Should start a pool.

Owner Occupancy Credit.

We establish an owner occupancy credit that reduces effective property tax rate on the property in which a homeowner resides. That credit is increased every time property taxes are raised, so the homeowner's tax rate stays the same, or drops a bit.

Now, we increase the property tax rate, which now only affects non-resident owners. Landlords. Investors. We target an 85% owner occupant rate. Any year the owner occupancy rate is below 80%, we increase the property taxes. Any year it is above 90%, we lower them again.

Owner-occupants of duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes will qualify for the tax credit for the whole building, not just the single unit they occupy.

"But won't the landlord just pass the excess cost on to the tenant?" They will try to do that, sure. But that will increase the cost to rent from them, and savvy, private landlords will quickly figure out they can make the same profit and charge less if instead of "renting", they issue a "land contract" or "private mortgage". With either of these options, the "tenant" is converted into a buyer, and thus qualifies as an "owner occupant". Remember: we're increasing the tax rate every year that the owner occupancy rate is below 80%. Any landlord that insists on trying to rent is eventually going to have to charge extraordinarily high rates to break even, while investors who issue land contracts and private mortgages will be able to earn higher profits while charging less. Who is going to pay the high premium to rent a property when they can spend much less to buy it outright?

Should a landlord lender decide to evict foreclose on a tenant buyer, that tax rate is going to skyrocket when they take possession. They will be much more motivated to cooperate with the occupant in order to avoid that exorbitant tax.

Diesel fuel and jet fuel are very similar. All military vehicles that can be deployed to combat zones can burn either diesel or jet fuel. It greatly simplifies logistics when you can burn the same fuel in everything. Now you only need one type of fuel in theater, and every fuel tanker you have can refuel any vehicle.

The M1 Abrams differs from pretty much every other ground vehicle in that it uses an actual jet engine - a turboshaft- rather than a piston engine. It is still capable of burning either diesel or jet fuel.

I think the rate of matter creation is going to be important. I mean, if I can manifest rocket fuel faster than the engine can burn it, I'm going to be pulling 7g's all the way to mars.

Never go full do not.

The whole thing?

VPN server and any NAS or other network file share.

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Is the legal environment tomorrow going to be the same for you as it is today? Are they going to change the law, (or the interpretation of it) tomorrow? Have they already done so, but that news hasn't reached you yet? If they have changed it, does a hostile entity have your information already logged?

To answer your question, yes, you should be concerned about exposing your public IP address.

Yes, offsite landlords with traditional rental agreements will charge their tenants more. However, there are at least three options that are better for tenants and landlords alike.

1. Land Contract. A rent-to-own agreement, recorded with the county, much like a deed.

2. Private mortgage. Available only to individual landlords, not institutional investors.

3. Condominium. Deeded property on the inside, rental on the outside.

In all three, the tenant gains equity in the property over time. In all three, the terms are established at the time of the agreement, and the agreement is "permanent" in that it can only be canceled by the "tenant". The "landlord" can't arbitrarily increase the price year after year. All three offer considerably better return for the landlord after the property tax increase. The landlord and tenant convert their rental agreement to one of these options, and there is much rejoicing.

The only traditional rental arrangement that is likely to remain widespread is where the landlord occupies one unit in a duplex, triplex, or quadplex structure. That landlord can claim the owner occupant credit for the whole property while renting out the additional units.

Double property taxes on owners, but give back a property tax credit on owner-occupants, so that the effective tax rate on owner occupants falls, and the only people paying the doubled tax rate are investors.

Statutorily increase the tax rate and credit when owner occupancy is below 80%, and reduce the tax rate and credit when owner occupancy rises above 90%.

Missing the B-21 Raider.

You can't really include the A-10 and skip the AC-130s.

Absolute value. Both systems count time from the same epoch, or zero point.

One year before the epoch is 1 January 1BCE One year after the epoch is 31 December, 1CE.

Half a year before the epoch (-0.5 years) is June 30, 1BCE. Half a year after the epoch (0.5 years) is July 1st, 1CE. These dates occur within the first year before the epoch, and the first year after the epoch, respectively.

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They switched when years are counted. BC years are counted at the beginning of the year. AD years are counted at the end of the year.

The halfway mark in the first inch of a ruler is 0.5". The first inch ends at 1.00. 1.25" falls in the second inch of the ruler.

We recently completed the 3rd month in the 2024th year AD. We have not completed the full, 2024th year yet; but we are in it. This most recent April 1st was 2023.25.

1-Jan-1 BC was almost a year before 31-Dec-1 BC. 31-Dec-1 AD was a year after 31-Dec-1 BC.

If you understood that concept, you would have had the answer to your question before you asked.

I don't know when we stopped teaching this concept. When I started using the Internet some 30 years ago, there was a broad understanding that once something has been published, it can never be truly deleted. The individual was expected to know this, and avoid publishing information they might want to conceal.

That's not just for Lemmy or the fediverse, but for everything on the internet. When you "delete" a Reddit post, Facebook post, X-cretion, or any other published content, it remains available to anyone who had a copy of it, as well as anyone with access to the service's data. Including any cloud provider they might use, and whatever backups they might make.

True "deletion" is only possible on a machine that you fully control, and only if you deliberately render that content unrecoverable. Anything less is just "hiding" it away. Hiding it away may be "good enough" for practical purposes, but there is a significant difference between true deletion and what a service provider calls deletion.

With Lemmy, the original you upload to your own instance is copied to every other federated instance. There are provisions for your instance to inform other instances that you would like that comment deleted. But, there is no enforcement mechanism. They can't be digitally compelled to remove your content. They can ignore that deletion request; they can even use that deletion request to flag your content for blackmail purposes, if they want to.

Privacy laws like the GDPR can provide a legal obligation to delete your data, much in the same way that a speed limit sign can provide a legal obligation to drive less than 35mph. A legal obligation to delete is obeyed about as much as a legal obligation to not harass people about their car's extended warranty.

HP CEO Enrique Lores has made no secret of the fact that it hopes to pull customers into a print subscription business model. he wants to be added to The List.

Every state-level politician who supported or failed to oppose this law is an enemy of the revolution. Every business (and theanagers and shareholders of such businesses) who denies rest breaks, water, shade, and other protections against the heat is an enemy of the people.

This kind of shit ends when the guillotines arrive.

I'd argue that the plaintiff and the court case are all part of the exhibit.