I don’t disagree with you on principle - but I worry what with attention and nuance being nonexistent these days we end up with “we tried it once and it didn’t work” - and never get to a better solution.
I recently heard a possible California governor candidate talk good sense on better ways to tax the wealthy and he made a very reasoned argument against this tax - it changed my mind. Note: am not American.
I have heard a few people talk sanely about the tax and the more I hear the more ridiculous this one time “fee” sounds.
I heard a far better proposal about closing the tax loopholes they use. Wealthy folks are borrowing tax free against unrealized capital gains. They pay little to no tax on it.
It’s not sexy but it’s a way better solution because not only does it tax the people who need to be taxed, it also begins to help people push back against capital being more powerful than labour.
It’s also far less costly to implement. You borrow against unrealized capital gains to live as if it were income - boom income tax.
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It’s not just elites and corporate overlords. This trash was the top spot on “staff picks” at my local private swashbuckling club with several hundred mateys sharing. Sad.
Cast iron pan pizza is so good!!
If you’re up for something different, try it with thinly sliced (mandolin) blanched potatoes and rosemary with a thin amount of Parmesan shavings instead of tomato sauce before it’s topped. So so good.
I use Adam Ragusea’s method (where you lightly cook the dough on the stove top before popping it in the oven).
He’s just exercising his rights as a consumer.
Thanks for me know how you’re categorizing mass surveillance metadata America.
I worked on a large(ish) contract (tens of millions) with one of Microsoft’s engineering teams where they were implementing an Azure managed version of software we produced. I would regularly refuse to install teams at the meetings, using teams in-browser only.
It also ensured that the technical project manager had to be the one to transcribe anything in our notes into whatever tools Microsoft was using.
While it was never said, the Microsoft engineers seemed to completely understand and never pushed back against my refusal to a) install crapware and b) not take on work that wasn’t mine.
Not using teams: win win.
It is owned by Lenovo, make of that what you will.
Google is also basically American. Make of that what you will.
We got a relatively cheap adapter that works great. It’s from Ottocast. I don’t know what the current/new model is like but ours works pretty well with two phones of the primary drivers.
https://youtu.be/06dQaOZIcH0?t=92
(Relevant)