To be clear. This information is not hidden.
Every receipt you receive will have the VAT % of each individual item written down, and VAT % of certain kinds of items are often discussed as part of regular politics and very present on public consciousness.
You are missing the point even though I rather clearly indicated it. This is not a question of whether you or I see the taxes as we likely both care to similar degrees, it’s about whether it is front and center for regular people to see at the point of gratification contact line, i.e., looking at the product on the shelf.
The taxes in the US are also very clearly indicated on receipts, but that does not change that when you are looking at a price in Europe, you are appeased looking at it with a bias of assumed, baked in taxes. It’s a psychological difference related to loss aversion. Is precisely why the European rulers pushed to hide the taxes in the price so you don’t even think about it, opposed to additional monies being taken from you at the point of sale.
It’s the very same reason why they pushed for employer to take all the massive taxes and costs and “contributions” out of one’s paycheck because handing over a check of some five digit amount every year to the government would be far more of a galling issue to most people than having it taken out of toe paycheck once a month and you normalized it and take it for granted. Talk to anyone that runs a personal business admit how they feel writing 6 or 7 digit checks to the government every quarter or so, before you grow past having someone that just does it as a matter of their role and they have no vested interest in whether any amount is paid.
It astonishes me that people like you seem to be oblivious of the effects of these kinds of tricks and games, when this community is regularly discussing social engineering, dark patterns, marketing gobbledygook, etc. You think the government made up of liars that lie about everything, including lying; the people who cover up child rape of the Epstein kind and the rape gangs of the Brush Labour Party that numbers somewhere near ~250,000 victims of child gang rape … they wouldn’t have evaluated which way is better to hoodwink the multitude and minimize anger offer being pilfered?
> It astonishes me that people like you seem to be oblivious of the effects of these kinds of tricks and games, when this community is regularly discussing social engineering, dark patterns, marketing gobbledygook, etc.
Don't you see the hypocrisy of talking about "dark patterns" while trying to use every psychological trick in the book to trigger people's emotional responses that are opposed to their rational beliefs?
Sure, most of us will complain about taxes being higher than we like sometimes, but most of us also understand that those taxes pay for services that the vast majority of us want and rely on - we want healthcare, safety nets, infrastructure, quality education, etc. We can argue about a few % here or there but we also understand that we couldn't have those things if all of our taxes were substantially lower.
We already have transparency as all taxes and contributions are plainly documented on every receipt, pay slip, and tax invoice. Laypeople argue about taxes all the time, they complain about VAT and income taxes being too high, they aren't under the illusion you think they are.
Your entire strategy seems to be making bureaucracy and every day activities as irritating, anxiety-inducing, bias-inducing, and stressful as possible when it comes to taxes in order to get people to turn on taxes entirely. That's not transparency but subversion of people's self-interests through dark patterns you claim to oppose.
> Talk to anyone that runs a personal business admit how they feel writing 6 or 7 digit checks to the government every quarter or so
It feels gut-wrenching in the moment, but I don't believe that public policy should be influenced by our fleeting emotional reactions and I'm surprised to hear this quiet part said out loud.
Steam OS is very much just a general purpose OS. It easily allows you to switch to desktop mode and just use it as a regular linux PC. It just boots into steam by default.
So I can deploy steam at any random company? or if I'm a graphic designer can I use it to replace my macos? is it a good distro if I'm working on embedded sofware development? Should I use it as a web server? it can after all run nginx or apache on it. If I have a VPS with 1GB ram, is this a good OS for it? or a laptop from 2011? all I'm saying is it can do lots of things, but it isn't built to support all those things. it's built for gaming. if it really is a general purpose OS, the litmus test (in my opinion) is that someone starts shipping it with general purpose computing hardware and people actually start using that.
I'm not disagreeing, that's in fact exactly what I'm saying. Purpose built OS' serve their purpose best. Don't compare them with general purpose OS. I would prefer a vanilla debian or ubuntu myself since I'm not a gamer.
But you already can, though not for macos but for regular pc hardware with amd chips. just download the installer and copy it to a usb drive with rufus to create a bootable installer, then boot the installer to replace your windows installation with steamos.
The Steamdeck is a general purpose computing hardware device shipping with SteamOS, it's just an x86 APU with a handheld form factor and SteamOS is just a customized linux distro (but not a proprietary one). Install Windows on it if you'd like, or install SteamOS on any other hardware you'd like (though it's not really meant for this, just go get a more generic linux ISO)
Doesn't this change make it more historically accurate? In 1969, the year of the Stonewall uprising, the "TQ+" hadn't been invented yet as a cultural concept. The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar and was being targeted for that reason.
Interesting to see the difference and I agree that's an inaccurate edit. For historical accuracy it should describe Zazu Nova as a gay man who was also a transvestite or drag queen.
You do realize that "gay man", "transvestite", "drag queen", and "trans woman" are all different things right?
None of them implies the others. And using any term besides trans woman would be disingenuous, as trans people existed before before 1969, with that exact nomenclature already existing. Just because the letters might not have been attached to an "LGBT" title, neither T or Q are new. Only their increased acceptance and knowledge is.
And deleting references to those is, as you can see, seen as an obvious attempt to walk back on that public perception and acceptance.
While ( as often is ) a very summarized version of the history can be found on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history , the sources should lead you to more detailed info, if you do care about learning about the historical accuracy.
The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar so we know that Zazu Nova must have been there due to being a gay man. As the previous iteration of the website describes Nova as "queen", "she" and "transgender woman", this means that in 1960s terminology Nova would almost certainly have been understood to be a transvestite, possibly a drag queen.
Sources on the web refer to Nova having involvement with the Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries group, which fits with that description also.
