Wait, how is honey not vegan?

It’s literally processed nectar! Sure, the processing is done by bees, but they’re not hurt in any way whatsoever and they seem happy (inasmuch as an insect that sometimes seems to enjoy playing with balls for no practical purpose can be happy) with the arrangement…

I mean, I practically live on cheese, but I could see arguments for dairy products not being vegan given industrial farming and the whole veal thing (which is admittedly quite monstrous), but honey?

Bees are clearly where they want to be and consider the whole deal worth the hassle… they have a built-in way to show they are (sufficiently) unhappy… and a swarm that doesn’t like its current domicile or the whole collecting excess honey deal can just leave if it wants to, and sometimes do…

It’s a fucking bell curve, and IQ is a rather vague measure.

Most people will be between 90 and 110, and 95 would be just as a about average as 105.

OK, so tax anyone with more wealth than that (exponentially proportionally to the difference) and invest in services and UBI and whatnot until it raises.

Nah, 105 is around average, and people are dumb as fuck.

“low IQ”

Read their username. They’re obviously a troll, probably piloted by an LLM.

Username checks out.

They’re still financially obese parasites whose wealth should be taxed until it doesn’t exceed a reasonable amount (say, ten times the median or 25 times the lowest, whichever comes first), though.

Correct (when it comes to billionaires; Sam Altman and his ilk intentionally caused the RAM shortage by buying RAM their companies are not using and should be held accountable).

Billionaires would be impossible in a properly civilised society, which would implement progressive taxes so that anyone with a wealth above, say, ten times the median wealth of the population or 25 times the wealth of the poorest person (citizen or not) in the nation (whichever’s lowest at the time) are taxed to the point that their wealth can increase no further, with the resulting income being invested on public services so that personal wealth is irrelevant except for luxury items.

Who pays for the damage is also a civil matter. Fine everyone in the chain of responsibility, up to and including board members and stockholders, scaling the fines in proportion to their wealth.

Need to fine the parasites on top billions so that they’ll feel it as much as the engineer who is fined hundreds? So be it, fuck them, they’re just as responsible if not more, and should have been taxed to the point of not being able to accumulate those billions anyway.

No, fuck the company, assessing responsibility should be a public matter.

The law should be designed to make sure that no worker is more afraid of their boss than of breaking it, and to ensure that the executives, board members, and stackholders making the company’s decisions (or implicitly endorsing them) are held responsible for their consequences.

Yeah, the actual purpose of the laws was to produce interesting (when involving Susan Calvin) or amusing (when involving Powell and Donovan) stories.

Still some form of protection for humans is needed.

If a robot (or any other corporate product or activity) causes injury everyone in the corporate chain of responsibility (especially board members and stockholders) should be criminally liable.

Fuck the robots. Remove advertising because it’s a cancer on society, by all means, but any robot that can’t deal with this kind of thing shouldn’t be allowed on the streets.

Al Capone got got on tax evasion. If this is what gets Trump in jail, so be it.

It’ll be easier to stick him with the rest of it once he’s behind bars.

Where he’d probably immediately be sent to the front lines in Ukraine.

GNU Sir pTerry.

No, private cars should be outlawed too.

You don’t need to have read Kafka to know about Kafka.

Someone must have been telling lies about Some slop machine must have misidentified Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.