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Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?

Depends. My company is laying off left and right, still gave me a promotion.

I'm pretty sure this tweet is a few years old, though.

If it's a tax on holdings applied every year, 5% is significant. It's best compared with property taxes, which is another tax which works in a similar way. Property taxes are often capped at 1% of assessed value.

I'm in favor of taxing the rich, and taxing their holdings at 5% (without too many loopholes) would exceed my expectations. I expect this to get whittled down to around 1% before actually making it into law, though.

They're surely already registering your ID when you enter, so I'm not sure exactly what added surveillance power this gives them? And they're already photographing everyone entering by air, their own citizens included.

Like, the only surveillance benefit I can think of is getting a slightly more up to date photo to track you through flock cameras or something, but given how dogshit the cameras they use at the airports are, I doubt that's the purpose.

Lemmy is written in Rust.

This is largely an American problem, although it is spreading due to global media.

I blame it largely on Calvinism and the prosperity gospel:

"Good things come to good people" -> "If good things didn't come to you, you're not a good person" -> "Poor people are poor because they are bad people, and we should not help them" -> "It's okay to help billionaires, they wouldn't be rich if they weren't good people"

A lot of poor people have this view in the US, which you would think would make them reconsider it, but they solve this with mental gymnastics: They and their in-group are good people, so obviously it's okay to help them and the good things are coming any second. Another reason not to tax rich people, they'll be one soon!

The article doesn't mention ages, but another article says she groomed them from age 15.

However, I have to remind you that language is under constant development, and "paedophile" has long lost its original meaning. It now covers a much wider age range, although counting adolescents is a stretch.

"It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says," he added.

Way to give him ideas...

I guess they could have been making some interpretations of their hand gestures, deliberately ignoring that Venezuelan ~~fishermen~~ drug smugglers are unlikely to know the hand signals of American military?

When American photographer Carl McCunn was stranded in Alaska, he was discovered by a state trooper plane. He cheerfully raised his fist in celebration. The plane left and never came back. Between this incident and perishing there he read up on hand signals, and learned that he had inadvertently signaled "all is well".

No ally of the US would look at them the same way ever again. To be fair, they already don't, but this would propel the US from "bad ally" to "second cold war enemy".

I can only imagine what you're going through right now. I hope things get better, and I hope you will feel safe talking to someone in real life about this.

While I do not have any personal experiences to relate, I want you to know that it's perfectly normal and not at all pathetic to react this way from someone attempting suicide. That is a horrible experience, and it's perfectly okay both to be traumatized from the experience and to be worried about the future.

Is there any way you could talk to a therapist of some kind? Maybe you would feel more comfortable talking to someone about it if they were not in your circle and there was confidentiality?

I was just making a dumb joke. I'd be surprised if beards were even a thing back then.