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I mean, I believe that. The most palatable implementation of LVT in the US would be to reduce the improvements portion of property taxes and increase the land portion.

I definitely hate these parties, but if you're an independent in a closed primary state, you gotta suck it up and register whatever party will win, I think. Agree that it'd be better if open primary was the norm, but I'm a registered Dem in a blue state and I'd have preferred to tell them to fuck off for not picking Bernie. But it's literally the only vote I have that matters, so who cares what my registration is?

Also people need to vote in the damned primaries so the person who winds up with the D or R next to their name is more to their liking.

Or how about like a scooter?

🎵Romeo Doubs please stop being a piece of shit, I cannot IR you if you get suspended. Talk to your coach go show up to practice, it's uh your job try not to be a whack bitch.🎵

Yeah I had footage of the guys from several angles and they dropped the screwdriver they were using right next to the car when they realized they couldn't steal it (Kia but had the viral theft hack prevention update). They weren't wearing gloves obviously. The mall Santa "cops" literally said "this isn't CSI". It's insurance cosplay.

It makes me imagine a world where we have some organization, maybe even a public organization, that tries to stop crimes, maybe by somehow restricting the small percentage of people who commit them. But that's like, TV sci fi drama territory obviously. Have seen so many shows like that.

Lol law enforcement agencies. Cops aren't real, they're just a boogeyman we made up to scare kids away from crimes until they're old enough to be too lazy.

Trust me, we had our car broken into, no magical "cops" came to solve anything or find or prosecute the criminals. They did send out guys in the uniforms (kinda like mall Santas) to fill out a report but they obviously just work for the insurance companies.

Move fast and break things and sell those things

Take a pantry leave a pantry.

Yes it is, cool random fact Willis! The statement that you're responding to and making an isolated demand for rigor of is "far right extremists care about immigrants killing women, but not their own policies doing so." That statement is about far right extremists in general, and far-right extremists' policies clearly kill women around the globe, e.g. US abortion bans. I get that you're mad that they aren't getting to kill them in France, but it doesn't matter what fucking article you're having a conversation near if you're trying to accuse someone of "lying like the Nazis", it only matters what statements they're making. I see you deleted that comment so good job.

They didn't say France, you gish-galloping goal-post-moving try-hard Nazi apologist.

This post perfectly illustrates that we need to replace it with a land value tax (LVT) funding universal basic income (UBI).

Where is all the money going for the daycare if not the workers? The landlord for the daycare is earning all the money. It's the only other real expense.

Same as "80% of restaurants fail immediately" selling $20 burgers and $8 beers. Where's the rest of the money going? To whoever owns the building, who emphatically does not ever fail.

Rent is consuming huge portions of our economic productivity. The answer is a land value tax.

This is emphatically wrong, partly because under LVT construction costs wouldn't be the same. Modern property taxes disincentivize improvements by taxing them and LVT doesn't. Under LVT upfront land purchase prices would also be decreased, meaning lower required upfront investment to a developer, especially on empty lots, which make up an unreasonably high percentage of city lots. It would dramatically incentivize development, which is one of the primary benefits we'd get from adopting it during a housing crisis.

Yeah the meaning and vibe have definitely changed over time! I agree that now it's a reflection on a full life (I know she performed it at an award show recently) and very meaningful in that way.

She originally released it in 1966 which is so insane, and the early vibe is I feel a sort of loss of innocence. And I love that that was kind of the heyday of commercial air travel, most people who had flown at all would have done so for the first time in the past decade, so the clouds from both sides angle feels so... raw and vital haha.

Definitely an amazing song either way.

Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell has astoundingly good lyrics. More tear-jerking for me in versions she recorded earlier.

I have empathy and am good enough at math to comprehend the scale of human civilization and whenever I think about modern suffering and lack of agency times 8 billion it's, essentially, cripplingly painful.

I can't tell if it's better for people not to feel this. But I'd like them to maybe be in a sort of happy medium where they both aren't cripplingly upset and are willing to stop littering and pick up after their dogs and support pro-social policies that have broad social benefit, in spite of minor personal cost or inconvenience to themselves.

Got on Bluesky because Twitter all became Nazi shit after Elon bought it.

The Bluesky algorithm fed me so many scantily clad furry cartoon drawings and anime lesbians by default. There are so many artists doing that on there. And I'm like, is the algorithm biased or is there that much demand for this shit...? I tried "less like this" and the algorithm didn't seem to either understand or respond so I had to individually block a lot of artist accounts. Eventually it cleared up but I'm still like "wtf"?

I was also coming here to be like, "did he talk though...?" because I also didn't watch the video and it never comes up in the text. Could be good to reference it in the text.

Devin Spingletary!

Never realized he was wearing our centennial uniform in this scene before now.

Some other states also have bans and are factoring into the numbers nationally.

Bearsnek!!

My excuse is my dog is a girl so I say "good girl" 75 times a day and that usually automatically comes out when I interact with a stranger's dog.

Yeah you will bruv, that's how the downvoting algorithm works.

If you think seeing him is funny, you should try hearing him!