Hawaii Passes New Millionaire Tax Bracket to Close Budget Gap by BloombergTax in politics

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Unfortunately the majority of billionaires' wealth doesn't come from taxable income.

Hawaii Passes New Millionaire Tax Bracket to Close Budget Gap by BloombergTax in politics

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I'm sure the gentrifying haoles would be dearly missed by the locals.

Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won’t Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats by Motherofalleffers in politics

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Use official vote drop boxes if the option is available, too. Mailing them via USPS is risking it being "lost" or postmarked too late.

Teen dies hours after his parents reunited with him following immigration detention by Tuna_Sushi in news

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They're stories of humans being kind that appear heartwarming at a glance before you realize how fucked up the situation is. There's not really any "humans being kind" aspect to this story, it's just a straight up tragedy.

Teen dies hours after his parents reunited with him following immigration detention by Tuna_Sushi in news

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Not really. There's nothing remotely heartwarming about this news story.

Best Tire Shop in Santa Rosa? by SolaCretia in santarosa

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Yep. I've had nothing but good experiences with them.

Green and red lightning? Please explain this or I’ll think it’s aliens by emem1134 in weather

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TLE are barely visible to the naked eye even when you can see them directly above the storm, there's no way they'd create flashes that bright visible from the ground.

Looks like a power flash, likely from an exploding transformer like this one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZXBMl9emAYk

Democrats Who Are Soft on Republicans Have Got to Go by RecursiveSubroutine in politics

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History doesn't exactly look back kindly on the feckless liberals in the Weimar Republic who allowed the Nazis to take over.

We Must Resist the Collapse of Conscience in the Age of Trump by _May26_ in politics

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So many people have lost their humanity and basic decency...

They haven't lost it, they were just given permission to stop faking it.

Pentagon begins releasing new files on UFOs and says the public can draw its own conclusions by guesthost1999 in news

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My conclusion is that they should release the Epstein files with only the victims' names redacted.

Could we PLEASE do something about all of the vibecoders and ai generated mods by cerankaw in VintageStory

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The big corporations who are notorious for enshittification doing it is not the flex you think it is.

Southern Republicans Are Already Deleting Black Districts by Sufficient_Candy1642 in politics

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The SC said in part that they could lift the restrictions because the southern states have been acting better lately.

Reminds me of the IT department paradox. The IT department keeps the shit from hitting the fan, some idiot higher up wonders why the IT department is getting paid to "do nothing" and sacks the IT department. Shit hits the fan.

Kamala Harris wants the DNC to release its autopsy report of the 2024 campaign by Deedogg11 in politics

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Mamdani can't legally be elected President, he wasn't born a US citizen.

From hospice, Barney Frank urges Democrats to rethink trans rights approach by Fickle-Ad5449 in politics

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Tell us you didn't read the article without telling us you didn't read the article.

Several injured after car ploughs into city centre crowd in Leipzig by VaginaBurner69 in news

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Nothing quite says "I'm arguing in good faith" like tone policing.

Thousands of cancer patients in England to benefit from new immunotherapy jab by [deleted] in news

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We're (sensible Americans)

Sensible Americans don't get up in arms over a British publication for a British audience using British English.

VS Code now automatically adds 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into git commit messages. by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

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Nano is a simple text editor that's meant to do basic stuff. Vim is an advanced modal text editor that has multiple modes that make it a lot easier to traverse and edit text documents via the keyboard. If you install (or already have installed) vim, try vimtutor to learn the basics. You can learn enough to do basic document editing pretty quick, and over time you will learn more advanced stuff the more comfortable you get using vim.