Canaconda

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

Explorer. Always has been.

No, everyone forgets the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

lefty false nostalgia

I don’t know anyone left leaning who thinks that

Did depend on what race you were mind you.

But how do they pay off the loan?

Often by selling the asset they bought with the loan - aka cashing out. They borrow to buy a property/business, make the loan payments with the rent/revenue, and then sell it for a profit without spending a dime of their own money. NOTE: They will pay taxes on the capital gains of the sale of that asset. But they won’t have paid income tax on the money they used to purchase the asset in the first place.

They eventually need some sort of cash of their own right?

They’ll open a line of credit against their portfolio… which is a loan where the minimum payment is just the interest. They can use that like cash for their daily expenses and they can pay it off whenever and it will be there when they need it like a credit card.

Do they literally borrow to pay off a loan and do that infinitely?

Yes. It’s called Return on Investment (ROI). You just need to borrow at a lower interest rate than the expected return plus expenses.

Billionares don’t own things directly. They own stakes in corporations/trusts/etc that own things. They often have a salary that they pay income tax on, but that salary is only a fraction of their true income.

Capital gains are only taxed when they’re realized. They don’t pay taxes when the value of their portfolios go up, just when they cash out. So instead they borrow against those portfolios and pay zero taxes.

Estate taxes are supposed to close this loop.

edit: Pokemon Cards are my go to analogy for capital gains. You can’t tax someone on how much their pokemon card collection is potentially worth on ebay. You can only tax the money they made from the sale.

[macaroni sounds]

I still think you need to present examples that fit your definitions first. Assuming we’re only talking about selectivity here. Also you’ve kind of raised the bar on yourself by stipulating democracy, egalitarianism, etc.

IMO if you control for selectivity you will find that it’s statistically insignificant and that the success of those examples was due to other factors not how selective they are.

Like the closest thing I would agree exists is mennonites/etc but you don’t count patriachial and religious.

I feel like examples that prove it using some standard definitions are a prerequisite to that conversation.

Without standard definitions such as selection method/criterium and controlling for variables such as external factors your basically asking me to refute apples with oranges.

Your first decision is if you should change projects or stick with this one. Have you validated the concept? Will people pay for a finished version?

Your next decision is if you should work with others. Either on this project or a different one. Almost any project that you could make a living wage will require scale. Unless you’ve identified a niche product that for whatever reason won’t.

Another option would be to work freelance on other people’s projects. Maybe start a business fixing people’s vibe code. This will get you $$ the fastest IMO but could be hard to fit in your schedule.

In Fable 2 when you purchase shops that earn you money it accrues in real time. If I plugged in my 360 I’d probably have 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gold or something now haha

I think a lot of the annoying stereotyping is just people saying shit they know will get likes online.

Putting that aside:

Having ~5 generations simultaneously active in society is a first for our species. The effects of which are exponentially amplified by the internet and globalization.

but nearly everything about how it’s actually done is awful.

I mean that parts not surprising lol

You don’t need an account for 4chan anyways. My point is that no social media accounts means nsfw posts on twitter, reddit, youtube are harder to access.

Prudish origins aside… I do think they’re an excellent tool for parents and individuals to make informed choices. It’s not practical to screen everything yourself. Going to a 3rd party like rotten tomato’s is just option A with extra steps.

Which does mean they can’t access a lot of adult content. So there’s that.

Anecdotal evidence but I saw one parent say their 9 year old dgif and immediately asked them to play outside with them; which they rarely did prior.

Kids want attention, thats why social media is so dangerous for them; they’re sitting ducks for predators.

I work with kids and except for legit ipad babies, kids treat cellphones like a backup when there’s nothing better to do… they prefer playing games with other kids or engaging their parents/role-models.

I personally see zero downsides to this. I genuinely hope Canada follows suite.

I also switched to mint. Lot less hand holding than windows. For instance no “cannot complete operation” warning if you try to copy an unpaused torrent. The GUI even puts the icon in USB drive… but nothing is there.

The USB drive has to be the right format but otherwise I’ve had almost no issues. Works much better than the $30 android box from china.