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Yes to the second. Challenging on the first. I suppose if you'd rather just organize with your neighbors to pay for road maintenance, and hope the neighborhoods between you and everything you drive to do are just as organized and responsible. Then there's police. You can form a neighborhood guard with your neighbors and stop funding your police. Same for fire. I'm sure someone can stock the hoses. All of you home school. Could pull it off. Probably a lot easier just to pay the property taxes that pays professionals to do all this so you and your neighbors can focus on other things. But no reason it should keep going up just because the resell value of the home supposedly goes up when you aren't even selling the home.

@UziCryptoo I want zero property taxes. Without that, you never truly own your home. But at the very least, they should freeze at the level at which bought it and never increase until sold to the next person. Retirees on fixed income should never be taxed outta their homes.

You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold." So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house? I didn't sell it. I didn't cash out. I didn't make a profit. But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year. Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.

No, property tax is to pay for maintenance of the roads to your property, plus fire and police protection for your home, and schools and more, all directly linked to what it costs to provide a safe environment for your home. Ownership of the stock of a company is costing no one anything, other than maybe the brokerage house that has to keep the records and data. Nothing beyond what they charge for that has anything to do with anyone.

I have been sickened all day by the news of three boys who lured two schoolgirls, raped them, and filmed it on their phones while they laughed and egged each other on. When they finally stood before a judge this week, they were handed “rehabilitation orders” and walked out without serving a single day behind bars. Not in prison, not in custody or a young offender institution. The judge said, “None of you need to go to prison”. What message does that send to rapists? The crime could hardly be graver, yet the punishment was no punishment at all. It’s the collapse of consequences and the rot runs right through the justice system. And this is only going to get worse because Labour are choosing to go soft on criminals: ❌ They have abolished short prison sentences. ❌ They have let tens of thousands of criminals out early. ❌ And now they want to raise the age of criminal responsibility, so that even MORE young offenders escape any consequence at all. My position is common sense👇 PRISON WORKS. ✅It punishes those who do wrong, it keeps dangerous people off our streets and away from our children. ✅It tells every victim that the law is on their side. A country that forgets this is a country where schoolgirls are raped and filmed for sport, and the boys who did it get to go home. Conservatives stand against it and our policies on sentencing and prison are the ones that will deliver a stronger country.

This is outrageous. A small town in Michigan did everything right to stop OpenAI & Oracle from building a $16 billion data center in their town. The people of Saline Township flooded their council meeting, put up signs all over town, and convinced their officials to reject it. The officials voted against the data center 4-1, and that should have been the end. But two days later the developers sued, and the town couldn’t afford to fight back in court. We are not a free nation when billion-dollar corporations can take over the land of our communities and towns. We are a captive nation ruled by corporations and billionaires.

@CollinRugg He should get 18 years, the same number he would have been paying child support for. Presumably that's what he did this to avoid.

NEW: Texas man kills his unborn child after spiking his girlfriend's drink with an abortion pill. Jon Demeter has been indicted for the performance of an abortion and injury to a child. Back in February, his girlfriend was rushed to the hospital, cramping and bleeding after drinking a drink that her boyfriend gave her. The girlfriend was 14 weeks pregnant and had already named the baby Presley Mae. Demeter reportedly tried convincing her to get an abortion, and when she refused, he allegedly took matters into his own hands. "He covertly crushed that medication and mixed it in a water bottle with a Liquid I.V. packet. This was done with a specific intent to cause the death of the child," said Sheriff Wesley Doolittle. Demeter is facing 5 to 99 years in prison. Give him the max sentence.

In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.” The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove. So I got pissed. Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids. Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women. That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm. Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.

@RedWaveCrewHP When I retired from my last employee job, I gave 2 week notice and they paid me for the 2 weeks but had my accounts locked that same day.

THIS is why folks no longer want to give the job a 2 week notice before quitting

@tanpukunokami Y'all need to implement some surveillance tech at all your temples, and start deporting anyone caught on camera in the vicinity within citizenship. Presence in your country is not a right. It is a privilege that can be withdrawn at any time for any reason.

I can’t stop crying. Another temple burned. Another temple burned. Another temple burned. When this happens this many times, can we really still call it a natural fire? Who did this? Who burned it?

@Rob_ThaBuilder Also brings to mind the phrase 'take the win.' People just don't know how to be satisfied.

I'm 43 now, and I've now seen three distinct phases in my life regarding attitudes towards gender/sex. Here's a handy guide for determining which one is the correct take: 1) Pre-1990ish: "Little Billy can't play with dolls b/c he's a boy and everyone knows boys don't play with dolls" ❌ 2) 1990-2010: "Little Billy can play with dolls if he wants, boys can play with dolls. It doesn't make him any less of a boy" ✅ 3) 2010 - Present : "Little Billy IS a girl because he plays with dolls, because everyone knows boys don't play with dolls" ❌ As we can see, #2 is the correct choice. #1 and #3 are examples of toxic right wing gender norms, and toxic left wing gender norms, respectively. That's the funny thing about gender ideology; despite its adherents loud claims that they are somehow smashing traditional gender-based norms and stereotypes, they're actually rigidly enforcing them. The truly enlightened viewpoint is that there is no right or wrong way to be a boy or girl and kids should feel free to explore and play with whatever they want without activists with an agenda slapping an inappropriate label on them and forcing them into a pathway towards lifelong medicalization and dependency on Big Pharma.

Dude, 'less than' is a value judgment. It's about worth. Directly related to the rest of the statement it was with (context) about being human. Do you not realize I was responding to someone saying that acting like trans was a mental illness meant acting like trans was not fully human, and I'm replying to say that there is nothing less human about the mentally ill. Now look, I've invested enough time in trying to get you to improve your reading comprehension. Either you see it or you don't. Not my problem.

@IndigoOcean @hatpinwoman You said “what is so less than about the mentally ill.” Then you received my answer. Since this is your response to all of this I have serious doubts about us being on the same IQ and mental wavelengths so we can cease communicating.

First speaker was clear and very humane Second speaker sounded just activated trans activist mode and didn’t respond to the substance at all

@CuteAdorableCat That's how my dog was too. She was always chasing squirrels, until one got caught in the bird netting on the berry bushes. She was terrified of the thing. It kept launching itself into the netting, trying to get out. I was pretty nervous myself opening an area for it to get out.

My cats have always been obsessed with chasing squirrels. One got into the house today and this happened 😂

@RTHztk7 @hatpinwoman Well you pretended to be disagreeing with me, and my only point was that they are human, so.... Either you're claiming they aren't human, or you're fail at reading comprehension. (Or you're just disagreeable without thinking.)

@IndigoOcean @hatpinwoman Did I say, or infer they are less human?

@WomenReadWomen All these years, and still people don't get that these men think that 'woman' is just a hooker costume.

Housewives were being groomed to accept men pretending to be women as far back as 1992.

@MarioNawfal Looks like Malaysia.

This guy walked into a store and assaulted the female owner, but he did not account for whoever was nearby. Especially the one with the flying kick.

@thisdudelikesAI Yep. This is why every time I start a new project I add to the project instructions that it must do something very similar to this. I don't need a yes man. I need a sparring partner.

A Oxford PhD student got flagged for submitting AI-generated work. His advisor called it the most sophisticated research process he had seen in 20 years. The student had not used AI to write a single word. Here is the workflow that got him reported. He starts every essay with a diagnostic he calls brutal. He dumps his rough argument into Claude and asks one question: what are the three weakest logical jumps in this reasoning, and where would a hostile examiner attack first? The AI does not write his essay. It destroys his draft, and then he rebuilds from whatever survives. Most students using AI are doing the opposite. They hand Claude a topic and ask it to write. He hands Claude his thinking and asks it to find every place where that thinking falls apart. The difference between those two approaches is the difference between outsourcing your brain and sharpening it. The second step is the one that made his advisor go quiet. He uploads the five most important papers in his field alongside his draft and asks Claude what claims in his argument contradict or oversimplify what these authors actually found. Most PhD students cite papers they have skimmed once. He cites papers he has been forced to genuinely reckon with, because Claude keeps catching the places where he got them wrong. The final move is almost unfair. Before he submits anything, he pastes his conclusion and runs one more prompt. He asks what a philosopher of science would say is missing from this argument and what assumptions he is making that he has not defended. His essays come back from reviewers with phrases like unusually rigorous and demonstrates rare critical depth, and his committee has no idea that the depth came from a machine asking him harder questions than any human in his department was willing to ask. The academic integrity hearing lasted three hours. The panel asked him to rebuild his methodology from scratch in the room. He opened his laptop and showed them exactly how the workflow ran, prompt by prompt. They did not just clear him. They gave him the highest grade in the department's history and asked him to present the process to faculty. Here is what that story actually means. What took most PhD candidates six months of back-and-forth with advisors, he was compressing into a single session because he had figured out something almost nobody else has. AI does not make your thinking better by replacing it. It makes your thinking better by attacking it faster than any human critic ever would. He was not using AI to write. He was using it to think harder than he could alone. The tool is the same one everyone has. The workflow is the part nobody is teaching.

I think it's more a questions of expectations taught in childhood and then what gets normalized once most adults have those expectations. I am a part of the generation that was a bit of both, so I see the split quite clearly in my cohort. I had Home Ec classes that taught me to make a bed and bake (while the boys had shop class that presumably taught them to do home repairs), and I also was taught to program a computer and given the expectation of going to college and having a meaningful career. I'm pretty sure there is no more sewing, cooking and making beds taught in schools, and probably no home repairs for the boys either. Now everyone is given only one expectation, and all of education is organized around it, become a productive contributor to the workplace economy and make enough money to at the very least not be a burden on anyone. There are a few variations on that theme, such as social justice stuff getting mixed in, asking them to be good activists too, and sometimes the goal is 'wealthy' or something more akin to 'UBI recipient' at the extremes. But never is it 'mother and father.' Then you get an economy that relies on 2 incomes if you are going to live in low crime area and send your kids to schools that don't make you fear for their futures. Even if you want to live the 'mother and father' core identity that was never trained into you in 13 years of education, your society is not arranged in a way that it doesn't come at huge material cost. That's the gap between people who want kids and the number who have them. If we want different outcomes, we need different expectations, different supports, and different opportunities to parent. More women will choose motherhood when the vision of themselves doing it matches the vision of 'their best future self' that they grew up dreaming of. And they will be able to do it once they find husbands who can let them truly be stay at home moms, which is easy enough to do because one income really can support a typical household of 4 or 5 people.

This is a good description of our new reality: Under ideal financial circumstances, men will want marriage and a family; under similarly ideal circumstances, women won't. Does this reveal true preferences? Conservatives will hate this, but it may be the case that those traditional social expectations women faced back when they had much fewer options, may have actually been oppressive. And the evidence for this is that as soon as women are able to escape those expectations, they do — and we're seeing the result around the modernizing world in plummeting fertility rates.

@haider1 They seem to rewrite instead of editing.

Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup: AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate "senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it" The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways

@Leggomuhbizket @JonStrice @MeghanEMurphy LOL. I was so shocked when I started getting holiday cards from my nephews. I thanked them that first year and they were surprised to know they'd even sent it. Turns out that in both cases, it was their wives that sent me cards! I never needed to ask again.

@IndigoOcean @JonStrice @MeghanEMurphy Haha I never realized that, Think I only seen one holiday card not sent by a woman and it was from my gay uncle’s husband. I appreciate it yall for keeping us all connected

I realize I sound like a broken record, but it's because women no longer have to get married, so...don't. Being married to a man for life is not a very pleasant experience for most women. (Again, not knocking marriage/family—just explaining the obvious) x.com/LisaBritton/st…

@RTHztk7 @hatpinwoman Suffering does NOT make you less human!

@IndigoOcean @hatpinwoman A lot. They are by definition abnormal. They suffer a lot and generally place lower on nearly every measurement. I’m