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  • Also, a lot of things people refer to as tax loopholes aren’t actually gaps in logic. A lot of them are things that exist for a logical reason, but are being applied in a way that isn’t intentional.

    Things like “I own a convenience store, my wife and kids work there” which then gets used when some billionaire spins up a subcontractor of his business, hires his wife and kids as the only employees, and then assigns his house as an asset owned by that business and uses it to siphon away expenses or whatever.

    I’m not a tax lawyer either 😛, but the point is that a lot of the loopholes exist for a sensible purpose, but are being chained or applied outside their original purpose.








  • Sure, but the fast unofficial result is what leads to a quick victory being declared for the wrong person, and then “they’re stealing the votes, stop the count” when the results “change” from what was on the TV.

    Better to be slow and accurate, in my opinion.

    But it’s also my opinion that elections should be a drop-in event for a week rather than a one-day bash, with no partial results until they’re all counted at the end, and by all I mean every district, and a moratorium on campaigning during the actual election week.

    The all-night TV map can thrilling, like a sports final, but also probably part of the problem. I think it’s too exciting.

    Especially in American elections, where the vote is in November, but nothing takes effect until the end of January, why does counting the votes need to be instant? You could take 2 weeks to count them, who cares, nothing changes that night anyway.









  • I’ve had that thought before too, but until I just read this now I’ve never thought about it before but… we could just make a wireless T9 keyboard. It could be about the size of a car’s keyfob, basically all battery and 3x4 grid of tactile buttons. And so all you do with it is hold it in your off hand and type with your thumb, that’s it. But it’s a Bluetooth keyboard that just understands T9 and works with any phone. Or even tablets or laptops if you wanted to pace around while typing.

    Like, there are chorded keyboards and stuff like that, but I don’t know I’ve seen a thumb-only phone-layout wireless keyboard before…




  • This is the one I was going to link.

    I have my laptop in s2idle mem_sleep most of the time because this boots quick and allows me to wake the computer by pressing a key on my USB keyboard plugged into a hub plugged into my dock into my laptop.

    And it gets from my office and back just fine on that. But if I’m traveling or something I’ll switch it to deep mode before I leave so it actually actually goes to sleep in my bag.

    It takes extra time and jank to boot, and I have to wake it up by opening the lid, but if I’m traveling that’s normal since I don’t travel with my dock or USB keyboard anyway.

    This is one of those cases where it would be nice if the tech always did what I wanted, but I do actually want different things at different times, and so I do actually benefit from the control of being able to choose.

    My hardware doesn’t support “shallow” sleep, for whatever reason.