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  • Willing to bet they only pay enough to make it worthwhile for the property owner. In classic capitalist fashion, it completely ignores the externalities that the rest of society has to bear.

    Property taxes on parking lots should be assessed on the full potential of the property. What kind of tax revenue could that same property bring in if it were an apartment or office building? That’s how cities should be looking at it imo


  • FightMilktoTechnology@beehaw.orgStop using Brave Browser
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    1 year ago

    So? He’s the CEO of a company that already gets no money from me.

    Online forums pick the weirdest hills to die on sometimes. You’ve probably used hundreds of products today alone made by companies whose CEOs are worse dickwads than Eich. But this gave you a chance to feel superior online so you had to take it lmao







  • The real answer is that Lemmy has an issue currently where cross-posting comments to popular instances like lemmy.world doesn’t seem to work. The max retries is hit, the attempt to post it is abandoned, and the user isn’t notified. But confusingly, it’s still saved to your profile, because that part is stored on this instance, not where you commented.

    Until they fix it (which the admin here said they’re working on), you should register an account on whatever popular instance you most visit, and use that account to comment.







  • Sorry but this is kind of a crazy take at this point. We’re all going to pretend Harry Reid was just some clown like the modern GOP? We have footage from fighter jets that everyone, including the US govt, acknowledge cannot be explained. Not just unidentifiable, unexplainable. And these sightings were confirmed by multiple different state-of-the-art detection systems, so it wasn’t a hardware or software glitch. While it may look blurry to you, the people trained on these systems know what they’re looking at, which is a large object accelerating in impossible ways. And afaik that aspect of it isn’t even disputed by anyone in the military or academia.

    The mistake people make is jumping automatically to aliens, or lumping all UFO talk in with the Matt Gaetz theatrical type shit. But suggesting “it’s probably just a balloon” shows you haven’t actually examined the evidence or heard from the pilots (who are serious, intelligent people). Whatever the explanation, it has zero chance of being mundane.

    Every possible explanation – including foreign tech, natural phenomena, and yes aliens – is interesting and consequential as fuck. And we should be able to pay attention to multiple things at once.


  • Luckily it doesn’t really matter. The fact is that Congress has the ability to impeach and remove. Assuming the Executive is on board, who’s going to stop them?

    I mean, who did the founders think would be interpreting “high crimes and misdemeanors” and “good behaviour” when it came to impeaching members of the Court? Of course it’s Congress.

    And the thing is, there are already laws on the books forcing justices to recuse in such scenarios, so they could impeach tomorrow and not even have to spend much energy on “high crimes and misdemeanors” or “imposing a code of ethics”. The problem is that the political capital for impeachment isn’t there, so even if the Dems successfully pass their ethics code, it will be toothless.



  • FightMilktoMemes@lemmy.mldead bird
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    1 year ago

    Yup.

    Imagine your facebook-addicted uncle complaining about the woke platform that he uses all day every day. Then imagine he has the money to buy facebook, as well as the hubris to think he could do a better job running it. That’s basically what happened here.