I follow closely what is happening in the US from France because even though we have a very different culture I still think US politics is a preview of what’s to come here.

Right now I consider we are at the step where our media are crumbling and becoming unable to properly inform us. A step that has been reached a couple of years ago in the US in my opinion.

The next step will probably be our own coup attempt in a few years and a steady increase in the division of the country and far right movements.

I want the same thing I just don’t think taking what is inherited is the way to do it.

I would much rather see the ultra-rich pay properly their taxes when they are alive.

It’s not like taking inheritance money is the only way to finance things. I don’t see the reasoning.

I can totally understand why someone with huge revenue would pay more taxes but I don’t see why someone who inherits has to pay taxes at that exact moment.

In any case, I think you are missing the point and answering the question “for what purpose?”. Instead of “why?”.

I want to know why it’s more logical to pay taxes when you die rather than paying them in the first place when you got the revenue.

Obviously, the money collected is useful I just don’t see why it has to be collected when it is a time of sorrow for a family.

Also where I live it’s like 50% of the inheritance that is taxed. It is not just significant, it is 50% of the work of a life that goes in one shot to the state when someone dies.

Edit: I was mistaken, I did some calculations and a practical example: If I inherited 200 000€ I would have to pay around 18 194€ (20%)for one taxation and some additional applies but it’s nowhere near what I was told. This rate goes from 5% to 45% for the largest inheritance. In reality, to get a 45% taxation in France I would have to inherit more than 1.5 million euros.

I still think this taxation is too high and I regret that my comment is not clear. I don’t want less taxation overall I just think it makes more sense to take the money over time on the revenues. Anyway, taxation for inheritance is still something people here are very much concerned about. Parents want their children to inherit as much as possible of their wealth obviously so seeing a good chunk going to taxation is not great. Again I’m ok to pay taxes. But we have 192 different taxes here (that’s the exact number calculated in 2014) so I would prefer a system where most of the taxation comes from revenues and what you own and that’s it.

Since when does wealth be shared when someone dies ?

No, the money will go to their descendants who will try to get even richer than their parents. A large part of that money will also be taken by the state because ?? and ??.

Nothing would change.

Maybe people didn’t frequently have weird hobbies before.

The way I see it internet widened enormously the diversity of knowledge we get to check. And that’s these weird rabbit holes online that create the similarly weird new hobbyist.

I care, what do you think I could do ?

Israël is backed up by the most powerful country in the world both politically and militarily.

Many people do care, it’s just not something they can fix.

We can donate to lessen the suffering but at the end of the day, one dude in the Whitehouse could probably get a cease fire in minutes if they really wanted to.

Exactly. Even drinking a ml of alcool will hurt you it’s just that the damage is so small you can’t measure it.

As far as I know there isn’t any scenario where drinking wine is healthy and I say that as a french guy. Alcool being healthy or good overall for your health is a myth no matter the amount. You might gain some on some aspect but overall it will never be better than good food and a glass of water.

Yes, this is boring but science is pretty clear about it and we obviously had this debate many times here.

Just because we make a lot of quality wine and good food doesn’t make everything healthy.

I think a long time ago kids were getting a bit of wine at school lunch so we are not an example here. We have a wine lobby that tried very hard to reinforce the idea that a “little glass” of wine is good and that without excess it’s fine. Truthfully no amount of alcool is healthy. I still drink a beer here and there but alcool will never be healthy and I know it.

Technically you probably could. But it might be frowned upon to be complicit in a DDoS attack.

Now let’s cross Fortnite with fallout and Genital Jousting I’m sure that’s what players want.

Let’s just hope it’s not both.

I don’t think so.

If they only relied on the sensor it would constantly turn on and off which is something I have never seen on that kind of faucets. I think there is always a delay before shutting down but sometimes that delay is set so low that it feels like you need to constantly activate the sensor.

Edit: clarification: What I meant is that if you just move once your hand in front of the sensor it should remain ON longer than just the time your hand was detected. I have never seen a sensor that literally activates only to the millisecond when something is moving. Even just to prevent false activation for half a second you kind of need a delay in there. If not you could have a 100ms activation that doesn’t even have the time to let the water out by opening the faucet and you create unnecessary wear on the valve system. My point being it never really makes sense in engineering to have a button or sensor direct output used. Usually you have mechanisms to prevent “bouncing” and so on. But I’m no plumber so it is just assumptions.

Il me semblait évident que en simplifiant les choses pour la version facile à lire et à comprendre il y aura un peu moins de précision.

Pourquoi tant de remarques sur cette version-là ?

Merci pour le partage, ça me fait penser qu’il faut que je vérifie mon inscription aux listes électorales…

Big AI trying very hard to hide the truth about glue in pizza.

It’s kinda sad when you think about it that the people that prepare your food may have less time to eat than you do.

And not a single fuck was given that day.

Omg the pro Russian populist’s far right are supporting Russia, breaking News!

Is it possible that this password was really your gf’s password in the past ? It could have leaked long ago and the hacker just decided to use a previously leaked pass to be more inconspicuous.

I don’t think this whole story is so wild, it could be just coincidental. The hacker knew somehow about her DOB and thought this would be an easy password.

Rest assured a hacker wouldn’t want to use their own password or reuse even one as that could link to previous nefarious activity. So they had to set up a brand new password just to move forward. So they set up anything personal they could get their hands on.

PS: you should check haveIbeenPwned for the address of your gf.

C’est surtout complètement injustement centré sur TikTok cette histoire.

Le problème est bien plus large que ça. Meta a été pris la main dans le sac en train de faire des trucs vraiment pas très moraux et on ne parle que de TikTok ? Le gentil réseau social américain et le méchant réseau social chinois ?

Management at Blizzard changing the game direction every other day, acting like headless chickens.

• Maybe our few remaining players would like to play an RTS game within OW

• Ok boss, reassigning all devs to this work

< Two months later >

• It appears our RTS mode for Overwatch didn’t resonate with our competitive FPS playerbase

• ¯\(ツ)/¯ That’s too bad, maybe they want a flight simulator mode ? Or a fishing sim like mode, that would definitely resonate with players

What a bunch of idiots without any common sense. Leadership positions for the worst people.

Also as DDG is based in the US it is most likely legally bound to give your informations to any agency with a nice gag order on top of it.

I can’t imagine any serious privacy oriented business to be headquartered in the US.

The whole better privacy is true with DDG but certainly not to the extent people would like to think.

That being said DDG has decent search results and is slightly better than Google for privacy. Google is an ecosystem so every little bit you don’t give them is a success.

It’s really too bad we don’t have good private search engines…

We don’t have many big fast food chains here in France.

But MacDo seem to be indeed the only one trying to be decent.

The staff is still very much underpaid/overworked but at least they try to reduce their waste and improve the quality of the food.

Still a soulless corporation but it seems they are actually doing things pretty well.