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Keep in mind that there are two different types of barriers under discussion. The ones in the larger supermarkets tend to be the "slow people down" type that will generally open for anyone. Then in the likes of Lidl, Primark, etc. you have gates where you have to scan a barcode on your receipt...

It's $5,000 for every adult American citizen, not for those who vote Republican.

While there are friendly and grumpy people all over the country, based on my experience when I used to travel a lot for work (basically from Thurso to Plymouth) the ratio does differ considerably between more northern and southern parts.

denovo That seems like a reasonable approach and makes valuation real since it's the lower of what the government thinks it is worth and you would be willing to sell it for.

People have been talking about OpenAI a lot since the Hugging Face incident. Not saying that it was deliberately allowed to happen or over-played in order to generate publicity...

I don't know about other supermarkets, but Lidl has barriers and always issues a receipt.

Watch the first lady's reaction here as a MAGA supporter's mental conflict is obvious: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cevw2rzlr8vo

I think it is now, yes.

Card not read / auth required gives three soft tones rather than the one long beep. I'm pretty sure that if the payment is declined it gives extra beeps as well. Edit: I'm not so sure now - I'll need to try a transaction with my prepaid card to see what the card reader does.

It's probably not technically illegal, however if it really is a "dividend to share in America's success" as they are trying to describe it, why is it contingent on the results of the election given that the Republicans currently control the House, the Senate, and the White House? Is the USA...

Again, I'm not in any way trying to justify the actions of the Israeli government as the slaughter of innocents in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon is completely unjustifiable. I was only making the point that the instinct to seek revenge for an attack is exactly that - instinctive.

I tend to shop at Tesco more than anywhere else so I'm most familiar with their card readers but the beeps for a successful and unsuccessful transaction are different.

I think it's natural for people to want to react to violence with proportional violence, but not to escalate. How many times has a parent's "Why did you hit him/her?" been answered by "They hit me first!" or similar? In the realm of international relations, one of the few acceptable...

Don't forget that the soldiers whose job it was to watch over the boundary between Israel and Gaza who reported strange goings-on in the weeks and days before the October 7th attacks but were ignored: Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67958260

I'm not going to say that it's impossible to accidentally walk off without paying, it does require one to be operating on autopilot since you'd have to miss both the absence of a beep from the card reader, and also the fact that the machine doesn't give you the "Thank you for shopping with..."...

I agree that it's not easy - if it was then someone would have done it already! Perhaps the key is to tax net worth but allow deductions based on spending. So if our super-rich person just has money sitting in a bank, or a house that they just own and do nothing with it would get hit for tax...

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62kzr1jg0jo I guess people can deposit those Republican midterm election cheques right after their $2,000 DOGE cheques, and $2,000 tariff cheques. Oh, and let's not forget that the national debt just passed $40T! :rolleyes: Does anyone with even...

I agree with the principle, but have to point out that a minority of PE firms have given the entire industry a bad name. As an example, my current employer was taken private, invested in, stabilised, and then returned to the public market by a pair of PE firms who both have a long history of...

We need a tax system that rewards spending and disincentivises hoarding.

Makes sense, the Aberdeen portion is lighter during the summer months, plus the gradients are generally less taxing.