Oh common, that’s the battle you chose to pick? There’s so much stuff wrong here and the hair is the thing that’s triggering you?

“it is not enough to imagine the suffering of others, you have to truly inflict it to prevent self harm”.

No it’s the complaint about one of the few transparent revenue flows Mozilla managed to pull off.

It’s disabled one step deep on the settings

There is a shitload of stuff going wrong with the Mozilla foundation and this doesn’t even make the top 10.

That’s the reason for my down vote: it’s nothing I want this community to focus on. It’s basically engagement bait with the topic “ads bad”.

That’s no forgery, that looks like original work to me!

Seriously though thanks for sharing!

But reinforcement makes you heavier and you’re back to the drawing board!

It might be easier to first chop arms and legs off to save the excess weigh.lt.

Fatiha didn’t click for me at all in the quiz to the point that I didn’t finish it. Just something with her didn’t click for me at all.

But that was also true for Rosie Jones whom I deeply adored after two episodes - I’m so looking forward to getting my mind blown away once more!

No worries, thank you!

No it’s not. OP is either a very high graphics lover or - to be very judgemental based on the phrase "now obsolete - a victim of the very good marketing machinery that Nvidia pushed for years.

I’m happy for OP that he’s happy but please don’t feel any social pressure to upgrade perfectly fine hardware!

How much vram does your TI pack? Is that the standard 8gb ddr6?

I will because I’m surprised and impressed that a 14b model runs smoothly.

Thanks for the insights!

Oh yeah I agree with that and s good point! Google Play Store is convenient but… Well I circumvent it where possible, more due to the tracking mania but your points added to my sensitivity,so thank you!

That’s what Arthur describes: you’re comparing from my point of view two non issues against each other.

If you don’t have the profile that either warrants:

• Google would risk business revenue by having to handle a mittm attack done by them or
• someone investing in an elaborate scheme to get a fingerprint copy

And that being worth it instead of just getting you personally is a very specific threat model where I lack the fantasy on what would warrant that.

Or to give the relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/538/

And to answer your specific question: I personally went with keepass2android and have neither issues nor concerns so far.

I found that this is one of the few areas where aphantasia is a strong advantage :D

I can’t help you finding better metaphors beside “it’s like charge but different” as I have “accepted” the whole quantum topic as math that for some random reason can be used to make predictions which accidently correlate to our reality…

In short: charge is not the only thing that defines a particle. Although the charge of the neutrinos is zero their spin differs.

A longer form of this answer is here. The answers go a bit more into detail on why “zero charge” isn’t precisely correct either but I’m not sure if that goes too deep for what you’re interested in!

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/338917/what-is-the-difference-between-a-neutrino-and-an-antineutrino#338924

The problem is that you’re posting in a trecky area with a tracky meme - the brain just doesn’t want to read “wars”, that doesn’t make sense :)

Plus you’d need to know the streaming service.

That said: even though it’s a slow burn for me I found it funny! Wo thank you ❤️

It sounds like you accidentally starter with a later book because what you’ve described is a major plot story being built up for a bit.

From this thread I think you might enjoy it :)

Oh yeah I misunderstood you, completely agree!

He did several “come find me from my pic” videos where users sent in images from around the world and he found where it was taken.

I distinctly remember a fishing spot where he basically found the tight tree under which the pic was taken.

If there’s no cherry picking behind the scenes… Then the answer is “yes, it is transferable”.

Actually casinos so tax you on the US!

And it’s not tax on the owning part but tax on the regular payments you receive from your funds. Think of the thanks stock buybacks or more simple yearly profit shares (dividends).

What you describe ironically is something France tried a but as and Germany is discussing every couple of years: a tax not on income but in wealth. It’s as you described really tough to do right though from what I understand, again because it’s so easy to evade.

Overall an interesting but kind of depressing topic to be honest.

Oh I am with you regarin both the need for change as well as the potential - I only focus on the question of income vs sales tax structure and abolishing one of the two withouz deeper adjustments.

The pensioner example in more detail, I’m using wrong numbers to make it easier for me :)

I am a pensioner with 100k in my pension fund (which st least where I’m from is treated similar to any other stock fund). I get 1000 Euro out of that per month in capital gain. I would have a 300 Euro tax on that. which I use to pay off my student loan, a consumer loan from a past mistake and the rest of a loan for my flat. I live from my state pension which allows me to barely scrape by.

If I can get tax exempt for paying of my (imo ridiculous) student loan and the rest im fine. How if I have to pay the tax on top of that I’m suddenly 300 Euro down. The social system says “that’s a bad thing, people should have something from their money so we allow them to get tax credits for past debts - after all they did consume for that money and this helps the economy overall”.

Now rich asshole scipiti comes around and says: yo bank, I earn too much, give me 60mio credit, here’s the future capital gain and the stocks as security. Oh and tax man: I can’t pay any taxes because I have to serve this 60mio credit which I used for my second yacht.

What most states do is now make rules which give more details on what can be exempt under which circumstances. But rich me does a quick calculation and it’s way better to pay very smart people to figure out how can I still abuse the system. that’s why we can’t simply close loopholes: a) there might be side effects and that’s a scary thought for law makers. b) we still want certain people to benefit and it’s still worth it for them to benefit even though there is abuse. And sadly c) the incentive to close them is really low as the benefit is low on average for all voters but the pushback I get from the abusers is really big (imagine Elon musks money gets distributed evenly among every citizen of a state where one of his businesses resides vs the damage he can cause to any political individual).

I left the economic discussion btw completely as this is more speculation and political behavioral pattern observation in not exactly equal parts.

From a tax perspective:

Stock earnings are not income.

Neither is capital gain - and it would need to be tackled as you suggested with q capital gains tax. But that is quite easy to circumvent in basically all countries because it’s nearly impossible to check (as seen in the many scandals like cumex).

And then there is the whole banking apparatus: I can use stocks as security against cheap loans, use the loaned money for consumption and then lower my capital gains tax by calculating those loans against my gains. Remove that loophole and suddenly a pensioner can’t pay for their running costs anymore

All of that lead down a rabbit hole of “but can’t we just” for me. At least my conclusion: I didn’t come up with something that a) doesn’t break apart already on paper b) can be implemented without international collaboration and c) can’t be abused just as easy.

Personal note and speculation: often I read people taking about a system that is designed against group X. I disagree: the financial systems were not designed with any goal in kind at all outside the specific needs and questions for the specific legislatures. Meaning that “we need to fund a social security system” and “why don’t billionaires pay more tax” have the same root: we humans are terrible at overseeing time horizons of more than a few years. But we’re absolutely genius in taking something apart and finding loop holes the size of a raisin.