@josiahhughes i love how inscrutable the perspective is on this one
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tommy ohio
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that was then.
now there’s a raving orange lunatic in the white house.
we don’t have the privilege of watching children’s cartoons anymore.
or did you miss the memo at “brunch”
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Scott Menzel@ScottDMenzel
Everyone better pay to see this movie. You all promised the creators that it would be a hit.
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@DanFriedman81 @The_Nutscracker you’re underestimating what a “consolation prize” amounts to here. it’s a potentially unpopular political decision leveraged by savvy cajoling. he’a already endorsed and doesn’t hold any strong position against hochul but continues to eke out meaningful gains regardless
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I think the pied a terre tax is fine, because you generally want to tax things you want less of, and NYC real-estate being used by foreign oligarchs to park money while housing is in short supply is something that is fine to disincentivize.
It doesn’t change the fact that his entire agenda has failed, he’s made a bunch of enemies on the City Council, his favorability rankings are tanking and he’s acting like he’s achieved a huge victory because he is spending a grotesque $30 million to build one grocery store that will take three years to open.
I am skeptical that this tax will actually raise $500m — you need $50 billion in taxable pied a terres in the city to achieve that. And there are not enough politically palatable sources of revenue to pay for all the new spending he wants.
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Mamdani wanted an increase in the state income tax on high earners. He didn’t get it. He wanted an increase on the corporate tax rate. He didn’t get it. He wanted an across the board property tax hike. He didn’t get it. He wanted a transfer tax on home sales over $1 million and a new estate tax. He didn’t get it. The City Council and Albany rejected Mamdani’s entire tax agenda.
As a consolation prize, Hochul gave Mamdani a 1% pied-a-terre tax, affecting only homes that are valued at more than $5 million and are not primary residences. The revenue this will raise covers less than 10% of the deficit in the budget Mamdani wants to pass.
Mamdani is declaring victory.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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Teslas are in tunnels under Vegas transporting millions of people
The Boring Company@boringcompany
Newest Vegas Loop Station at the beautiful Fontainebleau Resort @fblasvegas
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So respectfully this is a pretty reductive take. Not saying Tolkien is uncancellable but there’s no way you’re comparing him to a character as mean & enthusiastically bigoted as JK Rowling. Cause yes Tolkien had views that were very much informed by his period & faith, but he’s…
Ian Harber@ianharber
Cancelling Harry Potter because of Rowling but remaking/doing spin offs of Narnia and LOTR despite Lewis and Tolkien being two of the most prominent Christian figures of the last century who undoubtedly share Rowling’s views she’s been cancelled for. Make it make sense.
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@atlas_sugged @tonyhawktruther you sound like an awesome guy to be around
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@tonyhawktruther Eh, I’m fairly misogynist but I’ve seen enough men pull the daddy issues/no father card that this kinda seems like fair game now.
To be clear, obviously neither side *should* be saying shit like this. The fact that we’ve regressed to this level of “discourse” is blackpilling.
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I think this kind of thing is really mean and nasty to say. Imagine you get molested as a kid then you have to see a bunch of posts like this
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@denverpost please write a story about the “denver school of photography” house on 6th that’s covered in dog portraits
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You don’t hear much about Taylor Swift anymore
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@quailthighs @antonio_dmraa what is different about learning how to play the piano versus playing a polyphonic synthesizer aside from knobs. it's just a keyboard lol
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it's funny to me you can perform with a headset on and a handheld mic is mostly for feeling
Blair.@urstrulyBlair
Phil Collins really sold out stadium while dressed as a highschool math teacher 😭
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@daveweigel Puts me in mind of the Beatnick poets of long ago. I’m snapping my fingers.
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I got one that said “Pipes” as a subject and had a picture of some metal lying around and no body
law dog, esq.@ggooooddddoogg
one time when i worked at a big law firm an employee sent an email to the entire firm, 3000+ people, that just said “jim” (no subject) and i’m still trying to capture the high i felt receiving that
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waking up and my bed is sliding down an icy hill at 70 mph +
zach@zachglabman
the drones going 70+ mph following the downhill skiers in the Olympics should be a wake up call to the people watching
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@mauddweeb the probability of exact equality is very low as the coin is flipped more times.
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This suggests that Phil is actually hitting above random chance, but we got the wires crossed.
Pop Crave@PopCrave
Punxsutawney Phil & his ancestors have an accuracy rate of 39% going back to 1887.
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@eli_enis It's a defense mechanism, whereby relatively affluent millennials can appear class-conscious or even cosplay some sort of lower class fantasy. When a food writer publishes "in defense of Dominos pizza" it's no different than Obama wearing jeans to a Ford plant
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My least favorite millennial archetype is The Snobby Slob. A bohemian urbanite who treats mainstream American detritus (fast food, reality TV, dogshit pop/rock) as virtuous cultural entities worthy of critical re-evaluation. Shallow consumerism disguised as savvy contrarianism.
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@MichaelFKane what about when they did badass stunts for charity
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For a brief period I worked at a board game store back in the day. Owner and his wife wisely refused to stock Cards Against Humanity.
And we happily told every person that asked for it exactly why.
A surprisingly number of people were embarrassed. The rest probably just got it off of Amazon. But we were not going to aid and abet that nonsense.
Brendan Fraser Crane@bf_crane
Cards Against Humanity was such a terrible vibe back in the day. No creativity, ground the party to a halt. We can’t let Gen Z find out about it, confirms their every suspicion about millennials
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@minordissent i would hypothetically be so mad at those hypocrites !
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Just went to the doctor for my kids sickness and they said, without any prompting, that Tylenol should only be used if absolutely necessary because it works by suppressing the immune system.
I still cannot get over the fact that all these so called “experts” are just mindless, opinionless slaves who repeat whatever they are told to say without question.
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