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Taxpayer money funding government budget is fairly accurate

you can print money up to the natural resource+ labor output of a nation-state and nobody is printing that much money.

where did the 20,000 per person per year for all those years the US spent on its wars in iraq and afghanistan come from? it wasn’t tax revenue.

what?

and supported by taxpayers money;

nah our national taxes don’t pay for anything, a sovereign government prints fiat money before anyone pays any tax and part of what gives that money any real value is that it’s accepted as payment for debts owed to that sovereign.

where are the rest of them

lol you might want to read past the headline on that one chief

have been on the internet since before you could even pay to have a dialup account.

It isn’t really that hard.

you are incredibly out of touch with the average person’s literacy on these matters.

what the fuck world do you live in where that take reflects reality?

*everybody *knows the TSA is bullshit that doesn’t help anything and yet nobody would dare suggest getting rid of it despite how deeply unpopular it is. Weed isn’t federally legal despite a majority of americans supporting decriminalization in some form. Universal healthcare is also >50% support and they won’t legislate it.

there are similar issues and cases in all liberal democracies, you understand nothing about how politics actually work.

which party do i for if i want antitrust suits brought against tech companies and which party is running candidates who know how to write hello world in any programming language?

look into why people just give up their privacy so easily ,

because we made it easy to use technology and nobody has time to be an expert in every field.

consumer boycotts aint shit. we need tech workers, some of the people with the least class consciousness and poorest ethics, to refuse to create and maintain surveillance tools.

unfortunately most people don’t know what a url is.

gui was a mistake, or something.

there was no ambiguity between a tree and AGI like the marketing pukes are pushing today

we should’ve have called those things AI either but when it’s a cacaodemon in the early 1990s it’s more obvious to everyone that the computer isn’t actually thinking

LLMs are no more ai than the enemies in doom were.

yeah i’d want something in the 27-30" range so i don’t have to get a different desk

maybe it’s changed since 15 years ago and newer display tech like oled probably has different constraints but iirc you make big sheets of screen and cut out individual panels like how paper is manufactured in huge sheets and then cut to A4 or whatever size and since a 16:9 panel of a given diagonal (marketing bullshit but anyway) is smaller than a 16:10 one you have a lower defect rate

HDTV is 16:9 and manufacturing processes / economies of scale made panels in that ratio cheaper even though losing 10% of your screen height was always dogshit for doing actual work

any in high refresh rate or are we stuck at 60hz

sure but you need enough document for that to matter

no mouse wheel? or are you scrolling through huge pdfs a lot