thelastknowngod @ thelastknowngod @lemm.ee

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I set my mom up on slackware like 15+ years ago. She wouldn't have known how to break it if she tried.

You think Americans do t pay property tax?

This is not the same thing as an exit tax.

For example, two people each own identical houses. One lives in the US and one lives outside. Both decide to keep it until they die. They both owe property taxes. If the person living outside of the US renounces their citizenship, they owe an exit tax even though they did not sell the property. The value of the house didn't change. It's location, owner, property tax obligation.. Nothing changed.

There is nothing wrong with this. It should just be applied equally. If there is going to be a wealth tax, I want it applied to wealthy Americans even if they don't renounce their citizenship.

My issue isn't so much with the tax itself as it is selectively enforced. If those assets remained in the US and the person never renounced, they would never be taxed. Or at least not taxed at the same rate.

So it's important enough to make sure rich people don't run away but, as long as you don't try to run, you don't owe us anything.. So the rich in America can continue getting richer..

Also, the income threshold is pretty average for any senior level software engineer. You don't need to be astoundingly rich to be on the hook.

Correct. It's only the US and Eritrea (the North Korea of Africa) who do this. It's insane.

The exit tax is pretty insane too.

Basically if you earn a certain amount or have a high enough net worth, you must pay a tax on all of your assets as if you were selling everything you owned. You are charged this amount even if you are not selling anything.

This is the only wealth tax in America as far as I understand it.

An RFC that essentially boiled down to saying, in excruciating detail, that I am qualified for the job I was hired for and that I can be trusted not to break the website.

The FOSS absolutism is exhausting.

Most of this thread reminds me how unbearable the open source community can be.

I have a TWSBI Eco that I really love. It's not going to win any beauty contests but it's actually really nice to use. Of the 5 or 6 other ones I have, I use this the most often by far.

I've known extremely religious people that were very kind to everyone around them, only focused on doing good in the world

Being religious is not a requirement for doing good in the world. If the religion did not exist these extremely religious people you know could continue to do good in the world while not simultaneously supporting organizations that enable corruption, abuse, dishonesty, violence, oppression, etc, etc..

If anyone is still believing in these hokey stories or exploitative organizations they are either willfully ignorant to the world around them, gullible rubes who are victims of a centuries old scam, or actively benefitting from that exploitation.

I stand by my statements. Religion is a virus. It's a net negative in the world that stands in the way of all human progress.

The US was able to make smoking cigarettes seem uncool. Compared to a lot of other parts of the world, they seem to have made real progress in cutting tobacco use.

Agreed. I could run water sensors and solenoid valves for my basement water heater off of an arduino or rpi. I could also use a commercial product that has a warranty and a product engineering team and a QA department and etc etc...

I'm going commercial. The potential for damage to be done is too high for some hack job.

I've been in FOSS software for more than 20 years but honestly find the absolutism insufferable. It's not always practical and there are more important hills to die on.

I've been using Fleksy for years but there are some apps that don't work well with it. Notably, Connect for Lemmy. Backward swiping for deletes only does one word at a time and up/down swiping for managing autocorrect doesn't work either.

There are a few other apps with their own quirks as well. 90% of the time it's great though.

The good ones enable the shitty ones.

It is possible to build trains/stations in lightly populated areas and have modern building codes in place to encourage modern, efficient towns be developed around them.

China took it to an extreme in one situation but it's entirely possible on smaller scales.

Not so much entertaining as it is "WTF!? Why doesn't anyone talk about this!?"

1985 MOVE Bombing

I used to have that really common thought of "I don't care what you believe in. Just don't try to push your opinion on me."

No. It's bullshit.

The very existence of religion is a psychological drain on society. We are all worse off the longer it stays around. There is no such thing as a good religious person and anyone who says they are religious I immediately distrust.

Those new key bindings and editor thing in github. I wish I could opt out and just get static pages.

The unix philosophy is about what runs as processes at the system level.

I don't know what you mean by "system level" (cat is userspace) but I don't believe there is any clarification about what kind of applications should apply to the unix philosophy or not. It doesn't say that applications "should do one thing and do it well only if it is a system process or terminal based program built for purely shell environments."

Also, if the argument was exclusively about OS processes, dbus should be in the firing line of everyone in the anti-systemd camp too. That never gets the same level of hate.

The unix philosophy is old and, while nice to have, is insufficient to fully address the needs of the modern world. It's not as simple today as it was in the 1960s and 70s and we need to embrace change to progress.

Does too much for one tool (against unix philosophy)

This tired, old argument needs to die already.

Do you use browser extensions? That breaks unix philosophy too.