FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Just saw a meme that pretends that, unlike the US, enlightened European countries tax billionaires at near 50%

This isn't true

Billionaires are business owners and investors. What actually happens is that they take a modest income (for a billionaire) which is taxed like that because income tax is high. Then their business gets tax deals where they pay single digits of corporate tax. Then the profit is paid out as dividend tax

Dividend tax in the Netherlands for example is 15%. So while billionaires are taxed, they're taxed like 20-30% on the vast majority of their actual income, and that's assuming no cute tricks to get around a lot of that, too. Billions can afford you some nice accounting tricks after all

Adventures in #picotron immersion - shaking the sand by shaking the window 🧂

> load #sandotron

Delete your #Glassdoor account.

They're now adding real names to accounts, and making them public.

https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2024/03/12/glassdoor-violates-privacy.html

‪so i guess what i'm saying is, “make friendships that'll force you to up your game”. i probably said that before‬

hanging around interesting people feels uncomfortable insofar as i don't think i'm as interesting as them and so i don't always feel i belong (i.e. i feel like an impostor)… but if i hang around uninteresting people i have no envy motivating me to better myself, i become content

"it is difficult to build good clients for bad protocols", and other things that aren't fun to hear but are necessary to say

the fact that there's a kind of mirror called a vanity mirror is so funny to me. i think we should name more things after the sins they encourage. catch me laying on my sloth mattress eating my gluttony snacks

going on twitter and posting,

tired: pronouns in bio
inspired: ░P░U░S░S░Y░ ░I░N░ ░B░I░O░

new extension proposal: replace the word "economy" with "sodomy" everywhere. would result in a vastly better world.

just misread a headline as "Was the sodomy better under Trump or Biden?"

ok i'm sold

(https://gleam.run)

🦊Trying something to combat discord scammers who just log into a chat and get every role like, alright buddy go for it, see what happens

✨ new tech bingo ✨

mostly, itd be handy to be able to link the gba up to a computer or something for game-dev reasons, so i can send arbitrary Stuff over the link cable while testing out a link protocol or whatnot

it'd also be cool to be able to use something like this to link a real gba to an emulated one and e.g. trade pokémon or do multiplayer shenanigans that way

but also... i want to make a piece of music software for gba, like lsdj or whatnot but taking full advantage of the gba's power and sample mixing and stuff, and it'd be great to have a "gba-native" way to do things like import samples and export tracks. and there's only so much you can do with that when you can't connect to any devices aside from other gbas