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Re:You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That wil... by coldpie on Friday January 17, 2025 @09:55AM (#42738120)
The window tax features prominently in a visual novel video game (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles), which also contains a bunch of wildly outlandish historical nonsense and characters like mad-scientist inventors, teleportation devices, and Sherlock Holmes types. I was blown away to learn the window tax was actually a real thing, not something silly just made up for the game.
Re:You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That wil... by crtasm on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:42AM (#42738804)
Taxes were also part of the reason newspapers got so large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadsheet#History
Re:You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That wil... by JBiserkov on Saturday January 18, 2025 @09:21AM (#42748526)
Fascinating!
Re:You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That wil... by fennecbutt on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:15PM (#42797598)
And also the reason that houses in Amsterdam are so narrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Netherlands#Arc...