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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: DriveEnglish
1·6 days agoSeems like quite an important drive to have access to. They should probably try to fix that. imo
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•“God is nonbinary”: GOP activates over Talarico’s past comments characterizing him as too radical for TexasEnglish
1·7 days agoAh yes society will collapse if we don’t first settle the issue of whether the Christian deity as understood by North American protestants needs to be gendered or not
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•“God is nonbinary”: GOP activates over Talarico’s past comments characterizing him as too radical for TexasEnglish
231·9 days agoHear me out: none of this matters. Just another distraction from the world being run by greedy psycho billionaires
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politics @lemmy.world•US investigators believe strike on Iranian girls’ school probably carried out by US forces
20·16 days agoThey reported this anonymously to the press, probably because they were worried it would be covered up. Will be a massive witch hunt ongoing to identify them right now, I’d guess
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politics @lemmy.world•US investigators believe strike on Iranian girls’ school probably carried out by US forces
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunchEnglish
6·28 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
47·28 days agoThese people fundamentally do not think about human life in a normal way.
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News@lemmy.world•Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed
1·1 month agoIt seems like you have more to learn about taxation, so it’s not worth me discussing this with you.
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News@lemmy.world•Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed
1·1 month agoIt’s inherently progressive because it counteracts the inherently regressive distribution of property in a capitalist economy.
Taxed 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
2·1 month 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
6044·1 month 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
20·1 month 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.

I see they ‘obliterated’ it the first time in the same sense that they ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear programme last year