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fixing the wealth inequality can happen quickly

no it can’t sadly, stuff like that takes time to process into law, and to obtain information on. The best way of doing that would likely be a wealth tax, but the second any actual traction hits (which is already a major barrier due to how lobby heavy everything in the states is torwards that stuff) any company that’s residing in the US is going to ding dong ditch to another country or migrate that wealth offshore to avoid the tax.

I think the best route would be either a significantly higher tax on money transfer over X amount yearly between the borders, but that would force company is just to go into how they used to do it before a digital was a thing where they just transport Cold Hard Cash or other physical entities over the borders and then we convert it back over once they’re domestic again.

or alternatively a higher business tax for companies overall, and said taxes are increased even further for a companies who are headquartering outside of the country, but this isn’t going to fix the wealth inequality, it’s just going to lessen the rate the wealthy gain their wealth.

The issue with all of these options though, is they all have the same fatal flaw, there’s no controls in place that would prevent the company from just offsetting the new taxes into their existing Goods pricing, we’re experiencing the same issue with the renters field. Price controls are inefficient and where applied don’t generally impact big buisness and instead tend to force the little guys out of the market as they lack the incentive and funding to keep in the market.

There’s the argument that well if they increase the price too far people will just stop buying it in favor of cheaper competitors, but that’s not the case for anything that’s deemed essential good, which would be most of the grocery sector, the housing sector and the utility sector.

Sure smaller competitors may eventually pop up, but that’s not something that will happen just at the snap of your finger that’s going to take years to do

The US got themselves into a super sticky situation by having years of lack of taxes and controls. They have created a problem that has no real good solution, and it will take some time to fix and it will likely hurt the consumer fixing it, but regardless something needs to be done.

As for the education sector, that’s a whole other issue on its own, while I think that is repairable it like you said is going to take years to accomplish, and the entire time that happens it’s going to be fighting an uphill battle because it’s hard to argue against if we cut the spending on the sector you save money, because many people can’t see past the short-term effects of a decision, making them blind to the overall longterm effects that gutting a public education system has.

This effect is exasperated by the fact that one of the two major parties heavily pushes the ideology that less knowledge is good, because statistically speaking the further educated you are, the more apt you are to lean torwards the other way, which is something that the party wouldn’t want.

I have to agree with you, it’s a roaring dumpster fire and without some pretty disruptive changes nothing is going to be done anytime soon. I’m not advocating violance but the people who say that it’s an easy fix, or can be flipped just by someone else taking command are sorely mistaken, this is a problem that is going to be existing for at /least/ the next 3 or 4 presidential terms at best, and that’s if it’s attacked head on now, which it won’t be as it isn’t the majorities concern at the moment, for some reason.

like legit

2 double cheeseburgers for 6$ - up from 2 for 3$ last year

2 small fries for 4$ - up from 2 small fries for 3$ last year.

not to mention the base price of the items have rose in the last year

double cheeseburger: 4.59 was 3.86 MC chicken: 3.79 was 2.98

bacon as an add on has almost doubled in price for add-ons, I don’t have the exact old price but it’s now almost 2.50$ a burger vs what used to be around 1.50-2$ a burger.

They can sugar coat these deals all they want, but I think I’m just going to cook at home

looking at the pricing(at least for mcdonalds), they did the typical increase the price of everything to compensate for the new deal. Like double cheeseburgers are almost 5$ now that way they can compensate for being able to potentially sell 1 for 1$

Not to mention only 4 items on the menu are valid for it, and none of them are still worth the price. It’s hard to justify 2 for 6$ of something that used to be sold at 2 for 3$ just last year.

being said I guess it’s better than nothing but, I still don’t forsee me going to a McDonald’s any time soon

bow tie for sure

that’s how I played it as well, didn’t even know what the cards were mean’t for

I’m just waiting for Doctors to start leaving Texas like they have been Florida. Not sure why they would wanna risk their license.

possibly, I just know specific return codes change who does shipping, like a defect shoves shipping bsck on the seller

if this was from amazon I’m pretty sure reason code other forces the shipping cost onto the consumer, it’s not surprising they want that

I think a big reason is, people always think it’s an all or nothing migration. Personally I still have a windows install on my system from when I migrated. Sure I can count on one hand the number of times ive had to actually use it, nor have I had to at all in the past few months, but it’s there in case I needed it.

I think people would be much more apt to do that, if they could realize that you can “try it” and if it doesn’t work then switch back again without much difficulty. Which most user friendly installs support dual booting, and the worse case scenario from it is that Windows decides to nuke the bootloader (which doesn’t happen as much anymore due to it changing to UEFI boot) and then at the end of the day, they still have the windows OS to fall on, and the linux OS still exists, it just doesn’t know its there which is a simple fix with just a google search and a boot repair disk (available on the same install medium that the original install was done with)

uh… correct me if I’m wrong but, isn’t his New York case a STATE level case, I fail to see how the Supreme Court could even justify having jurisdiction here.

It’s not like it’s a judgement of a federal level law. While federal overrides state, there is no conflicting law here. He is being sentenced for a state level crime, at the state level, before being appointed his position. Now if they decide to give him jail time over the matter (they won’t, there’s no way that wouldn’t be challenged under current federal laws, the most they could be willing to do is jail him up until he gets certified at the inauguration) I could see it being argued. However there is no law forbidding a state from sentencing a state crime, regardless of status. The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction here unless he gets jail time that would impede his position when appointed.

they got the picture really fast for me, as I ignored them intentionally until they tried something other than talking endlessly in my ear. “My headphones are noise cancelling I can’t hear you”

then again I didn’t use them in communal areas unless I was getting a snack, and if I did thst I generally had pass through enabled, so my family would need to go into my room or den, and then try to talk to me.

The amount of entitlement if they entered my room then bitched that I was ignoring them, they would get my attention and they defo wouldn’t want it anymore. I would have words lol

Don’t rely on walmart product reviews. I on more than one occasion have left less than favorable reviews on products themselves which was valid issues with the product, and they accept the review… and then never actually post the review for everyone else to see.

What you see isn’t an accurate representation of the products, bad reviews rarely get posted. Take everything with a grain of salt.

concidering it says upload the document, guess that pretty much clarifies how much of a pipedream gemini running locally was. Ah well it was a good thought, until it runs locally I’m not too interested. There’s zero reason that a simple document embed and read needs to leave the device.

honestly, if they did this right, it might be a good film. the game itself seems to have a pretty valid storyline and I could see an amazing action movie out of it

this is actually protocol at Walmart for exchanges. if you buy a game that is opened and try to return it you can’t return it, you can only exchange it. but since obviously you are getting a new game they open the seal for you to ensure that the person doesn’t just turn around and return it unopened in another store.

I agree with it on exchanges. I don’t think it’s a good idea for actual new sales though, I would be more on board of just opened all video game merchandise by default and selling it full price as open box, but that also causes issues with the return process, as there is no proof the game wasn’t used, it would need to force the return policy to be a no return once purchase policy like how video game CVP’s are.

Honestly the better option is just make it so video game merch is gift card only for returns. Receipt required + can only get it back as a gift card would be a better option, as they would then need to find a seller for the gift card to convert it to money, and at that point they would just use a different defrauding system.

The downside of this is, it momentarily screws over people who accidentally buy the wrong game, or buy a duplicate game someone else got them, but they could just swap that game out for a new game (or anything else in the store) as an alternative. An option which is still far better than merchants who generally have a strict no return once bought policy.

This is also assuming that the issue is at the store level with someone abusing the return system. This could 100% be someone at assembly level defrauding the cases, and there isn’t anything the store level can really do about that without screwing over legitimate customers with the return process.

$2000… yea that’s a little ridiculous. That’s almost the cost of my entire build alone lmao

I mean, they posted the other day funding for the same fund between Biden and Trump, they are definitly funneling money in to do this. I think it should be expected at this point, should be looking into how to outlaw it rather than worrying if its going to happen. If it’s legal, it will be abused. The fact that it’s legal in the first place is the issue.

Being said, it goes to say, I believe an anti-trust case still goes through legal provisions, so I think he could just pardon the entire case.

I foresee part of his funding being explicitly for that.

Sadly the US government functions vastly on the honor and trust system, if you have elected officials that aren’t honorary, the system can and will be abused as there isn’t very much actual checks and balances on it for individual cases. The checks and balances existing almost completely skip the supreme court, and the actual positions of power such as the speaker, the VP and the president do not have many checks and balances for the position itself, relying on the branch itself to keep itself in line and once someone that is found untrustworthy is placed into the position, its likely not going to be reverted. It’s very much a “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing” scenario.

I like this change, I don’t think it will really matter in the long run sadly, not to say it shouldn’t be attempted but, I really think every proactive thing is going to be reversed over the next year or two.

Thank you for providing a perfect example. It’s manipulative or delusional to say that the fault of the country is exclusively one party. It’s how we got in this situation in the first place. The amount of partisanship that this country has is ridiculous, especially when the go-to response for anything going wrong is well look at the other side. The US as a whole needs to do better, nobody’s going to get anywhere if it’s just the blame game. Both sides can be at fault, blame is not unilaterally one way nor is it equal levels. I’m not downplaying either sides position, but I’m not going to ignore what’s happening in the country.

Being said I’m not engaging further in this, I don’t want it to devolve into a political thread as its not the purpose of this, I was just making a one off comment on the irony of it all.

The stupidest thing about this whole entire thing about net neutrality.

The entire reason the FCC was created was to prevent the committee from being governed by the government process to avoid corruption for the exact circumstances we’re seeing here

Saying that the Supreme Court and the appeals court has any area of saying what the FCC is legally allowed to do is laughable, as the entire reason for the committee being isolated from the standard Executive Administrative branches was to prevent government overreach like they’re doing currently.

This is 1,000% them saying hey you’re an isolated committee that we can’t touch but you’re not allowed to do the one thing that your committee is supposed to do

Corruption all the way to the top. It’s the American way, ironically I think the slogan “drain the swamp” works for both parties, as it’s clear that the people that are in charge aren’t willing to actually uphold the commitment they’ve made to the people.