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fun fact, in the UK the offence is “failing to decrypt the device when required to do so” making these measures quite dangerous.

That said, unless you are being charged under a national security crime, the maximum sentence for “failing to decrypt the device when required to do so” is up to two years, so the game’s the game.

I wasn’t surprised. Trans-masc romance is not going to appease the political leadership of the country. Why take the risk of a twitter/truth-social tirade?

Yes the concept of a wealth tax is indeed popular in the UK right now, but the challenge as with similar taxes that target the wealthy (like capital gains taxes) is that there are so many loopholes that implementing it to be effective is really tough. An example:

• a high net worth individual owns a company worth £100m. what tax should she pay? if it’s a 1% wealth tax, how does that tax get collected? does she have to sell some of the business to the state each year for zero cost? does she have to find another investor to buy some of the business and pay that out to the government?
• the business has a bad year and is now only worth £80m. does the owner get a £20m tax break now? should the treasury refund the £1m?
• the business owner goes to the bank and takes a loan of £50m with the business as security. what tax is due now? the owner can use the £50m for whatever she wants, but taxes are not due on loans.
• she uses the £50m to buy a large amount of property abroad as an investment. what tax is due on those next year? does she have to sell a property every year to pay the wealth tax?
• finally, the business owner decides to take a stake in a large overseas renewable energy company and buys a 40% holding worth £10m. what tax is due on that holding and how is it collected?

most wealthy individuals have very little in the bank, and their wealth is based on notional ownership of valuable assets like companies. this is just one example of where it will be very difficult to implement a tax system that doesn’t cause business owners to take their money elsewhere to invest, or on the other hand to have endless court battles to force them to sell assets at some value to pay a tax bill.

Greens come out with some crazy policies sometimes which turn off leftie voters.

Why don’t Greens ditch align on a sensible, costed and achievable policy platform instead of making half their manifesto fringe issues like banning GM food, banning nuclear power, interfering in medical research etc.

Tor operator here.

If you don’t have a second IP for your relay, don’t host at home. You will have CAPTCHAs everywhere, many sites will block you and your ISP will eventually contact you to stop degrading their IP space reputation.

Most website owners don’t discriminate between Tor exits and relays. They subscribe to block-lists that include all known Tor IP addresses. Major online services will make your browsing experience really shitty and once you’re a “known Tor IP” it will take months to remove that reputation.

You can run a Bridge instead, but you will eventually have the same problem.

Our washing machine has a smart plug on the back, and a child lock set on the front.

Kids do mess around with the door and the drum, but they can’t start it without a phone.

looks like Team Rocket’s gothing up again

Huckleberry. Is it safe, no idea. But it requires minimal permissions and you can name the baby whatever you want so there’s that 🫥

I’ll be in my bunk

good to know

When you print money, it devalues all the existing money because there’s more of it but the extra value it generates hasn’t materialised yet.

Guess who owns over half of all the money there is. Imagine how they would feel if you devalued it, and then imagine whose campaigns they would fund next time.

When you borrow money, you create a taxpayer liability that Americans have to work hard to repay, in addition to servicing the debt with interest payments.

Guess who neither pays taxes nor has to work harder to service federal debt. That’s right, and guess who funded your campaign. Are you going to let them down, or make the choice to screw workers a bit more?

just curious, what are the safety issues you’ve found with Tungsten Carbide? I’m not a ring expert at all, but work with pure WC in an unrelated field.