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Unless I miss something, this looks like a solution to nonexistent problem?

> A reminder that it's OK to not take sides and just support your friends.

It is probably more complicated than that.

Like if you know for sure that a friend of yours did something completely incompatible with your norms (for me that would be for example stealing money from poor old people), perhaps you don't want to have them as your friend anymore.

But if there's doubt and uncertainty and pressure from the community, it's better to support your friends.

> I engaged in sexual misconduct with multiple women

The term misconduct is used usually in the work environment when one party is in a position of power, like a boss of another. This is not the case here.

> This behavior may imply life long psychological consequence for them.

Or may not. Or maybe refusal to engage with women could imply life long psychological consequence for them: women as well as men feel bad when they are rejected.

Don't decide for women what's best for them. They are grown up adults and engage in these relationships voluntarily.

> Yes they are the victims

Victims are those who were assaulted against their will. My understanding that there was no violations like that in this story.

> Twitter is completely to blame here

Don't blame knives for killing people, blame people who kill people.

I think the issue here is that Twitter came too quickly into our lives, and people did not have time adapt to the new reality.

Three hundreds years ago people would happily join a mob on a square trying to burn a woman because she is a witch or a traitor or unfaithful. Today people would just tell them they are coo coo and continue with their business.

After a couple of years people will learn to react to Twitter cancelling mob the same.

The opinion of a person with some credibility, like name is N, lives in a city M, occupation is X is valued more than some of anonymous.

Because nowadays there are too many fake accounts, even paid trolls, and talking to them (or even listening to them) is just waste of time, not a meaningful conversation.

My twitter account is anonymous and I sometimes get replies like why would I want to talk to nobody. And they are right, they probably shouldn't.

Poor people indeed often make bad decisions (not necessary financial, but like taking college degree they don't need or staying with their parents until they are 40).

But realistically it's much easier to save money when your income is $10K per months vs when your income is $1K per month.

The UK did a great thing recently: there's semi-mandatory private pension contributions: it is 8% total (you can opt-out, but you need to explicitly do that). So even folks making poor financial discussion will own some wealth.

AFAIK in the US there's no minimum contribution to 401k.

Super rich pay several orders of magnitude more taxes than you (in absolute numbers).

What are you trying to achieve?

This is gross double taxation: they already paid taxes when they earned the money you are investing, and you are suggested taxing them again at high rate.

Do we tax cars? I though we only tax road use, and this tax income goes into road maintenance, not medicine or whatever.

You can create 10 accounts if you think you deserve more votes than others.

I love the modern use of the word “shocked” when used when something slightly unexpected happens. I didn’t take an umbrella and rain started, I was shocked!

It is either inflation of meaning of the words, or infantilism of modern people. And I don’t know what is worse.

> since they're low power and generally don't have any moving parts

Rather since they don't have a critical mass/configuration which makes them impossible to explode.

That's what countries and governments are for: people and companies pay taxes so other people and taxes count use the infrastructure.

Amazon pays quite a lot of taxes, directly and indirectly. It creates jobs, improves infrastructure etc.

Anyway, that's offtopic: whether Jess should be in jail because he violated the law and whether someone should pay more taxes are completely different topics.