Upvoted for the honesty

Probably he’s on a diet and his wife won’t let him eat more than 1 order of meatballs.

Also he tricked the ents into walking past Isengard so that they’d see how many trees Saruman whacked and take an ax to him instead.

This article claims they pay a higher effective tax rate, not more in taxes. A citizen working the same position would pay even more in taxes since they would also have to pay income tax.

Maybe the headline should be that sales + other flat taxes are becoming an increasing burden for low income workers. This is the problem for the illegal immigrants in the study, and even more of a problem for citizens who earn the same amount.

These comics seem to age surprisingly well.

The idea is checking out with more than a basket of goods is really inconvenient. And I agree, it’s much slower and there’s no space for it.

Paladin: It works because I just feel really strongly about it.

It all depends on what you mean by affect. Two em waves in the same space will have a different overall amplitude at any frequency.

If you mean as in the overall color of light, that will change based on how much/what frequency waves are combined. Think about adding a bit of black sand to a jar of white sand – from a distance it will appear grey but the actual colors of individual grains of sand (frequency of “individual” em waves) won’t change.

For wifi, data transmission is via phase modulation of the em wave, so the signal is resilient against adding different frequencies/amplitudes but may suffer if the same frequency is transmitted at a different phase.

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears… in rain”

I think law enforcement can break into your home if they have a court warrant, right? So why not allow the same thing with electronic communications?

For me, the reason to disallow it is the potential for abuse. There were 864 search warrant applications across all federal agencies in 2022. In 2020, the FBI, specifically, issued 11504 warrants to Google, specifically, for geofencing data, specifically. Across all agencies there are probably millions of such “warrants” for data.

It’s far easier to access your data than your house, so comparing physical and cybersecurity doesn’t really make sense.

In general, criminals can easily just move to an uncompromised platform to do illegal stuff. But giving the govt easy access to messaging data allows for all kinds of dystopic suppression for regular people.

How does grouping multiple communities on different instances work? Do we need a special-purpose kind of community, like e.g. the meta-reddit functionality? Seems complicated but very needed atm