Proposition 40, which will be on the ballot in November, would impose a one-time, 5% tax on California’s 200 billionaires,

These fucks will do anything to avoid paying taxes...

with 90% of the revenue from the proposed measure going toward the state’s health care program and 10% going toward education, food assistance, and administration. Brin, with a net worth of nearly $260 billion, could owe about $13 billion as a result of the tax.

Can't be contributing to "socialism" I guess? Get some of that $260 billion liquid and pay up, dickhead.

I get a lot of crap for my New Balances, but they did 26km of meadow hiking and no problems on the feet. Thats a win in my book.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52757934

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1445658/arxiv-is-rate-limiting-submissions-because-it-cant-keep-up-with-ai-slop

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76516412

https://youtube.com/shorts/kOoD85gynhc

storms a comin. About five min after this it opened up and rained for about five hours.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48798646

Found occasionally after a storm comes thru typically. These are going in my shell collection.

These haven't had anyone living in the for quite some time, the variety found here is usually smooth with orange-white or cream color shell. Being this shade means they have sat out in the sun for some time before I found them. I imagine the recent storm scoured enough sand away to expose them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52764669

Progressive voters and supporters of incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left reeling after far-right surge

Flávio Bolsonaro is in pole position to win Brazil’s presidential election, after a far-right tsunami propelled him to a shock first-round victory over the incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leaving progressive voters reeling.

The 45-year-old rightwing candidate received 56.1m votes to Lula’s 53.8m – 47.03% to 45.16% – meaning the 80-year-old leftwinger has a mountain to climb if he is to bounce back in the second round on 25 October. Never, since the return of democracy to Brazil in 1985, has the first-round runner-up managed to turn the game around and win the second ballot.

“Miracles are possible in politics. But I don’t see that happening,” the political scientist Miguel Lago said of Lula’s chances of snapping back. “I don’t see Flávio losing this election now.”

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But also I dont care if you understand cuz i dont give a fuck what anyone thinks... and like... thats really cool of me... and you should agree and call me cool a lot

https://youtube.com/shorts/kOoD85gynhc

Yeah. In the middle of a two-plus hour video about cruise lines, there’s a clip — just a few seconds long — of a friend who joined Ellis on one of the trips singing karaoke. And that caused the entire video to come down while the “dispute” was adjudicated.

And, as Ellis notes, YouTube by default sides with the copyright holder, because the nature of copyright law is that it very, very, very strongly encourages intermediaries to side with the copyright claimant, even if that claim is obvious bullshit and clearly fair use (as is the case here). YouTube’s ContentID system is basically built with that in mind. Even as YouTube spent years fighting back against copyright maximalism and winning the massive DMCA case Viacom filed against it, in the end, to keep the big copyright holders happy, ContentID is really designed to strongly favor copyright claimants, even when their claims are bullshit.

The culprit in this case? Apparently our old friends at Warner/Chappell, which, let’s just say, have a history of this sort of absolute bullshit.

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On Bluesky, Ellis points out that this wasn’t an automated takedown.

yes, it's a real thing