Mostly severs yes, desktop Linux died somewhere around 2010.

Oh hush, the only reason people don't make their own contributions is because it's hard to keep up with their unstable API

Because many of the new "features" are either unwanted or at worse distracting

Which features in the new release did you not want?

Nonono, no more of these halfbaked tax reform ideas.

There's nothing in society that says we need to "compensate" new taxes by getting rid of older ones. If we as a society decide that someone's speculative actions are harmful, there is no good reason not to tax them into oblivion

There is no "we as a society decide". No one in their right mind would argue that the government widely acts in the favor of those who elect it, especially in terms of revenue collecting and spending. The government decides and the government mostly has its own agendas.

Yet now the correct choice is supposed to be made in regard to property ownership social "harm", using taxes as the specific tool to correct it?

If the government, or "we as a society", can't directly justify their goal being enforced via restrictive law then enforcing the goal via taxation isn't democratically justified (ie: an incentive provided for the tax collecting gov).

>no more of these halfbaked tax reform ideas.

Why would US citizens be in favor of tax reform? What a crazy idea that has zero historical precedent.

I have an even crazier idea, what if we just voted for straight up expropriation?

But I don't feel like having this discussion with someone who by all likely hood wouldn't be affected by this issue since they don't own any rental properties to begin with, wouldn't be affected by this in any way, and is just making an argument from an ideological reflex

Not every country is a corrupt failed state and plenty of western representative democracies have acted on behalf of their constituents best interests

If you dont make a good faith argument but instead throw your hands up saying "they're all crooks anyway" then what's the point of even trying?

How should the government decide which taxes to implement, then?

All they do is bitch and moan about nothing

There's a difference between making a problem out of everything vs having an actual problem

And then they added their guardrails and made sure only positive, happy answers would be give

Oxbridge is a huge deal, maybe not so much for the education, but definitely for the connections

Also former Oxbridge attendee, it really isnt a reputation that is fully deserved. Local unis are more than fine. What matters more is your outlook on life, openness and adeptness to exploring yourself, industries and communities - ultimately resulting in mastery of a niche (or niches) and then hopefully wealth. Can Oxbridge facilitate some of this? Sure, but your local uni can too.

Thanks, that's good to hear.

IMO professional connections are more valuable. Friends from uni will end up doing all sorts of things, most of them unrelated to you.

So rather unpopular opinion here and i expect to be downvoted

Tough luck kiddo, but you are reasonably fucked

The sad thing about these injuries is that they are in fact life changing

You are not the "bright young student" that you used to be you need to get it out of your head that these things are still an option

You might at one day recover but for now that's not something for you to rely upon

The person you used to be is now dead

Patently untrue. Recovery from physical and emotional trauma is possible. It requires actively working at it.

"How would you feel if someone took your output without permission[...].

that has happened to me all the damn time and quite frankly I've stopped caring so boo effin hoo.

we live in a postindustrial society.

People have value extracted from them without due compensation every single day.

Just be glad you're getting your slice of the pie as it is