyper wealth concentration. So with billionaires and mega corps out of the picture, the question still stands.

The average human considers the Pythagorean theorem “sophistication”. Let’s not take our education for granted.

Unfortunately, the US political system does not have a feature to “dislike” all the candidates. Not without a major, probably bloody, revolution, anyway. Your choice is to support and pick one candidate, or let everyone else pick the candidate for you.

A very real risk of punishment by the state if you happen to get caught is what prevents theft. Your argument conveniently left that important part out and presented a straw man argument.

The rest of these comments talk about unenforced theft like white collar crimes and other class war-like theft. Which just reinforces the idea that only state-executed enforcement of law is actually any good at preventing theft.

I also have the same question. So I upvoted you. Also, where does this fall on the chart?

So the solution to consumers making informed choices is to have the consumer buy everything and test everything personally?

No.

Been here since the redipocalypse, browse All daily… Haven’t seen a single post about sports.

The “here” part of the question changes the entire meaning of the question, rendering the stated answer completely off topic (cause, you know, “here” is not the only place you can earn money for food).

Depends on the instance.

The things you mentioned should absolutely happen in the areas that have the population density to make these solutions practical. Let’s also remember that this is not 100% of the planet.

A great point. Learning math doesn’t automatically make you equipped to deal with other things that have math in it. At least no more so than learning a language equips you to do poetry.

Taxes are a whole different system that needs to be learned, on top of learning math. At best you can say that learning math equips you to take a tax course.

Pretty sure most Republicans are just openly fascist now.

In at least some parts of Canada, for example, there are tuition credits which you can claim against income taxes later on.

I am required to have a degree to earn money

Not really true. You are required to have a degree to have a particular job of your choice. It’s up to your government to decide if having that choice is something it wants to encourage, with income tax breaks equivalent to the cost of tuition (the loan principle) or if that is a luxury that is taxed like any other luxury.

The interest on loans is not a tax. It’s the expense of accessing capital immediatly. Again, it’s up to your government to decide if accessing capital immediatly is a necessity eligible for tax breaks, or a luxury that comes out of your after tax income.

Also don’t forget consumption tax which may or may not apply (usually not on loan interest).

Income tax is a tax on everything, basically.

At the end of the day, software developers need to eat. If they get to eat because their compensation model is driven by donations either before or after you use the app, who cares?

(Fair enough FOSS is free as in freedom, not just as in free beer, but I think that is moot to a lot of people, as long as the market space isn’t crushed by anti-competitive buisness practices)

The bigger issue at hand here is negotiating fair API uses for instances and their admins, who also need to eat, and make the apps possible too.

I spend less time on Lemmy than I did on Reddit. I think I just found other things to do.

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