abrasiveteapot @ abrasiveteapot @sh.itjust.works

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Insert surprised pickachu face here

Well that's out of character for Google

Yep this is exactly why I refuse to do the scan as you go, it ends up seriously frustrating. Self scan at checkout is fine if you don't have paracetamol or alcohol, otherwise you're waiting ages for assistance.

It's definitely an overall worse experience

Mullvad works fine on both LMDE and stock mint fwiw

Good call

Thank you

What repository do you have added, there's only fdroid and guardian in the stock fdroid settings (and eternity doesn't come up)

Although wikipedia has that as the origin several other internet sources suggested a pagan pre christian origin

https://www.readersdigest.com.au/culture/fascinating-origins-of-everyday-hand-gestures

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55702/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-good-luck

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-for-luck/p06j436j

Noting that these are not proper sources although mental floss links to a text that may be reliable

Which one though ? There's literally 4 forks of infinity called Eternity coming up on obtainium

Jerboa is on Fdroid, but it's not good I'm afraid. The keyboard bug is maddening.

True we say 15th September, not 15 September

Ubuntu is derived from Debian.

In linux there are 3 "popular" parent trees (plus a couple more obscure ones)

Debian tree, RedHat tree and Arch tree.

Debian is "parent" to Ubuntu is parent to Mint (standard versions)

LMDE applies Cinnamon and Mint tools to Debian.

I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.

I would have thought finding Hitler unlikeable would be a positive attribute ? Was that a typo ?

Orwell was a socialist so making lists of leftists seems surprising; are you sure this wasn't an ideological tankies vs socialists or marxists vs trotskyists ?

Yes I did read the thread, and the downvotes you constantly got indicates which of us is missing the point.

So, no, that's not how it went.

• If a government wants to place a wealth tax they pass a law that says (for example) "everyone owning a house worth more than £2m owes £10000 plus 1% of the value as wealth tax per annum"
• Person A fails to pay tax, govt takes possession of house, sells it to highest bidder person b, they takes taxes payable out of sale proceeds give A whats left and transfer title to B

It's not complicated, and the best part is you can't hide a house, and you can't play shelf company hidden directors jiggery pokery because if the law is written correctly the govt. can say "I don't care who owns it, if the tax isn't paid I take possession, end of discussion" pay up or else.

Central revenue gets their money slimey toffs get rinsed, poor people get basic services. Everyone who matters wins.

You really have reading comprehension issues don't you ?

The post notes that it's impossible to hide or move real estate overseas thus making it impossible to avoid.

Even if someone tried to avoid the tax by destroying the building you still can't avoid it because the land is the value not the building.

Ergo you pay the property wealth tax or the government reposses the property.

Unlike cash that can be hidden the asset is visible and hence tax is easily enforced

So to answer your question, the only one who would seek to destroy the building is someone trying to avoid a wealth tax (someone who thinks "I'd rather destroy my asset than pay tax" ie a nutter) in which case the government just seizes the land and the nutter tax avoider gets a banner over his head of "fucking idiot and welcome to jail here's your blanket dont drop the soap"

Lol. Yes you can. What's more the absolute best wealth to tax is land/ real estate because it's really effing hard to hide, and can't be shifted overseas.

You can destroy its value by physically removing the building but the bulk of the value is always in the land, the building itself depreciates.

Think Gaetz & Marjorie Taylor Greene. That's pretty much our entire government now all the sensible people have been drummed out.

Don't let logic or facts get in the way of a good grandstanding.

They didnt know it wasn't going to work because they refuaed to listen to anyone trying to tell them it wouldn't work

OTOH Denmark has a functioning social security system unlike UK

you can't split ones wealth. The end.

Yes you can, it's called tax, and it splits off a fraction of your assets when paid.

No idea why OP was focussing on mansions, but a property tax would sort that problem. Stick a £2m threshold on it so it only hits the filthy rich. Before you whine about asset rich cash poor; dont care sell it if you can't pay. People are dying.

As no seems to have answered this, the EU's political structure is more resistant to the anti-consumer desires of large corporates, particularly as the ones impacted aren't European.

Culturally the EU is diverse but broadly there is a lot more interest in / support for nurturing the common good (as opposed to beggar thy neighbour policies of the GOP). In particular pro-consumer policies are popular and get politicians re-elected, which segues to the next difference

The EU is less influenced (not zero, less) by political donations from large corporates than the US. Very little of the priorities of the average person makes it into law in the US, a slightly larger sliver gets through in the EU.