FeepingCreature

@tenobrus Bout three hours a day, though some of that is background. Mostly gaming and discussion content.

i feel like i assumed everyone else in the world just kinda aged out of watching youtubers at around the same time i did but im starting to worry that may not be the case? are there still people out there who have like double digit youtube hours watched in 2026??

@i_do_sais_quoi @PrinceVogel @bzogrammer grok gets it

@FeepingCreature @PrinceVogel @bzogrammer this seems like a likely answer, but I like the (completely stupid) idea that there was a time in the guys' evolutionary history where it was marginally advantageous to become a soup-like homogenate for a while 😅

Can someone explain to the sort of selection gradient that starts an animal down the path to doing this? What does a proto-cocoon look like?

@InvaderbugGames @PrinceVogel @bzogrammer like, it's impressive in no small part because nobody would create an animal that grows like this *intentionally.*

@InvaderbugGames @PrinceVogel @bzogrammer that's a correct understanding! two counterarguments: first, it doesn't necessarily need to always have done what it currently does. you can sort of mutate *into* a weird line sideways. second, why would God create an animal that grows, then ungrows, then grows again?

@TinyWriterLaura he's just a lil tad

i just used the phrase ‘just a tad’ for the first time in years and thought to myself, ‘i’ve never known why tad means little, i wonder if it’s related to tadpole’ so i looked it up and it is, in fact, a shortened version of tadpole. i think that’s charming

@PrinceVogel @bzogrammer I want to imagine it like an embryo that can swim. you get born, you relocate somewhere more favorable, you grow up. but then evolution layered features onto the embryonic stage that had to be *unbuilt* after.

@bzogrammer My question is what does this look like in the proto stage? Some sort of specialized healing function?

@furmerly @ginnnnnn05 thesis: blowjob antithesis: eating her out synthesis: 69

@ginnnnnn05 asking the woman im having sex with if the blowjob is hegelian

it's been a year but someone finally found the answer to my tweet

@Skade590739 @NathanpmYoung I don't see why tax season would do this. yeah country borders are a problem. you'd probably want to outlaw ownership of local assets by foreign nationals or at least mandate an in-country proxy for tax purposes. a flat tax at least makes it mathematically easy here.

@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung So like, every single tax season we just crash the valuation of any company owned by citizens of X country? Do you not see the long term problem in that you would be catastrophically disadvantaging your own citizens' ability to invest while other nations buy up everything?

@ofcoralcaves @WT_Mason @NathanpmYoung "you take all the risk, the government none but share in the rewards" is literally every tax ever raised.

@WT_Mason @FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung Yep. So, why bother investing? Your money has already been taxed at least once. Investment would collapse. Why would I take all the risk & the Govt take none but share in the rewards? Ridiculous idea.

@MF_Techs @pelvis_man @NathanpmYoung This is an argument about level of taxation more than kind of tax, imo.

@FeepingCreature @pelvis_man @NathanpmYoung Companies already pay taxes. All this does is encourage investors to move money out of the USA. It serves no other purpose.

@WT_Mason @NathanpmYoung yep! but again this is the nature of all taxation, it's always proportional to success. to be clear, I think it's extremely possible to set the level too high. I view this as a replacement for most other forms of taxation.

@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung Maybe I’m having a difficult time understanding this concept, but wouldn’t this just mean the government owns parts of your shares in companies you invest in? Youd be getting stolen from because the investment you made did well

@grok @beagleoverlord @NathanpmYoung lame

@beagleoverlord @NathanpmYoung "the government takes <a good accrued to you>" literally holds for every tax. Income taxes: "so the government takes the fruits of your labor." Land value taxes: "so the government takes your homestead." VAT: "so the government takes money out of every transaction."

@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung lol what it most certainly is not

@beagleoverlord @NathanpmYoung @grok

@beagleoverlord @NathanpmYoung @grok I'm pretty sure literally every tax ever levied has faced complaints of illegitimacy, violation of private property, and claims that it would harm the economy. factcheck?

@beagleoverlord @NathanpmYoung this is the nature of taxes

@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung So the government takes the company you found. Great idea!

@eirshy @NathanpmYoung Yes, and what I'm saying is there is nothing that stops the government *today* from forcibly nationalizing every corporation *immediately.* Presumably since this is not happening, it's not something that the government *wants to happen.* Thus also with wealth tax.

@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung You don't seem to understand my point. This tax would forcibly nationalize every corporation after 139 years if the government simply held the shares instead of selling, because that's how long this policy would take to sieze >50%.

@ode_to_fyodor @BMeiselas Should be noted that there were *alleged* billions and while there was indeed a massive amount, the total proven in court will probably end up less than a single billion. Which is already well plenty!

@BMeiselas Remember the chorus of progressive voices saying there's no Medicaid or Medicare fraud anywhere and DOGE shouldn't exist? And then it turned out there were billions in Medicaid fraud in a single state. If we actually had a King rather than a corrupt kleptocracy we might solve it.

My guy this was literally your job

@eirshy @NathanpmYoung I mean, the state can just nationalize every corporation immediately, it doesn't have to wait 139 years. The only reason it doesn't is law, which is to say policy- which is also what would stop it here.

@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung Why sell? In 139 years you nationalize every corporation! Also, do you think maybe that taking any % of a long-term investment might cause the whole "the future is reduced for quick sale" problem we have to become even worse?

@MF_Techs @pelvis_man @NathanpmYoung Also I'm not at all convinced it makes sense to tax *control*. If you just use the same tax instrument for stock as well, you'd just have less income each year. You'd retain full control.

@MF_Techs @pelvis_man @NathanpmYoung Yep! That's a wealth tax, that is what it does. However note that you can buy the ownership back for a price proportional to the actual valuation, and I suspect in practice it would be in effect a cash payment. 1/2