Ludicrous0251
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No it doesn’t. tl;dr - (as of 2025) $19k/individual/year is tax free (so one couple could give another couple up to $76k/yr)
Any gifts above that limit needs to be reported but is still tax free, it just whittles away at your lifetime exclusion (which is the same bucket of money as your estate tax exemption - currently $15M).
The gift giver pays the tax only once they exceed the lifetime exemption. There is no tax for receiving gifts.
For 99.99% of Americans, there is no gift tax.
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Technology@lemmy.world•US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of childrenEnglish
32·3 天前Why is this news? This should be the default - everyone leaves platform hosting CSAM and pervy deep fakes.
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux supportEnglish
4·3 天前Given its rocky path to get here, I have 100% confidence early access will be a buggy mess.
What remains to be seen is 1) if they can clean it up fast enough to stay relevant, and 2) if it will be a compelling enough upgrade to draw people away from Minecraft.
I suspect 2) is going to be incredibly difficult to get right. Sure the gameplay might be better, but Minecraft is one of the most overly documented and heavily modded games ever. If they want to convince people to give up years of work optimizing every aspect of that game to come play in their sandbox they’re gonna have to get clever.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happyEnglish
8·3 天前With Alexa, there will never be an ad-free tier. You’re just paying to have the ads be less obvious/disruptive.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Do bats have an option on their phones that turns photos upside down automatically?English
6·3 天前Feels like they would want the opposite of that option. Like when you’re laying sideways in bed and the phone rotates sideways for no apparent reason.
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Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Once beset by pollution, Beijing's skies are clearer than ever thanks to EVsEnglish
431·5 天前Clearer than ever, but still (currently) >4x WHO recommended pollution levels
https://www.iqair.com/us/china/beijing/beijing
China in general has improved drastically but it still has pretty big issues in the winter due in large part to the increased heating demand.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know whyEnglish
11·5 天前90-day password changes?? You monster!!
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps?English
6·6 天前Or they need more gentle body wash.
Realistically, most face wash products just (typically “sensitive skin”) body wash diluted enough to work in a foaming dispenser.
Pro tip: Check if your face wash manufacturer makes a body wash with the same ingredients. If so, it’s pretty good odds you’re paying 5x the price/oz for something that’s diluted ~2:1 with plain water - so 15x the price of the actual cleaning product just to not have to dilute it yourself.
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Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•The measurements on my water bottle are not uniformEnglish
32·6 天前As someone with ADHD, I often don’t realize I’m thirsty until I have a headache and am about to pass out. Having an even arbitrary water goal forces me to do the math every once in a while and go “oh, I should probably drink something today”
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Arizona bill would make it a felony to change the climate or weather | the bill will not apply to anyone burning greenhouse gasesEnglish111·6 天前People have been experimenting with cloud seeding for decades, but more likely this is another BS bill targeting contrails to feed the paranoid agenda.
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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Arizona bill would make it a felony to change the climate or weather | the bill will not apply to anyone burning greenhouse gasesEnglish241·6 天前So let me get this straight, the bill acknowledges climate change is bad, GHG emissions cause climate change, but then targets everything but the root cause of the problem? Really amazing work they’re doing out there in Arizona.
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Games@lemmy.world•Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas PeriodEnglish
5·7 天前This is exactly the problem, weird policy quirks and better alternatives didn’t help the situation but quite frankly there’s no new content for the Switch 2, and the performance bump over the OG Switch is almost irrelevant because raw performance isn’t the reason people buy Nintendo systems & games.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If college is better than no college, then going to an average college isn't bad?English
9·7 天前More important than what college you go to is trying to figure out what you want to do after college.
For a new hire, I’ll take courses/research/extracurriculars specialized around what I do over university titles every single day.
You definitely don’t have to find the answer year 1, or even year 2, but it should be your goal to articulate how you want to apply your degree before you graduate. The more moves you make in that direction will significantly help you get there.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Well we certainly aren't talking about the Epstein files.English
35·8 天前Ahh I see what he did there. Raped a bunch of kids over a decade ago so that no one would notice when he starts annexing other countries.
Real 5D chess moves.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071
Let communities follow each other!
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•when I forget to end the torrent because I'm babysitting RufusEnglish
16·9 天前
I can’t compete with the multi-TB seeders (blame my ISP’s absolutely trash asymmetric upload rate), but I can still help!
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?English
1·9 天前I think almost all of my phones failed due to the charging port giving out over time (microUSB was the worst). Last phone had USB-C and wireless charging, so the port was no longer the weak link. It lasted about 4 years before it fell out of my pocket at an unrecoverable height.
I suspect my current phone (Pixel 7) will last me several more years. At this point I think a drop or GrapheneOS EOL are the only things that’ll get me to buy a new phone again.
If your phone is feeling sluggish, factory reset, then as you install new apps, remove their background usage permission unless real-time updates are critical. Delete anything with a functioning mobile website.
Reminds me of a poem I heard once…
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care, I’m still freeYou can’t take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain’t comin’ back
Burn the land and boil the seaYou can’t take the sky from me
There’s no place I can be
Since I found SerenityBut you can’t take the sky from me…
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Sustainability@piefed.zip•Amazon entrepreneur spreads seeds of growth with recycled paperEnglish
1·10 天前Seed paper is always so cool! The challenge is making sure the seeds and paper stay in the regions where they are appropriate - especially if they have a chance of being invasive somewhere else.


























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