Frankly, I don’t trust the intelligence of people who don’t have an internal monologue. If you don’t think in words, you can’t be thinking of anything very complicated
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunchEnglish
6·9 days agoNo :( they need a brain to work
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunchEnglish
47·9 days agoThese people fundamentally do not think about human life in a normal way.
davetortoise@reddthat.comtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•And on this birthday too, fahhha!
2·12 days agoCrouching over an unconscious woman/girl in a pedophile’s mansion? Seems like if that doesn’t meet the bar, it really should.
davetortoise@reddthat.comtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•And on this birthday too, fahhha!
2·12 days agoMore than enough grounds for suspicion based on the context
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy TestEnglish
21·12 days agoVery likely to void your insurance
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News@lemmy.world•Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed
1·12 days agoIt seems like you have more to learn about taxation, so it’s not worth me discussing this with you.
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World News@lemmy.world•Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public officeEnglish
141·12 days agoWell actually it was the taxpayer that had 12 million quid, then gave it to a sweaty nonce for some ungodly reason
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News@lemmy.world•Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed
1·12 days agoIt’s inherently progressive because it counteracts the inherently regressive distribution of property in a capitalist economy.
Taxes are not either flat or progressive. They are flat, proportional, or progressive. This is a proportional tax which targets unequal distribution to achieve progressive results.
If you mess with the rate, the system will be more easily exploited by the ultra-rich.
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News@lemmy.world•Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed
2·13 days agoNot with a regular property/land tax. There’s essentially no way to game that.
My point is that adding frills to a tax (like making it progressive) usually just enables the people with the means to do so to take advantage of provisions protecting the poor. A property tax is effective because it is inherently progressive and doesn’t need to be tweaked much.
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News@lemmy.world•Tucker Carlson 'detained' in Israel as passport taken from him after interview
6044·13 days agoPeople celebrating this are engaging in the same dumbass tribalist mentality as the MAGA lot.
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News@lemmy.world•Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed
20·13 days agoThere’d likely be a lot of ways around it. Large plots would be broken up into smaller legal boundaries, parts would be owned by shell companies, parts would be loaned out and rented back at low rates, etc. etc. They’d find a way to take advantage of it to pay less than anyone else.
A straight-up land tax with no frills does the job. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Senior loan manager at JLB credit :(
davetortoise@reddthat.comtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Pedophiles Don't Deserve Plea Deals
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UK Politics@feddit.uk•The audience for Rupert Lowe's "Restore Britain" rally
3·16 days agoWould think it’s a Targaryen family gathering with all this white hair
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News@lemmy.world•China bans hidden car door handles, which can trap people after crashes
2·27 days agoI never liked those stupid handles, I like that there’s actually a good reason to hate on them
Sounds good except that literally 90% of people consider themselves to be in this category
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The Epstein Files include a copy of the Bash manual
12·27 days agoPossible they’re just chucking random bs in there to make it harder to find the worst stuff?



Fucking nutcases. At this rate troops might actually just mutiny