If they own 30% of the wealth they should be paying far more than 30% of taxes. After taxes and the cost of living comfortably, they are steadily increasing the wealth disparity and benefiting from a society where they are exploiting the lower classes, especially considering that a sizable number of people in the full-time working lower classes are not ever able to reach a level of basic comfort and security, as a direct result of them hoarding not just wealth but power, and not paying “their fair share” of either.

I didn’t know I could turn votes off. Hey, that is much nicer!

The military ran experiments with MDMA for treating PTSD at least as far back as 2007, I remember reading about it at the time. Wonder whatever happened to that data. It’s been nearly an entire generation since then. In 40 more years, they will admit efficacy and accept a greatly reduced cost to reimburse the 10% of affected veterans from the “war on terror” who are still alive, like they finally did with Agent Orange. No one who is actually responsible will be around anymore, so it will just be a day’s worth of “good news” in whatever the successor of newspapers is.

Fascinating, truly the best of all Zealands

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Y’all have interesting names.

Yeah that’s much worse than I thought. I also remember thinking, “there’s no way that many people are so willfully ignorant and will also vote.” How wrong I was.

It’s for his base to know how to spell it when they regurgitate it thoughtlessly on all their smedia accounts.

What were the projected odds for Clinton beating Trump in 2016? I remembered it being nearly a sure thing in the reported research polls but I may be remembering it completely wrong.

Für Elise isn’t technically a Walz but it does have a 3/4 feel.

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I guess I have a lot more to read about it, those terms don’t seem like justification to me (yet). I’m starting with the following and their references and taking suggestions:

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How are they a better tax? I may be completely wrong and lacking basic understanding of the concept of property, possession, and ownership, and am very open to correction, if my thinking is wrong.

I think the concept of a general property tax, at least one that doesn’t have a minimum threshold, makes less sense than just increasing income tax, sales tax, luxury tax, etc., or at least reclassifying “property tax” as a luxury tax, if that is what property ownership actually constitutes. A millage tax on land or buildings smaller than what is considered necessary for a person to shelter in, in an area not reserved for non-residential use, is effectively a poor tax on what ought to be a basic human right - the right to exist under shelter without being driven out. It makes the state effectively no better than any private landlord, at least in cases of real estate. You can see this in practice as property taxes increase in gentrifying neighborhoods as their perceived value rises. It forces out poor homeowners and families who may have been established there for generations in sensible non-extravagant housing, but are no longer able to afford to pay the tax needed to maintain that “ownership.” In that sense, they do not actually own what is supposedly real property.

In my state, there is also a property tax on vehicles, chattel by definition, and the way it is set up doesn’t seem right to me. For instance, if I buy a car, I have no problem paying a one-time sales tax, ongoing registration fees and tolls for use of public infrastructure, taxes on fuels that cause damage to the environment; all these seem perfectly reasonable to me for the privilege of living in a society that provides me a high quality of life. Even a luxury tax seems reasonable, since there is at least some very basic public transportation in my area and it truly is a “luxury” to not have to walk 10 minutes to the nearest bus stop, wait 15 minutes for the next bus, and then take many times longer for the bus to get to my grocery store than a car or even a bike would take.

But the very idea that I have an ongoing tax every year on “property” I maintain and continuously use while it steadily depreciates, nullifies the concept of individual property and ownership, since I don’t have any right to keep the thing I supposedly bought and own if I don’t continue to pay the property tax. It is now effectively owned by the state and I am just renting its use. If that is an intended use limitation that society agrees to impose, so be it, but it shouldn’t be considered “owned” by the individual. Or else, what is the point of the word at all if it doesn’t mean the right of possession without forfeiture? In areas where there is no public infrastructure where a vehicle is necessary, it even seems like an infringement on freedom of travel/movement.

If the idea is to prevent hoarding of resources that aren’t being expressly used, or whose use is a burden on society and therefore ought to have some offsetting tax that benefits society commensurately that seems like a great idea in principle, but that limitation can be done in other ways that are consistent. For examples, luxury, inheritance, or estate transfer taxes; or, adverse possession laws that already do exist and require an owner to assert and demonstrate ongoing use and maintenance of real property, lest it be ceded to someone else who is actually making use of it. These even apply to chattel in many cases.

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This is ultimately what made me try out Betterbird. It has regex searching which imo every search box of every app should have as a basic feature. Plus it still has all the features Thunderbird has and even some that Thunderbird has removed in recent releases.

Np, I’d be interested to hear about other people’s experiences with it, good or bad.

It’s Thunderbird but with bugfixes and additional features. Bugfixes I like are being able to sort by attachment and minimize to my tray. Features I like are regex searching/filtering (including encrypted messages), opening to the same folder every time, being able to change message headers, being able to directly open links in messages I’m writing, maybe a few more I’m forgetting. Regex searching is the top used additional feature for me.

Since BB isn’t a hard fork of TB, it stays up to date with bugfixes and features that new TB versions include, and they often restore existing features that new TB releases break or remove (at least 4 in the last major release v115), and are open about breaking features in new versions (like IMAP folder corruption in both TB and BB v128.0 that they say they hope will be fixed in v128.3.0).

I’ve been using Betterbird for a good 6 months and it’s the best email client I’ve used, it’s what Thunderbird should be out of the box. With the Proton bridge app running in the background it integrates very well.

Cheers, I only found out bc it made me search for who Francis M. Wilhoit was.

Genuine kindness to others without regard to who they are.

It was Frank Wilhoit from Ohio who said it. Francis M. Wilhoit was a political scientist and professor, and an early supporter of the civil rights movement, but he didn’t say that quote. “It’s a great enough quote that it stands on its own and doesn’t need to be misattributed.” - Eleanor Roosevelt