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I need to check but its absolutely massive. Our storage costs are as much as the server costs right now.

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@stux

One of the features at QOTO is complete media and cache retention from the start of QOTO, some 5 years now... Basically means QOTO has one of the most complete search histories around :)

@realcaseyrollins

Holy hell what an obnoxious person... i wonder when he ia going to realize ive been in the middle east for almost a year and a half traveling and have no TV.

@h4890 love how way off base your assumptions are... dont own a tv and have spent many cumulative years at this point in middle east coubtries. I an in one now as a matter of fact.

@atomicpoet looks like chat gpt got it right. **you** on the other ha d were wrong. Looks like you are the one who shouldnt be trusted with anything, not chat gpt ;)

@h4890 I understand that is your position, but your response doesnt really help me understand how you coukd be so wrong, which is what im curious about.

I have been to stockholm, but are discussion is about arabian culture as a whole so stockholm isnt too relevant there. My guess is you spent a week or two in egypt/jordan and were already biased and looking for excuses before you even left. Basibg that purely on your evasiviness towards answering the question and only answering it by adding stockholm to the pool.

I also suspect that if uou look at arabians in a setting where they are a minority they will be far less pleasant and more defensive and thus paint an inaccurate picture of the culture as compared to what youd see in their homeland.

@h4890 I will listen to any pov. But so far the totality of the data proves you wrong. Im less interested in conviencing you of that and more curious as to how you came to the conclusion you did.

@h4890 I asked to better understand how you could come to such an inaccurate conclusion and add it to my mental data, nothing more.

@h4890 Having people close to your traveling there extensively doesnt mean much IMO, its the first hand expiernce im curious about. Its good to hear youve been there... How much time did you spend the musslim side of the middle east? What parts?

@h4890 Hey points for consistency, so I'll give you that much.

How much time have you spent among arabian culture in the middle east?

@TedMD So a lot of different things flying around here... first off lets just agree your initial comment, being a miscommunication, isnt really that important to the topic, clearly i thought you meant the tax ont he groceries themselves, but you didnt.

But to the point, I wouldnt say getting rid of the IRS is such a stupid idea, but it is stupid if all they wanted to do was tax everything at 30% even. Thing is, I dont think thats the case, though even the reality is lacking. A 30% tax rate or other high sales tax, on goods such that luxury goods are taxed higher than neccesities would be a great solution. It would eliminate the IRS, create a fair system where those who spend moneyu on luxury carry the bulk of the tax burden, and ensure those so close to poverty that most of their expenses are food and neccesities would be tax free. In the end it would achieve a far superior system of taxation with far less overhead.

That said as usual the system being proposed here doesnt have the proper elements (like tax rates determined by the luxury of the purchase) to make that a reality.

@TedMD Well nop your original statement was not accurate. Groceries are sales tax exempt. so no tax is paid on them at the counter or otherwise. So your statement about paying your taxes for them with your groceries isnt accurate.

That said it isnt really important about the groceries, and focusing on that detracts from the more important part about what I said, how sales tax makes sense, particularly if structured correctly.

If you do it correctly then luxury items get more tax than non luxury items. So people who waste money on nonessentials carry the bigger tax burden while those who can only afford essentials bear little or no tax burden.

@TedMD Its usually paid everytime money changes hand for a product.. so you pay at the counter when you buy the item, and the store paid when they bought the items to stock them too.

@h4890 The liberal side of the fediverse is pretty damn vocal about hating free-speech instances too.. just mentioning you support free speech is asking for mass suspension.. this is hardly limited to the fediverse and seems to be a recurring theme across american liberal communities in my expiernce.... I guess american liberals are barbaic and incompatible with democracy too then?

So spent the weekend trying to decide between NixOS and Guix and finally decided to go with NixOS.. Installed it on my company laptop and my main desktop and one of my employees computers... so far I'm loving it and exited to learn this new distro.

The more I read up on the two I think I picked the right choice too.

#linux

@rastinza Your optimism is refreshing, if not a bit misplaced.

@fredds yup...

@TedMD Your interpritation isnt accurate. Sales tax does not apply to groceries.

Normally the GOP are idiots but moving to a purely sales tax based system makes a LOT of sense, in general, but it has to be done with more care. Only way such a system would work is if tax levels were better correlated to the luxury of an item. We do this already but the current way of doing it is far too coarse to work in a sales-tax only system.

Americans are like a paradoy of themselves at this point.