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New comment by votepaunchy in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

votepaunchy — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:37:15 +0000

It’s 15.3% counting both sides, and capped. And it’s the only “tax” that is paid back, at progressive rates, because it’s a retirement annuity not an income tax.

New comment by votepaunchy in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

votepaunchy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:45:42 +0000

Then treat college debt like any other loan instead of subsidies backstopped with government bailouts.

New comment by votepaunchy in "When war crimes rhetoric becomes battlefield reality"

votepaunchy — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:36:16 +0000

Circular reasoning. The current war is only because Iran was building a “functional nuclear weapon”.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find"

votepaunchy — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:43:06 +0000

What is the game? Who has been losing from buying broad-market index funds? Even if the market falls from recent highs all but the most recent investors will be ahead.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

votepaunchy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:55:49 +0000

Same experience with the recent quota change on Google AI Pro. People have asked for yearly plans but given the vague and ever shifting limits it would be crazy to commit long-term.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

votepaunchy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:43:36 +0000

Why wouldn’t your weekly usage “tick up”? And it’s only the additional five-hour usage that doesn’t count against the weekly quota, it’s not that off-peak usage only counts half.

New comment by votepaunchy in "The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead"

votepaunchy — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:00:40 +0000

The MIT License exists because in the US you cannot make a work public domain. AI works being public domain is effectively equivalent.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

votepaunchy — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:50:26 +0000

> that’s supposed to be the job of the government by creating policy, regulations and installing watchdogs to monitor things

But that government cannot trust the other government on the other side of the world to implement the same restrictions, so we find ourselves in this Nash equilibrium.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

votepaunchy — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:39:54 +0000

“the freedom to consume the service I am paying for however I see fit” sure sounds like complete freedom.

New comment by votepaunchy in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

votepaunchy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:50:07 +0000

Gemini flash tells me to drive: “Unless you have a very long hose or you've invented a way to teleport the dirt off the chassis, you should probably drive. Taking the car ensures it actually gets cleaned, and you won't have to carry heavy buckets of soapy water back and forth across the street.”

New comment by votepaunchy in "Israel used thermal and thermobaric weapons in Gaza?"

votepaunchy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:04:41 +0000

If by “learned” you mean Ukraine and soon Taiwan, then yes.

New comment by votepaunchy in "If you tax them, will they leave?"

votepaunchy — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:01:33 +0000

Or the wealthy are pulling up the average and most of the rest are not “growing the economy” with increased productivity.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

votepaunchy — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:49:41 +0000

The iPhone 16 was released 16 months ago, not “nearly” 24 months.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Iran's complete Internet shutdown reaches 24 hours"

votepaunchy — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:30:37 +0000

> My optimism is at best minimized because very few countries that were "liberated" are thriving vs most that remain in chaos or deadlocked into stagnation.

Which countries that are thriving do you think were not “liberated”? The US has done well, and King George III did not depart willingly.

New comment by votepaunchy in "U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies"

votepaunchy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:46:36 +0000

Britain distinctly claims part ownership of a foreign county, which had complicated trade with said country and its trade union.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension"

votepaunchy — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:12:23 +0000

And a lot more expensive per book than buying, digitizing, and destroying the physical copy. Which was ruled legal.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

votepaunchy — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:48:57 +0000

South Korea. And Eastern Europe in the 80s.

New comment by votepaunchy in "US threatens EU digital services market access"

votepaunchy — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:58:47 +0000

You are asking to severely damage the economy of the country providing your defense umbrella, when your continent is mired in a 3+ year land war.

New comment by votepaunchy in "Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them"

votepaunchy — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:59:49 +0000

You would just … leave them?

New comment by votepaunchy in "Week After Week, the US Is Dismantling Knowledge Infrastructure"

votepaunchy — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:10:19 +0000

The question under consideration is whether we should be compelled under threat of violence to fund this speech.