That’s what you get when you turn in Luigi.

91% income tax on >$1 million, like we had in the most prosperous decades of the 20th century.

This doesn’t sound bad at all. This sounds like someone other than Google will be able to have a meaningful affect on web development.

Casting a vote is as effective at achieving political objectives as using Purell a couple times a week is at eradicating COVID.

Voting isnt pointless, it’s just not nearly enough.

Negative prices are only mentioned in passing, as a very rare phenomenon

Negative prices are occurring more and more frequently. The cause is baseload generation: it can’t be dialed back as quickly as solar increases during the day, and it can’t be ramped up as fast as solar falls off in the evening. The baseload generators have to stay on line to meet overnight demand. Because they can’t be adjusted fast enough to match the demand curve, they have to stay online during the day as well.

The immediate solution is to back down the baseload generators, and rely more on peaker plants, which can match the curve.

The longer term solution is to remove the incentives that drive overnight consumption. Stop incentivizing “off peak” consumption, and instead push large industrial consumers to daytime operation.

That’s the common thought, but it rests on the assumption that demand cannot be manipulated.

Legacy generation incentivized overnight consumption, when the grid had excess production capacity it needed to unload. With solar, we need to reverse those incentives. If it is harder to produce power overnight, we can drive large industry (like steel mills and aluminum smelters) to switch from overnight operations to daytime consumption.

Overnight storage is something we do need, but it is not efficient, and the need for it should be avoided wherever possible.

Parking garages are usually full during the day, when solar is at its highest generation. In the near future, as EV adoption rises, parking garages need charging stations at every space, sucking up every “excess” watt on the grid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli_KbfJcDs

With the Trump administration arresting judges it doesn’t like, judges need to start deputizing individuals to execute orders of the court.

We don’t even need to tax all kinds of wealth. Personal property shouldn’t be subject to a wealth tax. Your primary residence shouldn’t be taxed, even if it is a huge mansion.

A securities tax would be ideal. Tax stocks, bonds, and other financial assets. The tax itself should be paid in shares of the security, not dollars. Transfer the shares to the IRS, who can liquidate them over time, such that liquidated shares are never more than 1% of total traded shares. Exempt the first $10 million held by a natural person. Beyond that, the tax rate should be 1/2 the inflation rate to $50 million, the inflation rate to $100 million, and twice the inflation rate above. that.

The idea is to push capital investment to the working class, rather than concentrating it in the oligarchical Problem Class.

Castle Doctrine.

Mailable perishable matter may be sent at the mailer’s own risk

The regulation you cited does not strictly prohibit the mailing of “perishable items”.

I get this pretty bad from time to time. Usually, I’m spelling a word over and over again. Sometimes, the chorus of a song.

When I consciously recognize I’m doing it, I can usually force myself to switch from one word to another, and after three or four times, I lose interest in it.

Worst is waking up in the middle of the night doing it. I try to avoid it by keeping video playing overnight.

Sounds like a pyramid scheme.

Nope! That’s normal, expected behavior.

ST:V taught me that they prefer to be called “Captain”, but “ma’am” is acceptable in a crunch.

We used to pretend they were hand grenades and huck them at eachother.

We can easily get rid of income tax with a wealth tax.

That math doesn’t work.

99% of the effort is only 99 times harder than the cat.

900 times harder than the cat is 99.889% of the effort.

They’ve got just as good a claim to divinity as anyone or anything.

MAGA is a personality cult. It will rip itself apart as soon as Trump is gone.

If Trump ever thought that Vance was a threat, he’d try to have him executed, just like he did with Pence. Convince Trump that he’s surrounded by traitors, and he’ll bring down the whole apparatus himself.