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Isn’t zuck a net positive for whatever state he ends up living in, considering that the portion of the states taxes that he pays far exceeds the portion of the states resources that he uses.

Peach trees last at most 15 years on commercial farms and are often replaced after only 10 years. The peak production years are from 5 to 10 years and I doubt any trees being cut down under this program are in that stage.

We want to have a strong Iran, but with a friendly and peaceful leadership. We could easily take out Iran’s oil infrastructure, but it’s important for that to survive for the next generation of Iran. It seems crazy that Iran is still loading oil and selling it right now, but the goal is not to destroy Iran. A revolution is needed and hopefully it will come soon.

Some divorce laws seem to have the goal of being fair on average no matter what happens in many cases. Other laws seem to desire fairness in a few cases while causing unfairness in many more.

In California now, If you don’t understand why there are so many false claims of domestic violence at the beginning of a custody battle you may be in for a world of hurt.

In the case of someone I know, the wife’s notes from a meeting with a prospective attorney included “DVRO=$”

DVRO is Domestic Violence Restraining Order. For 10 months he only saw his kids with 3rd party supervised visitation costing $100 per hour.

MA gerrymandered their state to 100% dems in the early 90s. Was that the start of the cold civil war?

So if I report less income, prices for me go down and no penalty if I get caught.

All of NPR's 87 editorial board members are registered Democrats. That should give some indication of where they are on left versus right.

Just like police departments use asset forfeiture to get money to buy their “toys” while innocent people lose their cash and cars because carrying cash is suspicious.

From what I saw, a "massive" amount of the left had no problem with FBI agents repeatedly lying to the FISA court to get warrants to spy on the opposing parties presidential campaign. Everyone on both sides knows the other side is full of criminals so anything against them is OK. There is no good ending to this situation.

A great example is the city of Chicago selling its parking meters for 1.15 billion dollars. Now considered one of the biggest financial mistakes the city ever made

Also, most of my capital gains are due to inflation and not an increase in value.

I think the point is that it’s not just the wealthy households. Not everyone wants a cabin but most people can afford one.

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I would guess they got less for more money.

The US prioritises an ability to swim through a river, climb a small fence, and/or trudge across some desert.

Why are so many units empty? The conventional wisdom is that being a residential landlord in NYC can be a nightmare. Can that really be the reason?

Reasonable people can debate weather or not a sinkhole filled with water is a wetland. The EPA overstretched it’s authority and calls these things navigable waterways and that’s what this lawsuit is about.

Don't forget to identify any political bumper stickers.

The basic idea is that if you take criminals out of lawful society and put them in prison, they might someday learn that lawful society is worth participating in. The real problem is that lots of kids have terrible parents and nothing can be done about that.

Plenty of unemployed section 8 tenants will spend the next 40-50 years living in the same Los Angeles rent-controlled apartment. It's not necessary to have the productive members of society drive a long commute when the unemployed are living near jobs.

The notion that poor people (especially the unemployed) have the "right" to live in any neighborhood (even the most desirable) is crazy. Plenty of seniors living only on social security move out of California to a cost of living they can afford. Others cobble together a basket of benefits like Section 8 or low income housing lottery, disability payments (spurious), free health care, subsidized utilities, and snap. They end up with the same consumption level as your nurse or line cook without any job. I'ts not easy to get on all these benefit programs. It takes a combination of luck and tenacity.

The idea that LA could just pay it's poor people to live in Adelanto wouldn't work. This needs to happen at a state or federal level.

I wouldn't blame your kids. I've had several chromebooks (that only I used) go down for various reasons including a cracked screen I could't explain. One of my kids devices is an old Thinkpad and I don't think we'll ever be able to get rid of that.

How about just adding a small minisplit with heat. Warm day = use the minisplit. Hot day = existing central air. Very hot= use them both. If one goes down you still have something while you wait for repair. The mini split could also provide some heating when its mildly cold.

I frequently go to a trailer park to help someone there. Young kids are often running around and playing with other kids. In the summer I’ve seen a group of 8-10 kids grade and middle school age (some very young) sitting in street after dark playing games and talking. It’s a very mixed group age/gender/race. In my own wealthy neighbourhood I never see kids playing outside.

Wasn’t the coast guard one of the agencies that concluded that Russia hacked the DMC emails? It’s ridiculous how every transit district and university and other government agencies all have their own law enforcement departments. They all want to expand their jurisdiction to increase their budgets.

Get buckets of water from your pool (or lake or well) and put them in the fridge till they cool down. Then dump the water outside and get a new bucketful). To save effort you could run 2 hoses with a small pump. You are now heating your house with a ground source heat pump.

I really enjoyed reading The Homemade Heatpump Manifesto on Ecorenovator. https://ecorenovator.org/forum/showthread.php?t=484

A bit like how CVS closed 6 stores in San Francisco in Jan. 2022 because of unstopable crime.

All they ask is that you pay them first in crypto.

My first job was at IBM in 1991 when the "Akers memo" came out. I was amazed by the internal discussion that ensued online and how open people were with complaints about the company.

With my current MLB tickets I can take a screen shot of the ticket and text it to somebody else. Much easier than a ticketmaster transfer. The world cup is using a time base code to prevent any transfer of tickets.