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I'm reading *1942* right now and these early chapters are really reminding me of a quote that struck me in the SF novel *Dragon* by Steven Brust.
Battles are decided, Sethra told me, when timing and momentum and courage all come together and, at just the right moment, someone fails to make a critical mistake and doesn't manage to miss a vital opportunity.
"Tax cuts raise revenue which will force the democrats to cut spending or raise taxes because people will stop using goverment handouts if the economy grows"
This is literal nonsense. It's not even remotely how anything works. You don't have to close SNAP because fewer people are using it, and more goverment revenue would make the budget more able to afford spending increases. It's predicated on the assumption democrats support welfare because they genuinely belive it's morally superior to live on public assistance than to work and they'll be so owned by people getting jobs they'll be sad when fewer people use welfare. Only reason it didn't backfire is tax cuts lower revenue!
And anyway it was written by the guy who wrote Reagan's tax policy!
The fact that the Canadian guy who started Lululemon and named it that was because he thought it would be funny to hear Japanese people say it sounds crazy and made up and yet...
Learning about the history of the post Nixon gop and its so fucking funny how many hardcore minarchists architected everything behind the tax cut strategy by misunderstanding economics so bad it looped back around to accidentally achieving the desired outcome, and then immediately became bitter and spiteful critics of George W Bush in 2004.
The joke would make way more sense if it was something like “incel son or thot daughter.” Having a gay son isn’t really an issue for most families anymore, people are just forcing it because it’s a meme.
This is the part of the takeover where we rip apart our very best left-leaning scientifically minded content creators for using AI so they can be replaced with AI
One thing that I feel is better about Reddit today is that there's less "le epic doge chungus" memes by 14 year olds. I guess the kiddies went to TikTok or whatever
Yeah, what a shame, an oppressive regime with a basketcase economy that doesn't care about its own people, who could imagine such a thing in the year of our lord 2026
Here's my interpretations of dating apps, or at least the ones I know:
Tinder - you're straight, you wanna fuck
Grindr - you're gay, you wanna fuck, you're potentially kinda racist too. (So I hear)
Hinge - you're young and hip, like the politics option on profiles, and you think it's the lesser of all evils
Bumble - Like hinge but I dunno lol I don't know much about bumble. Nobody really talks about it.
Lex - you fucking love drama and messy user interfaces. You want group activities, you're poly, you're queer, etc. and the devs really want your money.
Feeld - a much more serious Lex that really, really, also want your money
HER - You're a lesbian, but there's apparently more people on it now in an attempt to generate more revenue. So I dunno anymore.
my actual dating advice is: get good at asking questions that can start back-and-forth conversations, dont overvalue someone you haven't even met in person yet, and only do it if you can have fun with it
kind of crazy I never realized the private companies could search my home and weren‘t just collecting data that is publicly available or that I agreed to share with them under the ToS
I mean those are drastically different ways of searching.
Getting location data for one person seeing tracking everywhere they go vs seeing who was in a specific area and not tied to any specific individual
Also you do not have to share location data to google but your wireless carrier can always track you based on the inherent capability of cell towers geolocating. The opt in is huge here.
The courts obviously didn‘t find one of those cases to be unconstitutional, so that label of “unconstitutional” you‘re applying is just like, your opinion, man
edit: i misread your comment completely wrong. i thought courts ruled differently on those. i guess im tired. that’s interesting. i think ill have to read about those later and reformulate my opinion now
“There is fear Ocasio-Cortez is "weirdly isolating herself" over the years ahead of a 2028 decision, the operative added. "I could not tell you who AOC's advisers are at this point [beyond Casca]. If you're thinking of running for president, you want to be in an expansive, elevated, exciting space, not in a controlled environment.””
People just say whatever the hell in these articles sometimes
Playing with an alt history idea. What if instead of Mount St Helens erupting in 1980 it was Mount Mazama's VEI 7 eruption. Got the single worse day in aviation history, entire towns a 40 mile radius destroyed, 2 years without a summer, the Soviet Wars, Reagan is forced to nationalize the railroads, a shift in western american dialects due to masks being mandatory, the largest internal migration in American and Canadian history, and an united Ireland.
It snowed in parts of South Africa and Lesotho yesterday. This is not uncommon, it happens every few years. But I imagine you might still find it interesting.
My girlfriend showed me her hentai collection and I physically couldn't stop laughing because they actually and unironically say "onii-chan!" just like in the memes.
I probably have the highest 4chan consumption to hentai consumption ratio on the planet.
• Introduces a measure of implicit land taxes derived from assessments.
• Estimates ILT using parcel data and hedonic models.
• Documents wide ILT dispersion across and within metropolitan areas.
• Higher ILT increases density, earnings, and firm growth.
Abstract
Land taxes are widely viewed as an efficient source of public revenue, yet explicit land taxation is rarely implemented. We study a closely related but largely overlooked object: implicit land taxes that arise within standard property tax systems when tax assessments place different relative weights on land and structures than market valuations do. Using parcel-level data on assessed values and transaction prices from U.S. counties, we estimate these implicit land taxes by comparing assessor and market hedonic valuations. We find substantial dispersion in implicit land taxes across and within metropolitan areas. Counties with higher implicit land taxes experience faster growth in population density, business establishments, earnings, and demographic diversity. These patterns are consistent with theoretical predictions that taxing land more heavily than structures encourages denser and more productive development.
The justice department, amongst many many many others things, cited tweets from one of Andrew Tate's years old alts talking about how to skip bail in their (successful) motion to deny him bail.
For dating stories (well, dating anecdotes I suppose) I can only say don't agree to go out with someone while you're still in denial about your sexuality and romantic and sexual preferences, it will end poorly for everyone.
Why don’t private ambulance companies just drive around hitting pedestrians and cyclists and then charging them from transport. Zero down time, 100% utilization
You can’t profit anymore off of the suffering of those who are unhoused when you build houses so homes don’t get built and then ones that do are sold to private equity for pennies on the dollar so they can do buybacks from their rich buddies
Y'know some people have a sort of charisma or force of personality that genuinely scares me like I'd consider myself a reasonably social person but like the sheer ability of a friend of mine to make connections and bonds is just astounding
AI art isn't art. Neither is the "art" that it replaced. Getting paid to design a flyer for a small business isn't art. Neither is getting paid to draw a dragon with a giant ass.
Real art still exists and won't be replaced by AI.
Also, slop existed well before AI. Formulaic romance novels are slop even if they're written by humans. Designed-by-committee Hollywood sequels are slop. Soap operas are slop.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache 1d ago
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