As a mobile user, I’m just stuck with the stock YouTube app.

I do miss Vanced :-(

Math.

John McCarthy had a saying: He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

And I can confirm, society talks a lot of nonsense.

Japan doesn’t have coal, so no domestic coal lobby. And they also don’t have a dominant fossil fuel supplier who has infiltrated their society.

The German bitching about nuclear is funded by the German coal lobby and Russian oil/gas lobby.

For the EU as a whole, it’s best to ignore Germany on nuclear energy. Their civil discourse is bonkers and filled with falsehoods.

Thank you. And amazing to see you have positive upvotes.

Whenever someone makes a comment like this on reddit, an army of accounts would appear to downvote and argue against it.

I’m convinced the narrative on reddit is highly controlled on these kind of topics.

Either that, or the retards of WSB were the culprits and they haven’t found their way to lemmy yet.

Now that I think of it, perhaps those same accounts were used to manipulate retail traders on WSB… hmmm…

I used to like him back in 2018. And he made me a lot of money, so I can’t really say I hate him. I also think that some of the criticism he receives is a bit overblown.

But overall, I disapprove of his conduct and do not support him anymore.

Americans flex about the weirdest things.

The most common truck, the most common phone, food from the most ubiquitous fast food joint, having merch from the most popular artists and sports teams.

Those are their biggest flexs.

Yeah buddy, great flex with your Taylor swift hoodie, Starbucks frap, iPhone 12 in your Ford F-150.

Sure, they all use open source to varying degrees.

But most of Android is actually contributed by engineers who are being paid by Google.

We could argue that $300K in San Francisco is still exploitation, but there are worse forms of exploitation in any case.

Tell me how the math works out on this one.

Because last I checked, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and Google still are the biggest companies and their wealth rests primarily on closed source software.

I would think for the “largest” transfer of wealth, we would be able to pinpoint some poor exploited geeks coding software juxtaposed against some rich fat cats making money off of it.

But Linus Torvalds doesn’t seem poor and IBM/Red Hat, while rich, is much smaller than Microsoft.

The reason this meme doesn’t work is because people in 5001 BC also had bows.

It would have a better punch if you took something like the burning of Alexandria in 48 B.C. or the stabbing of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.

I think Henry George had the right idea.

Fact is, as people get more money, they want bigger homes, second homes, rental properties, etc…

It’s going to be a never ending bidding war between citizens to own the most and nicest properties.

So the solution is to tax real estate at high rates, but give that money back in the form of deductibles on income tax to the middle class who live in their middle class owner occupied homes.

Another part is to let government build a huge supply of very basic, affordable housing, which then serves as a price anchor.

Basically, not outlawing homes as investment, but making them unappealing as investments.

Most developed countries had or have systems like this in place. They just need strengthening.

Older millenial here.

Max I ever spent on renting was 25% of my net income, but usually it was more like 20%. Now I actually spend only 10% of my net income on my mortgage, thanks to inflation helping my income while keeping the mortgage static.

(Sure there are also taxes on top of the mortgage, but I’m also building equity. Taxes + interest is even less than 10%)

Younger generations are definitely getting screwed.

Don’t accept the status quo.

This is the only valid opinion.

Perhaps one day we get a magnetic replacement for USB-C.

Same here.

Research suggests the combination of ADHD and anxiety leads to the worst type of procrastination.

ADHD meds and therapy allowed me to break the cycle and learn new habits.

Now I’m mostly off the meds and the habits I learned on the meds still help me a lot.

I can’t read German, but we have a similar legal system in the Netherlands.

Most likely, these people committed some crime during a previous protest, such as illegally entering private property or vandalism. Often they will get sentences that are conditional.

If there is evidence to believe they are conspiring to commit a similar illegal act, then the conditional part of the sentence gets triggered.

Nuclear fuel is so energy dense that it doesn’t really matter where it comes from. You only use a teaspoon per person per year.

That said, Uranium is a commodity and the biggest producers are Kazachstan, Canada and Australia.

France subsidizing their colonies to maintain influence is a typical French thing. They also buy sugar from their old colonies at inflated prices.

Our national security experts in the UK, Netherlands, Germany and France all knew back in the 1970s that we needed energy security.

The oil crises proved that.

We all developed nuclear energy, but only France actually went through and achieved energy security.

Recently saw the house Taylor Swift grew up in. Amazing mansion that would cost $2M in Canada or the Netherlands.

But it sold in 2022 in the USA for $800K.

The higher interest rates and property taxes keep the price of US homes a bit more reasonable than in Canada or the Netherlands.

And (as I understand) those are deductible for the income tax in the US, so working people have a tax advantage that investors don’t have.

In any case, taxing property and lowering income tax seems like it would help working people afford homes relative to investors. It seems like a politically good move, too.

I’d do it for $25K.

That would be enough to travel the world for a year.

I’m not really feeling the outrage on this one.

Why be outraged that a notoriously expensive resort is… Expensive?

One thing about the greatest generation (my grandparents).

They saw some serious shit and were just legitimately happy we don’t have to see that same shit.

Funny how the coddled Boomer generation is often much more critical of the young, when they had the easiest ride ever.