Legit had my latest covid shot yesterday at Wallgreens. I was waiting for half an hour and, while waiting, I heard someone talking to a different customer on a phone call. They said they had a backlog of ~600 prescriptions and that they shouldn’t rush to come pick up theirs.
When I finally got into get my shot, they legit had to move garbage bins out of the way… Like literal garbage next to an injection site.
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.
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.
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.