WSL.

Leave Windows on it, but turn it into a de facto bootloader for a functional OS. IT gets to keep their bullshit jobs; you get to use a functional OS.

Fischer-Tropsch can work with any carbon source, including CO2 and carbon monoxide. And oil is getting close to the point that F-T becomes economically viable.

Corporations are people. Billionaires aren’t people.

Whatcha want to know?

Base-10 is objectively terrible, though. Too many fundamental principles of geometry rely on 1:3 and 1:6 ratios that can’t be properly depicted in Base-10.

If there were a god, they would have given us 6 digits on each hand, inspiring us to develop a base-12 number system.

Base-12 is absolutely gorgeous for geometry. A metric system on base-12? <chef’s kiss>

I think that’s a plucked chicken.

It’s fucking Walmart. Why are you there?

You can suck a fuck.

This would be great, but it’s not feasible as described. Property taxes are assessed against the property, not the owner. The county can determine whether someone has paid the tax on a particular property, but they are greatly restricted on details about the owner of that property. There is no reliable mechanism to determine how many properties a single person owns. A county auditor would be able to determine how many properties you own in that county, but the auditor of Alameda County in California has no conclusive way of knowing if you also own property in Anne Arundel County in Maryland.

The county auditor does have access to your income tax records, drivers license records, etc. They can easily and reliably determine your claimed county of residence when you pay your tax bill.

If you were to claim residence in Anne Arundel, the Alameda auditor could determine that you do not qualify for an owner-occupant credit available only to residents of Alameda County.

We already have “homestead exemption” and “second home” property taxes in most of the country. These give some small credits or exemptions for various purposes for the property where a homeowner resides. What we need to do is expand the scope of these owner-occupant exemptions. They need to automatically match future property tax hikes, so owner occupants are explicitly protected against them.

And then we increase the property tax annually until the owner occupancy rate is above 85%. We run it through the fucking moon, actual homeowners don’t see any increase. Corporate landlords will be fighting tooth and nail to issue land contracts and purchase agreements rather than leases.

The idea of charging owner-occupants a different tax rate than an investor is fairly common. At least 28 states already have some sort of general “homestead exemption”, “second home tax”, or similar policy.

The changes that need to happen are 1. the exemption needs to be increased at the same rate that the tax is increased; 2. The exemption and tax rate increases need to be tied to a specifically targeted owner-occupancy rate; 3. Federal and state governments cannot be allowed to overrule local authorities on issues of property tax policies.

It’s not a complete cure, but it will convert investors from parasitic landlords to parasitic investors. They’re going to keep ripping us off as best they can. But no matter how badly they will be exploiting us, we will be gaining equity in the process. Going from “zero equity” to “any equity whatsoever” is an infinite improvement over the current degree of exploitation in the housing market.

I hear this argument all the time. I reject it. There are alternatives.

A “Land Contract” functions very similar to a rental, but it is a purchase agreement. You are a buyer, not a tenant. If you walk away in the first 3-5 years, it functions exactly as a rental agreement, with the only exception being that the monthly payment was fixed for the duration instead of hiked annually.

If you stay longer than this initial 3-5 year period, the agreement automatically converts to a 30 year mortgage with the same payment.

So, you take out a “land contract” on your college apartment instead of a rental agreement. You can return it to the landlord after you graduate, or stay put and gain some equity for a few years.

Why would landlords offer such an arrangement? Simple: we’re providing owner-occupancy exemptions to property tax hikes. If you live in the house you are paying taxes on, you are entitled to the exemption, and pay a low rate. But If you don’t live there, we’re going to send your property tax rate through the fucking roof. You’re going to be begging your tenants to take a land contract instead of a rental agreement.

When we do this, small-time landlords who live in one of the units of a duplex, triplex, or quadplex will be able to rent out the other units while retaining the owner-occupancy credit. They are occupying the taxed parcel; the additional units are not separately taxes. Corporate landlords won’t have the same capability. Corporations may be people, but they don’t have a “residence”. You’ll be able to rent one of these onsite-landlord units, if you really want to rent.

I agree in principal, but it’s impossible to implement it in this manner.

What you can do is establish an “owner-occupant” exemption to future tax hikes, then hike taxes through the fucking roof for everyone else.

Landlords will be fighting tooth and nail to convert tenants to buyers. They’ll be issuing “land contracts” (which strongly favor the tenant/buyer) rather than rental agreements.

You can create a statute to target 85% owner occupancy. Any year the owner occupancy rate is lower than 80%, the property tax rate will be automatically hiked 2% (for non-owner occupied properties only). If the owner-occupancy rate exceeds 90%, the property tax rate is lowered by 1%.

20g but 17ml?!? I was promised that metric masses and volumes were interchangeable! They told me I wouldn’t have to use any weird conversion ratio!

Liars!

(/s)

Came here for the math.

We aren’t getting more conservative as we age. “Conservatism” moves toward the idealism of our youth.

The median age of the House is 57 (Mid GenX); Senate is 64 (Early GenX); President is fucking 80 (Elder Boomer). “Conservative” is currently what the Boomers and GenX’ers considered idealism when they came of age in the 1950s - 1970s.

The oldest Millenials are only 46. They aren’t changing the pattern. They aren’t yet in charge.

How about we Make Child Rape Abnormal Again? Can we start with that?

Our party didnt change,

Both parties changed. Both parties moved to the left. The GOP didn’t change as much as the Democrats did. The Democrats ran away from the kind of conservatism that gave us the Klan. The Klan found themselves more closely aligned with the unchanging GOP than it did with the left-moving Democrats.

Cartoon beaver?

That’s a lawsuit.

That would probably be pretty good. Like a root beer float.