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@ZugIslander You could rent a house like that in the same area for what the property tax would be alone.

“Starter homes at finisher prices.”

@FalconryFinance They were going to burn the tire in the furnace anyway.

@CrimeInTheD They need this in a lot more spots all over town.

@oxcrowx They were still cutting them out of paper and weighing it before that.

Once a doctor re-invented integration by trapezoidal rule because she did not learn it in school. She received 75 citations for her novel work. She even named it after herself. lol.

@WillBeStonks @mikeeduggan Every single lot in the city was already contaminated for generations. Duggan did more to decontaminate them than anyone else ever could have. A single contractor and a single vendor merely recirculated already contaminated Detroit dirt to other contaminated Detroit lots.

@mikeeduggan Bullshit You turned Detroit into a toxic cesspool, that is going to cost millions of dollars, or more to repair. The citizens of Detroit are worse off after your tenure as mayor. You have no credibility to govern this great State.

Detroit went from deficit to surplus. Population decline to population growth. Uncertainty to stability to success. How did we do it? By setting aside toxic "us vs. them" politics and actually focusing on fixing the problems facing our city. I did it for Detroit. Now, I'm running as an Independent to do the same for Michigan.

@RogerSeheult Children don't walk to school anymore though.

Year-round Daylight Saving Time is not some new idea. America already tried it in 1974. It was an unmitigated disaster. It was sold as an energy-saving emergency measure during the oil crisis. Congress put the nation on permanent DST starting January 6, 1974. But within weeks, the dark winter mornings produced exactly the kind of problems critics warned about: children going to school and waiting for buses in predawn darkness. Congress reversed course that same year and restored standard time for the winter beginning October 27, 1974. The contemporaneous coverage is striking. On January 24, 1974, the Miami Herald ran: “3 Children Killed, Four Are Injured on Dark Mornings.” On January 29, 1974, the Sentinel Star in Florida said the legislature was meeting in special session because of “seven children killed while walking to school in pre-dawn darkness.” The Congressional Record was already referring to children waiting at bus stops in the cold dark, and even citing headlines about children killed in the early morning while waiting for the bus. By February 14, 1974, one paper was calling it “Daylight Disaster Time.” Public opinion collapsed. What began with broad support quickly turned into a backlash once people actually experienced winter mornings under permanent DST. One later account, citing contemporaneous reporting, notes support fell from 79% to 42% in roughly three months. This is the lesson from 1974: People like brighter evenings in theory. They like dark winter mornings a lot less in real life. And when children have to walk to school in darkness, the politics change very fast.

@VVenerabilis It's an apples to oranges comparison. The Beatles are an R&B band while Queen are Metal.

Freddie Mercury and Queen were a better band, produced better music, and had better showmanship than the Beatles.

@downi75 They need to teach these kids about colors, you can't put white text on a bright yellow background.

The city of Detroit is a vanity operation for whoever is the mayor Life does not improve for actual Detroiters, but you sure do see the mayor’s face all over the place!

@ReviewsPossum This happens all the time, it's why their websites are always wrong about what's in stock and what's not.

The other day, I bought a bunch of cat food cans. Each one was a different flavor. The cashier just scanned one, then pressed a button for quantity with no regard for inventory. I didn't say anything, but I'm sure that guy didn't get paid enough to care. What's Jimmy's excuse?

@Eaglefarmer Mike Duggan is the candidate for governor who actually has a plan to fix this by allowing municipalities to enact Land Value Tax. crainsdetroit.com/politics-polic…

What other states property taxes compound like Michigans? •California •Oregon •Florida (homestead) •parts of New York Among them, Michigan actually allows the fastest annual growth (up to 5%), which is higher than the caps used in those other states. So you all can stop telling me Michigans property taxes is normal and just all other Midwest states. It’s the worst in the nation for how fast it can grow and is growing.

@bog_beef Nobody understands that all of this music is just R&B. Country is uptempo R&B with steel guitars, Rock and Roll is uptempo R&B with feedback electric guitars.

Hank Williams, Sr (the greatest artist produced on this continent) invented rock and roll

@uncledoomer The problem with avant garde jazz is it's a performance art, it doesn't really work to record it overtly and expect it to be good, but if you're sitting in the jazz club the musicians all sync up when the conversation lulls and it's transcendent and unforgettable.

the problem with "jazz sucks" is that people who say that are picking up, like, the hardest hard bop record and trying to vibe out. hard bop is for stuffy intellectuals to pretend theyre smart. what youre looking for is "cool jazz." listen to some bill evans and chet baker.

@BradRTorgersen Actually, both are rhythm and blues bands.

YES.

@PortoValhe @Heliotrophy Yes, cops will even pull you over and frisk you if you dare to walk from point A to point B instead of driving to a designated walking path in a barren desolate park.

@Heliotrophy Do Americans really view walkers this way?

In America, doctor say you need to walk more. But if you routinely walk more than 2 blocks, you become "that guy" and everyone in your town starts recognizing you and assuming you're a brokie with a DUI and probably also a sex pest. To avoid this fate, you have to get a dog. Which means on your long walks you will be holding a plastic bag full of shit half the time. The final option is a treadmill, at which point your mental enslavement to Netflix or cable news is completely consummated with no hope of emancipation

@iam_jlc It's an apples to oranges comparison. The whopper would be compared to the quarter pounder deluxe.

The Whopper is a far superior burger to the Big Mac. This is a simple statement of fact.

@DonnieDetroit19 @Mamakllim58 This is how I know you're a peasant. Personal property tax in Michigan is a tax on things like machinery that businesses own.

@Mamakllim58 Residential vs business is how I read that. Residential = Personal in this case.

Did I get this right? You're going to eliminate Property Taxes AND the State Income tax? If that happens, the GOP will run the table in the 2026 election.

@neontaster I wanna hold your hand was extremely progressive for its time. Just because it's sappy doesn't mean it's not good. It took a couple of years for other bands to start making comparable tracks, at which point the Beatles had already moved on to psychedelic rock.

Terrible take that’s flat out wrong unless you think “I wanna hold your hand” is indicative of their entire body of work.

@polypocketknife Then he would be beholden to a bunch of multinational gangsters. The whole point of the entire series is that he was after personal independence.

one thing i don’t get about breaking bad is why (from a watsonian view) walt buys the car wash to launder his money instead of being on the books with madrigal electromotive like mike—surely this multinational conglomerate has a legitimate position for a chemist in some industry?

@BradRTorgersen You're saying you believe opposite things about the Beatles, thus your opinion is nonsensical. Music and songs are the products. If the product is the best, then they are the best at making that product.

I own a lot of Jethro Tull. I own all of Led Zeppelin. I own a lot of Yes. But I only have a "best of" remaster for The Beatles' top-most hits. For a reason. In their moment, they were the greatest Boy Band hit machine anyone had ever seen. But they also suffered colossal audience capture as a result. And it cost them. By 1969 the stress of grinding out catchy Top 40 had doomed the project. They were neither the best musicians, nor the best song-writers. Merely, the best "product" for a radio era which demanded it of them.

@gvtcontractor I had a friend use AI to try to do a legal malpractice case. The AI told him he could still sue even after doing the arbitration. I told him to double check that but he tried anyway. The other lawyer just told the judge it was a bunch of AI bullshit and had it dismissed.

They laugh but do they realize that people are actually replacing them? I’ve replaced my $500 per hour government contracting lawyer. She still needs to sign off on some action items but she went from billing us 10-15 hours a month to 1-2. I stopped using my real estate lawyer when a situation came up where I was owner financing a house and the tenant/buyer stopped paying the taxes and insurance on the property. I was able to get the judge to lift the motion to stay and then provide the 14 day written notice to cure with Claude. Do lawyers need to be reminded that this is as bad as the technology will ever be? My feed has many stories like this one and the one posted below.