What we need liberating from is Elon.
Man acts like he's the new Jesus, when in reality he's a fanatical narcissist who used immense generstional wealth to cheat his way to the top on the shoulders of true innovators, whom he kicked out once their start-ups got successful enough
I'm sure if I was the lottery winner I'd be salty in this scenario, but you only get half as a lump sum anyway, and having $1 billion taxed at roughly half is probably how it should be.
The thing that makes it painful is as OP said, all billionaires should be getting taxed like this, not just that one who can't exploit tax loopholes.
Damn, you mean to tell me the lifelong con-man and his team of other con-men and tech oligarchs didn't actually have their audience's best interests in mind, and were just parroting off whatever the right-wing wanted to hear to harvest their votes?
That's part of why I asked, cause I'm sceptical they can see it in the first place, never mind that's its probably not Potato's actual IP given how much they're advocating VPN use
Well in that sense you're breaking the law of your land by commenting on such a forum since we're on the high seas here if you didn't notice?
I'm aware of where I am, as I said before I have no problem with piracy - my main point was that just because we're fine with it, doesn't just magically make it legal - which is what you were implying.
And no, I didn't intend to be rude if you're inferring that but it's blatantly clear what this forum is for and them being employed by someone who purports to protect their privacy selling such a service but then feigning ignorance
Feigning ignorance of what? That it's probably not the greatest idea to be flogging around your actual IP address while doing potentially illegal/unlawful activities?
From my PoV, @PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de wasn't feigning ignorance, the question was a retort to a non-sequitur.
One's view on the validity of laws (i.e. only being illegal cause Disney said so) doesn't change them - I've seen enough "Sov Cits" find that out the hard way to not make that stupid mistake.
No, it's actually embraced by communities such as this sprouting up. Are you a caveman or something?
Not the same guy, and I don't mind piracy at all, but being embraced by a community doesn't make something not illegal.
That's very much decided by the law of the land you live in, and in most lands it's classed as a form of theft or copyright infringement, which is illegal.
Also, bit rude to suggest he's a caveman for making a perfectly valid point
Israel gets all the munitions it wants to enact a genocide, but Ukraine has to fight for every bullet to fight for its own sovereignty against a modern day dictator.
The US government's priorities really are something.
Well Trump did say he'd make America great again - surely he can't have been lying about making it better for the vast majority of people who live there, right?? /s
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has opposed the rule, calling it "nothing more than an attempt to micromanage businesses' pricing structures, often undermining businesses' ability to give consumers options at different price points."
Oh bullshit - if every "option" costs the same after adding hidden mandatory fees, then you're not providing "price points", you're just straight up deceiving the customer!
Nobody has ever looked at hidden fees and thought they benefited from their existence.
You'd think this would be a fairly cut and dry issue - the countries helping Ukraine wouldn't like it either if another country started negotiating terms on their behalf (especially not with a monster like Putin).
Ukraine and its people should be the ones to decide their own fate.
I swear people who think otherwise must've read David vs. Goliath and sided with the Goliath.
For fuck's sake, it's not meant to make money, it's a public service - it's literally in the name!
I wish more countries governments would get their head out of their capitalistic arses and understand that the services they run aren't meant to be profitable - that's what taxes are meant to be for!
Mirror molecules that by themselves could easily pose a risk to anyone exposed by them.
My point in even mentioning Thalidomide was that we already know what mirroring even a simple compound can do to living things, nevermind complex proteins and entire organisms.
GMOs can be dangerous as is without proper safeguards, but at least in most instances it's only the living organism itself that's dangerous.
With mirroring, any part of that organism could be dangerous to normal lifeforms, so even sterilised mirror waste could be dangerous
I know they're not directly related, but my point, as I said to @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de, is that we already know even simple mirroring molecules can do to living things, nevermind complex proteins and entire organisms.
lf there's no proper safeguards, it could do unimaginable damage (which is also why I used Thalidomide as an example, as it inspired literally tonnes of safeguards post-scandel).
Like GMOs can be dangerous as is, but at least in most instances it's only the living organism itself that's dangerous.
With mirroring, any part of that organism could be dangerous to normal lifeforms, so even sterilised mirror waste could be dangerous
What we need liberating from is Elon. Man acts like he's the new Jesus, when in reality he's a fanatical narcissist who used immense generstional wealth to cheat his way to the top on the shoulders of true innovators, whom he kicked out once their start-ups got successful enough