Good, fuck the scalper companies. This is how a free market works; memory is a commodity 🤷

This is the real winner. Changing culture from the outside is way harder than on the inside, let alone collecting evidence of crimes committed by other gang members.

That’s because OpenAI is in panic mode. They’re now spending their resources on making the LLM cheaper to operate and capable of injecting paid results.

“Sounds like my friends and I can show up at your door in fake ICE outfits and make your gargle on our balls. And if you refuse, we’ll beat your ass, and you won’t do anything about it.”

I actually think this level of control over notifications is a GOOD thing. Trash apps will mix spam and useful notifications without a way to filter out the spam ones. Nextdoor is garbage for a lot of reasons, but granular notifications controls are not one of them. Arguably, defaulting all of them to “On” is scummy, but if they didn’t, most users would probably never know they existed in the first place without UX handholding.

And to give some perspective, this inverted tax ratio is exactly how Nordic countries, Switzerland, and others operate.

Well sure, nobody’s suggesting some kind of 100% libertarian pay to play system. I just feel like the tax collection ratio is backwards in a way that erodes the principles of democracy, and I think that leads to conflict in a way that is a net negative for a just and stable system.

What’s the point of collecting money at the state level just to hope it’s allocated as if it were collected locally? State level money should be used for state level concerns that impact everyone - like, state healthcare programs, disaster relief savings, state college systems, etc. Spending 50% of the money on local things in the area that gave 50% of the taxes might sound ideal, but the problem is there’s nothing to guarantee this is how the money is actually spent. And it’s not, as we can see with this news. The House might be proportional to population, but the senate and governor are not. And population doesn’t necessarily correlate to tax contribution either.

This is the same reason we get upset at the federal level when federal tax dollars are spent on “pork barrel projects” in a state whose senator happened to negotiate their way into that money after holding some actually important budget bill hostage. The pie was so big in the first plave because we’ve normalized giving up our autonomy to send the overwhelming majority of our tax dollars off to people who don’t care about using it to help us.

IMO the tax system is absolutely backwards. Instead of county/city government getting maybe 1% of your money, the state 10%, and federal 25%, it should be the complete opposite order. Because that’s the order of influence on your day to day quality of life, and the order of how much influence your vote holds.

You get more stuff, more status, etc. Or alternatively, penalized, threatened, etc. Whatever it takes to motivate people to do the job. Even if paper money isn’t a thing in communist societies (which it still is), money’s just a symbol for debt. You’re going to get something, somehow, for a job people greatly desire to be done without enough doers and they’ll become “indebted” to you disproportionately for doing it.

In Soviet society for instance, you might be provided a nice apartment in central Moscow if you were doing something “important”. This assignment would be via your government-controlled employer and their agreements with some other government bureau that officially managed the buildings to dole them out to select people.

So, same deal as anywhere else, just a different mechanism. Higher ration, bigger dacha, jump to the front of the line to get a car, etc.

Compensation is usually not much about how dangerous a job is, though. It’s more about how many people are willing to do it for any number of reasons. Some people are just not very risk-adverse, and figure they’re going to be fine at a job that is more dangerous. And they’ll be compensated at a normal level as long as there are enough such people to fill the need.

Look into mutual insurance. You actually get back money for the payouts they didn’t have to do that year. Northwestern, Amica, USAA, etc.