Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

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we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

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Heated Rivalry cost $3 million per episode, about $18 million in total. It was the biggest show on TV last year. This whole endeavour will cost around 3+ Heated Rivalries. But instead, Doug is cutting funding to everything else, including universities, to fund roads being torn up.

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In my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.

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I have a lot of respect for Lindley and agree with her here so my comment isn’t a criticism of the piece but I think physicists need to consider whether the dual message of “fund us for curiosity” and “let machines do the thinking for you” can really go together 🧪⚛️🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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