Skyrmir @ Skyrmir @lemmy.world Posts 4Comments 821Joined 2 yr. ago
I think the story neuromancer had workers who would show up have their brain chip turn them into meat puppets for 8 hours then they would wake up not knowing what they had done to earn their checks. It was a cheap labor scheme for day workers or prostitutes. I still think that's really the capitalist goal.
The executive is still bound by the constitution. He's legally not allowed to discriminate against protected classes like he tried with the Muslim ban. Of course that protection is only as strong and the court and congress ability to enforce it.
Harvard will have to find a pool of sympathetic lawyers to press their case in the courts. Wherever can the most prestigious college in the legal world for the past century, find a lawyer? And it'll have to be affordable, they only have $53 billion to work with.
Yeah, it never proves that was the barrel a bullet came out of, just that it came out of a barrel just like that one.
Harvard doesn't need outside income to cover operations of the school. Not even tuition. The government contracts cover expanded research and programs. The schools endowment grows enough to cover all their base costs and still grow annually.
They're looking at a square millimeter of print, which means they're reading the edge profile of the nozzle, in a small sample set. Similar to barrel markings on bullets.
They need to be spending like they might have to face the US, Russia, and China at the same time.
I use autopilot all the time on my boat. No way in hell I'd trust it in a car. They all occasionally get suicidal. Mine likes to lull you into a sense of false security, then take a sharp turn into a channel marker or cargo ship at the last second.
REITs are fine, but they do need strong regulation. They're best when targeted at building high density housing, but can be used to develop single family suburbs.
The key is that you have to time limit their ownership of single family homes, and require the sale to individuals. That forces them to build and sell, they make money, the market expands, houses stay affordable. For high density buildings they have to be limited to a portion of the area market, including all corporate owners. Which again forces them to build and sell, and also keeps competition in the market, to avoid price fixing.
It will be. They have immunity. It's entirely performative intimidation.
It's probably all sealed. A coat of urethane or epoxy and there's no dust, also stops the moisture flow so you can have some humidity inside if wanted.
I was curious about this so i asked an AI and it came up with a figure of needing over 2 million amps of power for a 15' sailboat. So I'm guessing rudder control would be a problem, because it's hard to steer with something that's being vaporized.
By federal marshals who don't give a fuck. Because they already did it to a state judge, they'll go after federal next.
There are less than 2000 federal judges, the Federalist Society has over 70,000 members. They have the man power and motivation to replace them over night. At which point the law says what the fuck they want it to.
What's stopping them isn't that they lack the resources to seize total control. It's that they lack the resources to maintain control. And they're never going to have them.
They're expecting the judges to push back so they have an excuse to get rid of the judges.
Imaginary numbers can be anything we want. None of them matter as long as we keep electing conservatives. They haven't paid for anything since Nixon.
It is actually progressive, it's specifically a progressive addition to existing tax rates, which happen to be barely progressive. At least until tariffs are taken into account.
I'm not saying I like these rates, they're just the rates required to balance the budget. There are always cuts, and other measures that could offset the tax rates.
Updated Tax Schedule
1 $0 – $11,600 15.00%
2 $11,600 – $47,150 18.00%
3 $47,150 – $100,525 29.20%
4 $100,525 – $191,950 32.64%
5 $191,950 – $243,725 42.37%
6 $243,725 – $609,350 45.37%
7 Over $609,350 47.37%
According to AI that's the rate schedule to pay for the current budget with no deficit. I'd say pass that as law, and only allow tax cuts when the previous year has produced more than 1% budget surplus, or it's an enumerated deficit created for a budget period.
There are a lot of easy ways to fix our budget that no one wants. Politicians are going to cry about it, while doing nothing about it, until the country collapses. Trump is no different in that respect, he's just going to whine more about how much it costs him when the country collapses, but he's not actually going to fix a damn thing.
Nothing like good old fashion communist price controls.