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misk , vor 3 Tagen

Tax evasion and money laundering rob all of us. I don't like that we have to do this but it's a necessary change.

misk , vor 3 Tagen

I wasn't talking about war on drugs, those should be decriminalized anyway.

What I keep seeing in my personal life is car repair shops, medical professionals and other businesses that usually charge a lot and then take cash only. It's obvious why.

misk , vor 3 Tagen

Ultra rich don't evade taxes, they avoid them via good accountants legally. What this is supposed to prevent is small/medium tax fraud which really adds up.

misk , vor 3 Tagen

Ultra rich should be taxed up to their tits or ears but let's not kid ourselves that 3k/10k EUR limit is going to affect anyone poor.

misk , vor 3 Tagen

How are you going to audit cashless businesses that invoice one price and take another and how much is that going to cost? We're talking about likely widespread issue that needs solving systemically, not with adhoc actions.

misk , vor 3 Tagen

It's an EU-wide thing now I think. Our car shops just say they can lower the price significantly if you pay by cash. Others just play dumb.

misk , vor 3 Tagen

3k EUR is not small income.

I'm not even sure what we're trading it for. Illusion of privacy from your own state?

misk , vor 3 Tagen

All of you guys focus on some billionaires, mafia bosses etc but we're talking about 3k/10k EUR limits.

I'm asking how do you audit cash-heavy businesses doing petty tax fraud cost effectively?

misk , vor 3 Tagen

Have you ever bought a car? You can't do it anonymously, you have to register it.

misk , vor 2 Tagen

Seems like your solution costs more than it brings to the budget and all that you're gaining is false sense of privacy.

misk , vor 2 Tagen

I think you're on some ideological crusade, I'm more into pragmatism.

misk , vor 2 Tagen

Can you rent a flat anonymously? Doesn't that have to be reported for tax anyway? All of examples I'm seeing here are flat out tax fraud heaven.

misk , vor 2 Tagen

Ok, this is pointless, you're advocating for tax fraud outright.

misk , vor 2 Tagen

Wow, you found a universal tax fraud loophole that nobody did before - taxation is illegal invasion of privacy lol. You should consider career in accounting.

misk , vor 2 Tagen

I have not seen once in my life a hotel that does anonymous leases. Because you could fuck up their shit and run. Where do you come up with those examples?

misk , vor 2 Tagen

So you're fine with tax collection being ineffective, got it. All taxation is theft and so on, right?

misk , vor 3 Tagen

All that EU mandates is equal access to system features by the competitors.

What Microsoft is saying is that they would never fuck up like Crowdstrike did. That's bullshit - they are human too and need security enforced at an architectural level. The other thing that Microsoft is saying is that they could not prevent this. That's also bullshit because others did.

Windows and Linux allow third party apps to run at kernel / driver level and consequences of that are on those operating systems. It wasn't even the first time this happened. Crowdstrike was responsible for similar issue on Linux earlier this year and it was also caused by a kernel module crash.

Apple doesn't allow kernel / driver level access for apps and replaced those with API few years ago. It's no coincidence Crowdstrike didn't manage to break MacOS so far. There's nothing stopping Microsoft from implementing something similar.

Obviously Crowdstrike is at fault here but so is Microsoft.

misk , vor 3 Tagen

Linux has the same issue and was also affected by Crowdstrike earlier this year.

misk , vor 3 Tagen

MacOS is relevant to this specific issue. It's an example of an OS that mitigated risk in a way that would be compliant with EU requirements Microsoft is blaming this on.

misk , vor 5 Tagen

Fossil fuel sales.

misk , vor 6 Tagen

Done and shared where I could.

misk , vor 12 Tagen

He'll lose just to claim that EU courts are a part of EU conspiracy against him lol.

misk , vor 19 Tagen

The article is worthless since it doesn't mention how many of those are being built. It could be an ad since it's printed in The Economist.

misk , vor einem Monat

I guess it's fine as long as EPP led governments in Poland and Lithuania do this, just not Orban because he's a bit of an ass.

misk OP , vor einem Monat

Glad to hear, thanks for the update.

misk , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

"Vote for us or russia wins". This is probably the worst election campaign I've ever seen. Yeah, PiS is a bunch of thugs that has very high tolerance for people that could be working on behalf of russia. At the same time PiS government provided Ukraine with most tanks out of any nation. What PO is doing is just fucking irresponsible, take a look at this this ad they aired a day after Fico was shot.

And that's not even the most depressing thing. PiS and PO keep calling each other russian agents but won't even mention far right Konfederacja that has obvious ties to Putin because they could be their coalition partner one day. PiS courted them prior to and after last elections but ultimately they wouldn't have majority anyway. PO knows that if New Left ever grows balls and quits coalition there won't be any other way to remain in power.

misk , vor einem Monat

We hate russia but half of draft aged men would escape Poland before breakfast if war broke out. We don't own anything and have no say in anything so why would we fight to protect fortunes of the wealthy? There is no sense of community in this nation.

misk , vor einem Monat

You have to commend courts for prioritizing russian values (like wife beating) over an opportunity to send them to jail and then back into the meat grinder.

misk OP , vor einem Monat

I was surprised too, I knew of them but didn't know they were this huge given that Aliexpress is more popular here (I think).

misk , vor einem Monat

I was curious how this was received on European community on that commercial Lemmy-like site. It's got about same amount of upvotes as it does on Lemmy XD

misk , vor einem Monat

In the past two decades the Mankowski family, which is descended from Polish aristocracy

What a fucking surprise. Poland has a long history of aristocracy doing everything to dissolve this country.

misk OP , vor einem Monat

Giving up Haribo? Preposterous.