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A.o.D. posted:It's not the USA, just specific states. My state, Louisiana, also has a homestead exemption on your primary residence. Many states do not. you have any kind of CGT or wealth tax
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bird food bathtub posted:Happy Insurrection Day you filthy animals. https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1743623821486071911?t=_IqvZTYl8Fe0xkC-hhwAyQ&s=19 Happy anniversary!
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And the few houses that have been made have been constructed to shockingly low standards of quality. I've orbited enough former and active construction workers to know that some shady poo poo goes down at a lot of these fly by night contractors that would chill your bones if you owned one of their houses
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1743623821486071911?t=_IqvZTYl8Fe0xkC-hhwAyQ&s=19 Truly the Best People. Their action shots look like dudes coming out of the CS chamber at basic.
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1743623821486071911?t=_IqvZTYl8Fe0xkC-hhwAyQ&s=19 I've seen so many photos of chuds wearing those 5.11 Tactec weight vests as plate carriers that I'm starting to think that the company itself should face charges as an accessory to 1/6.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:It's incredible when the loving USA has a more progressive tax system than my country I would kill for this in nz.
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Milo and POTUS posted:And the few houses that have been made have been constructed to shockingly low standards of quality. I've orbited enough former and active construction workers to know that some shady poo poo goes down at a lot of these fly by night contractors that would chill your bones if you owned one of their houses Hasn’t it always been this way? At least for a lot of manufacturing, the average level of material quality, tolerances, etc are way better than at any point in the past. But a combination of unintentional over engineering and survivorship bias from older stuff makes people think the opposite is going on.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Hasn’t it always been this way? At least for a lot of manufacturing, the average level of material quality, tolerances, etc are way better than at any point in the past. But a combination of unintentional over engineering and survivorship bias from older stuff makes people think the opposite is going on. Newer houses often being butt ugly lot-covering boxes doesn't help things. I live in a fairly archetypal postwar California house with an extension thrown up during the malaise era. It has many, many problems (notably the electrical wiring in the extension must've been the work of drugs because there's several wall switches that do absolutely nothing) but it looks gorgeous compared to the new, probably better-constructed shitboxes going up in the neighborhood. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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No, we definitely have the technology, but market pressures have driven construction to be as "efficient" as possible to meet code. And often that means things are built like rear end deliberately.
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Right, but let's not get misty-eyed about unintentional inefficiencies. If you spent the equivalent of 1950s real dollars on construction costs to build a house today, you would get a brick shithouse.
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Brick?! Lah dee dah moneybags
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Hasn’t it always been this way? At least for a lot of manufacturing, the average level of material quality, tolerances, etc are way better than at any point in the past. But a combination of unintentional over engineering and survivorship bias from older stuff makes people think the opposite is going on. I thought that consumer goods were the area where that was really the issue. I had a lovely (not really that lovely) argument with a guy I know once who works as a commercial buyer, where he took the position that planned obsolescence is a good thing, actually.
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That old Sinclair quote about his paycheck being dependent on it
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Austin was in the ICU for three loving days before the Pentagon told the White House. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/06/pentagon-took-3-days-to-inform-white-houses-nsc-of-austins-hospitalization-00134176
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Austin was in the ICU for three loving days before the Pentagon told the White House.  e: how
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Quackles posted:I thought that consumer goods were the area where that was really the issue. Consumer goods are way, way cheaper. Consider a phone from the 1950s - it's enough bakelite to knock out a large mammal and would probably survive most major natural disasters. But it also cost about $500 in today's money, while the feature equivalent piece of crap polypropylene phone now is like $15. You can get a new one every year for the next quarter century and still come out ahead. Or you can get a $500 smartphone that would basically be magic back then. And if you still want to spend $500 on a basic landline phone, it's probably some bespoke thing that blows the 1950s version out of the water and has parts custom machined by an artisan worker who put their name on it. There's a lot of the same thing with homes. There's more labor involved so the costs aren't as flexible, but engineered lumber especially means a lot less material and building time goes into a house today. And people prefer homes with more open space and windows and lower construction costs, so that's what happens. This especially makes sense in the commercial market, where profits are rarely measured decades out. The technology is there to make better things at the older cost, but the incentives aren't.
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I thought you couldn’t buy phones in the 50s and could only rent? Or was that more of a 70s thing.
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hobbesmaster posted:I thought you couldn’t buy phones in the 50s and could only rent? Or was that more of a 70s thing. That was through the early 80s. I think there are still a few hundred customers renting their terminals from RBOC successors even today.
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No, it's true. Bell Telephone held a vertical monopoly in the United States.
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This is why acoustic couplers were a thing. It was forbidden to electrically connect third party devices to the Bell network.
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hobbesmaster posted:I thought you couldn’t buy phones in the 50s and could only rent? Or was that more of a 70s thing. I remember it was a minor thing in the Shining that they had to pay a $30 installation fee & a $90 security deposit for an apartment phone in the 1970s. There’s also a scene where a long distance call goes long and the operator calls the phone booth back & Jack dutifully pays an additional $3.50 instead of walking away, which considering his poverty & mental state seemed like an oddly polite thing to do.
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Platystemon posted:This is why acoustic couplers were a thing. It was forbidden to electrically connect third party devices to the Bell network. The irony I felt when I finally got an Information Society CD in the late 1990s and there were no more acoustic couplers out there. I had to play the data track into my digital voicemail and then program my modem to call my voicemail and play back the message to the modem in order to decode it.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Consumer goods are way, way cheaper. Consider a phone from the 1950s - it's enough bakelite to knock out a large mammal and would probably survive most major natural disasters. But it also cost about $500 in today's money, while the feature equivalent piece of crap polypropylene phone now is like $15. You can get a new one every year for the next quarter century and still come out ahead. Or you can get a $500 smartphone that would basically be magic back then. And if you still want to spend $500 on a basic landline phone, it's probably some bespoke thing that blows the 1950s version out of the water and has parts custom machined by an artisan worker who put their name on it. We worked with an architect a few years back for some renovations and he explained that the quality of materials and the labor category of the workers has a much bigger impact on cost and outcome than people realize. Hiring a master carpenter and plumber to install high quality finishings will obviously yield a longer lasting, nicer result, but can increase the price 2-3 times beyond what you'd pay at Home Depot and hiring cut-rate contractors that rely on day laborers. Most mass-produced housing relies on the latter, since they're looking to keep costs down as much as possible. It's also why a lot of homes built by large developers begin to fall apart after a couple of years. psydude fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1743707502607307125?t=DmGk6Z2ko9DQSFB-GX7Bwg&s=19 Normal country poo poo.
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1743707502607307125?t=DmGk6Z2ko9DQSFB-GX7Bwg&s=19 Seems kind of like flamebait or something. Its not like Trump gives a poo poo if he signs some oath or promise.
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And if anyone has seen that door, please email the ntsb, thanks! https://twitter.com/avgeekjake/status/1743849387024073166?s=46
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That Works posted:Seems kind of like flamebait or something. Its not like Trump gives a poo poo if he signs some oath or promise. Trump calls the decorum bluff and liberals are inconsolable every time
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Naramyth posted:Trump calls the decorum bluff and liberals are inconsolable every time Hard to see this any other way. Trump’s talented at highlighting the pointless bullshit in politics where thinking it matters only makes you weak.
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Trump and the degenerates that follow him have made me give up on the red parts of America, and I'd love for Democrats to marginalize and disenfranchise Trump voters at every opportunity. These people don't deserve a say in how our society is governed. It's not like they do anything even remotely useful anyway, they're all frothing at the mouth to attack and marginalize trans and gay people, women, and anyone else that isn't a lily white conservative Christian. Ridiculous that Hillary calling them deploreables was even remotely a scandal, the term isn't harsh enough for the kind of trash these people really are.
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But the oath is decades old! Which means it could be a result of Bush v Gore lol
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Soul Dentist posted:But the oath is decades old! Which means it could be a result of Bush v Gore lol It's a McCarthy era thing that includes a stanza saying you aren't a communist. It was apparently struck down in a supreme court case and is no longer a requirement, but it's obviously a soft-ball win for candidates to show they aren't going to overthrow the government so everyone still agrees to it.
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Donald the Red keeping his options open
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Tiny Timbs posted:Donald the Red keeping his options open Fully AI generated gold plated only the hot kind of gay communism
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ICYMI, in Donnie Goodbrains news loving magnets, etc etc quote:I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, “we’re gonna use magnets!” to lift up the elevators with seven planes. We need them fast, these massive elevators. They used magnets, they wanted to try it for the first time. This was a ship that was supposed to cost 2.5 billion, it cost 19 billion and didn’t work, and still doesn’t work right. This, of course, will be ignored because the media has assigned "old and senile" as Biden's characteristic and we can't have two opposing candidates sharing any attributes.
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how much have how many past iterations of this thread poo poo on EMALS cause it's a lot
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