The need for meaningful inheritance taxes -- steep ones above some heirs-are-still-absurdly-rich threshold -- has never been more clear.
Banker-for-the-rich UBS data shows that family dynasties are becoming the primary system by which the ultra-rich come about their money.
It is completely unearned income but they pay minuscule relative taxes.
https://www.ubs.com/global/en/media/display-page-ndp/en-20231130-the-great-wealth-transfer.html
There are 2.5 million ants per person. I like to think specific colonies are assigned to each of us. Your *particular* ants.
Perhaps you have been assigned just three massive colonies of leaf cutters. Perhaps you are assigned 100,000s of tiny colonies of many different species each with dozens to 100s of ants.
But, what is more remarkable is that *each* of your assigned ants has to her (or occasionally him) assigned about 22,800 nematodes.
How do the little girls keep track of them all?
tiny high pitched voice: "... two thousand five hundred and thirty eight..."
*it's hard to tell the source of the voice*
tiny high pitched voice: "... two thousand five hundred and thirty nine, two thousand five hundred and forty-"
*you look around*
*it's one of your ants!*
You: "What are you doing, little ant?"
Your ant: "Oh! Hi! I didn't notice you. You are so big! Well, I'm counting my nematodes!... oh no... I've lost track again. No matter. One, two, three ... "
Lots of birds from a boat trip around Craigleith in the Firth of Forth in June. (Pictures from Bass Rock will follow!)
Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy.
But for mothers like Iryna, the empty table setting where her son usually sits overshadows all.
Her son, Yaroslav, is just one of 10k Ukrainians in Russian captivity.
He was captured at Azovstal and he has spent two birthdays so far as a prisoner of war.
She speaks longingly about him through tears: "My bunny, my heart, my boy.”
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/christmas-without-yaroslav
Locus-specific proteome decoding reveals Fpt1 as a chromatin-associated negative regulator of RNA polymerase III assembly https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00908-5?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Sorry I plan to vote against the criminalization of my own existence. If you have a problem with that I don't know what to tell you.
For anyone interested, I'll leave the latest build for the Elon Musk smashing game here: https://musket.stux.me
I'll update as we go
Lots of gannets on and around the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth, from June.
Mastodon seems like the place to ask. So I'm a little indie musician guy. I'm slowly replacing Twitter with here, I've been using Bandcamp but am unhappy with large corporations buying and selling it - so I got a Faircamp (no sales yet but I haven't been pushing it!). What are alternatives to other large sites. Is Peertube a good YouTube alternative? What about email? If there's one thing I've noticed about Mastodon -I know there's a whole world of ultra computer nerds on here, and I salute you.
@ampersine the Republican Party is nothing more than institutionalised violence against women. All women.
#ZeroNazis #Massachusetts #Nazis
Massachusetts Finally Cracks Down on Notorious New England Neo-Nazis https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nsc-131-neo-nazi-charged-civil-rights-violations-1234921860/
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
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