It feels “official” and familiar to people. Hardly anyone has actually heard of Bazzite, Fedora, CachyOS or any of the other distros, so it seems scary to put them on their devices.

Ending rough sleeping is a completely practical goal. The idea that its a natural and inevitable part of daily life originated in Thatcher’s time and is one of the reasons its so common nowadays, it allows people to become apathetic toward it.

I think its a great idea to rebuild a sense of community using a national drive based in empathy for other human beings, not insular hostility like “stop the boats” was.

We as a nation are largely careless and dismissive about wildfire risk. At the time the alert went out, peoples homes were literally burning down. Personally I think it was an appropriate wake-up call.

Liverpool cleared him, and Cambridge opened an investigation but it never completed. Doesn’t really matter at this point whether he did or not, it was a completely overblown and racially motivated response to academic misconduct either way

I guess the penalty for plagiarism is psychological torment followed by death now, but only if you’re black.

Your earbuds when I take them out of my ass:

Ah okay, fair enough

Well yeah but isn’t it usually taking advantage of small technicalities within a law to cause disruption? This is literally taking the law at face value, as it was intended

It’s funny because it’s barely even malicious compliance, it’s just following the law 😭😭

I don’t think many people are against the existence of LLM-based AI in general, just the way it’s being pushed currently.

In the hands of highly experienced and skilled people it can be very valuable - the issue is that it generally isn’t. Personally I think Linus has demonstrated that he’s more than capable of using it intelligently and responsibly.

Presumably because Na+ ions are the active charge carriers.

Legitimately why is Georgian language like this. I swear this isn’t even close to being the weirdest thing about it

This is the stated reasoning for it https://english.cctv.com/2026/03/08/ARTIJc8xDJItXkz9P4fjkDUE260308.shtml

Fucking nutcases. At this rate troops might actually just mutiny

It seems like you have more to learn about taxation, so it’s not worth me discussing this with you.

Well actually it was the taxpayer that had 12 million quid, then gave it to a sweaty nonce for some ungodly reason

It’s inherently progressive because it counteracts the inherently regressive distribution of property in a capitalist economy.

Taxes 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.

Not 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.

People celebrating this are engaging in the same dumbass tribalist mentality as the MAGA lot.

There’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.