It depends on how you look at it, and how it’s presented

You don’t fill a hole by grabbing dirt and finding a hole, you realize you need to fill a hole, and then you grab/buy materials to fill it in with.

It’s just a matter of approach. You can frame it in either direction

You realize this is actually a field of study? Like, this isn’t a particularly soft science… Companies have done massive A/B campaigns and written papers on it, universities do studies on it… It’s not just opinion

I mean, I do this professionally, I took courses that break down what makes something feel intuitive

Yeah, it’s basically a UX issue. You can make either one seem more natural depending on how you present it, although if I’m transferring money I probably care more about where it’s going

What is a state vs the state? It’s pretty sloppy in the US… I’d need way more context at a minimum

I think that my flow is far more natural… But suffice to say I wouldn’t switch it on you either way

Sure… If I want $300 in an account, that’s my goal. I don’t want to decrease another account by that amount

So my goal is to move X money into Y account, or maybe all but X money into Y account

The second half is where it comes from. It’s not the goal, it’s the means

But again as I said, flipping this is a worse solution than either direction

Honestly, picking the destination first makes more sense.

But the primary law of UX is you don’t change shit up on people. I’d have taken a stand if I was on that team

Yes, because federal reserve notes (aka fiat currency) wasn’t a thing when the basic frameworks were established. Hell, it was just straight up fraud that created it, the problem just got out of hand and so they put a bandaid on the problem… It’s a fundamentally nonsensical system

There’s probably tons of unpatched laws that don’t take this into account, or even explicitly carve this out

Our laws are a crazy mess

Honestly, makes sense. If I believed that rule of law was real, this might even stand up

It’s just not though. The law is what people believe it to be

They’re trying… But it’s almost performative. I calmed down a lot when they complied with the orders to shut down alligator Auschwitz, now we’ve got ICE whining about how no one likes them, people aren’t coming to their hearings to get picked up, and all that bullshit about denaturalization seems to have been dropped

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still horrible, we need to fight it, and we need to disband ICE and have trials when this is all over… But it’s not the defining aspect of this administration

Those tents and cages in the Everglades cost hundreds of millions to set up, and probably a comparable amount to tear down. Money that was set aside for disaster recovery. The majority of that money went in someone’s pocket

And that’s the real defining aspect of the administration. They’re fascist enough to do fascism, but they’re too busy looting the government for profit to commit to it

I mean, maybe on your home server. They’re not all like that

Not really… Decentralization. All the echo chambers open to each other, but your location does affect what you hear

That’s where decentralization comes in.

You’re in lemmy.world. That’s the most mainstream, libtarted instance. That is just mainstream reddit expats

I don’t use my Lemmy.world accounts anymore, because they generally suck. Just like the ml instances are full of tankies, your instance is full of mainstream idiots

Get weird. Migrate to a better instance, you’ll have a better experience. I can recommend several to you if you tell me about your personal beliefs, but no matter what they tell you… Your home server does matter, a lot. And you’re in the instance equivalent to modern day Democrats

Kleptocracy. They just aren’t bothering to hide the fact that they’re selling off the government for parts anymore

An analogy is when you take one relationship between things, and you draw similarities between that and another relationship

An allegory is when you create a story out of this, the analogy becomes the setting and you use the analogy to work through implications through narrative

This was legitimately a joke… It was just a very dark and scary joke because he’s been publicly brainstorming ways to rig elections

Another thought, as socially conservative as we Americans are, it’s a wonder no politicians run on moving state marriage and consent ages to match our nationwide age of majority (18). Maybe it turns out to be a poisonous talking point? Can’t imagine anyone arguing, out loud anyway, for teen marriage. Weird.

No, we do have Republican representatives who do openly argue for lowering the minimum marriage age. Like…a lot. All the fucking time, really

Here’s a duck duck go search

This happens so often I can’t even give you a list of names… And I have no idea why no one seems to talk about this

Also, they get caught with CP or kids a lot. Lot of venom diagram overlap… Go figure

I think the inheritance part is true, if your spouse dies and you have joint ownership of the home and bank accounts, they’re not being inherited, you already fully own them

You can do this without marriage, but you can’t do this for the purposes of tax avoidance… If you give your child joint ownership out of nowhere, you’ll need to explain why if the IRS starts asking questions. And there are valid answers, like if they work the family farm or business, it does make sense that they should gain ownership as their responsibility grows. Things can also be gifted for less tax obligations or put into a trust (and those rules are very wonky), but this is a simple traditional practice

But with marriage? You can claim “this is just how we do marriage, we have joint finances”, and that is an accepted cultural behavior in most places. You can do it immediately, and it offers legal protection as well… For things such as medical malpractice, only the negligent party is exposed, so you cut the maximum amount that can be collected to your combined ownership/2 - primary home and other basics

Granted, I think “but this way we can cheat the system and pay less taxes” is a terrible rationale for child marriage…

It’s not just money. There’s very real fear as well, it’s both