Perceptron: Seer of Light

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I understand the justification but just don’t think it holds in 2026 unless you’re in a worse position than even paycheck-to-paycheck. 50% is solid odds for that reward, there’s a difference of two orders of magnitude, those two orders of magnitude are actually meaningful, and $50,000 in 2026 money is “tread water a little more comfortably for a while” money while $10 million – 200x more – is still “invest and go do whatever you want” money.

Congrats, Sharon!!

Wait, what? That seems so trivial. As a sanity check (and assuming I’m reading this right): unless you’re utterly destitute or you’re ground floor on some insane, foolproof investment opportunity but have no spare capital, you literally always go for the expected $5 million, right?

!sourdough@lemmy.world is that way, OP.

That’s Bayerische Motoren Wankers AG to you.

That’s amore.

Absolutely read that title the wrong way.

“Worry not, owner class, for I will defend you from these mafioso slanderers who think it’s possible for entrepreneurs to violate tax (and various other) laws. I am very progressive btw.”

Sorry, I could’ve stood to include the prior paragraph:

“I was hired as a manager to basically take care of the bar, take care of his tap room in Madison,” said [the same] former employee who requested anonymity. “At first, I was paid by a regular direct deposit, and then he said he’s going to pay me from the Super PAC and from the business. And I started to do some research. I spoke with a couple attorneys and an accountant, and they said, that’s kind of shady, not a good idea.”

Did you read this article or any other article?

He was shut down by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue for tax violations.

Bangstad provided a chart explaining what violations were allegedly in the document from the DOR. Those include unauthorized running of a retail outlet, violation of shipping laws and untaxed beer possession in an unpermitted warehouse.

And he admits to owing taxes. This is an entitled small business owner™ trying to claim political persecution as a scapegoat because he’s appalled small businesses like his aren’t above the law.

He’s also been accused of fraud by former employees in relation to the expenditures of his super PAC, e.g. writing checks for “organizing” that never happened.

The former employee provided documentation showing he received checks from the Minocqua Brewing Super PAC with “organizing” written in the memo line, despite saying he never performed organizing work or any duties for the Super PAC. Two other former employees confirmed the employee’s account.

I was trying to call back to Aristotle’s discussion of how this system supposedly worked.

This wasn’t the revolutionary part about Newton’s conception of inertia. It was the counterpart: that an object in motion will tend to keep going forever unless acted upon by a force. This was pretty staggering in a world where an arrow fired from a bow (below escape velocity, you snitty little pedants) will slow down and fall to the ground as though getting tired on its own.

Why did they make her look like she’s about to terminate the waiter at Chili’s who brought her soggy fries?

I’m afraid you’ll have to remember the free number instead:

oh-one-one-eight, nine-nine-nine, eight-eight-one-nine-nine, nine-one-one-nine, seven-two-fiiiiiive… three

If you couldn’t make bunk

I made small but meaningful contributions to a reasonably well-known project still used by millions of people.

Maybe don’t assume I made bunk just because I have an iota of humility to acknowledge that a hard fork of a modern web browser announced by someone on Mastodon who spent a collective five hours patching main is a pipedream.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tantamount

My point if you didn’t get it is that this has basically the same effect as expressing strong disagreement – inasmuch as it’s extremely likely this won’t see any meaningful usage or development and will quickly fizzle out.

Source: worked two years on a FOSS project vastly less important, complex, dangerous, and time-sensitive than a web browser.

Source 2: Obviousness.

It’s not wrong tho. There’s a new initiative.

Hence my point: announcing “a new initiative” doesn’t denote an actual amount of demonstrated momentum, but it certainly connotes it.

And, so far, they are showing lots more than all the other wannabes and nobodies who complain the same on the internet but don’t deliver.

Dude, it’s a patch on top of main that removes Firefox’s tepid, trivially disabled AI features. What do you mean “lots more”? lmao this is tantamount to a strongly worded letter about Firefox’s inclusion of LLM tools.

“There’s a new initiative” is doing a fuck of a lot of lifting from “someone on Mastodon said they’re going to try”.

YoFrodo, my allegiance is to the city – to urbanism!