You are wrong in terminology. Capital gains tax is not the same as income tax. The “realized“ term you mentioned is already redundant with the “gains”. If it’s unrealized there is no gain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax

However, it’s also possible to tax capital itself. This is normally referred to as a wealth tax

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax

You seem to be under the impression that these existing categories are the only kinds of tax that can exist. In reality, it’s entirely possible to structure taxes in any way that people can devise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_taxes

Interesting that the very similar “… have anything but disappeared” would mean they have very much not disappeared.

You know that income tax and capital gains tax are not the only kinds of tax, right?

Yeah but enough people would.

I’m pretty sure this was a contributing factor in my parents divorce.

Because either way you’re taking a risk.

Security flaws and aging hardware are two obvious problems.

I’d very much question why you’d use windows 10 over something better supported— maybe not Linux but at least Windows Server OS.

I would agree that it certainly wasn’t the worst case scenario.

Partly, yeah.

Local and inconsistent.

Turns out the US is a collection of states.

Completely agree. Could have been far worse.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/us/salt-lake-city-no-kings-protest-shooting

They also got an innocent bystander killed, so not great there.

Nah if he were competent we’d be in worse trouble. The fact that he’s a moron is the one possible saving grace.

She is incredibly good at holding her face completely impassive.

It’s a tough balance… tough to show the reality but also show how the perception is being manipulated in reporting.

Sadly they did not. Current headline says “Greta Thunberg arrives in Paris after deportation from Israel”

I use bgstats.

https://www.bgstatsapp.com/

Problem is the headline isn’t referring to the agencies or the officers.

They are referring to the illegal actions they are performing as “law enforcement actions”

Yes, they explained that.