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Katja Lutz
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Altruistic anarchist, down-to-earth, independent hobby astronaut ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš€ and amazingly lively, passionate web developer in the stand against the technocrats. Also founder of nitropage.org, the FOSS visual website editor.
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Summary of the state/fiat system in my country, I suppose it will be similar in all countries.

- You are born and have to register as a slave.

- Then you have to get an ID card and pay your first taxes, you pay to register as a slave.

- When you work for someone else, you pay income tax, social security tax, pension deficit tax, and unemployment tax.

- If you also work for yourself, then you pay a tax for working, the self-employed contribution.

- If you have a company, you pay corporate tax and you pay taxes for each person you hire and you pay for all your profits. In addition, as an entrepreneur, you have to assign yourself a salary and you pay taxes for paying yourself that salary and you also pay taxes as the recipient of the salary.

- When you buy anything, you pay 21% VAT.

- When you sell anything, you also have to pay if you have made a profit of between 19 and 30%.

- Every time you renew your driver's license or ID card, you have to pay fees again.

- You pay road tax for every vehicle you own.

- You pay taxes on every property you own.

- You pay garbage and sewer taxes for every property you own.

- You pay taxes on the land you own.

- When you buy alcohol, more than 80% is tax.

- When you buy gasoline, more than 80% is tax.

- When you buy a vehicle, more than 50% is tax.

- If you own stocks, gold, Bitcoin, or anything else and you sell it at a profit, you have to pay tax.

- When you sell a house, you have to pay tax on the profit you have made, as well as municipal capital gains tax, i.e., you pay tax for the entire time you have owned the house.

- The person who buys the house has to pay ITP (property transfer tax) if it is second-hand (10%) or VAT if it is new (10%).

- To register a property in your name, you have to pay the property registry and the fees associated with the deeds.

- As a company, you are also subject to a lot of municipal taxes, and as a large company, you are also subject to CO2 tax.

- You pay a lot of different taxes on electricity.

- You pay wealth tax if your wealth exceeds a certain threshold (500k/1M).

- You pay taxes on second homes.

These are the ones that come to mind right now, but there are many more.

But the best part is that after all this crap, you die and have to pay more taxes. All your heirs will be taxed on everything they inherit as if it were income.

That can't be my goal as an altruist ๐Ÿ™ˆ. But I know that when the system collapses, lot's of politicians will naturally pay for the pain they brought. Karma will do it's job, but it takes time ๐Ÿ˜….

Something that many also forget is that the state directly or indirectly enforces growth/technology. You are prohibited from living a simple life. E.g. the state just assumes that you have a navigation system in your car. It defines one-way streets all over the place to "optimize" the streets. Now if you do not have a navi you are cooked.

The state is a system and every system loves to install updates.

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Views on X for Elon-denied opinions are getting shadow banned anyway if you ask me ๐Ÿ˜…. So yeah: NOSTR for the win!

Thesis: The huge investments in loss-making AI companies are not being made because they hope to one day create truly intelligent AI, but because they are pursuing a plan to ultimately force us consumers to use AI.

This plan is already being implemented, because soon the average citizen will no longer be able to afford a powerful PC due to rising RAM prices.

Ultimately, the only benefit of AI is to accelerate the transfer of wealth to the super-rich and the expansion of power by authoritarian governments.

If you use AI instead of working with other people in your immediate environment, you are kissing the shoe of elitist narcissists.

GM ๐Ÿ˜˜

The authoritarian state will only feel safe enough once the citizens are protected from the following risks:

Humans

Ideally, the welfare state exists to help people in need. But instead, it prohibits people from helping each other, as it claims a monopoly on socialism.

Ultimately, the welfare state fails miserably to help people in need without degrading them in the process.

How about a new term for LLM generated software:

Junkware

Introducing ๐Ÿฆœ Loty - The tiny localization library

- Tiny bundle size starting at 523 bytes

- Type safety with autocompletion in editor

- Customizable message formatter

- Messages are parsed lazily

- Loads missing messages from base locale

- Open source and fully tested with 100 % coverage

- Framework agnostic

What it takes to be successful in

Mainstream work: Acceptance, Ignorance and Self-Abandonment

Independent work: Insurgency, Innovation, Grit, and a huge friggin portion of luck

GM ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿ’

If your i18n system fallbacks to a baseLocale, do you expect that it formats date's in that baseLocale or in the current locale?

E.g. current locale German:

Fallback to English with German date:

"Peter's birthday is on 29. Mรคrz 1978"

or with English date:

"Peter's birthday is on Mar 29, 1978"

#asknostr

Fantastic anime about Jazz, imho even for people who are not usually into this type of music!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gUf5R-MzITU

The big problem is not corrupt, authoritarian politicians with their perverse ideas, but rather that most people do not resist them and instead even applaud their own exploitation.

GM ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธโ˜•๐Ÿค™

The authoritarian forces in the so-called democracy Switzerland want similar censorship powers as the EU with its dystopic services act DSA.

https://www.news.admin.ch/en/newnsb/6TmEAde4htulaWG9CWYtK

What do you prefer about it? ๐Ÿ™‚

Noooo ๐Ÿ˜‚, I wanted to know if I should use A or B, and now I end up having to choose between, A, B, C or D ๐Ÿคฃ... Honestly though, applesauce looks intriguing ๐Ÿ˜ฎ, thanks for the advice โค๏ธ!

"I am not on planet earth". That one might work for a couple more years ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜‚.

Ngl, I am relatively depressed about the state of humanity, but I am proud, about foss projects like linux and kde, about currencies like bitcoin and monero and especially about being able to be together with you, here on nostr. GM!

For anyone with fake money, now is a great time to by some real one, aka Monero ๐Ÿ˜Ž.

the web ๐Ÿซ ?

laat try for me, i need coffee ๐Ÿ˜‚

Nitropage v0.68.3 is out, mostly a maintenance release with a couple bug fixes ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ”ง.

https://codeberg.org/nitropage/nitropage/src/branch/next/packages/nitropage/CHANGELOG.md#0-68-3

#webdev #cms