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Headline makes it sound like, “Well, we’re going to have to eat elephants.”

I’m on MBin. Your username is displayed as: walden. I can mouse over that to learn that your full username is @[email protected].

This is the same thing as email domain names and display names. Yes, scammers still exploit that, too, but for the most part, people have gotten used to also looking at the actual full email address, and not just the display name or mailbox name. The same can happen here.

Still, I would much prefer if the default view here showed the full username and not just the display name.

Bad actors can afford $50 the same as good ones.

The difference between $0 and $50 isn’t really relevant.

LetsEncrypt is legit. A downside is that the certs expire after 90 days. However, that also carries an upside in that it limits the damage in case a certificate is compromised. There are procedures by which you can automatically renew/request (I forget whether they allow renewing an existing cert or require a brand new one) LE certs and apply them to your application, but that can be fiddly to configure.

If you’re not comfortable with configuring automatic certificate cycling, a long-term paid cert would be more appropriate.

Why don’t I just strap on my friend helmet? And squeeze down into a friend cannon? And fire off into Friend Land! WHERE FRIENDS GROW ON FRIENDIES!

It seems like it would be elementary to identify illegal ranching since, you know, drones exist.

I’ve had some success in also reminding myself that it’s okay for me to feel good about accomplishing even a simple thing. Did my wife have to remind me several times to submit my expenses to work before I finally did it? Yes. Did I do it? Also yes.

I seem to like tasks to be finished, because if a task is finished, then I don’t have to do it. Once I start doing something, I find myself motivated enough to get to the end of it and put it behind me.

It’s the starting a task part that I have trouble with. Sometimes I’m able to start something by brute force of will, and just doing “the very first thing” without thinking about anything that comes after. “I’m just going to do the thing that starts this task,” and once I’m in the task, it’s not nearly as hard for me to work through all its steps and make it finished, and by extension, gone.

Misused.

Me either. Good thing I don’t care!

Reality has a liberal bias.

Eventually, yes, and in the meantime, the global divide between rich and poor will grow ever wider.

There are exactly two ways that that divide can shrink. The wealthy of the world proactively using their wealth for the common good, out of pure philanthropy; or by being physically forced to. This applies regardless of climate change problems or their potential solutions.

Failed fact checks: none in the last five years

“Left biased.”

Exactly.

As long as climate change doesn’t happen “too fast” (values of “too fast” may vary), we will engineer our way around it.

While this is true, we must also take into account who exactly will benefit from that engineering and survive. Not everyone will be able to take advantage of non-global engineering solutions, and just like with every technological advancement, the differential will be used by those “with” to subjugate those “without.”

Tax on hoarded wealth is pressure to make that wealth do something productive.

To be sure, that wealth is doing something productive. Billionaires aren’t sitting on piles of gold bars or packing their mattresses full of cash. But the “something productive” that wealth is doing is being done for other wealthy people.

A wealth tax makes it so that a teeny weeny part of the “something productive” is for the public good instead of being for rich fuckers to pass around amongst themselves, empowering them to take advantage of everyone else.

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I’m sure you’re also aware of tax brackets? The same concept can be applied to wealth tax: legally liquid assets above a certain threshold would be taxable. Owner-occupied homes would be exempt.

This is a lot easier than you think.

If the asset was ever legally liquid while in your possession, it qualifies for the tax.

That seems painfully simple to make an exception for: assets you are not legally allowed to sell, transfer, convert, use as collateral would be excluded.