How so? Living expenses for children often fall below exempt income levels. Taxation would only kick in for large wealth transfers.

Yea, it is.

This definition of private citizen seems to extend to all human beings… so why do we even do ethics reports.

People have been saying it as long as we’ve had language.

It’s really fucking complicated and we don’t really assign purchases in a way that’d fully solve the problem - but if taken to a logical extreme I think simply taxing gifts as income sort of fixes all the loopholes.

If we’re talking about the US the minimum income threshold for taxation is 13,850 - most personal expenses children incur wouldn’t sum up to exceed that threshold (outside of medical bills which it’s insane you have privatized in the US). So if gifts were treated as an income source then the first time kids would probably be hit with any owed taxes would be being gifted a car or being gifted college tuition.

I think the standard exemption should probably be higher than it is but it’s still high enough to cover what we generally consider common expenses when raising a child. Using a rule like this would really even out the playing field for kids.

I’ve noticed that clearly CC stuff like HOME gets used quite often… and yt folks often make homages to other users (like Summoning Salts favorite track being used for accomplishments/records now)

Yup, I’ve always had difficulties receiving criticism. I’ve gotten decent at professional criticism, but I also suuuuck at giving criticism because of how painful I know it can be to receive.

If you obsessively brush them you’ll take out the fur they’re shedding into the brush instead of the furniture… somewhat.

Different cats shed different amounts and if your cat sheds a lot you can possibly lower the shedding but not fully eliminate it - we have a sheddy cat and she sheds a bunch even with our brushing.

Damn little bro - imagine thinking eleven years old was passed the point you can impact your physicality.

A lot of old folks doing yoga have gotten pretty fucking flexible with a lot of hard work.

Be born a woman in Afghanistan… come out the womb to “And that’s when she knew she had fucked up.”

I’m not certain if this is in the spirit of your question but even a murderer in the US has privileges denied to a lot of other people.

The estate tax should be absolished in favor of treating inheritance as income and gifts to children should also be taxed as income.

At this point Schadenfreude is all I’ve got so I’m going to enjoy the fuck out of it.

If I’m being aspirational I’d probably identify most with Courier New… if I’m being honest…

I haven’t had to seriously handwrite anything in the past two decades and my handwriting probably peaked when I was 7.

Bro, full self driving is no more than like two years away.

Elon Musk literally every year

Evangelion is based on christian mythology.

Red meat drastically increased my well-being. I don’t think there’s a single diet that works for everyone and that’s okay.

Sugar is absolutely awful for you and American prepared food is loaded with ethically unacceptable amounts of it.

He’s willing to suck up to an asshole for his citizens. It’s an excellent mark of leadership.

LotR - it’s really fucking hard to top especially when Tolkien was pioneering the field.

And that’s why you’re not safe for work.