I learned recently enough that this is because the Reagan administration came up with the (in fairness, an absolutely genius move given their political viewpoint) the great idea of calling it a “death tax”.

For him to come out means a lot.

Definitely. And no offense to Bernie, because he’s an absolute gentleman, but if we’re honest it means more for Schumer to.

Oh not at all! I wasn’t calling you out in any way. My first instinct was the same as yours and then I thought “Wait…What about Bernie?” but I had to google it.

Ah you can always rely on Bernie. He’s obviously not as senior as Schumer but he called it first.

Probably, but it makes your dinner a bit more spicy on a Friday evening to have a leading Jewish Democrat ask for it (because it’s a completely reasonable ask at the current time).

If Bibi isn’t reelected three thing seem likely:

• Bibi’s bollixed and he knows it
• We’re hopefully going to see someone the rest of the world can actually work with getting elected who will balance Israel’s right to self defence against the horrors we’re all looking at
• It’ll soothe a lot of US dem voters who are completely horrified at the current situation

Fingers crossed!

For the ultra-wealthy it should be mandatory.

Yeah, I was more thinking generational wealth like billionaire kids. It seems crazy not to tax that.

Austria eliminated its inheritance tax in 2008

What? Why?

sometimes you just want to nom a whole thing of strawberries

So true. Where I live during the summer you have folks selling locally grown strawberries at the side of the road. Sometimes I’m driving along with the kids and we’ll buy way too many strawberries for very reasonable money and then just… nom a whole thing of strawberries.

Nom nom nom nom nom.

Not long now! I can practically smell them.

it’s a military state under martial law

Every state for the last 2500 years (and probably before) has had the possibility martial law and every democracy in the world has it now. Sometimes martial law is necessary, like when people come to rape your sister and murder your grandmother and wipe out your culture.

It does not make a country “not a democracy anymore” to use it appropriately and there is no question that it’s being used appropriately here.

Jaaayyyysus…All you ever do is come into these threads repeating “Ukraine can’t win without foreign troops on the ground” over and over and over.

4 times in the last 2 days by my quick check. (edit: sorry, 5 and more if we go back to 3 days)

Alright, alright. We heard you. You can stop saying it now.

I mean, defending the borders of a sovereign, democratic state from invasion, rape, murder and genocide seems like “something useful” to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s a little easier to understand if you imagine you have someone confined in a small space, like a ghetto for example, and you really hate them and you’re in charge of feeding them. I’ve seen it once before in history somewhere. A lot of people starved.

And lest anyone dare think I’m antisemitic, some of my favourite people in this world are Jewish. You can be Jewish and still a sociopathic cunt hair, be recognised for it and that recognition not be antisemitic. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Sorry, I’m just very upset after reading about the anasthetic-less amputations on kids above.

Oh God. I wasn’t able for that today. :( How can someone be so brutally savage.

Jesus fucking Christ. Is that confirmed true?

Cancer medicines :(

I’d never heard of the story so went off digging. There’s a decent video here. Doesn’t throw any shade at Walken in fairness.

Very first thing I thought too. Absolutely mental to call that a tight parking spot.

True. It’s a hurdle but not insurmountable by any means.

Things that are bugging me about voyager having really loved liftoff are positioning of buttons, lack of avatars, lack of poster name without viewing the post, weird buttons that feel like they’re probably for iOS and lack of single hand navigation. Still as you say the basics are the same and I’m still here but I was willing to eat the cost.

Man… He had such an incredible mind and was so, so good at getting complex problems across. Cosmos was one of my favourite books of all time.

Fascinating about the black air! Thanks for sharing.

All clients do things differently. When liftoff died I had to choose another client and went with Voyager. It’s very good but not as nice to use by any stretch and I’d gotten very used to the liftoff way of doing things.

So yeah, there is a learning process in switching clients.