At this point, regardless of which ~~football team~~ party you root for, if you thought otherwise, consider moving out of the rock you've been living under.
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It’s a sales tax, effectively, a nationwide sales tax.
An attempt to implement a sort of regressive tax to offset the tax cuts. Shifting the burden of government on to working class people who are disproportionately impacted by price hikes on everyday goods.
It was never about on-shoring manufacturing. Always about stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
E-Bikes are replacing cars, not bicycles, a study from Germany shows:
"43.1% of electric bicycle trips and 63.2% of electric bicycle mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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It's been a while since I rented from a sole-proprietor, but we shouldn't be allowing corporate ownership of single-family housing at all.
Yeah, landlords generally suck, but the guy with six units is a hell of a lot more responsive than whatever out-of-state corporate office that bans calling the leasing office for maintenance.
A friend of mine owns two rental properties, and he's rarely available on weekends because he's fixing a deck or replacing a water heater.
I'd guess it's not as bad as it is in CA, but this is starting to happen in my neighborhood in Portland, OR.
Houses are getting more expensive, so sellers are getting more and more offers from wealthy investors buying them to rent them out. Since people can't afford a home, they go ahead and rent the house (at least around us).
Its a bummer because the rent continually increases, so folks typically cannot stay there for too many years. For the renters, the rent is around what a mortgage payment would be at current interest rates, so they're not saving a lot of money.
The house across the street was sold when mortgage rates were ~3%, so the owners are making a good amount on the house. I just happen to hate that it's ruining our neighborhood, and I'd like more families with kids to move on to our street.
With the increasing concentration/divide of wealth, this is only going to get worse without regulation. It's frustratingly easy to solve, yet places suffering from this problem seem to be hesitant to solve it in the simplest of ways possible - add a flat tax to anyone who owns more than one property or is not a resident.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told USA Today, which first reported on the executive order, that the president was “delivering on his commitment to Make America Safe Again” and end homelessness.
“By removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting resources toward substance abuse programs, the Trump administration will ensure that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles are able to get the help they need,” she said.
I fucking hate this framing. Homelessness causes or exacerbates mental health issues.
The National Homelessness Law Center condemned the order, which it said “deprives people of their basic rights” and would ultimately worsen the problem.
“Today’s executive orders, combined with Maga’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets. This order does nothing to l
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Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told USA Today, which first reported on the executive order, that the president was “delivering on his commitment to Make America Safe Again” and end homelessness.
“By removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting resources toward substance abuse programs, the Trump administration will ensure that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles are able to get the help they need,” she said.
I fucking hate this framing. Homelessness causes or exacerbates mental health issues.
The National Homelessness Law Center condemned the order, which it said “deprives people of their basic rights” and would ultimately worsen the problem.
“Today’s executive orders, combined with Maga’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets. This order does nothing to lower the cost of housing or help people make ends meet,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homelessness Law Center.
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Local veterans are speaking out against the deployment of 200 Marines to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida. Over 200 veterans have signed an open letter opposing the use of the military in this capacity.
Joke's on them, I've already been working on that for decades. *pats ublock* This baby can bankrupt so many websites and I always hoped it could collapse the ad model completely.
In all seriousness, it's becoming increasingly clear that we're eventually going to have to build a new, free internet out of the wreckage of this one once the corporations are done with it. Technically it's already there, nascent but ever so slowly growing and taking root, hiding in plain sight. Like the so-called dark web of tor, it already exists in parallel to the existing structures of the internet. Call it the deep web, the indie web, nostalgia web, unsearchable web, I've heard countless terms and most of them aren't terribly accurate, but the web doesn't need ads and google search to exist, it never did. It just needs humans, which despite the best efforts of big tech many of us still are, communicating directly with one another and documenting our billions of lifetimes of diverse collective experiences and knowledge.
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Joke's on them, I've already been working on that for decades. *pats ublock* This baby can bankrupt so many websites and I always hoped it could collapse the ad model completely.
In all seriousness, it's becoming increasingly clear that we're eventually going to have to build a new, free internet out of the wreckage of this one once the corporations are done with it. Technically it's already there, nascent but ever so slowly growing and taking root, hiding in plain sight. Like the so-called dark web of tor, it already exists in parallel to the existing structures of the internet. Call it the deep web, the indie web, nostalgia web, unsearchable web, I've heard countless terms and most of them aren't terribly accurate, but the web doesn't need ads and google search to exist, it never did. It just needs humans, which despite the best efforts of big tech many of us still are, communicating directly with one another and documenting our billions of lifetimes of diverse collective experiences and knowledge.
We are the wealth of information in the internet. Corporations don't own it. We are it.
Why would they do that, when they can charge advertisers to bias the LLM? How much do you think Adidas would pay to have their products advantages mixed into any response about sports gear, undetectable?
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Trump’s bitter dislike of renewable energy first erupted publicly 14 years ago in a seemingly trivial spat over wind turbines visible from his Scottish golf course. As Trump returns to Scotland this week, though, he is using the US presidency to squash clean power, with major ramifications for the climate crisis and America’s place in the world.
Although Trump failed in his legal attempt to halt the Scottish wind farm, an enduring scorn towards renewables appears to have been seeded that now has global consequences.
As president, Trump has declared wind and solar projects unwelcome in the US, barring them from federal lands and signing a vast spending bill that demolishes support for a nascent industry that held the promise of revamping the American economy while cutting dangerous planet-heating pollution.
Can we please, please stop calling turbines "windmills"? If you're milling grain, fine, but absolutely no one is installing 300m turbines to make flour.
Communities across the U.S. are organizing rapid response networks, court accompaniments, and using apps like ICEBlock to protect immigrants and fight back against aggressive ICE raids and detentions.
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At bedtime, my toddler now knows how to tell me they want me to sing a different song. I am running out of songs so have begun to pull at the church songs that are forever lodged in my brain from my upbringing. I don't like the idea of teaching the messages in these songs. It led me to wonder if there are songs with good social messages that are appropriate for children. It's a stretch but I hope you all can help me out!
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mailbox.org, Posteo and @Tutanota@mastodon.social are secure, data-friendly and established. They each have their pros and cons. For example posteo has a lot of payment services, I think tuta has a own client, and mailbox.org is really clean AFAIK.
The administration that populates its Instagram feed with AI-generated images of eagles, money, and the DJT Jerk Off Dance just withdrew from UNESCO, the UN’s cultural agency. This is the second time in as many terms that Trump has pulled us out of the organization. In a comment to the New York Times, a State Department spokesperson accused UNESCO of promoting “divisive social and cultural causes” (Palestinians’ right to exist, mostly) and maintaining an “outsized focus on the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda” at odds “with our America First foreign policy.” Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to rename the Kennedy Center’s Opera House after Melania.
I'm a baby burner, having been to one regional and never to BRC. The big burn honestly holds no appeal, likely a function of age, cost and logistics.
The whole point of the burn is stepping outside of capitalistic structures. At ticket prices up to three grand (sure, you can get in for a mere $550), self-selection for the well-off is going to happen.
Which is precisely what you're not going there for.
Everything gets ruined by capitalism; the question is merely the timeline. And holy fuck, do the moneyed enjoy looking at subcultures and say "you know, we could do something with this" (see also: the rave and BDSM scenes).
Burning Man has faced its share of challenges in recent years. There were the Covid years when organizers cancelled the Nevada festival entirely, the sweltering record temperatures of 2022, and mud created by heavy rains in 2023 that trapped tens of thousands of attendees on the playa.
Then last year, Burning Man tickets failed to sell out as they had every year since 2011. It was
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Let's answer the question: No.
I'm a baby burner, having been to one regional and never to BRC. The big burn honestly holds no appeal, likely a function of age, cost and logistics.
The whole point of the burn is stepping outside of capitalistic structures. At ticket prices up to three grand (sure, you can get in for a mere $550), self-selection for the well-off is going to happen.
Which is precisely what you're not going there for.
Everything gets ruined by capitalism; the question is merely the timeline. And holy fuck, do the moneyed enjoy looking at subcultures and say "you know, we could do something with this" (see also: the rave and BDSM scenes).
Burning Man has faced its share of challenges in recent years. There were the Covid years when organizers cancelled the Nevada festival entirely, the sweltering record temperatures of 2022, and mud created by heavy rains in 2023 that trapped tens of thousands of attendees on the playa.
Then last year, Burning Man tickets failed to sell out as they had every year since 2011. It was an indicator of a deep trouble for the week-long desert celebration in the form of a $20m revenue shortfall that meant “everything is now at risk”, Marian Goodell, the Burning Man Project CEO, wrote last fall.
Burning Man has been trying to find its financial footing and figure out how to ensure the longevity of a festival that has become an institution, Goodell told Bloomberg in an interview this week, a month ahead of this year’s festivities.
The festival must succeed as a business, she told the outlet, while adding: “I am loath to look at Burning Man as a product, where the goal is to sell as much of the product as possible.”
Maybe don't make it about the money when the whole fucking point is people putting in hard work as artists to bring joy as volunteers. If people aren't willing to pay what you're charging, well, that's a supply-and-demand problem.
As for me, I'll stick with regional burns where you actually get to meet people, exchange gifts and go on excursions. They're raves for grown-ups (with perhaps more drugs).
I have never been. But being in music circles that have traditionally had close ties with the festival. What I've generally heard is that it's a shadow of what it was 30 years ago. For whatever that's worth.
It definitely seems to be losing it's identity. Once a communal celebration of art, music, and culture outside of the main stream. It's definitely gotten more exclusive and watered down. Victim of it's own success and capitalism.
Literally everything is a shadow of what it was decades ago. Maybe Phish is an exception, but the big burn has become an Instagram event ... it used to be impossible to find images of what happens in BRC, and now when it happens, people aren't experiencing it, but rather posting about it. Radical self-expression means being in the moment, not thinking about how you can use this to your advantage.
Blue Angel Blues: We’re approaching the season when literal fighter jets swoop around our city like a playground, and some Seattleites are over it. The Airshow Climate Action coalition put up a new billboard on Rainier Ave that reads: “SAY NO TO BLUE ANGELS.” Think of the rescue dogs! Think of the military trauma! Or think of the 670 tons of carbon emissions they blow through in one weekend.
Parades and fairs have always been about excessive use of energy. That we're now considering this stands in tight contention with the meaning of tradition. Is there a correct answer here? I'm not qualified to say.
But Seafair sans Blue Angels isn't ... Seafair. Perhaps, in time, it will evolve, as will we (hopefully taking the national anthem out of sports games), but for now, give the kids -- and maybe some parents -- what they want. 670 tons with how much carbon we're spewing makes a rounding error look significant.
Every sort of event like this has always produced waste; one need not look back further to the amount of literal horse shit from parades mere decades ago.
Pageantry is pageantry. But it means something to people, and to say "we're wasting fuel" -- well, what portion of society doesn't?
doncha just love feeling the ground shake beneath your feet while intense shrieking totally climate killing emitters of carbon roar overhead as a spectacular demonstration of democracy in action???
I'm not going to address your framing. It's not as though Seafair is unique in any manner ... hell, in Ashland, Ore., for the Fourth of July, fighter jets would fly down the Bear Creek valley from Klamath Falls to start the parade.
I take the bus. Do you? Because if not, the per-capita carbon emissions you're ascribing to a couple of fighter planes is peanuts.
Our understanding of the world changes. The sound of jets and the sound of fireworks triggers people with PTSD, especially vets. Why would we keep doing that knowing what we know? Pageantry should never outstrip health of the people.
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