flying_gel

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[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

To expand your analogy to the house on how the rich used their unrealised gains.

You buy a house and it appreciates in value. You bowwow money against the capital gains and use that to live on. Your house price goes up further, generating more capital gains that you can now bowwow against to pay back your previous loan.

edit: also since you're so filthy rich the banks give you really low interest rates, way less than tax would have been.

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Nope, not a valid reason.

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (14 children)

The constitution was made to be amended to adapt with the times. Time to amend the 2nd amendment and require a valid reason such as hunting for having a firearm.

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

What you observes could be OS depended,. Vim has its own copy paste buffers (y,p etc) and the OS has its own. Traditionally highligh to copy and middle mouse button to paste on Unix. Windows has 2 methods, ctrl-c,v but those are also bindings in vim so only the older less known crtl-insert,shirt-insert works.

Copy paste is definitely built in, there is no need for extra plugins.

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You mean you couldn't copy some text from vim and paste it into another application? if yes, what did you have to install/configure for that? I've never had any issues copy paste from/to vim, console/GUI windows/Unix.

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

As far as I understood the article, it is taxing unrealised capital gains, but you have to be very rich and have a substantial portion of your wealth in unrealised capital gains. It feels targeted as people like Elon Musk.

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow, what a charismatic guy, that wasn't painful to watch at all...

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No problem with ID for voting, just have to make sure they're accessible by all at no cost (both time and monetary).

Republicans proposals for voter ID so far have been riddled with ID exclusions that, while never admitted to, would exclude a large part of the population that they don't want to be allowed to vote. Either include more types of ID or make sure to provide everyone with a voter id for free before the election.

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

today I learnt that sky news UK is very different to sky news Australia.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sky-news-australia/ Bias Rating: RIGHT Factual Reporting: MIXED MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The creator says that they use the mediabiasfactcheck.com's API and looking at their page it doesn't seem like that info is readily available but maybe they will take a feature request to try to add that info.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/abc-news/

Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: TV Station
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The bot seems to use the medibiasfactcheck.com's API which should report 'mixed' factual reporting with extreme right bias.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news-bias/

edit:

seems like there is more data available, the bot could report the MBFC Credibility Rating as well.

Questionable Reasoning: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Poor Sources, Numerous Failed Fact Checks
Bias Rating: RIGHT
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: TV Station/Website
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY

edit2: I was looking for a fox rating by that bot, I wasn't able to find one "in the wild" but it seems like it does use the MBFC rating for the heading and does indeed classify fox as "Low"

Example from what I guess is the guys development teating posts: https://lemmy.world/post/18064796

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (9 children)

People who downvote instead of (or as well as) blocking it. Why the downvotes? You don't want to see a bias/factual rating of the source or you don't agree with the rating?

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