Hmm, TIL, thanks.

I do really like the designs the students come up with. My county has one that includes an illustration of the ferry with the Olympics in the background. For some reason, I can’t find a picture of it online, though…

I don’t disagree that we need something federally, but that isn’t going to happen any time soon, by design. The best we can do is tax them in the states where they actually spend most of their time.

Wyoming has the most billionaires per Capita, sure. But they aren’t spending most of their time there, for most of them, it’s just spending portions of winter in Jackson Hole. Wyoming residents need to tax them too, but they won’t, because they’re some of the most anti-tax populations in the US. They won’t suddenly realize that they’re never going to be billionaires and will continue to vote against their own interests.

The tax code shouldn’t be based on residency claims, if you have a house somewhere, you should have to pay the taxes of that area. It’s only fair.

Don’t let the idea of them being more mobile prevent them from being taxed at all. That’s all this talking point serves. “They’ll just move, guess we should do nothing” is a bad line of thinking. Honestly, they already aren’t paying their fair share, so who gives a shit if they just leave. I’m all for it. But they won’t leave.

They’ve still got the same danger as helicopters. If something goes wrong, you can’t glide and you’ll likely just fall out of the sky.

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This is a GOP talking point. They don’t move - they like where they live, that’s why they live there. This was proven with NYC, almost none of them left even though they were saying that they would. Turns out millionaires and billionaires like infrastructure, things to do, and actual goods and services. Something that Wyoming generally lacks.

Hey buddy, do you have anything to back up your incessant claims of Omar being a fraudster?

Hint: telling people to “look it up” is not an answer.

You post this on every article about Omar, but then never provide sources.

Some of us breathing the same air pollute it with jet turbines to power giant slop data centers.

I mean, the surcharge does go to Tesla and thus help Musk.

Because of that, I’ve only used a supercharger once, and it was an emergency with literally no other chargers around.

Hmm, funny you mention birds. Do non-American cats not destroy bird populations? Do they not get hit by cars? Do they not get stolen? Do they not catch diseases such as FPV? Must be weird American things, for sure.

If you cannot read your cat’s emotions, I feel very bad for your cat.

Every expert and humane society will agree: keeping your cat in is the humane and smart thing to do. You can’t even argue otherwise because it’s just proven to be the case.

You’re letting your headstrong opinions harm your cat and your ecosystem, a truly American approach. So, congrats, you’ll fit right in with everyone else in America that lets their cats out (something that you seem to think doesn’t happen in the US, for some reason).

Just to echo the other comments, cats should always be indoors. It’s better for them (they can live twice as long on average) and it’s better for your local environment. Almost every expert agrees that it is the more humane thing to do. Cats can and do live completely happy lives indoors.

The nerd in this case being the OSM community

Not your loft. Original reddit post: https://redlib.privadency.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1x1ouw5/this_gigantic_wasp_nest_in_our_loft/

This is one of OP’s three accounts (they could have more) which uses LLMs and scripts to make word-for-word reposts from reddit, including misleading incel posts (see bottom)

• @sanitation@lemmy.today
• @time2lose@lemmy.world
• @Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club

They have made over 1200 posts in a month on one of their alts alone. That’s about 39 posts a day on average, and again, that’s one of the three accounts.

Here’s a comment thread about two of their three accounts, time2lose and sanitation.

Here’s a thread where they don’t deny that sanitation is also their account and say “Ya welcome for the content”.

Here’s a thread where they left the LLM prompt in the post:

Full title: In Pulp Fiction (1994) these oranges are actually rock solid on the inside because in-universe the soft wet part inside of fruits does not exist according to the title. The title preserves the original title. The body is empty, as specified in the mapping. The image is preserved. The post is an image with a descriptive title, fitting the allowed content types. No Reddit references are present. No personal perspective is used. This is not an AMA or self-promotion.

Here’s where their Mustachius_Grumpius account randomly replied with an LLM, and then added a non-LLM comment to the bottom (the writing style difference is drastic)

Here’s a thread where they reposted reddit incel content about something over a decade ago where they also made this comment:

very old story.
thats why im on not onboard with various me too and whatever.
its super easy to false accuse

Not only are they making dozens and dozens of reddit reposts a day, they’re an incel. Their go-to defense is to call anyone who disagrees with their spam a “reddit agent”, something they’ve done on all three accounts.

Not only is this an incel post, it’s a reddit repost, ripped word for word: https://redlib.privadency.com/r/interesting/comments/1wxvfr1/this_is_the_moment_captured_when_former_high/

So, OP was so stricken with this reddit post, they decided to post it here. And then make their terrible comment linked by you. That’s how big of an incel they are.

Oh yeah, absolutely. I do feel lucky that the majority of the creators I like are on alternative platforms. I know a lot of creators do just use YouTube though. Some of them have even had their personal Google account deleted because of their attached YouTube account.

Unfortunately, even if a lot of viewers follow you on other platforms, creators tend to lose a huge amount of viewers since many do not.

I already don’t watch the slop, because I watch more content on Nebula and Patreon than I do on Google’s platform. That’s kind of the point, you know? YouTube is full of slop, and watching it in any way can support the slop they send to the masses, even if you aren’t seeing it yourself. No algorithms should be a default thing, not something only power users will even think of doing. That’s what I was saying about Nebula. If you don’t want to use one of the many private frontends for it, you still do not get an algorithm.

I vastly prefer Nebula and Patreon to YouTube in every way. Nebula may be centralized, but it’s no where near to the enshittification of YouTube. It is currently better, so I’m happy to use it. If it enshittifies, I’ll just stop using it, because you can do that.

I never said Nebula was a solution to anything other than not being YouTube while having the content creators they enjoy. It’s great at that, the cut they give creators is much better, there isn’t an insane amount of tracking, etc. If the content creator I enjoy is on both YouTube and Nebula, I’m going to use Nebula every time, because then I don’t have to support Google. You know, one of the biggest companies in the world, which is worth trillions? The one that peddles slop, spies on you, and intentionally makes their platform as addictive as possible?

Video is unfortunately a very expensive thing to store and network. The quality of content on Nebula is better than most things you can find on decentralized alternatives partly because it is able to actually pay creators. That will continue to be the main thing stopping creators from using decentralized platforms, unfortunately. That is not to say some aren’t successful on it or making high quality content, of course. It’s just a lot more rare than the centralized alternatives.

Also, do you think that the only creators on Nebula are Wendover and Tom Scott? There are plenty on there that are no where near that size, and are small creators. I’m not sure why you think small creators should get shafted because large creators exist on the platform.

It seems that you’re okay with people using YouTube if they use a private frontend. But you’re not okay with promoting a different platform entirely, so people can completely avoid YouTube? It isn’t making sense to me.

Because I like supporting the small creators of the content I enjoy? Because it’s only like $35-40 for an entire year? Because I find YouTube to be full of slop? Because Nebula doesn’t use an algorithm?

I could go on.

Well, backups would have saved his content, but for what viewer base? How is he supposed to use his backups to get his viewer base and income back? It took 10 years to get that.

I love nebula for a lot of the topics you listed, highly recommend it!