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Longhorn retweeted
Turns out that if everyone was paid the same, saved the same amount, made the same on their investments, and worked & lived the same amount of time…
… people 65+ would have 74% of the wealth.
Surprised? Welcome to Equal Land.
adamnash.blog/2026/10/25/why…
Oh, look, another (and new!) more than 100% marginal rate thing
When will European countries learn that's the wrong thing to do?
Longhorn retweeted
What makes this depressing is that it theoretically met NIMBY criteria.
Aesthetic, built with local stone, provides cheap groceries during a cost-of-living crisis. All built *literally* on an empty grass field.
But, no dice. They don't actually want to build anything at all.
Longhorn retweeted
These bans deputize random busybodies into hall monitors, replacing communities built by people who contribute with hierarchies ruled by people who have nothing to offer but the power to stop others.
The opensource subreddit’s new rules against AI have sparked a revolt. theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
The RTX Spark NPU software stack appears very broken right now
xda-developers.com/nvidia-rt…
Cc @anemll
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Longhorn retweeted
“a convicted murderer... who will never pass the good character requirements to practice”
*Monkey's paw curls*
McGill’s law school receives roughly 1,500 applications for just 180 spots.
It gave one of those spots to a convicted murderer in his mid-60s, who will never pass the good character requirements to practice, and who violated his parole multiple times.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Longhorn retweeted
While Zucman ponders why on earth billionnaires would react to a one-time 5% wealth tax and consider leaving California, back in France, his mentor is advocating for a combined package of 800bn euros, including a 50% tax on all gains exceeding 100 millions over the past 10 years.
800 milliards d’euros d’ISF : la surenchère fiscale de Thomas Piketty pour sortir de la crise lopinion.fr/economie/800-mil…
if you do unsolicited spam once, don't aggravate your case by doing it a second time as a reply
thank you
Longhorn retweeted
It's the same pretty much everywhere with rent controls. A story from Berlin:
True in Spain too. Every landlord in Madrid and Barcelona screens the renters now. This is an obvious consequence of rent control. The most vulnerable, ostensible protected by the legislation, are in fact excluded from the rental market: if you cannot be evicted for non payment, then you are too risky a renter.
Longhorn retweeted
rent control as commonly implemented is straightforward incumbency protection which naturally advantages old people and those who will not have to upgrade housing when they get jobs or start families
