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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • Indeed. Unfortunately in the age of abundant air travel and being able to do basically everything online, including remaining in contact with people, it’s not hard to just move out of the UK if you’re super wealthy.

    We absolutely can and should tax assets that can’t be moved out of the UK, though, like land. A multi-millionaire can move all kinds of things out of the country, but they cannot take their land with them. Land value would of course go down or stagnate, but I don’t personally see that as a bad thing.

    That said, even if you took all billionaire wealth in the UK (while somehow simultaneously preventing a crash in the value of those assets), it’d last months. It wouldn’t be a permanent solution. State spending is £1.2 trillion, a small amount of billionaires aren’t going to plug the gap for long.

    There’s no simple solution to the financial situation this country is in.

    E: I guess people don’t want solutions, they just want someone who agrees with them.


  • Odd to use the American spelling of criticising on a UK community.

    Also, what the fuck do you mean for criticising Israel? That’s not what happened at all here.

    The junior doctor, who has also claimed the Holocaust was “a fabricated victim narrative”, escaped suspension. However, the outcome prompted Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, to declare he had “no confidence in our regulation system”.

    On July 30, Dr Aladwan claimed that the Royal Free Hospital in north London, which serves a large Jewish community, was a “Jewish supremacy cesspit”. She has also said she would “never condemn the 7th of October” and repeatedly claimed the number of “proven rapes on Oct 7 is zero”.

    A UN report has found that Hamas attackers raped and gang-raped civilians at the Nova music festival, used rape and “sexualised torture” against hostages in the Gaza Strip, and raped women’s corpses.

    This shit is antisemitism. Let’s not make excuses. This is not criticism of the Jewish state (which is a fair and rational thing to do, given their actions). This is bigotry and holocaust denial. Plain and simple.

    If you were born into a Jewish family, would you feel safe if this person was your doctor? I sure as fuck wouldn’t.









  • The way smartphones have evolved has been awful.

    When they first started gaining traction, I thought that over time, as the hardware improved, we’d increasingly see devices that were essentially mini PCs, with all of the freedoms that come with it. That as hardware became more capable, PC and smartphone software stacks would converge.

    I yearn for proper Linux phones. Plenty of gnome apps are already ready in terms of UX (try shrinking them down to a smartphone screen size, they’ll seamlessly switch to a smartphone UI, it’s pretty incredible). Maybe one day.