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How often does everyone here wash his cars? Do you hand wash or car wash?
I let the sky wash my car whenever it rains.
What conditions are they put through?
No garage; a daily commute of 40 miles each way in the New York–Philadelphia corridor
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If you think a comment deserves punishment, don't forget to report it yourself.
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It's impossible to fund a modern government with land taxes alone.
America's annual land rents are sufficient to cover 18–40 % (Fed) or 34–78 % (Smith) of annual federal spending. The low-end figures come from 2020, which was a major outlier in federal spending thanks to COVID.
But wait, what about state budgets? Many states are funded by property taxes, so if we're going to shift to land value taxes, we need to take states into account, too. So let's add state budgets into the mix (minus federal funding to states so we're not double counting). If we do that, we drop to 18–30 % (Fed) or 36–58 % (Smith) of annual spending.
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9mo ago
Would you want to live in this cute, perfectly-code-compliant neighborhood?
(Yes, I was too lazy to add radii to the driveway corners. Sue me.)
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9mo ago
Non-glowing brain: " - "
Dimly-glowing brain: " -- "
Moderately-glowing brain: " – "
Brightly-glowing brain: "--"
Galaxy brain: "—"
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1yr ago
The Stubborn Skill-Grinder In A Time Loop
Based and—dare I say it?—Perfect Lionheart–pilled.
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1yr ago
in every city in the US and Canada which is worth living in
Without onerous zoning regulations, the office buildings could simply be built outside those cities, making the cities superfluous.
Dense, expensive urban centers are dead. The true vision of the future is an unending low-density sprawl of cheap single-family houses interspersed with office-building complexes.
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1yr ago
what percentage of slot machines are in casinos
The actual metric is "Slot/video games legal outside casinos & tracks? (=1 if yes, =0.25 if in strictly limited locations with half of revenue going to charity, =0 if no)".
what percentage of marriages are gay
The actual metric is "Same-sex civil union, marriage, or extensive domestic partnership=1, limited domestic partnership=0.5, no same-sex unions=0, super-doma=-1". (And all the states score the same on that metric anyway due to the federal Supreme Court's decision.)
The entire thing is full of really dumb metrics that are unrelated to any reasonable definition of freedom.
If you disagree with the authors' weights, you can modify them yourself.
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I don't need a ton of horsepower (I'm basically looking at stuff between 200-300)
That sounds like a contradiction.
I could talk myself into a manual, but I'm fine with a conventional auto, CVT I'm iffy on.
I've seen people on 4chan's /o/ board say several times that, though CVTs often have reliability problems when they're attached to too-powerful engines (such as in Nissan cars), this is not a problem with the 76-horsepower Mitsubishi Mirage.
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1yr ago
Sufficient Velocity
All the cool kids are on Questionable Questing.
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2yr ago
If I purchase a copy of The Adventures of Scrimblo Bimblo for the Atari Jaguar in year 1995, most of the value that I consider that game to have is my own enjoyment, but a (very) small part of that assessment is the resale value that I will get later on. The publisher of the game knows this, and sets the price of the game—and the compensation paid to the developer—accordingly.
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2yr ago
Matrix > Discord
I'm a lot less tech-savvy than this site's admins, and even I have been able to set up an instance (using DigitalOcean's """one-click""" offering, which costs 6 $/mo).
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I wonder whether it would be cost-effective to buy a decked-out car, but then remove and sell all the newfangled parts that you don't want—or to just set up a mechanic shop specializing in such work.
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2yr ago
Three or four instruments in one entire piece or three or four instruments going at the same time?
The latter—though, on the other hand, the former can be considered bloat (as opposed to overkill) if they're real physical instruments with human players who are just sitting around doing nothing when the score doesn't call for them, rather than a single computer player swapping between instruments instantly.
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Is https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtyWhHwCXIU too much or close to right?
Well, that's three or four different parts, right? Guitar, percussion, and one or two synthesized parts (I guess—I'm not an expert at decomposing music). The tune sounds a little generic to me (I have no knowledge of the Scott Pilgrim franchise, so I have no feelings associated with this video game), but I don't find the instruments objectionable.
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1yr ago
No. The juxtaposition of the two quotes concisely points out that the first quote has already addressed the second quote's concern. It's a convenient convention that I first saw on 4chan.
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That started because of the 2022 war
No, it started after the 2014 invasion of Crimea. As far back as 2019, the Council of Europe's "Commission for Democracy through Law" issued a scathing report on Ukraine's oppression of the Russian language.
The Commission notes that the State Language Law submitted to its examination in the present opinion also fails to strike a fair balance between the legitimate aim of strengthening and promoting the Ukrainian language and sufficiently safeguarding minorities’ linguistic rights. On the contrary, the State Language Law extends to other areas the differential treatment that the Commission considered in its 2017 opinion as very problematic from the perspective of non-discrimination. Furthermore, the Commission notes that the State Language Law includes several provisions which impose limitations on the freedom of expression and the freedom of association as enshrined in the ECHR. While limitations to these freedoms may serve legitimate aims, the Commission recalls that all limitations must be proportionate. The Commission in the present opinion has found that several articles of the State Language Law require further clarification in order to be proportionate to the legitimate aim.
Article 25 allows publishing of print media in two or more language versions, one of which must be Ukrainian, provided that all language versions are identical in size, format and substance and are issued on the same day. Exception is made only for media issued in Crimean Tatar or other indigenous languages, and those issued in English or other official EU languages (which do not need a translation into Ukrainian). The Law requires that the print media in Ukrainian constitute no less than 50% of selection in each print media distribution point. These rules will apply to national and regional media in two and a half years from the Law’s entry into force and to the local media in five years (Section IX, point 1).
In addition to the very problematic differential treatment provided for in this Article (see supra §44), these provisions raise the question whether the high administrative and financial burden they impose on editors of mass media will not “cause substantial disruption and could have a chilling effect” (see supra §88) on publishing in minority languages, and if so, whether this limitation of the freedom both to impart and to receive information can be considered to be necessary – i.e. also proportionate – in a democratic society.
In view of crucial importance of the freedom of the press in a democratic society, the Commission recommends that the legislator repeal this requirement.
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9mo ago
It's not such an easy to do thing as with breathalyzer
Civil court uses a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, not the stricter beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard that criminal court requires. The plaintiff can call witnesses who observed the doctor's intoxication on the day of the harmful act, and the jury can convict on that basis, with no breathalyzer required.
What are those incredible positives this legalization brings to the society?
Victimless crimes that harm no one should not be crimes. This is not "a generalized argument for the legalization of anything".
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10mo ago
Possibly the funniest paragraph ever written in a court opinion:
In the fall of 2021, Complainant, [Appellant] Dawson's 14-year-old daughter, asked him if she could go to her boyfriend's house. Dawson agreed but conditioned his permission on her letting him “eat her out”. Sometime after, on a day when Complainant stayed home from school, Dawson acted on this.
Source (found on this government webpage, though you would be forgiven for expecting a link to ArchiveOfOurOwn or Literotica)
To be fair, IMO it isn't a totally useless word. There is value in differentiating between a generic "urban arterial" road and an "urban arterial" that specifically favors long-distance travel while giving nothing but lip service to local access and pedestrians, where a limited-access road that doesn't even try to accommodate local access and pedestrians would be safer. Compare US 130 in Pennsauken, NJ (awful unfixable grandfathered design), with NJ 70 in Cherry Hill, NJ (much better).
t. civil engineer (roadway, not traffic, so not really an expert on this topic)
How many different instruments/parts do you prefer to hear in a piece of music?
I am inclined to feel that anything in excess of three, or maybe four, is overkill/bloat. But maybe I just listen to too much chiptune/MIDI stuff.
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