chiliedogg

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I want nations to institute a universal wealth tax. If you or any company you own part of operates in a country, you need to pay X% in taxes. Not necessarily all in our country. You can incorporate elsewhere, but if they tax you X-Y%, you have to pay us the remaining Y%. The idea being that there's no such thing as tax havens if you want to do business with us. Pay your share somewhere or GTFO.

on No Spoilers 👁️⃤ · c/memes · 11 pts · 6h

When I was in schools, American history was Pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, The Great Depression, and WWI. Then it was summer. We might have a school assembly in February to talk about MLK.

It doesn't matter from a taxable income standpoint if you don't give them the money, or if you give it and they donate. They owe the same either way. The only way they would owe the 30 dollars would be if you gave them the 30 bucks and they just kept it. Then it would be 100 dollars in additional income.

The real cheat isn't on the taxation. It's that they give to non-profits that align with their goals or list the company as a sponsor. When Bass Pro sponsors a high school fishing event it may be making a donation using that non-taxed income from round-ups and getting tax-free advertising.

I use QGIS for a living. Adding layers and image services is easy for me, but not to someone who doesn't even know what GIS is. I couldn't teach someone how to use it in seconds like I can GE, which consists of "Open Google Earth, and click and drag the file into the window".

And with GE, you don't have to license the satellite imagery or teach someone how to add web-based tile services to GQIS.

They can also use the draw tool in GE and right-click the drawing and export a file I can open in QGIS or ESRI without them having to know anything about projections or datums.

They're actually killing the PC version next year, which is actually a problem.

It's the goto solution for sharing GIS layers for free using a simple platform. Anybody can download Google Earth Pro for free, and we can export KML/KMZ files from ESRI or QGIS that will be viewable over fairly recent satellite imagery without having to pay thousands for software and/or imagery licensing.

on terms and conditions · c/memes · 33 pts · 1d

I've actually managed not to agree with their new privacy policy for over a year now.

It keeps popping up on me. I kill the notification and don't accept, and it pops up a few days later.

Lots of them are only exposed to right-wing propaganda and they literally don't know how much responsibility for Covid falls on Trump. Their YouTube algorithms literally feed them false stories about Covid, Iran, and more while sowing distrust in fact-based science and reporting.

Targeted content is so much more dangerous than anyone thinks.

I hate how it was resolved so much.

Dude basically murdered her and in the end when given the chance to go back to her planned life she chooses to stay with him. It's apparently okay for someone sentence you to death and deceive you into sleeping with them as long as they're handsome.

The conservative woman they talk about here is an engineer. Almost all the engineers I know work 60-80 hour weeks.

That's the thing with lots of Americans. We work so hard to pay the increasing rent and take care of ourselves and our families that we simply don't have the time or energy to see outside the bubbles in which we live. We don't go through the process of researching everything we hear on the news, so we're easy targets for propaganda - especially now that it's got algorithmic targeting to steer specific people in specific directions.

These people really, truly believe the lies they're told about immigrants.

I don't get why he pled the fifth.

It's not like they kicked his lawyer out of the building while trying to manipulate him into saying something they could stretch into justifications to prosecute him, right?

on Car commuting is borked · c/fuckcars · 4 pts · 3d

It's common in areas where there's a lot of undeveloped land when it's built.

Otherwise it's the most expensive by far because it takes a fuckton of land.