Places with low taxes usually are shitholes that no one wants to live in… and if a place has high taxes but are a run by an authoritarian who does nothing but keep it for themselves, they are also usually a shithole… but one they can “buy” good graces from and so they’ll usually hang there some if they also can have a home somewhere else in case they lose favor with that authoritarian… so it’s pretty much always a bluff it seems.
This is also why it’s hilarious when idiots say “RICH PEOPLE WILL LEAVE IF YOU TAX THEM!”
Lol, they get away with everything here. That kind of “freedom” they get away with in the US is priceless.
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When a company is using AI in place of a person, it’s not a sign of that they are “futuristic” or “forward-thinking…” It’s a sign they are cheap, chase fads, and make short-sighted decisions that are not designed to improve their relationship with their customer.
Anyone using some headless white-label monthly subscription version of ChatGPT in an attempt to save a nickel on their bottom line - even if it means making everything worse for the company, product, employees, and customers in every way possible - is probably someone you don’t want to do ANY kind of business with - whether you’re a contractor, customer, or client.
Except FOSS. Because if you can fork it, it cannot be enshittified… every time they attempt to, another fork can be made.
Maybe I should start like a service where we get someone like a dedicated “agent” who has their assets hidden to buy tickets for you for a small fee… and then transfer them… like an agency… for travel…
WAIT a second 😱!
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It’s an expensive carbon spewing parrot.
For your web browser, don’t use Chrome. Use Firefox with uBlock, NoScript, Sponsorblock, and a VPN like Mullvad.
For Smart TV usage, block your TV’s built in “smart functionality” and its access to the internet via MAC address blacklist on your router. Also use SmartTubeNext on a Shield Pro with FLauncher instead of Google’s.
For mobile, use 3rd party YouTube clients on your device like Vanced on Android, and Unwatched on iOS.
Can you Shift and/or Ctrl click to select more than one layer yet?
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I don’t know if people realize how amazing this is.
People who make games work so goddamn hard and are treated like trash… usually thrown out right after working hundreds of hours in unpaid overtime because they’re so passionate about making something they love…
…And for a studio as major and long-standing as id Software AND it being physically located within the heart of TEXAS is also big.
The techno-artisan work of game development might finally become a field worth getting back into and actually sticking with - instead of how it has been now since the mid-2000s - where people burn out and leave the industry all-together… meaning we have almost zero long-term master game makers except for a handful of people who are at the very tip top.
I personally left games after the studio I worked at for 2 years (making them literal millions per day in revenue at one point) closed down only about a year after our hit game was released.
My heart goes out to the guys at id. They are some of the GOATs and this is something they’ve long-since earned.