Last time I made a satirical site I was banned from the registrar (I was "convincing" people that aliens were real apparently)

I'm sure this will definitely not be ignored and taken very seriously

I read the same tired opposing arguments all the time; I thought of it the moment I read the title. "My time isn't free, so I'll pay the tax" is true, however most of these individuals spend hours a day watching the news or doing anything else but being productive or spending time with family/friends.

If you aren't working 24/7 while handling a family and telling yourself your time is worth more than a small fee, you are just being lazy. I'm the same way, I am incredibly lazy and will constantly tell myself that my time is worth more. This is usually until I realize I'm spending way to much of my "money" to "save time". HourlyWage(time) = money, if I'm saving time by spending money I'm losing time. This is a basic concept and I defy anyone to show me otherwise.

We live in a time where instant gratification is the main driver behind most decisions, devaluing our currency each and every fee we succumb to... as money is time, and if time is being "saved" by spending time (in the form of money) we are now applying a future debt to the work we are doing today. You might work 40 hours one week, where at least 4 hours of that week goes to paying your streaming bill, another 8 for Internet and Phone, as well as another 2 for the coffee you didn't make that week, another hour for your notetaking app on your phone, 30 minutes for your subscription to watch funny youtuber release content early, another 2 hours for you glut of productivity apps, etc. These things all work to keep you a wage-slave till the day you eventually croak with a menial 401k.

It's embarrassing we reduce ourselves to this.

That’s what these “time is money” people don’t get: It’s only opportunity cost if you would otherwise be working. Lets say I make $200/hr on my day job. If I choose to spend 4 hours in the evening writing an app, it’s not costing me $800 because I am not doing it instead of working. I would otherwise be cleaning up the garage or walking the dog or something.

Most people’s free time is not worth anything monetary. Sure, there is non monetary value in chilling out and spending time with family, but if I spend a few hours making an app for myself, then I got something for free.

Bandcamp knows what the people want

The safe temp value gave me a chuckle

Yes.

Only way is to secure your IoT devices/routers/cameras/etc.

Through personal responsibility? That is not scalable; look at how many compromised devices there are. We need a better solution as an industry.

Yep. Manufacturers / distributors should be held responsible. Aligning the incentives is half the battle.

A "do not connect to the cloud" physical flip switch on the IoT device is what I want. Where can I sign the petition for that?

A physical switch is extra BoM / cost, and doesn't make sense in the context of a networked device. Just make it LAN-first / LAN-only. Any Internet-enabled features should happen on the gateway, and be opt-in.

Yes, need to protect Azure from those evil manufacturers.

Azure AWS and cloudflare will survive, then everything else will pay them for protection; when all of the internet is captive, they will lobby for regulation to reduce the costs.

It would be better to get the regulation set up before stronger gatekeepers are created

"a better solution as an industry" = "corporate authoritarianism"

I'd rather these attacks continue, than they not exist at all, because the latter is only possible in a world without any freedom.

This is intensely ambitious.

I just kind of want to see what comes out of this.

RISC-V ftw and if they got lightweight, local-first AIs with a decent site-map of each program; that could be really unique and fun; if not annoying to use in practice.

I see the future they want so badly.

If you grew up with image boards in their heyday (pre-2004) then X could feel a bit nostalgic.

However the word filters (to suppress messages) does dampen it a bit.

I mean, is 4chan better than those image boards? or worse? how about 8chan

I wrote a 8-bit ripple adder when I was 16 one night; I thought about this idea then but it seemed like a massive undertaking.

With all the additional redstone items/capabilities however I could imagine most circuits could be more and more compact..

All in all, really cool

Income tax was supposed to end after we recovered from the Civil War anyhow, so it's, by any other definition applied to any corp or business, unjust theft (like autobilling someone after they paid off their loan).

So of course it doesn't work. Also plausible deniability, if you overpay, rarely will the gov give you back what you give them, and if they do, it's months afterwards.