threeduck @ threeduck @aussie.zone

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Yeah but the yanks voted FOR the convicted felon insurrectionist rapist. That deserves SOME ire from the Commonwealth.

Oh good! Around 85% of the floating plastic in ocean currents is from fishing, and around 40% of fish caught are bycatch, killed and thrown out. Not to mention bottom trawling releases ~1 Gt of Co2 per year (more than all air travel).

Glad to see that's the direction we're moving in.

Eww Bad Empanada? That guy is unreasonably gross.

We tried that in NZ, then conservatives got in power and just pressed ctrl z. Their argument was that tobacco taxes provided more income than that lost to public healthcare, but that was just a boldfaced lie.

Conservatives are literally a cancer on society.

The obvious feedback is be honest and tell them, but then again Indian parents are a different deal. My friend is now married to an Indian girl, and they lied about their relationship for about a year. She was "hanging out with friends" pretty much every weekend. She was "looking forward to sharing a bed after the wedding". And it worked out for them, she didn't get her relationship meddled in and they're none the wiser.

Jeez I hope this has nothing to do with the yanks and their cooked out politics.

It got Snapchat in the end, there was some guy who made a whole bunch of missing apps, including a tinder app which worked better than the original.

Lucky. I think about my own mortality literally every single night, it's become a pattern that I have to just stop thinking about, like, block that thought, think about something else otherwise panic.

I hate hate hate that I'm going to die, I will rage against it for as long as I live (hopefully forever as CRISPR will allow... Right?)

After the rate hikes in 2022, capital flight exceeded the additional revenue raised by the higher rates. And Norway had incentivised local governments to have a stake in the wealth tax which aided in the responsibility of the tax, something I haven't read France propose.

Ah, you're one of the morons who thinks a billionaire has a bank account filled with $1,000,000,000, just sitting idly, waiting to be added back into the economy by the government.

Good luck France, here's hoping you're the ONE country who can successfully institute a wealth tax.

"There's been plenty of historical examples where taxing the wealthy has worked". And yet they literally tried it IN FRANCE and it didn't work, France is literally the example used for capital flight.

What a lazy rebuttle, "you're doing the work of billionaires", lazy and without substance. But if you require a pledge of allegiance to the lower classes before I can talk tax: Idgaf if France decides to wealth tax every dime until billionaires earn $20 an hour. There you go.

Wealth taxes are extremely hard to implement. You're hand waving off-shore holdings like, "nations can enforce tax". Tell that to Ireland. Not to mention the costs involved with determining "wealth".

A wealth tax sounds lovely and appeals to voters, but it historically just doesn't fly. A VAT on luxury goods is way easier, cheaper, less risky, and achieves a lot of the same goals. It's just a lot harder to sell to mugs like you.

France tried this is the late 80s, 10-12,000 millionaires left and it lost money overall so they scrapped it. A wealth tax doesn't work in Europe where it's so easy to leave.

But my understanding is France is already pretty tax heavy, so I don't know of a better tax revenue solution.

In Australia they stopped publically funding vitamin D blood testing because it just KEPT returning deficient. Basically everyone here needs to supplement Vit D. Well applied sunscreen blocks vitamin D absorption by like, 95%.

No sorry it was ai

I think racism and tribalism is easy. It's the first thought of an uneducated person, it's base, it's instinct, and it feels good to follow through on any conviction. But most people had no good reason to he racist, you worked with a few migrants, the black guy at college was great, and Jackie Chan movies are great. Then the internet / bot farms / Russia came along, and fed the uneducated a constant steady stream of racist content. Couple that with the people who found politics too boring getting Donald Trump. And he's seen the racist bot farm content too! He just gets us! Bam, a recipe for disaster.

I'm with you, soldiers came back from war with PTSD just from seeing a dude get smoked, I don't need to watch that shit, much less take glee in watching it.

I accept that with him gone, the movement I disagree with has been kneecapped, but damn, watching what people say is one of the most gruesome shootings...

And all us millennials who said "man I watched such dark shit on early internet", and then to still watch Charlie get one tapped... Don't need that image rumblin round in the noggin.

Man the ones in Melbourne Australia cost up to $3,000 to adopt, unless you get Pitbulls and mastiffs, then it's $600. I just adopted a little Maltese looking thing for 1.5k

I thought basket of groceries on the belt was a social faux pas?

Because then the check out people can't plan their bagging of heavy / light?

Deep cut

Ive been here over a year and I still don't know wtf is going on. I don't know what aussie.zone is, I don't know what "local" is versus "all", I don't know what "all" includes and why it changes. I don't know how to find new subs except accidentally on "all", my brother wanted to drop Reddit and join Lemmy, I had no clue how I signed up.

But, after all that it's still better than Reddit.