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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Food poisoning warning after Christchurch students eat contaminated school lunches https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580527/food-poisoning-warning-after-christchurch-students-eat-contaminated-school-lunches
An interesting and digestible korero for 1/2 hour by two great minds about AI. Stephen Fry and Yuval Noah Harari.
A couple of things that stayed with me. While we have a burgeoning AI problem, we also have a human trust problem. We need to solve the human trust issue before tackling AI.
Like a child will not do as you tell it rather it will do as you do, AI will respond to what it observes as opposed to what it is instructed.
A question for the next year or two, should an AI entity be able to open a bank account?
I also learned one of the reasons why the US Supreme Court recognized corporations as persons was to enable to make it possible for corporations donations to politicians. The Citizens United court decision.
Good work being done by feminists pushing back on baby trading via surrogacy.
https://x.com/nordicmodelnow/status/1995405623513530393
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Swiss voters on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to impose a 50 per cent inheritance levy on the super-rich, in a contentious referendum that came as governments around the world wrestle with how to tax the wealthy.
More than 80 per cent rejected the initiative, with about 42 per cent of the population participating by Sunday afternoon. Opponents of the measure had feared that a narrow defeat would invite other similar tax proposals in years to come.
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The proposal from the far-left Young Socialists party would have introduced a federal inheritance and gift tax of 50 per cent on estates and transfers above SFr50mn (£47mn), marking a dramatic break from Switzerland’s tradition of decentralised, low-burden taxation. Revenue would have been earmarked for climate-related spending.
The federal government opposed the initiative, warning it would damage Switzerland’s appeal as a stable home for internationally mobile wealth. The proposal was originally drafted to be retroactive — a clause that provoked a fierce backlash from business groups and tax lawyers and was later softened.
https://archive.li/YBTax (ft)
(both the UK and the US clip 40% on estates over certain value)
Und Nazi laundry….
The Swiss referendum result was welcomed by the editorial board of the Washington Post.
Jeff Bezos "AI" and obedient for hire editorial board.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/30/switzerland-wealth-tax-referendum-rejected/
@weka @3.
Not to take away from the politics of the baby farming issue, where has adoption gone from the wider answers?
I know 25 years ago when we looked at adoption it was a little NG time between 'opportunities' and even then the chances were high if a baby with serious health issues. Foetal Alcohol damage and other drug use during gestation.