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@nimbledick2026 @DesireeAmerica4 Ah yes, Austin, well known as a red city.
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@DesireeAmerica4 According to MAGA, this kind of thing only happens in big blue cities like NYC, LA, and SF. Not the red cities. Heaven forfend!
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There is a whole underworld economy hiding in plain sight.
In places like South Austin, Tx. These "trap hotels" operate as sovereign territory. The dealers literally pay the motel owners a massive premium just to own the block and run their "natural commerce" without interference.
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@snow_lovelace @theweirdinggay Ironically the one political hot topic the show has yet to criticize
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@theweirdinggay I love this show but it has become spiritually israeli
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Remember how upset she was back in s3 when she saw those sex workers being exploited in Russia? Remember how she's a victim of human trafficking?
I don't wanna get into the ethics of porn, but did Kimiko previously really seem like the person who'd unironically say this shit?
🙏THUG🙏@ANIDEEZY
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this was a solid pizza place in my neighborhood. as the article notes, the area around it is full of vacant storefronts that stay that way for years. there must be some reason empty and no rent is making more sense than rented at less than whatever the landlord incorrectly think is the market price.
NYS Senator Julia Salazar@SalazarSenate
New landlord raised the rent for Gino's Pizza from $10k to $25k. That's a 150% rent increase. What small business owner can afford that? This is why we need Small Business Rent Stabilization. abc7ny.com/post/ginos-piz…
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@autumn30fps We never needed a shorthand for scientific notation, I genuinely hate mathematicians.
The symbol reuse across the board is cancerous.
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@R_Delval13 @greggertruck At $0.1745/kWh (US median rate) you get a full 0-100% charge in a Model Y for $13.08. A little over 300 miles.
I pay 0.12/kWh in Texas. So about $9.
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“I could never do the electric car thing”
Sure, I get it but I go 300 miles for $10
Them:
GIF
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the best civil engineering company in the world will be named something along the lines of “CR Construction Guizhou (No. 5) Engineering Bureau Group Co Ltd”
Hypnotic@HalcyonHypnotic
Hot take but SpaceX is probably the best civil engineering company in the world. Somehow they are able to make these insanely complex ground system and building designs and find the perfect contractors and technicians to build out their ideas in months or 1-2 years. I feel like we need the SpaceX methodology and their contractors across many projects. If we did we could probably have gotten so much done and in a much higher quality. They say you can’t have fast, cheap, and good, but somehow SpaceX always manages to deliver on all 3.
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@BitPaine @ChrisPacia What will the half a billion in extra tax dollars result in
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@ChrisPacia It’s very common actually and the tax is going to raise half a billion dollars.
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So taxing vacant, expensive property is actually a very good tax, and as much as I loathe Mamdani, this is not a bad idea.
The logic is this: buying large properties and NOT LIVING IN THEM imposes externalities on other citizens:
The first, of course, is that it eats up demand for real estate in the city, and there’s only so much room in Manhattan.
Now, of course, they should just remove rent control and make more sensible building codes, etc., to increase supply, but supply is still always going to be limited, and you want that to go to people who are going to be actually living in the places that they buy.
Second and more importantly, buying up real estate that sits empty imposes a cost on every business in New York and the employees and owners of those businesses because these wealthy owners, who are not in the city, patronizing restaurants, booking taxis, going to shows, etc., are taking up real estate from people who otherwise would.
That imposes a cost on all of those businesses in the form of reduced demand for their products.
Those people are also not paying the city taxes (ie sales taxes) that they would otherwise pay if they were patronizing businesses in the city.
If you’re going to tax properties, it makes far more sense to tax empty properties than full ones.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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@aLicaMadah @marioliveirain You’ve developed entirely new strains of bleach resistant mold
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@marioliveirain Não existe mofo que sobreviva ao tanto de água sanitária que a gente usa pra limpar tudo.
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Vou tentar ser didática com os americanos que estão achando que a casa vai desmoronar: na história dos três porquinhos, vocês são os que construíram casa de madeira e palha e nós a de tijolos e cimento.
Washingtons ghost@washghost1
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@Guydude4201 @ze_rusty About 0.001% as bad as the leading causes of fetal mortality, such as binge drinking while pregnant, getting shot in the head, or taking an abortion pill.
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> be pregnant
> buy induction cooktop
> "cleaner than gas, no fumes, safer for the baby"
> stand at normal cooking distance every day
> baby's developing nervous system now exceeds public EMF limits entirely
> stove passed IEC 62233 certification
> test was done 1 foot away from the cooktop
> you don't cook from 1 foot away
> CERTIFIED SAFE
Rusty ⚡️: Solar Powered ☀️@ze_rusty
The Electricity bill is the cheap part. A Swiss research group tested 13 professional induction cooktops & found that most EXCEEDED even the already-high 1998 ICNIRP maximum exposure limits when a person stood close to the stove. For the worst-case compliant device: current density in tissue exceeded ICNIRP limits by up to 24 dB.. A FACTOR OF 16. The brain tissue of young children: overexposed by a factor of 2 The CNS of a fetus: can exceed general public limits entirely if the mother cooks at normal working distance. And this happened on devices that had PASSED the official safety test. Why? Because the IEC 62233 compliance standard, the test that certifies your stove as "SAFE", measures the AC magnetic field at 300mm (1 foot) from the cabinet edge. You don't cook from 1 foot away. Your abdomen is at 0mm. Your hands are at 50mm. Your child's head is at cooktop height. At 300mm: COMPLIANT At 0mm: 16x OVER THE LIMIT The test is designed to PASS not to protect. And that's before you consider that the ICNIRP limits themselves are already deeply inadequate. ICNIRP limits are set to prevent ACUTE effects.. enough induced current to directly stimulate a nerve. They don't account for chronic, non-thermal biological effects. Reba Goodman & Martin Blank showed magnetic field biological effects occur at 14 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE below the thermal threshold ICNIRP uses as its baseline. The WHO IARC classified ELF AC magnetic fields.. the exact type induction stoves emit at 20 kHz, as a Group 2B possible carcinogen in 2002. ICNIRP's response in 2010 was to RELAX the reference levels. So when the study says your stove exceeds limits by a factor of 16.. That's 16x over a number that's already orders of magnitude too permissive for chronic daily exposure. You're not cooking on a stove. You're standing in front of an industrial ELF AC magnetic field generator. EVERY SINGLE DAY. But sure. The electricity bill is the part to worry about.
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dear community notes - i am right and you are wrong
1) payroll tax goes to the federal government
2) a company that has accrued NOLs does not owe tax - the implication that they are dodging something is confiscatory
in summation, eat shit and die
Martin Shkreli@MartinShkreli
Palantir very plainly paid $23m in income tax and $156m in payroll tax. That's 0/2. Are you retarded?
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I had to park next to a Harley-Davidson dealership, and walk through it to get to my destination. Never been before.
Who under 50 is ever going to buy one of these bikes? Ever.
And it's a $2.5 billion company, and allegedly, an "iconic" brand.
No one.
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@Babygravy9 "The thing is, Hitler really ruined that expression for everybody. Because it's really an interesting expression, but now nobody can say it."
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"...seeking that final... safe, secure outcome."
Stephen Miller catches himself... just.
😂😂😂
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@Brutalo_ @Bob848354578958 @giparisan “Basically impossible to get mold in these places”
- Guy with a thick layer of mold growing all over his house
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@Bob848354578958 @giparisan 5min do a little research and you gonna find a fun thing, basically impossible to get mold in theses places.
Btw, America is a fucking continent retard.
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os americanos nos comentários achando que a casa vai desabar pq molhou kkkkk eles acham que as casas aqui são iguais as deles que são feitas de cartolina e espetinho de churrasco
Washingtons ghost@washghost1
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Let me make this as simple as I can. I'm going to give you two actual, real statistics for DC's homicide rate in relation to its demographics.
99.9%+ of of black people are not going to murder you.
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If you DO get murdered, there is a 99% chance it will be by a black person.
Again, these are literally the stats (well, roughly. it's like 303K black people and ~290 murders, roughly 99% of which are commited by black people)
Somehow, almost NOBODY on this fucking website seems to be capable of accepting both of these objectively true facts as being true. It's either "99% of black people are murderers!" or "99.9% of the time a black person gets arrested, they're actually innocent!"
This is because most of you are retarded, and therefore cannot understand how reciprocal percentages work.
I have zero problem with black people in general. I do however have an ENORMOUS problem with the 0.1% of black people who do All Murders
Donny ThickCheeks ✝️@DThickCheeks
@fleshsimulator Honestly was expecting you to tweet beast mode but saw the guy was brown and I remembered who was posting.
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@GoodAmericanMan No fucking way man I KNEW something was weird with the white cheddar mac, this shit was my favorite 😭
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Annie's was bought out like a decade ago by General Mills. They have slowly replaced their ingredients like milk and butter with cornstarch and lactic acid (which was also a drop in protein and calcium).
Rao's was bought out recently, we should expect their quality to drop too.
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Can someone explain to me how this country can open up any more car washes?
Everywhere I go I see a new one opening with several already nearby it.
I don’t get it.
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