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by chgs 2y ago
Teacher can’t afford to live next door because a retired couple that bought for 2 times their salary in 1975 live in a million pound house. They instead rent an hour away and already pay a tax for land use, just they pay it to the land owne
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by chgs 2y ago
Fund a UBI from a land value tax. The more land rents increase the higher the UBI
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by chgs 2y ago
“Working class” fishermen sold their rights years ago. same as “working class” farmers who sell a field for a couple of million quid
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by chgs 2y ago
I assume op is talking about if it were implemented in the US.
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by chgs 2y ago
> Which people got the COVID vaccine first? U.K. and Sweden followed closely by Germany?
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by chgs 2y ago
Stupid question but I assume this licensing actually invoked being paid real money for it? I’m assuming this wasn’t 7 figures. Clearly you made it as a labour of love, but if you were honest with yourself would you have made more as an uber
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by chgs 2y ago
Tailscale has a single management engine. My understanding is that if the goes your existing traffic will still flow, but new connections won’t be made.
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by chgs 2y ago
The sad thing is there are actual issues and there is a kernel of truth to the feeling that men are discriminated against in some cases (as of course are women - and let’s not go anywhere near transgender people) and life isn’t blind to gen
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by chgs 2y ago
If my wife dies first I get half her pension, if I die first my wife gets half my pension. If we divorce assets are spread equally. Kids complicate things a bit, the person who owes the kids get paid by the other one. As I have a far more f
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by chgs 2y ago
> "Family is a burden, and screw old people" doesn't seem that conducive to a good society. Great for GDP though
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by chgs 2y ago
I don’t get the melting pot trope. America is basically identical everywhere. From education to healthcare, sports to entertainment, adverts to politicians.
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by chgs 2y ago
The idea is there’s no public land. The ultra wealthy will own it all and you’ll be confined to your Manna-style death camps.
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by chgs 2y ago
You work towards reality tv where you vote on who lives and who dies. Used to be the domain of things like black mirror but the reality is coming far sooner than you think.
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by chgs 2y ago
Was always going to be when you looked at the areas he promised not to cut. But 70 million Americans don’t think that way.
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by chgs 2y ago
The corn laws were interesting. They were tarrifs on food imports, supported by the land owners. > the repeal of the Corn Laws benefitted the bottom 90% of income earners in the United Kingdom economically, while causing income losses fo
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by chgs 2y ago
Trunk whines that American cars aren’t bought in. Europe. Americans cars are “big as bars”, a “compact” is larger than my “big car”, let alone the small one. Their trucks literally won’t fit down the road.
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by chgs 2y ago
Obviously it’s a tax increase on working people to fund even more tax cuts for the already insanely wealthy, allowing them to buy up even more assets. Even if you have a $10m portfolio you’ll be next, once they’ve drained the $100k and $1m
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by chgs 2y ago
So I can choose to opt into this service?
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by chgs 2y ago
I don’t know if it’s America or tech people but online discourse of legal systems from American tech people seems to treat laws as code, something to interpret as written rather than the meaning. Loopholes are celebrated as being clever and
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by chgs 2y ago
Is Flordia not in the US?
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by chgs 2y ago
My wife was denied the opportunity to vote last year in the local elections due to not having ID in her when we popped in on a whim. The voting booth refused to even register this, yet the apologists claim only 1 in 400 were denied.
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by chgs 2y ago
Tory party did this in the uk. Old people bus pass is allowed. Student id card isn’t.
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by chgs 2y ago
Was widely reported but was discredited. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/07/one-in-fi...
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by chgs 2y ago
I don’t remember any tracking or adverts on computers when windows 95 came out (there were adverts for computers, I used to jay money to receive them in the way if computer shopper. the first real annoyances were Spam and Punch the monkey
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by chgs 2y ago
Interestingly until very recently even the republicans are way to the left of European countries on immigration.
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by chgs 2y ago
The Daily Mail was very pro Hitler in the 1930s Even they, and the rest of the right wing press in the U.K, seem to at most indifferent to Trump at the moment. Quite odd really. Hitler in the 30s was threatening to invade neighbouring count
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by chgs 2y ago
Tracking inevitably involves shovelling money from the rest of the world to America. It’s unpatriotic to allow it.
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by chgs 2y ago
Journalism isn’t getting one person to say it’s raining and one person to say it’s not raining. It’s to look out the window and report reality.
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by chgs 2y ago
Private eye, who famously backed Wakefield and led to thousands being unvaccinated. Still haven’t seen an apology. Maybe they like rfk.
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by chgs 2y ago
Terms like “left” and “centre” lose all meaning internationally. It’s clear to everyone in the ripe that the democrats are on the right leaning side of “centre right”, but half of America thinks they are “far left”. A party that can’t even

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