• Waterpumpee@lemmus.org
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    19 hours ago

    Tax exemptions should be treated as cost for the tax payers. News should report on it like “You paid 1.000$ for palantir subsidies this year and 5.000$ for Elon and 20.000$ for iran war”. I think this would wake some people up.

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      18 hours ago

      Those numbers seem too small to motivate people. Use the cost to taxpayers - those number will scream into their heads.

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        18 hours ago

        They’re using European numeral system. They’re saying exactly what you’re suggesting; the financial burden in the form of a tax.

        $1,000
        $5,000
        $20,000
        

        I do wish we used the decimal for our numerals here in the States. I like the Japanese placement of 4 orders rather than the 3-order system of the west. Less clutter.

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          I don’t think Europe has a common standard.

          We write numbers like 5’000’000.00 Switzerland, Germans write 20.000,00 and Italians don’t have any money so they don’t use anything.

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      16 hours ago

      While I agree, it’s a very strange (not relevant) analogy.

      Blockbuster folded due to Netflix slowly degrading it then killing altogether with streaming technology. What in your analogy is replacing Palantir? They’re still at the top of their game, and has only gotten more powerful integrating AI/Flock and other technology, plus getting the full support of the authoritarian regime in the US.

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        12 hours ago

        You are reading way too much into this off-the-cuff, flippant comment. I simply meant I wish the company no longer existed. Apples, oranges, who cares?

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        16 hours ago

        They’ll be replaced by The Empire from that Space Wars movie.

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          16 hours ago

          They’re already under contract and a tool of The Empire.

          Replace unnecessary.