Max

I demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty

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Socialists are trying to sell you their disaster on the left.

Elon delivers profits, affordable EVs, Starlink, and a multiplanetary future.

No wonder they demonize him.

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@DissentFu PEBKAC

[Burnie Senders @BurnieSendersX]

The bucket does not need to be fixed.
It is designed to constantly need more water. ☭

[Max @___Masked]

Building on your example: Those groceries don’t just appear out of thin air.

Before anything reaches the store, a farmer has to buy or lease taxed inputs like seeds, fertilizer, equipment, and fuel (hit by excise taxes). They also pay property taxes on the land itself. They grow and harvest the food, then pay income or profit taxes on what they earn.

The produce is then packaged in containers and materials that were themselves manufactured using taxed inputs and energy. It has to be transported using more taxed fuel and equipment, and the transportation and distribution companies pay their own taxes too.

All of those tax costs at every prior stage get built into the price the grocery store ultimately pays. By the time the item is on the shelf, a meaningful portion of its cost is already covering the cumulative taxes paid by everyone upstream in the chain.

So when you spend your already-taxed $1 on it (plus any sales tax at checkout), that dollar is paying for multiple layers of taxation that occurred long before it ever reached the consumer.

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@adgirlMM You left out that the same bank has been run by both Democrats and Republicans for those entire 30+ years, with the math problem obvious since the '90s.

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@juuchan4 @shoe0nhead

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Each "agent" is usually just a process/session wrapped around an LLM. If that process has access to a shell or process-management tools, it can potentially find and terminate other processes.
I run many agent sessions that share resources all the time. They don't randomly start fighting because I gave them an orchestration layer: if a child agent needs a resource, it requests it; when it's done, it releases it. Resource contention is handled by the orchestrator.
In my setup, the orchestrator is itself an agent that can spawn and terminate child agents. That's not scary—it's an intentional capability I exposed so it can manage work. "Agent kills another agent" often just means one process was given permission to stop another process.

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@RetireonDividen From a purely math perspective, you're basically deciding whether to prepay a loan or invest. Investing can definitely be the better option, but you have to beat both the mortgage rate and any taxes you'd pay. That last part can make it harder, but that's the formula I'd use.

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@perfilrare Death Note.

The first 25 episodes are about as close to 10/10 television as I've seen.

I'd honestly stop after Episode 25, though.

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@RockChartrand Socialists will add poison to your water and then blame the water.

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@ItsLulu_7 When socialist experiments run into serious economic trouble, the solution is often to bring markets back.

Lenin did it with the NEP. China did it. Vietnam did it.

According to you, the people with the most firsthand experience of socialism ended up knowing the least about it.

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@MerickRoger @Rakeshhkumaar Nothing is stopping socialists from trying. The issue isn't a lack of freedom to build socialist communities; it's that when these experiments are tried, they usually fail, and empty fridges tend to follow. 🤷‍♂️

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@DAFCONx @SnakeHoppe Too much government can poison capitalism the same way too much water can poison a person.

That doesn't mean water is a threat to human life.

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There's literally nothing stopping socialists from creating voluntary socialist communities in a capitalist country.

Feed the homeless. Share resources. Run worker-owned businesses. Distribute food regardless of profit.

Nobody is stopping them. What they don't like is that the rest of us are free to say "no thanks."

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

They always draw communism as an empty fridge and capitalism as a full one.

They never draw the homeless person outside the capitalist supermarket, the farmer dumping food because selling it isn’t profitable, or the hundreds of millions who go hungry despite a world that produces more than enough food to feed everyone.

Under capitalism, the fridge is full if you can pay. Under socialism, the goal is that nobody is denied food because they’re poor.

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@thoughtographic Honestly, I’d rather have a place I can actually rent than have your drawings and no roof over my head.

You sell luxuries. Landlords provide essentials.

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@X_fightss What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Taxpayers end up on the hook for lawsuits.

Not saying the lady is right, but the harm that the cop’s actions could cause is way bigger.

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@ElijahMessianic @TURBOPOSSUM You don’t need a house to have kids 🤷