nabergh

The fact that humans have always owned land is a meaningless argument. We can all decide to use a better system for anything if we agree on it.

The article proposes taxing the unimproved value of land at 100% which I think gets around that problem totally.

The title is technically correct but its second interpretation (the correct one) is not the most obvious one so it is misleading.

Is this necessarily a bad thing? Naturally occurring insect habitats don't get cleaned out, right?

I'm curious which method you're referring to when you talk about one country unilaterally stopping global warming.

The study you linked did not measure CO2.

Isn't it a fair question to ask though whether the average BMI of those with a "normal BMI" (18.5-24.9) changed during the time frames of interest? And if it did, couldn't that still be a cause?

Are these fair statements to make? Most counties don't set up infrastructure for early voting at the same capacity as they do for election day voting. This level of early voting turnout is unprecedented right? Of course people shouldn't have to wait in line to vote and it's great that these people are but I think people abroad are not getting the full picture.

Shame being philanthropy's strongest motivator is too cynical a perspective for me. Also, many people take pride in defying those who tell them that they're living their life wrong in some way so I believe shame backfires more often than not.

Interesting. I feel the exact opposite. I think he is a great artist, but I think his persona outside of the actual songs is just noise.

Much better video quality in Zoom than Google Meet from my experience with both products.

fwiw, I have found video quality on Meet to be by far the worst out of any video chat app I've ever used. My company pays for g suite but all the video in my google meetings range between 320x240 and flip phone video from 15 years ago, and I swear I'm not exaggerating. This can happen even with a 2 person meeting. I've never had this issue with Zoom.

This is correct and it also applies when middle clicking a link. That's where it really matters for me.

My biggest gripe with Firefox is how it opens tabs. If I open a new tab in Chrome, it opens just to the right of the current one which is nice because it keeps related tabs together. In Firefox it opens to the far right which is annoying. I tried installing an extension to fix this but it was buggy. Only recently did I discover that I could dig into about:config to enable the behavior I consider expected (and I'm sure most people agree with me given how many Chrome users there are).