tired-turtle's comments

On: Your app subscription is now my weekend project

[tired-turtle]

These parties aren’t screwing you. They’re offering a service at a price. You pay for convenience. You may not value your time, but most do. That’s why certain gas stations command a higher price.

On: Claude's new constitution

[tired-turtle]

Have you heard of the trolley problem?

On: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

[tired-turtle]

Good thing you can fund it with your HSA or FSA in partnership with Truemed! \s

On: Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

[tired-turtle]

The Tacoma has an extended bed version that is on the smaller end of pickups.

On: Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

[tired-turtle]

While your point (about the potential for liberal authoritarianism) is true, reddit is an example of partisan, not authoritarian, behavior.

On: 'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs

[tired-turtle]

That’s how insurance works. You pay for a plan you likely don’t need so everyone older than you is reasonably covered.

If young people elected to get a barebones plan while in good health, who would subsidize them when they grow older?

[dboreham → dogemaster2028]

You're forced to buy auto insurance.

[dogemaster2028 → dboreham]

You aren’t. You are required to buy LIABILITY, which is protection in case you harm SOMEONE ELSE. You are not required to protect YOURSELF.

In some states, if you can post a bond, you aren’t even required to carry liability.

The government does not coerce you to buy a product for yourself.

[nradov → dboreham]

Technically not. In many states you have the option of posting a refundable security deposit with the government to meet the minimum liability requirement as an alternative to purchasing auto insurance.

On: After my dad died, we found the love letters

[tired-turtle]

You don’t find love: you build it together.

On: The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board

[tired-turtle]

“Standards of clothing” is not a set with a total order, and society has never had one way to dress. You’re unfairly projecting your values (of a certain style of dress) onto society as if it’s shared by everyone.

[inglor_cz → tired-turtle]

This is not maths, and nothing is shared by everyone in a human society.

I am actually an algebra major and I always felt that the need of some of my peers to stuff the entire outside world into mathematical definitions does not lead anywhere. Please don't mathematize societal concepts ("a set with a total order"), you will only mislead yourself and others. Maths isn't a good tool to understand people.

Let us talk about humans in a human language instead.

On: Why today's humanoids won't learn dexterity

[tired-turtle]

This is a good point, but I’m not convinced it negates the author’s argument.

Consider whether you could pick up that same fragile glass with your eyes closed? I’d wager you could, as you’d still receive (diminished) textile feedback despite the thick gloves.

On: Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth

[tired-turtle]

If a bill due at the end of the month is forgiven on the 25th, were expenses cut? What if the debt is forgiven on the 2nd of the next month?

I’d wager most people would consider those scenario cuts. However, in your framework, the verbiage is different despite a shared outcome.

[WalterBright → tired-turtle]

Bills are not due in advance. The analogy is inapt.

The taxes were cut 8 years ago. There aren't further "cuts". Billionare tax rates have been the same for the last 8 years, and will continue at the same rate at least into next year.

[wat10000 → WalterBright]

Weren’t those cuts set to expire?

[amanaplanacanal → wat10000]

Yes. They were temporary cuts so that they could claim they didn't raise the deficit. Now they are claiming that everybody knew they were going to be permanent. So they either raised the deficit in that cut, or the current one. It's the same party, claiming they didn't raise the deficit either time. And Americans put up with this shit.