I remember realizing all the names are science terms and being like "oh that's clever"

Kind of like it more than the usual "throw darts at a fantasy word board" that produces like Dark Age, Dragon Priest, Eternal Soul, etc

If we're waving magic wands around, change the tax laws to limit how much you can inherit.

Changing the step up basis thing is actually pretty low hanging fruit.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stepupinbasis.asp

https://smartasset.com/investing/buy-borrow-die-how-the-rich-avoid-taxes

Where would you lay the blame?

And how is that hypothetical response "intellectually dishonest"?

You don't even need to wait for ng+. Sometimes I just start a new game and cruise through the first parts. Clear the "you should lose here" tutorial boss and go all the way to lady butterfly. Then I usually run out of steam.

It's really satisfying to be able to do that without a level up grind

Ebooks on my phone from the library has reduced friction a lot for me. Don't even have to get off the couch.

Poe's law is real. I can't tell if this is satire.

I feel like the LotR "Cast it into the fire!" meme would also work, where the ring is "Rich People Money"

I think it's important to recognize none of us are immune to emotion. We're not Vulcans. Some people are a little better about keeping them in balance, but even that depends on factors like "did you get enough sleep?" and "do you feel secure and safe?"

If you stress anyone out long enough they're going to become more emotional driven and less coolly rational.

I've been playing it and enjoying it. It could be better. Most games could. I had kind of low expectations, honestly. I'm glad it's a single player game with no live-service and no season-pass. I'll probably play it a second time. Runs kind of like crap, so I might play it again in the distant future where I have better hardware.

I imagine a lot of internet duds are mad about how there's a queer subplot, but they can go fuck themselves. Unfortunately, this creates a problem where if some random guy is bashing it I have to try to suss out if they're really just mad about queer stuff. It's hard to tell. And because we're all just emotional idiots, some people might be mad about the queer stuff and not realize it, and the words that come out of their mouth will be "boring characters".

But also a lot of their games have problems. Mass Effect 3's ending is so bad it has its own wikipedia page.

People are primarily driven by emotion. Some people almost exclusively so.

You can't really convince people of things with facts and figures. That's like trying to heat your bedroom by making a bonfire down the street.

We're all emotional, and all of us sometimes follow our feelings over more rational motivations. But a lot of people are pretty much all emotion, and they vote for bad policy.

They're fine. I keep some stocked in the fridge because friends like them.

A 2021 report from the Congressional Budget Office indicated that the $80 billion in added IRS funding over 10 years would yield approximately $200 billion in added tax revenue without raising taxes. The Biden administration this week said $140 billion would be added to the debt over a decade due to the cuts, per the Washington Post.

Anyone who says republicans are good at the budget and national debt should be laughed out of the room.

They are the worst of people and I pray that saint luigi will visit them.

Republicans once again are absolute shit heads. Can we just get rid of them? We could have so many nice things if these absolute disappointments weren't around.

They can be killed in their homes, too.

I don't want to be a goat farmer but I do find people that work hard to make management richer are insufferable.

""" A man is walking into the office when he sees his boss pull into the parking lot in a brand new sports car. "Wow! Nice car! How'd you afford that?" he says.

The boss smiles at him and says, "Listen. If you work hard, hit all your numbers this quarter, put in some overtime, then I can buy another one next quarter." """

It's kind of interesting how the reasons people dislike things range from "it sucks" to "here is a carefully constructed argument showing why the film's thesis promotes toxic ideas of etc etc"

Also interesting when someone's reasons for hating something are someone's reason for loving it. Like a review says "It's full of sad gay shit" and one chunk of people are going to boo and the other are going to perk right up.

I had a shower thought the other day that if more CEOs were shot dead, there'd probably be less Return to Office.

People are sometimes like "oh but violence is bad!" but ignore all the casual harms inflicted on people by capitalism and friends.

This is one of the things that routinely baffles me about people. They'll be like "I have too many notifications" and I'll be like "so turn some off" and they'll be like "no"

I pretty much only have text messages from people I know, work chat during working hours, and matches on dating apps (don't get me started on how people self sabotage on dating apps). It's fine.

People just want all their shit in one place for a reasonable fee.

One problem with this is that monopolies are bad.

I'm not sure what the ideal solution is. It's not "12 different services each charging $12/month" though.

I don't think regular capitalism can really solve this.

America has a big conservative streak. That's typically why we can't have nice things.

Conservative in both the sense of "don't want change" and also "don't want outgroups to have nice things".