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Only because Friedman told us so and we believed him. It's not some immutable natural law.

Related point - if the truck drivers aren't where the new jobs are located, that doesn't work. We should subsidize their move (via increased taxes on AI or corporations or whatever) but like WV, we probably won't. Assuming they even want to move.

How much better would the US or UK or wherever else be if our wealth of natural resources was shared instead of hoarded by private land-owners and SuperMegaCorp?

Norway drills about 1/4 of the barrels we do here in the US, but reaps more than double the revenue into public coffers. ~78% tax rate in Norway vs a published rate of 21% in the US (and a real rate of <10%).

You're probably, maybe ok for something like a 25 year old full-size car that doesn't look too wild (ie, could pass a a US-spec). Like a Japanese-market Lancer Evo, or Mitsubishi Pajero.

Heck, I just dumped an 8 year old BMW because the interior stitching was coming apart. Nothing mechanically wrong, just yellow fluff poking out of the seams. Easier to sell it than try to get it fixed.

There are some small exceptions for show cars (as is, never used on public roads) and similar things, but they all limit/prohibit use on public roads.

I guess they've changed their minds since 2008... Their display of "Gulf of America" without "Gulf of Mexico" and "Lake America" without "Lake Ontario" is at odds with their declared policy.

IE, every dollar I earn gets taxed twice - as income, then as sales tax. Rich guy only pays the sales tax.

And there's a fundamental difference between "borrow to keep the business running smoothly" and "borrow to buy a mega-yacht". Legally, not so much, as you say, but hell's bells, the super yacht market really shouldn't exist.

I'd also note that I would prefer to adjust tax/accounting laws to prevent the accumulation in the first place, not just roll out a blanket "take everything over a billion-ish law" as that feels more like a band-aid than a fix.

They literally get to eat their cake and have it too.

Tell me you've never met a modern Republican without telling me you've never met a Republican.

"Taxing the rich" is literally solving the thing that is a problem today.

The noteworthy thing here, IMO, is the judge seems to have explicitly stated that using legally-acquired works to train AI models falls under fair use.

I have one in the bedroom. On low, I barely hear it during the day (extra ambient noise from outside) but at night the white-noise is subtle but effective. That said, I don't like "loud" white noise, just a quiet hum.

Neighborhood streets - it's mixed, largely on age of development. Pre-1980 (very roughly) that state/county likely own and maintain the roads. Post-1980 (roughly) it's an HOA or condo or similar.

Similar for trash.

My neighborhood - HOA handles it, trash pickup twice/weekly.

My parent's neighborhood (where I grew up) - no HOA, everybody handles it themselves, so adjacent houses end up with pickup on different days.

My previous neighborhood - county service (grandfathered in, the county stopped providing it decades ago, probably because people want a tax cut).