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Does Zohran Mamdani support strengthening New Norwegian (Nynorsk), which is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, in Norwegian society? Around 10–15% of the population have Nynorsk as their official language form.

This man is proposing to do with the sum total of published human knowledge what capitalism does with everything: steal it and then build enclosures around it for profit.

I disagree with Timothee Chalamet about opera (crowd cheers), because all art is essentially bad (crowd boos), in the Culture Industry sense! (crowd cheers) except for one medium, which encompasses all previous forms (crowd nodding expectantly), “gaming” (booing intensifies)

@captgouda24 No, we should not undermine autonomy and the pursuit of exellence for billions to (almost insignificantly) improve the tech talent pool

Sports are great and all, but they should be banned for the intelligent. It is sucking them away from productive pursuits into a zero-sum competition. It’s just so incredibly socially wasteful. Eileen Gu should be interviewing for Google right now, not skiing.

medieval peasant whose marriage is failing because he spends all day watching various puppetry shows titled things like “top ten biggest threats to your livestock”

"Little idiot" disastrously screws up attempt to retrace the footsteps of his idol. Einstein got his PhD at 26.

There's got to be some way I can make money without adding value to society

not sure why hamnet tries to appeal to modern audiences with “grief” when shakespeare’s play centers on an issue much more relevant today: a dispute over land belonging to denmark

@hagaetc If you’re capable of reading stuff that doesn’t confirm your existing views I recommend The Myth of Ownership by Nagel and Murphy.

As a Norwegian startup founder I've unfortunately spent a lot of time thinking about, dealing with, and debating unrealized capital gains taxes. Here are some key points worth noting: A wealth tax is an implicit form of confiscation. While practically all other taxes are based on taking a cut of a voluntary exchange, a wealth tax is a transaction forced by the state. In practice, there are only two ways to pay it: taking out a very high salary or dividends, or selling shares. For private tech companies, this is usually neither feasible nor desirable. In either case, every $1 of wealth tax paid reduces the company’s value by $1—meaning the state has de facto confiscated private property. In fact, it takes out even more than the $1: You also pay taxes in order to pay taxes. Income, dividend, or capital gains taxes must be paid to extract the cash needed to pay the wealth tax. As a result, the true effective tax burden is significantly higher than the stated rate. The value of any asset can change quickly. Wealth taxes are set at an arbitrary point in time. An asset can drop 90% between the wealth valuation date and when the bill is due. It is deeply unfair to pay an actual tax bill based on values that does not exist anymore. Furthermore: It is impossible to know the true value of an asset that is not transacting. This creates substantial uncertainty for taxpayers and high administrative overhead for governments attempting to assess values. Preferred versus common shares, vesting schedules, transaction size, and whether a founder or a small minority shareholder is selling can all lead to vastly different prices for what appears to an ignorant observer to be the “same” shares. The only sensible solution to these problems is to tax voluntary transactions in the economy. Those who lean left may prefer higher marginal rates, while those who lean right may prefer lower ones—and that is a legitimate political debate. High tax rates can be fine; taxing unrealized values can't.

More disturbing than price discrimination based on “willingness to pay” are wages based on “willingness to work.” Below, a former food delivery app dev claims that fares are dictated by a “Desperation Score.” The more desperate a driver is for money, the less they get paid.

However you slice it, it imperative for the left to be able to construct forms of life that allow people to experience flourishing radically decoupled from professional achievement. With that said, I have no idea how to do this

So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated , uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the “most wealthy person in the world.”

what did i just read bro

while we are on the topic of real estate, i have prepared a graphic that i like to call "pick your slop!"

Day in Trump's economy: > Wake up, check the news > BLS: "10 billion new jobs created" > Check my phone to see what today's tariff rates are. > Norway up 20%, Cambodia down 5% > Go to my iphone assembly line job where I make $7.25/hour > Spend next 4 hours putting chips inside phones > Take 15 minute break > Check my shitfartpisscoin holdings > Rugged > Watch the FOMC meeting > FOMC is just Trump > Trump goes on stage and announces he's raising rates from -10% to -5% > Also announces date of Jay Powell's public execution > AI manager scolds me for taking 16 minutes on my 15 minute break > It's only been 12 minutes > Call employee help line to complain > It's also AI > Go home frustrated > Complain to my girlfriend about my job > She's also AI

Well that’s not gonna help

One of the worst features of academia is reliance on especially younger people taking low paid, short-term jobs, going from one such position to the next, irresponsibly encouraged to believe that a permanent job will eventually be theirs. We are all diminished by this exploitative practice.