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it really would only need to be on the extremely wealthy. a millionaire might owe a few dozen thousand dollars per year or something, and a billionaire might owe a few dozen million per year

then you use that to fund ubi (of course also instating rent control and related things, since ubi without that will just result in $3000/mo rent or something and leave us back where we started)

why exactly isn't there a tax on stagnant wealth

like yeah we need to increase income taxes on high-income brackets but on top of that why don't we have a tax on accrued wealth that you aren't actually doing anything useful with

seems like a straightforward way to *start* wealth redistribution--but only to start it. more extreme measures will also need to be taken probably

beep

so, our new laptop has a turbo button

pressing it sets the gpu clock to "maximum overclock" whatever that means and also turns the fans on max speed, which is honestly not that far off what turbo buttons did on old pcs--they would "overclock" the cpu (which was normally underclocked to be compatible with old dos programs that relied on having a consistent clock)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgGTWtSwRY okay this is an amusing concept

no-experience speedrun of pokemon red, where the game is hacked to skip the experience system altogether. pokemon never level up. the brock fight is done by getting a bunch of level 5 pidgey and spearow, using a ton of sand attacks, and just praying they don't land a hit through that -6 accuracy while your birds repeatedly peck at his rocks doing one damage per turn

blrf, i commissioned someone for a little writing thing they were doing for valentines day and they got behind on them and i still haven't gotten it back yet and i don't know if they're even still doing it or if they've forgotten completely

it occurs to me that "ganon" and "agahnim" could conceivably be related words in a Semitic-like language, with the root gNN and templets -a-o- and a-ah-i- respectively

hmm, restarting seems to have helped it

okay, something is wrong with our new laptop

whenever there's video playing, something called "waves maxxaudio service application" starts eating up 15% of CPU time, which maxes out one core and puts high usage on at least one other

searching turns up nothing conclusive, but there are people complaining about it

any advice?

a civilization-like grand strategy game, but whenever a battle occurs it becomes a fire-emblem-like tactics game, but whenever a unit attacks another it becomes a street-fighter-like fighting game

this was going to have a second example in it but then i learned that temblors is actually a real word that makes sense in context, and not some kind of trainwreck typo of tremors

this game has a lot of typos in the random unimportant dialog

"I got a cut on my side that hurst like crazy"

hm. the xbox is hardware, not software. also famously huge. why is it called the microsoft xbox and not the macrohard xbox

now it *would* be weird if they translated german as though it were the demonym and not a personal name, but I strongly doubt that would happen

What do they call german chocolate cake in germany, i wonder

then again it's not named after the country so maybe it won't matter

you can tell that patty and flynn were added after the fact

their lines as party members frequently get pronunciations wrong

@connie since I think you might find this mildly interesting

got it! took like twenty tries but eventually it worked

it's not really a glitch, since the game seems to handle it just fine--it's just weird and not something normally possible.

actually i didn't save after so i can still try to reproduce it!! going to do that, hold on

augh i feel really bad about not thinking in time to screen capture that glitch, it's important for archival stuff

can someone please provide reassurances or something