bigpEE @bigpEE@qoto.org

We should just tax the shit out of all non-homesteaded and biz/trust-owned properties and tax almost nothing on human-owned homesteaded properties.

The taxes on non-homesteaded properties should be so high as to be prohibitively expensive to rent out for a profit. Any business that wanted to do so would need to either work economies of scale or find profit in offering additional services, making the business more competitive (and killing Air B&Bs).

And buying first houses would be easier.

"Killin Fuckin CEO's"
Freight graff in the Bay Area, California

hacker cracks pay laundry machines in like, five different ways after company fails to give him a refund. then he posts guides on how to do it: https://www.404media.co/hacker-shows-how-to-get-free-laundry-for-life/

“the very existence of a facility in your technology that causes it to betray you, by design, is a moral hazard that inevitably results in your victimization”
@pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/#hard-cases-make-bad-copyright-law

The Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona, is endorsing Kamala Harris. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2024/07/29/mesa-mayor-republican-vote-kamala-harris/74583703007/

RT @ridersalliance New Yorkers didn't fight for years to win congestion pricing just for Gov Kathy Hochul to throw it away in a half-baked political stunt.

Rally with us this Sunday, June 9 at Broadway Junction and tell #GridlockKathy NO to DEFUNDING OUR TRANSIT!

RSVP: https://action.ridersalliance.org/cp-rally-6-9-24/

The Jesus Lizard announce first album in 26 years ‘Rack’, and share UK and US tour dates

https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-jesus-lizard-announce-first-album-in-26-years-rack-share-tour-dates-buy-tickets-3763169

#music #JesusLizard

RT @streetsblognyc The family of Zenaido Rosas-Pinzon thinks he'd be alive today if the DOT had finished the Washington Bridge bike lane on schedule instead of six months from now:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/30/family-of-killed-bronx-cyclist-demands-dot-finish-washington-bridge-bike-lane

Texas electrical grid is going to be tight this evening once the sun goes down and solar goes offline.

#ERCOT #Texas

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards

Large pro-Palestine, anti-Hartzell group on the UT Austin campus this afternoon. A much smaller pro-Israel group is at the side and mostly getting drowned out.

#UTAustin #Texas #Gaza

service cancellations are all now negotiations with truculent demons

- crap discount offer
- I banish you
- meaningless price change
- I banish you
- major discount offer
- I BANISH YOU
- true form appears, snarling, breaks the contract, disappears in clouds of chatbot

@noelreports
I'm sure that Ukraine would be more than happy to focus on Russian military troops on their own territory... if only someone had the good idea to provide them with the equivalent of 60 billion $ in weapons and ammunition!
I really wonder whom this 60 billion $ military help could come from... any idea, Mr Austin?

Ah ha! It seems the SEC is capable of going after insider trading, so long as it's former minor league baseball players, not billionaires and banks and hedge funds.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/minor-league-baseball-players-insider-traded-del-taco-sec-says

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/man-jailed-ramming-motorcyclist-milton-keynes-bridge-extreme-road-rage

If this level of violence was carried out with anything other than a motor vehicle, the perpetrator would be facing a charge of attempted murder. Four years and ten months jail is an insult and even considering allowing this person to ever drive again is a baffling decision.

Yes, yes, we should all dump on the poor Hampton Jitney riders, but messenger aside: private Intercity & regional buses should not be forced to pay to congestion charge.

Doesn't seem like a sane policy decision: these services get cars *off* the road.

Taylor Swift adopted one of Elon Musk's worst moves: launching lawyers at a student who's doing a totally legal (and useful) thing: tracking of her highly polluting private jet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-swift-jet-tracking-legal-threat/