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@ rezad @lemmy.world

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  • Baby boomers' property tax revolt

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  • again.. you are thinking like a neolibral.why would i want to mortgage my house (not an asset) to borrow against.

    you are (unknowingly) doing the capitalist work. you say borrow against like it is a good thing. those who borrow against their home, most of the time they have to do it (or they are irresponsible and that way they lose their house).

    please before saying anything about this idea, think if your way is "home for a person or a family to live in" or "house as an asset". anything that is the second it not a point for ordinary people. but it is good for the rentier system and leeches of them.

    I am not against taxes. I am against taxes having to do with your primary home (not house asset) price which you only get if you sell and then have to buy even more expensive house if you want a place to live.

    if your answer is that they should sell so that others can buy, then you haven't helped house issue. you just hate people that own a home.

    I don't know why people that are against house being an financial asset, are in favor of property taxes. it does nothing (literally nothing) to lower the price of homes. if someone's home property taxes gets to high for him then he has to sell it at the current market price to another person that has to do the same. property taxes on your own home (places you live) does nothing for house supply.

    now taxing empty houses or rent is a good idea. and not at 1 or 5 percent. at the current income tax rate and do it for corpos too.

  • Baby boomers' property tax revolt

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  • unpopular opinion:I agree with them... kinda.if you live in your house, that's your home and you should not pay another rent based on its price.

    using price of home for taxes causes every government official from mayor up to at best not really care if houses prices go up or actually fight policies that lower it.I see a lot of people here that advocate for property taxes as a progressive tax but I don't see it that way at all.

    my take is government should tax empty houses and rents for landlords.

    it is a mistake to follow Neo-liberal thinking of "you are the landlord of you own home" which is prevalent in financial world to make homes investment assets and count rent as GDP which make government be happy that number go up.

    I hear here that "boomers" like high price of houses so they "deserve" punishment of high property taxes.but if you live you own home and don't make money of it, you don't get any positive from house prices going up. most "news" about someone selling their house for a lot of money and going into smaller house is just them needing that money for healthcare and living, not investment.

    and this mentality makes a self-fulfilling situation that prevent from actual affordability of houses.

    fight for high taxes on empty houses and rents. don't make people living in their own homes renters of government.

  • The rich are ‘renting’ out their idle gold bars for income as prices remain at historic highs

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  • my unpopular opinion was that this is very near sound money in islam (gold or silver) until I saw the interest part which is forbidden in islam.

  • TIL that there's a politician named Harvey Epstein that is unrelated to either Harvey Weinstein nor Jeffery Epstein.

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  • Poor soul.Reminds of the soft-drink brand corona.

  • Android syncthing-fork repo gone and Developer profile gone private. Update:moved to a different repo @ https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android

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  • ok.just for you,

  • Android syncthing-fork repo gone and Developer profile gone private. Update:moved to a different repo @ https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android

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  • "2025-08-11"that is from 3 months ago. I think that was another repo.

    this repo I included had update until today.

  • My thoughts on GPL vs. permissive licenses

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  • I have the opposite opinion about this issue.

    MIT-like licenses allow corpos to take over a project and make it private step by step (kinda like boiling a frog), first create a "open source" fork and fund it to the max. then step by step make it not open source. after a while (could be years) there is no open source influence and most of the project is under the command of the corpo.

    the most recent one being android.

    I have come to the conclusion that people that use MIT-like licenses don't care at all about software freedom (which is kinda obvious if you read MIT license itself).

    so I try to contribute to projects that are immune to that by using copy-left licenses ,so called viral licenses that "limit" the ability of corpos to take over a project with the intention of making private or even create a private fork of it.

    you are corporation and want to contribute to a project to make it better? cool, so it would not matter to you if the license is MIT or GPL? right??? you don't want to do a sneaky fork and make it private, right? so you would have no issue with GPL.

    when free software devs recommend using MIT-like licenses I am reminded of the meme cartoon about sheep recommending befriending the wolf.

    It is almost like they learned nothing from software development trends of rent seeking private sector.

    the beauty of GPL-like is that I can be sure when I help it make better I am not helping a private entity later take it over and privatize it. I want to help humanity not help private sector make money with propriety software.

    when you make your license MIT-like you are not saying I am maximizing software freedom. you are saying I don't care what happens to this software.

  • Fish Shell 4.2 Released with Improved Autosuggestions

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  • export does not work

    works for me in fish.

  • A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics

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  • China is helping green technology spread, but at what cost?

  • UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president

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  • now they are good (western) terrorists. cool.

  • The Fight Inside Amnesty International over Its Hamas Report

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  • Ah yes. That Free press. Bari Weiss's TheFreePress

  • Drinking water in Tehran could run dry in two weeks, Iranian official says

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  • I cant disable showing of posts in undetermined languages.

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  • for the life of me I can't make it be unselected. try it for your self. from web page select setting and then de-select the undetermined and select a language (for example english) and then press save at the bottom. come back to setting page and see undetermined be selected again. the English or other languages you selected are saved correctly but for the life of me I cant disable undetermined.

    it pollutes my feed with german french and other languages that I don't understand.

  • Yuliya Litvinova - Little Birdies, (2019). Digital.

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  • I think it is trafficking. forced drugs to make them addicts to be easier to control.

  • Trump Rips Out Presidents’ Historic Trees for New Ballroom

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  • gross but accurate.

  • Beijing Is Powering Russia’s Drone War, NATO Says—80% of Critical Parts Made in China

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  • rookie numbers. 99.99% or go home.

  • How do I stop certain communities from showing up in my feed?

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  • a bit late to the party but I was is the same boat as you so here it goes:I have not found an option to hide them without blocking but if your issue is mainly languages that you don't speak, in lemmy setting you can select to show only stuff that are in languages you select.also you can deselect "undetermined" option for language to not get non-selected language for post that don't set their languages.

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  • found the zionist.

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    Tennessee GOP Proposes Bill Eliminating Age Requirements for Marriage

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  • a lot of meme level stuff that is going around on the net about Islam or Muslims is just that, bullshit memes.

    and a lot of actual text that are part of islamic history kept by muslim scholars are just straight lies, which muslim scholar know that are false but keep them for record keeping. like a lot of hadiths from prophet are fabricated. for example after death of prophet some dude wanted to sell his onions and he paid a mullah (imam in mosque) some money to say that prophet said that whoever eats these kinds of onions get rewarded in afterlife. you know... fake news.

    I am a (not a great) muslim from iran. the first time I heard about supposed 72 virgins was a stand up comedy from late comedian/actor Robin Williams that made fun of it.

    and this marriage of mohammed to a small girl is not corroborate in any text that is not fake. for example in one text the girl sister age IS mentioned and then it is written that her sister (the girl) joined islam. but is she was 9 (not even 6 mentioned here) she should either not be born at that time or in her mothers womb.

    the Revayats (saying of companions of prophets) point to her being either 19 or 17.

    having said all of this, at that time marriage was done very early age (though Muhammad first wife was 40). for example one jewish tribe wanted to make a partnership with the muhammed so they send people over to offer a jewish woman for marriage. she was a widow so she was married before that event. twice. to jewish men. that jewish woman was 8 years old. mohammed didnt accept it.

    I read somewhere that in history of England you see the first written record for enforcement of marriage age as follow. marriage : 7 years old. inheritance from husband in case of his death: 11 ( I think)

    I don't remember where I read that.