Ah, got it!

I recall the SA president saying they do have a violence problem, just not in the way trump is describing it.

Dolomites, Italy?

Which flag did they display? It only said it’s ‘a flag displayed in support of…’.

Is it a Palestinian flag or a flag owned by one of those organizations?

Sweden is one of the strictest countries in Europe when it comes to drugs. Fairly certain selling heroin is very much not legal in Sweden.

On a related note, Sweden has (at least historically) had one of the highest OD death rates despite its strict drug regulation.

Edit: somehow totally missed the /s, but I’ll leave the comment up anyway :)

What’s your point here?

I love me some Pisco Sour and would be fun to compare with Singani. Not sure I can get it where I live but I’ll see if I can.

Never heard of it. Is it similar to Pisco?

Isn’t the problem that legal streaming services don’t provide a good enough service/content? Even if you put the cash out to subscribe to all services, searching each one, one at a time, they still might not have the video content you want. The market failed us, and culture is locked away.

In the US.

Another song on the topic of the 1992 LA riots, Savage Lifestyle by The Game. Almost cinematic.

What old age are you talking about? Television was not invented in the 2000’s.

And if you don’t like ads, then that is the problem.

Regardless, Netflix has historically been delivered without ads which many seem to like. You do you, take a break and watch some ads every 20 minutes, but I won’t, and will especially not pay to do it.

I do not justify genocide. Palestinians don’t call for genocide as doesn’t Israelis. Some or many might. Israel as a state are currently committing genocide on a people that they’ve displaced historically and continue to displace. Hamas might be calling for genocide too but Hamas is not the state of Palestine.

How does reinstate Palestinian land for displaced Palestinians equate to an exterminate jews though? I don’t doubt that Hamas has that view but the those words alone does not mean that.

You could argue it’s a dog whistle for antisemitism, but historically there has been many different groups with visions for what a one-state solution could look like.

Israel is helping settlers settle in Palestinian territories, forcefully pushing way Palestinian and destroying their homes withe help of the Israeli military.

Yeah, I agree it’s always harder to define than it seems at first glance. Square footage might be a better proxy with fewer loopholes. Problem is that a shitty rundown house will be taxed the same as a luxury house of the same size. That might be fine, I don’t know.

I think regardless of how you do it, taxes need to be adjusted for inflation or change of average living costs, like any tax brackets could/would. I think one of the goal should be to avoid artificially inflated living costs.

And also regardless of approach, tax limits should probably also depend on how many people live in the house. That can probably be abused too though.

Either way, I don’t know much about economy and taxes, this is just me thinking out loud on a complex topic.

That was very well put, thank you.

Yeah, the devil would be in the details, of course, and to make sure there aren’t any obvious loopholes. Ideally it would be at increasing brackets as well.

Wouldn’t taxes on above-X value keep prices down? Buying fancy houses as investment could be countered by the additional running expense of taxes.

Basing it on square footage could also work, or as an additional parameter, but might make more sense in cities where space is more scarce.

Hard wax oil could be an option, which should make the surface more wear resistant.

Why not tax the property for all value above X. Where X is some amount over the average or median property value. That way, if you can afford a luxury home you pay some tax on it.

Yeah you misread what I meant at least. Springsteen, according to the quote, says the America he sings of has been a beacon of liberty for 250 years, which obviously isn’t an accurate depiction. The vision and ideal was liberty for all and a right to pursuit of happiness, but with some very troubling caveats that put a huge stain on those ideals.