Well, killing billionaires is taxing the rich, just in a roundabout way and with a little bit of class-eugenics sprinkled on top.

At least as long as we have estate taxes. And until some next-of-kin decides to liquidate everything and give to charity.

Yeah bro sorry my subway already ran twenty minutes late and I wanna catch this train so I can see my kids before they go to bed.

You keep being a dick.

The reason to use the escalators when you’re in a hurry is because it’s twice as fast if you walk up them.

If you want to take the escalators to be lazy, that’s fine…stay to the right and out of my way. Same rules as the highway. Not complicated.

How fucking entitled are you that you “hate the concept of escalator etiquette” and you think it’s acceptable to not let people pass you? Were you a bollard in a former life?

NGL when I commuted on train/subway, my fat ass would take the stairs nearly everytime.

Not because it’s healthier, but because all the other fatasses on the already-too-narrow escalator have absolutely no concept of escalator etiquette, and I got a fucking train to catch because our subway ran 20 minutes late.

Yeah, it’s a scary word.

I get the hate for it, especially around resource use, and it’s overuse everywhere. But it’s still the early days and it’s certainly going to evolve. I imagine if people were as environmentally conscious in the 60s, they’d be up in arms about rooms full of hot glowing tubes doing arithmetic. Eventually, though, they got to be far less resource intensive.

Also the AI response is default behavior in Brave search…and many other searches. For me, Brave has probably been the best of the bunch, but that’s not exactly a high bar.

Are you talking about AI or Republicans, because that could go either way.

And it’s the default behavior in Brave search.

They don’t hallucinate, they just believe everything they read on the internet. They are basically Republicans.

This…checks out.

It’s turning the packets EF!

Have you done a brave search recently? It automatically tries to answer.

It’s actually been surprisingly good for me. Better than Google, at least. But it’s not a choice on his part, it’s default behavior.

Holy shit.

He’s at -22 right now, and you at +41.

He obviously isn’t trusting the AI, he’s asking here to verify it since he couldn’t find any first-hand information to contradict it.

Lemmy is already getting to be more fucking toxic than reddit. JFC.

The legislative holds the power to impeach presidents and judges.

But that’ll only happen if enough Republicans grow a spine.

Whoa now, that’s a bit reactionary.

The reason for the shit show is that it’s all based on good faith. And if a power hungry dictator tries to control the executive…well, the legislative is supposed to keep him in check.

It’s also based on the presumption that the people wouldn’t willingly elect, let alone re-elect, a blatantly corrupt president and Congress that enables them…or at least have few enough bad ones to be able to break party lines and put a stop to it.

Ideally, enough Republicans on Congress would have enough of a spine to actually put country before party and stop this shit. Start impeaching judges and presidents. Don’t let anything else get done.

Nope. They all sold out on their party. Fucking despicable. Not even worth spitting on.

I can’t wait till someone spills the beans on whatever kompromat or bribes or imperius curse has got such a tight grip on the party.

Ahh…they had woke_on_lan enabled. That’ll do it.

I was making a joke with a modern example of a noun being verbified, but thank you for your insight.

Did you Google that?

Where are the conservative conspiracy theorists who talked about Obama putting us in FEMA death camps? Where were they when we actually had refrigerated trucks full of corpses in NYC?

You’re thinking of rhythm. You have it or you don’t. That’s a fallacy.

Democracy is constantly evolving and, hopefully, improving. No system or framework is perfect, and one that stays the same will eventually expose its flaws.

I’m still hopeful that we’ll end up better on the other side of this. Look at Germany now. Or at least a few years ago.

The truth is out there. But so are lies.

So, so many lies.