PCs have almost never supported CEC. PCs use a different signalling method to indicate to the monitor that they’re on/off.

That is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with.

If they’re injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.

TVs often do a bad job at switching on when the computer turns on, then off when it turns off/goes to sleep. Drives me spare. That was fixed in like 1995-2000 for normal monitors.

Point; I meant to include that one. Is also green like mum but wearing a hoody.

Entirely plausible.

The Science of Discworld novels are a fun mix of science and wizardry.

Thief of Time is not wizards but underrated Buddhist Time Monks.

The early wizards books didn’t really grow on me as well as the later other books.

Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail, and Hydrogen Sonata are all reasonably sex-filled (if not entirely sex-positive) too.

Definitely hits all the points of Luxury Gay Space Communism.

Slightly differs from the actual comic, though.

“Give birth to Spring itself” and “hang on, Spring” vs “give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here”

And ends with TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM

Most of the current plans for wealth taxes start in the region of $5-$50 million, taxing wealth above that bracket (like other progressive taxes). Do you expect to save $5 million, let alone $50 million? If not, you won’t pay any wealth tax.

Many plans also exclude your ‘family house’ from that, so you could have a $3m house and $4m in the bank and still pay no wealth tax - you’re rich, but not filthy rich.

Most of the seriously proposed tax rates are also in the 1-3% range, maybe 5% on the very high end. Again, of wealth above that threshold.

There is also some argument about hoarding that $200k (again, more like $20m) you saved rather than using it. If you spend it eating out, drinking, getting your house renovated, flying somewhere - then you end up paying tax and spending money and there’s some trickle down. If it sits in a bank account or in stocks or real estate, less so.

The ping is a bit meh. I need to figure out how to get the 4G card in my laptop to work on linux.

This is capped at 50Mb/s to be a bit cheaper.

One of the big arguments is to tax wealth, not just income.