At least in the US inheritance tax really isn't a thing. It's only a couple of states that do it, and for federal taxes the estate has to be very large. In 2025 the exemption is 13.99 million per individual from any estate taxes. I certainly have never had a family member with an estate anywhere near that size
It never was, ignoring how it enshrined slavery, the system it built relied on people acting in good faith. The idea that elected officials would always work to preserve democracy.
Now it's evident that is not an appropriate system for checks and balances.
It was a big struggle for me in germany. I have a condition that makes swallowing food very difficult and have to essentially "push" food down with a lot of water.
I would easily need to buy 2-3 .75l bottles per meal, so instead I bought 1 bottle and brought a reusable water bottle to every restaurant. No one complained, and I did always buy at least a drink.
But if you just let me have tap water, or even have tap water after purchasing a drink I could have enjoyed a meal without rationing my water.
I'm going to mainly use lemmy now, but a reddit account is still useful. I like my local city subreddit.
My plan is to go to a public library to make an account and then slowly use it every time I go to the library.
Then use a browser that blocks fingerprinting and use a VPN. If that fails I'll give up.
it's not like you're usually going to be expected to produce on the spot during your daily routine.
Not yet anyway
What do you mean a sovereign nation doesn't want to cede large amounts of territory to an invading force?
She wasn't even a scientist. She just kinda showed up, made friends with the research facility, and convinced them to let her try teaching the dolphin to speak.
Ironically her "method" did start to show some success
Controlled, measured, and pre-negotiated
I had a proffessor in college that only allowed the use of 1mm black G2s. He was ancient and claimed he could not read anything else
National debt doesn't work like personal debt. It's much more complex.
Anyway if all government spending stopped due to a default it would get very very bad. Like you don't have food to eat bad
Disagree, sure you can make more in the open market over time by getting another mortgage on a paid off home.
But that invested money means absolutely nothing if the market has a downturn and you lose your job. Now you're on the hook to a mortgage you can't pay and risk losing a place to live.
While on paper you can make more money, it's very dumb to gamble with things you need to survive. And that's all any loan is, a gamble that you will be in good health and have the means to pay it back.