🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@pies @MelodyCooper @zack

Yes as i explained to you earlier why you were looking at the dats erroneously in the regard and how to correct it. Your incorrect approach of conflating correlation with causation from the start will usually lead to bad conclusions as it just did for you.

Woukd be happy to explore some valid analysis with you as I offered many times already. I suspect you arent arguing in good faith though.

@pies

That reply was to melody not you.

@MelodyCooper @zack

1. It was hovering in thr 90s fkr about 10 years

2. Actually closer to 2 mil or 2.5 mil and yes im aware, so. Its an abusive tax rate in my eyes regardless of how rich someone being taxed it might be.

As i said no one, including the incredibly wealthy, should ever be taxed at such an abusive rate.

@pmonks yes.. that doesnt disagree with what i said.

If you want to talk in math terms.. as your income approaches infinity what does your effective tax rate approach? It approaches the 20%, or in the real world case 94, like I said.

@pmonks @QasimRashid

Please feel free to explain specifically where you think i went wrong. I deal with these sorts of taxes daily as the EVP of a company.

@pmonks

Yes I am well aware how income tax works. But yes as you get father above the 200K bracket the closeryoull get to 94%. So yes you have tax rates abusively high for the rich that can approach 94%, if your rich enough you are effecitvely paying 94%.

@QasimRashid

@MelodyCooper @zack @pies

The old "Gun violence is lower in countries where guns are banned" (ignoring guns effect on non-gun violence) is basically the anti-vaxxer tactic of "If you make vaccines illegal we will see less vaccine deaths".. well yea, sure, of course you will, but you will also see non-vaccine related deaths skyrocket...

@MelodyCooper

You just changed what we were talking about.. your talking about "gun violence".. not the murder rate... Of **course** banning guns will make **gun** violence go down. We are talking about **all** violence, including acts of knife or other forms of violence that would have been deterred by a gun.

@zack @pies

@pies @MelodyCooper @zack

Then on that we agree, as I feel the evidence shows it strongly decreases the murder rate when having it present in a society with high murder rates. Though I suspect you think the opposite is true,

@QasimRashid I mean, It was abusive and unfair, which is enough reason for me to give it a hard no... **no one** should be taked out of 94% of their income, regardless if they can survive it.

That said, I can pretty much garuntee the whole "0 of them left" and "0 of them went broke" is pure nonsense, you have a source for that?

@MelodyCooper @zack @pies

I think everyone is in agreement that the violence in the usa is a multitude of factors of which any influence guns have is at best a small fraction. Of course i disagree that addi g guns is like adding a match, mutch the opposite its like untying peoples hands so they can act.

@LouisIngenthron there are tons of different servers already built on the same protocol.

Bonfire seems at first glance to be a modular fediverse server, which in its own right thats kinda nice. But in reality it was designed to be a fediverse engine to enable people to fork it and write their own servers which is pretty nice. It is based on a plugin and modular desig which is also pretty sweet.

@sogga @realcaseyrollins

I pretty much use all the features, steps, health assessment, reminders for appointments, creating maps or points of interest when im out, weather alerts, i cant think of a feature i dont use honestly.

@realcaseyrollins nice. I doubt much will take my garmin off my rist. I have a rolex i never wear simply because its not a smart watch.

@realcaseyrollins

If i werent locked i to needing the features of a smart watch id likely get something like this...

@sergeant @trinsec

Sorry im late to the show then ;)

@sergeant always good to see another Dutch speaking person on our instance (one of our mods @trinsec is Dutch and i have a particular fondness for the dutch).

Welcome!

How is it i never heard of bonfire, which appears to be a activitypub server similar to mastodon....