Don’t forget they also spun up their own ‘production studio’, and… it mostly produced basically the anime equivalent of lolcows in terms of their general reception and percieved quality, always overbudget and/or massively missing deadlines, never renewed for another season.
And then that was shut down within 3 years.
Oh right, and the union busting, also very cool.
If I were to pronounce it outloud, I would say:
D. B. Zero.
Like D. B. Cooper, lol.
the… zer(o), 0 swap is… basically old school l33tsp34k… like uh… l00tb0x, pr0n, type of … dialect? syntax?
Huh.
Well, I appreciate the info and shrugging magic, but uh… hrm.
I dunno then.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm
I don’t know exactly how that post counter … actually, technically counts posts, but:
1:
Zip going down could have uncounted all posts anywhere made by zip accounts.
2:
There could have been some kind of… propogating post count negation effect, as various other instances reacted differently to zip users posts on their instances could not pull them anymore, on different time scales.
3:
If a zip user had a … top level comment, on another instance, its possible all lower level comments responding to that comment may also have poofed out of existence, in some respect.
…
I may be misusing some terminology here, and this is just spitballing, but yeah.
Almost all of my .zip account’s posts/comments… are not on zip itself, and its possible that that is fairly common amongst .zip users.
https://lemmy.zip/post/35999238
Here’s the post.
Evidently, Demigodrick has since fixed the problems and successfully upgraded to 0.19.11
https://lemmy.zip/post/36177918
EDIT: Alternate explanation: The fediverse tracker has fallen victim to Trump Tariffs as well rofl.
It may have been lemmy.zip
It did in fact go down for about 48 hours… prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.
Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version… and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they’ll be further looking into … exactly what went wrong.
Oh you replied quickly, I may have still been cleaning up the formatting.
Either way: =D
A sales tax is 100% a regressive tax.
What that means is a poor person loses way more of their own income to a sales tax then a rich person loses.
Poor person has 20k a year, spends 300 (before taxes) a month in groceries, thats 3600 a year.
Say the sales tax is 10%. Ok, that is 360/20000.
1.8% of a poor person’s income goes to just tax on groceries a year.
Ok, now someone who makes 80k spends the same amount on groceries.
360/80000 = 0.45% of their income goes toward grocery sales taxes.
Thus the tax burden of a sales tax hits poorer people harder than richer people.
A progressive tax, like most income taxes… well the taxed amount increases as your income increases, so this is basically reversed: a richer person is taxed more in absolute terms than a poor person.
…
A high sales tax does not stimulate rich people to buy more.
All it does is mean poor people buy much less, and rich people buy slightly less, thus shifting the demographic of people buying things.
Whoever told told you that a high sales tax… stimulates rich spending… is economically illiterate, as in, they’d flunk an AP Micro course or a first year of a 4 year degree… that is absolute nonsense.
All it does is filter out the poors, who now have a dramtically tighter budget than the rich, and make it seem like only rich people are coming into your store… because poor people stopped coming in.
Theoretically, you could have a progressive sales tax… but that would realistically require all POS sales sytems to also pull your income when you swipe a debit or credit card.
Its not totally impossible to do this, but it would be quite complicated to implement, you’d have privacy issues, data security issues, smaller business owners would have to foot a disproportionate cost as compared to large businesses to upgrade their systems… how do you handle cash transactions, id verification, etc.
To my knowledge, no such system has ever been implemented in the US… or possibly anywhere, at a large scale.
Property taxes vary much more locally and regionally, with many more possible complicating factors.
Basically, some government system or process estimates the value of your home as if you tried to sell it on the market, that year.
Then taxes are applied to that estimated value.
But… lots of governments do the value estimation part in ways that are both absurdly complicated and often quite out of step with actual the actual market, and there are often complex rules determining what triggers a new valuation or when it occurs.
Usually property taxes themselves, once your property value is assesed, are a flat rate based on the assesed value.
So… that too is a regressive tax, that effectively punishes less wealthy property owners more than wealthier property owners…
But there are so manh caveats and complications to any given city or county or state’s local property tax laws that it can vary quite significantly.
…
thank you for coming to my ted talk lol
My only quibble is: Great Depression 2.0, not Great Recession 2.0.
This will be much, much worse than 07 08 09.
Also IMO absolutely yes, Obama should have let the US auto industry collapse if they didn’t accept being completely nationalized.
Play stupid games, win stuoid prizes.
Thats how capitalism works, right, right?
Oh wait no, its actually uh, bribe politicians to subsidize your inefficient and mismanaged business, and then also fund a bunch of PR to convince people that… that isn’t happening, that isn’t your business model.
Instead we got basically this situation where US auto mfctrs are stupendously subsidized by the US gov… yet have no accountability to it in terms of high level, long term business strategy.
That lead to all of C Suite just chasing as much profit as possible by basically just saying… fuck making a reliable cheapish car, everything is now a luxury priced giganto sized pavement princess with horrendous maintenance problems.
If they’d accepted being nationalized, well then at least we would have kept actual ownership domestic, and the GAO could have just done audits on these entire companies and then everyone would know where all the mismanagement was going on. …
Same thing with Boeing. Boeing is massively subsidized, is a near text book perfect example of how to do regulatory capture, and wow what a surprise, it was run in a manner to maximize balance sheets at the loss of fundamental ability to actually deliver a reliable product.
Yep.
Concentrate wealth accumulation upward, socializes lossss downward.
Except this time the strategy is so fucking bad that it may very well bankrupt the state and just destroy its whole economy, which will ultimately lead to massive losses for many of the rich folks as well.
I didn’t go into in the main post but yeah, US domestic air travel is down as well, which is a pretty good indicator domestic tourism is also down.
… Also, they want to just generally raise the sales tax, with the idea that this will mostly tax tourists.
But… theres no actual … mechanism, to differentiate between a local resident sales tax and an out of state or international tourist sales tax.
… So what they want to do is bail out the already wealthier property owners, on the backs of the already poor non property owners, who pay much more of their income toward sales taxes than to property taxes.
It is literally rob the poor to prop up the idiot home and condo owners and corporations with mortgages they can’t afford because they thought the housing bubble would never pop.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/trump-logging-national-forests
We’re cutting down the National Forests now, and/or attempting to build new cities where they used to be.
Quite literally, as this is going on, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida is trying to convince everyone in the state that it would be a really good idea to just… massively reduce, if not entirely get rid of property taxes… and base government revenue off of higher sales taxes… on tourists.
Florida is … almost certainly the US state with the highest proportion of its economy/tax revenue … tied to tourism.
I struggle to comprehend this level of stupidity, to the point that I am more inclined to believe DeSantis is just trying to make himself king of a rapidly economically declining and literally sinking fiefdom.
Agriculture and fishing? scared all the immigrants away.
Tourism? tanking.
Property values? also tanking.
Property insurance? fleeing the state, no more mortgages.
Uh uh what do what do?
Tax break!
If Dems get the epithet ‘tax and spend’, Reps get the epithet ‘Slash and burn’.
What a fucking moron.
When the news about that came out, around a decade ago now, I deleted my Facebook profile and tried to tell all my friends/family using FB that … this is pure fucking evil and they should also get off FB.
They all gaslit me, pretended that news wasn’t real, and acted like I was a paranoid delusional maniac.
Nowadays we have basically the same kind of conclusions regarding TikTok and other platforms that focus on short form video content… well, actually even worse conclusions… and they come from actual peer reviewed scientific journals…
But you’ll still get people saying ‘brainrot isn’t real’… when uh, yes thats a clumsy term, but it is basically confirmed at this point that TikTok is as addictive as a drug, ruins your motivation and attention span, fills your with mis and disinformatiin, ruins and warps your self image and self esteem, promotes wildly irresponsible and often illegal financial mindsets/strategies… etc etc…
Yeeeeuuup.
This is certainly going to improve the prospects of assembled in US cars getting exported…
Oh well, fuck it all I guess, burn it all down.
I’m sure Elon will try suing the EU to force them to buy his cars next.
That is how the free market works: When people don’t wanna buy what you are selling, threaten to sue them for not volunarily agreeing to purchase your service or product.
… yeah.
Shits gonna get real bad.
Like Great Depression 2.0 bad, but this time shanty towns are all classed as illegal homeless encampments and Trump has publicly stated multiple times his plan for the homeless is literally concentration camps in the middle of nowhere or outskirts of cities, that kind of bad.
I mean, I can be as much of a pedant as you and post an unsourced definition of ‘ip theft’ … or maybe you could just admit you’d never heard of the term ‘ip theft’, or are unaware of its use.
Its a pretty commonly used term, especially amongst government regulatory and business organizations, as well as academics who study policy, in the US.
The term itself, its phrasing, is intentionally constructed to frame copyright infringement as a form of theft, stealing something that doesn’t belong to you.
The psychological framing of the term is meant to frame losses from someone committing copyright infringement against you as equivalent to losses from being robbed.
The entire point of the usage of this term is to mold public perception.
Here’s some examples where very prominent US institutions/organizations use some construction or variation of ‘ip theft’ as an umbrella term to refer to all kinds of copyright, trademark and/or patent infringement:
FBI
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/countering-the-growing-intellectual-property-theft-threat
KPMG (huge business consulting group)
https://kpmg.com/us/en/articles/2022/theft-intellectual-property.html
DHS (Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/intellectual-property-rights
IPRC (Intellectual Property Rights Center)
And finally, literally IPTheft.org, which basically functions as an all-in-one training/resource hub that connects business people to all kinds of resources to report when they have suffered… IP theft.
The entire original comment chain that lead to what I replied to … was all about playing word games with slogans, progoganda, public relations.
The law may be ‘clear’, but it is clearly bullshit.
It is absurdly deferential toward the rights of megacorps and hostile to the rights of consumers.
Laws are supposed to reflect and codify morals and ethics, arise from them… not determine them.
But, as we slip more and more into a cyberpunk dystopia of hypercapitalist megacorps being able to basically just buy legislators, judges and laws, it will become more evident that the government is just entirely a facade directed by them.
This whole article is about a lawsuit in America, you know, the land of the fee, home of the early and very expensive grave?
The place with the ongoing fascist coup that’s dismantling all the government agencies that regulate corporations, after the richest man in the world just bought an election, and more recently openly tried to buy a state judge, and though he didn’t succeed, will likely face no penalty for doing that very obviously illegal thing?
Also, as far as at least acquring a pirated game?
Its not that hard.
Now hosting them? Sharing them?
Yep, you’re right, that’s a bit more difficult… but hey, be clever enough to not get caught, and thats the same as being rich enough to write your own laws.
… Delete… all… IP law?
So… just literally make all piracy legal, switch all gaming and tv show and movie production/consumption… to an optional donation model?
Fuck it, why not.
I am both an avid pirate and have a degree in econ, wrote papers as an undergrad on how to potentially reform the DMCA… and uh yeah, at this point yeah no one has any fucking idea how any thing works, everyone is an idiot, sure fuck it, blow it all up, why not.