SpaceScotsman

joined 2 years ago
[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It's an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago

Users need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 24 points 3 months ago

A true "Thanks Obama" for modern times

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

Would be so tempting to take some white paint between the r and the n

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  • No job, grind away the entire waking day with a low paying zero hours contract while filing job applications, No videogames, no relaxation, more stress, costs healthcare providers more

  • No job, spend some of the day working while filing job applications, Yes Videogames, relaxation, lower stress, costs healthcare providers less

Yet another case where if the politician seriously thought about the issue for just half a minute they'd realise their attitude makes no sense.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

OK, but all the ticks can go die in a fire

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

ahem, that's PROFESSOR Hanks, thank you very much

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This clever pricing system is only available on Itch.io, [...] It is also on sale on Steam until March 7, but that price doesn't fluctuate.

I thought steam had some sort of t&c agreement where you had to price all copies of a game the same no matter the store they were on. surely this would violate those rules. or am I misremembering that?

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

"Key franchises"? And they don't think WW is a key franchise? Out of all their films from the past few years, the WW ones have been some of the best. If they don't want to do anything with it, they don't deserve the IP.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 26 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The biggest challenge with an "owned wealth" tax is how do you actually measure it? It's easy if it's held in cash in a bank, but most billionaire's wealth is is land, property, and how do you measure the value of a Picasso stored in a vault if they can slip the valuator a grand to say it's worthless?

Closing offshore money transfer loopholes, heightened tax on luxury spending (100% VAT on private jets and yachts?), making fines income-based, and treating capital gains the same way as income, are all more achievable.

I'm totally on board with the sentiment though.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's no need to be concerned because they're never going to build 100,000 new homes, never mind the 1.5M target. Building enough homes to house people would cause supply to meet demand and make the housing market "crash". And Labour will never upset those who've been tricked into thinking that home property is an investment.

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