I recently received my clicks power keyboard and after 2-3 weeks of usage am substantially slower and less accurate; that being said, I never developed "blackberry" muscle memory.
Or they've hit diminishing returns that will collapse their valuation, so saying "this is a threat to humanity" sounds better than "This is about as good as the tech is going to be for a long time" to investors.
If someone built an ETL data pipeline and made it public, would the same complaints apply? Or is it simply negative press against a policy unpopular with the wealthy? I believe the latter.
Wealthy NYC real estate owners weren’t doxxed, their public information is just more easily accessible. Their privilege has been challenged, which they do not like. Same reason Bill Ackman spent more on trying to defeat Mamdani then he would pay in increased taxes: it's about control and power.
The mayor isn’t “someone.” He has a bully pulpit. If the President published a list of Americans who are e.g. foreign born, or who are registered Democrat in a particular city, that would still be problematic even if it’s something one could eventually assembly from public records.
> Same reason Bill Ackman
Ackman is a moron. Punishing a group because he’s corrupt is wrong.
(To be clear, I am not affected by this tax and pushed for its passage until now.)
The NYC Mayor’s Office publishing a list of real estate owners impacted by a publicly communicated and recently enacted tax is wrong? I find that incredibly hard to believe as a proponent of open and transparent government. My property valuations are public record, my property taxes due on those properties is public record, any exemptions are public record. This is a sql query, not a witch hunt. Should they hide the data instead? The data is already public.
I’m not in NYC, nor exposed to this tax, but I still support it, even if my name was in the dataset.
What do you think the purpose of introducing a new public tool to access the data is?
Immigration status and home address is "public information" for anyone involved in the criminal court system. How do you feel if Steven Miller or the Trump Administration created a new app to easily look up the home address of any immigrant Flagged in those systems.
One might even accuse them of doxing for political purposes
A bit of a stretch to compare an authoritarian enabling his white nationalist and supremacist supporters to harass and harm a vulnerable population vs property tax collection, no? No shared ground if you believe our examples are equivalent. Leftists aren’t going to round up the wealthy in concentration camps, pulled off the street with no recourse. The ask is simply to pay the slightly more taxes being asked, from the wealthiest who can absolutely afford it.
Vilification. Why was Mamdani TikToking in front of Griffin’s mansion before? It plays well with an angry base. Same goes for right-wing folks who will give you a tool to find likely DSA-voting neighbours.
The base should be angry about the current level of wealth inequality. If you think they shouldn't, perhaps you are not poor and disenfranchised enough, with no disrespect for the luck you've had achieving the level of wealth you have obtained. Griffin is a villain imho, so I see no problem with calling a spade a spade. To not be a villain is easy, it is a choice to remain one.
(i realize this is a subjective, philosophical topic on "what is enough" and "how much unelected power should people have via incredible wealth" that we may simply disagree on)
> base should be angry about the current level of wealth inequality
Sure. This is the same argument MAGA makes. You can be angry without targeting innocent Americans. (And unless you’re solely playing to your base, this is how you turn anger into policy.)
> Griffin is a villain imho
So charge him. Tax him. Performative histrionics don’t do any of that.
I also think the Griffin stunt didn’t look great, but is fine because Griffin is a dick and can afford private security. I don’t think anyone looked at the list Mamdani just published, it’s just fodder. Again, analogous to how publishing names and addresses of likely DSA supporters would be. Legal. But also a thinly-veiled threat.
We need leaders to rise to the current anger at our political and economic system. I thought Mamdani might show that way. I was wrong.
You’re entitled to your opinion, which I can respect. It will take time to move the Overton window to get more DSA candidates elected to enact policy that more aggressively taxes the wealthy at the highest income and wealth levels. This is the process, if it doesn’t suit your tastes, that’s fine, but Mamdani hasn’t broken the law either in his “theatrics” as you call it. This is politics. Charge him if he has, otherwise they’re just complaints about speech you find distasteful (which, again, you are entitled to said opinion). "We are taxing these very wealthy people" is not the equivalent of calling for or aggressively supporting immediate physical harm of marginalized groups of fellow nation state residents.
> Sure. This is the same argument MAGA makes. You can be angry without targeting innocent Americans. (And unless you’re solely playing to your base, this is how you turn anger into policy.)
These are not MAGA arguments, which are broadly speaking, “Make the right people suffer and I’m willing to suffer as long as you’re also hurting people I don’t like.” [1] MAGA people hate, Democratic Socialists are seeking a more economically just world. I'm sure we'll continue to argue the methods long into the future as this plays out in the decades ahead.
With Fable 5 that did a websearch, specific drinks do have a bit lower content than Energy drinks yes, but most have a higher content, and if we are talking about Redbulls, then virtually every Starbucks drink is higher:
1 Monster = "Big can" (16 oz)
Size-by-Size Comparison
~8–10 oz (Small / Short)
Starbucks Short Pike Place 180 mg ≈ 1.1 Monsters
Starbucks Short Blonde 180 mg ≈ 1.1 Monsters
Starbucks Short Latte/Cappuccino 75 mg ≈ 0.5 Monster
Dunkin’ Small Original 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster
McCafé Small Coffee 109 mg ≈ 0.7 Monster
Peet’s Small Brewed 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster
Monster (for scale) 160 mg = 1.0
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~12 oz (Tall / Medium-small)
Starbucks Tall Blonde 270 mg ≈ 1.7 Monsters
Starbucks Tall Pike Place 260 mg ≈ 1.6 Monsters
Starbucks Tall Cold Brew 155 mg ≈ 1.0 Monster
Starbucks Tall Americano 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster
Starbucks Tall Latte 75 mg ≈ 0.5 Monster
Dunkin’ Small–Med iced/coffee 150–210 ≈ 0.9–1.3
McCafé Medium Coffee 145 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster
Costa Medio coffee ~280 mg ≈ 1.75 Monsters
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~16 oz (Grande / Medium)
Starbucks Grande Blonde 360 mg ≈ 2.25 Monsters
Starbucks Grande Pike Place 310 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters
Starbucks Grande Cold Brew 205 mg ≈ 1.3 Monsters
Starbucks Grande Nitro Cold Brew 280 mg ≈ 1.75 Monsters
Yes, several national archives where affected on all settings. If a institution scanned and archived documents with these- these documents are - in theory challenge-able in court- within reason..
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