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Imagine it's 1930's and you get a car. It's Ford model T. It's the best car ever made and you are rightfully proud of it. But the time goes on and technology progresses. Your neighbours upgraded their rides for newer and better cars. Almost hundred years later they are driving semi-autonomous electric vehicles while you still crank-start yours because you refused to move on. After all, you got the best there was!

Now, imagine 18th century, you founded a country and wrote a constitution...

#usa

@theuberger holy guacamoli! so that's how amateur astrophotography looks like today? if you told me that were a new picture from jwst i'd be like yeah, that's way better than hubble ever was...
@davidgerard ... but we must embrace the false dichotomy, because the only alternative is cannibalism! https://xkcd.com/2592/
False Dichotomy

xkcd
@malwaretech internet (or perhaps media without supervision in general) simply make it easy for anyone to be heard... and with so many things being said people will always naturally pay more attention to different or outraging opinions. let's not loose hope in humanity just because idiots take the stage.
@malwarejake also: no, we don't need to do things differently! what we have has been working just fine until now, so why change the working system?

@rbreich Have you already figured out how to stop tax avoidance by the rich with the current tax rates, however small they are? Cause if not, this idea is entirely theoretical...

Only once you can make billionaires pay the tax they already owe on the wealth they really control it would make any sense to discuss if their share is fair.

@augieray I like to use a different analogy: you are in a public place with an active shooter and have a similar discussion with a person that is blocking your way out because they are too afraid of cars to run out to the street...
@ben11kehoe @forrestbrazeal i saw the same idea that you talk about in your blog expressed in a shorter comic form once: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensive-and-precise-spec/?

@nothingistrue

1) extract a single staple wire from a stapler
2) press it into the fold firmly and remove
3) use a pin to punch two holes through all sheets where the ends of the staple left marks
4) insert the staple through the holes from the outside
5) bend the ends of the wire towards each other with a hard object