abrasiveteapot
@abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations 1 year ago:
No one is suggesting it’s a good thing, but trying to make out a correction on the scope of the problem (UK vs a subset) is an attempt to justify it, is an emotional overreaction or an attempt to pick an argument where none exists. Cool your jets son.
- Comment on King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations 1 year ago:
There are 8 current dukedoms …wikipedia.org/…/Royal_dukedoms_in_the_United_Kin…
And about 3 times that many historical dukedoms. So 2 of 8 is a small number 2 of 28 an even smaller number.
By eyeball the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancashire are less than 5% of the land mass of the United Kingdom and maybe 10% of the population tops, so “only” meaning a small portion would be fair.
Having said that, from context I think you’re inferring the wrong meaning of “only” - I would read that as singling out the two impacted areas (regardless of comparative size). In other words "of all the UK specifically (only) these two areas are affected.
I’m not OP so could be wrong of course. Often am.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
Well that’s out of character for Google
- Comment on Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech 1 year ago:
Yep this is exactly why I refuse to do the scan as you go, it ends up seriously frustrating. Self scan at checkout is fine if you don’t have paracetamol or alcohol, otherwise you’re waiting ages for assistance.
It’s definitely an overall worse experience
- Comment on Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children 1 year ago:
Yes I did read the thread, and the downvotes you constantly got indicates which of us is missing the point.
So, no, that’s not how it went.
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If a government wants to place a wealth tax they pass a law that says (for example) “everyone owning a house worth more than £2m owes £10000 plus 1% of the value as wealth tax per annum”
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Person A fails to pay tax, govt takes possession of house, sells it to highest bidder person b, they takes taxes payable out of sale proceeds give A whats left and transfer title to B
It’s not complicated, and the best part is you can’t hide a house, and you can’t play shelf company hidden directors jiggery pokery because if the law is written correctly the govt. can say “I don’t care who owns it, if the tax isn’t paid I take possession, end of discussion” pay up or else.
Central revenue gets their money slimey toffs get rinsed, poor people get basic services. Everyone who matters wins.
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- Comment on Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children 1 year ago:
You really have reading comprehension issues don’t you ?
The post notes that it’s near impossible to hide or move real estate overseas thus making it near impossible to avoid.
Even if someone tried to avoid the tax by destroying the building you still can’t avoid it because the land is the value not the building.
Ergo you pay the property wealth tax or the government reposses the property.
Unlike cash that can be hidden the asset is visible and hence tax is easily enforced
- Comment on Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children 1 year ago:
Lol. Yes you can. What’s more the absolute best wealth to tax is land/ real estate because it’s really effing hard to hide, and can’t be shifted overseas.
You can destroy its value by physically removing the building but the bulk of the value is always in the land, the building itself depreciates.
- Comment on Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children 1 year ago:
OTOH Denmark has a functioning social security system unlike UK
- Comment on Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children 1 year ago:
Yes you can, it’s called tax, and it splits off a fraction of your assets when paid.
No idea why OP was focussing on mansions, but a property tax would sort that problem. Stick a £2m threshold on it so it only hits the filthy rich. Before you whine about asset rich cash poor; dont care sell it if you can’t pay. People are dying.
- Comment on Revealed: undercover UK police officer deceived woman into 19-year relationship 1 year ago:
Mary’s fiance was not gathering intelligence on protest groups.
Her siblings say that Avon and Somerset police have consistently put pressure on them not to speak publicly about the relationship, warning of the risk of social unrest if the news got out.
Embedded into a black community and speaking publicly will cause social unrest…
I think we have a racist spy-op instead of an anti-left syp-op this time
Ahh the British police are special some times
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Thanks for that - there’s a bug (?I assume?) in Jerboah that doesn’t allow zooming pics so that tiny font for ants was unreadable. Well hopefully they don’t delay on the implementation
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Had a trawl through MoG (which I normally avoid like the plague because, as per post I really don’t wish to interact with tankies, even second hand) and can’t find it.
Oh well, whatevs, hope you’re right
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Well either there’s a synchronisation delay (plausible) orthey’re telling porkies according to
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Really ? How do you know ?
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
All over this thread
- Comment on Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars 1 year ago:
Not that I have ever seen. Very common in the US though.
- Comment on Parliament will debate petition: Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence - 23rd October 2023 1 year ago:
I’m saying that if you make it illegal “lie” then they will say very little in case they are accused of lying.
Why the scare quotes around lie ? The word has a straight forward meaning which is already defined in House of Commons rules.i.e knowingly mislead.
It’s not even “negligently mislead” where they say something they should have known was not true, but the much tougher test of proving they knew it wasn’t true.
A ridiculously low bar, and yet you think even that is too high. Is this because you support politicians who have been shown regularly to knowingly mislead ?
The majority of parliament arrive carefully well prepared with facts. It’s only a small number who deliberately lie, our former PM has been proved to be one of those.
- Comment on Parliament will debate petition: Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence - 23rd October 2023 1 year ago:
would basically stop any politician from saying anything
So you’re saying that it is impossible for a politician to speak without lying ?
I don’t care who you normally vote for, would you mind sitting the next election out ? Preferably all the ones after that too.
- Comment on Musk offers to pay legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform 1 year ago:
Cool. Good article - which shows exactly what I said.
Solve is not the same as reduce/improve/alleviate.
As Musk knew full well when he tweeted it. No one has a solution for it, the best you can do is alleviate it for a bit.
Is he being a pedantic dick ? Yes. Did the original tweeter provide a plan to solve world hunger. No.
He provided a plan to reduce world hunger for a time. It’s not a solution, it’s a reduction in misery which I’d be very happy if Musk paid for. But it’s not making world hunger entirely go away even short term let alone long term.
- Comment on Musk offers to pay legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform 1 year ago:
Aid spokesman engaged hyperbole drive and tweeted “if a billionaire like @musk gave us $40bn we could solve world hunger”
Musk replied “ok i’m listening, show me how you can solve it, if it sounds real I’ll write the cheque”
Aid spokesman (back pedalling) “well not solve as such, but definitely make better”
Musk “whatevs then”
I mean he does say so much actual stupid shit, why do you guys keep making shit up ?
- Comment on Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears 1 year ago:
Yeah the conspiracy theory that he’s out to destroy it seems to be real.
- Comment on Plan to replace gas boilers with heat pumps should be reviewed, says Gove 1 year ago:
You really think people will stop trading in their cars after 3 years to get the latest model ? I sincerely doubt it. Rolling over the lease is built into the finance model (it’s not financially smart but that’s a different discussion).
- Comment on People put down deposits for every electric truck in development, leaving dealers in the lurch when they eventually cancel all but one 1 year ago:
Good.
Stealerships have been raping and pillaging for years. The sooner they go the way of buggy whip makers the better.
And before you ask: Direct purchase from manufacturers and licensed service centers is a much better model, if we can’t have that then manufacturer direct service.
- Comment on ‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense 1 year ago:
Because regurgitation without understanding leads to demonstrably untrue information being propagated as fact. There have been a number of instances also where AIs have straight up made stuff up as well.
- Comment on Tesla Identified As Most Recalled Car Brand, Mercedes & Toyota Least 1 year ago:
The BZ4X that was recalled because the wheels fall off ? Has that been rereleased yet ?