And that’s how we found Trump’s Lemmy account.

Those school buses can generate a lot of g-forces when doing high speed cornering.

But most land owners already pay land taxes every year. And the amount of tax you pay depends upon the value of the land. 20 years ago I bought a little house way out in the fucking middle of nowhere, cuz that’s all I could afford. Now, the area around me has suddenly become a hotspot for development and I am paying 4x what I was originally paying.
The real problem, as others have stated, is the loopholes that give companies special rights and privileges.

I don’t know that I would claim to know the lore… I’d say that I am more lore adjacent.
My ADHD has taken me down more than a few rabbit holes. One of which took me through tumbleweeds.

An invasive tumbleweed.

With this administration firing everyone competent? I suspect that you could add a MAGA hat to the outfit and you could just walk into those vaults too.

Get yourself a safety vest or a lab coat and you will be able to do anything you want.

“See! I told you that we could get them to pay for the wall!”
“That’s very good sir, but still, what the fuck are we supposed to do with all these giant wooden horses? And isn’t it suspicious that they drop off a new one every day?”
“Fake news! We have the most, the biggest and the best giant wooden horses! We’ll give them to our giants wooden cowboys to ride! Just yesterday a giant wooden cowboy, the biggest wooden cowboy you have ever seen, came up to me with tears in his eyes, tears just streaming down his wooden face. And he said thank you!. Thank you for the giant wooden horses! Until you we had nothing to ride and had to chase the giant wooden cows around on foot.”

The true mpv of this entire thread.

This is entirely true for certain types of development. There are plenty of coding jobs where you are constantly writing and rewriting the same type of thing over and over again. UI development, web page development, ect. Any place we you have multiple “customers” wanting a similar thing done, but with a different look or aesthetic. Or maybe you work for a company that makes stuff that needs to be refreshed every so often to avoid looking antiquated.

But then there’s also lots of people who are constantly doing things that they have never done before. I am not even talking about the poor suckers out there right now have having to “add AI” to random shit right now without even having a clue wtf that even means. You have plenty of people doing what is essentially “we want you to do this thing we have never done before”. How do you estimate time on a ticket that essentially says, take this 30 year old pile of code that has been hacked and rehacked by dozens of people (all who have either retired or left the company to escape this dumpster fire you are being handed) and “fix this bug” that has been around for a decade. It’s been there for a fucking decade. When the first version of this ticket was originally generated it was done in a ticketing system that has been replaced by 2 generations of ticketing systems since then. Whatever the issue is, it’s a big enough issue that it can’t be answered with “can’t do/won’t do”, but at the same time everyone who has been assigned it in the last decade has at best created half ass work arounds. Good luck with pulling a number for how long it is going to take you to figure out what the bug even is, much less how to fix it.

Wow, then you are going to absolutely hate Mexican food with a passion.

Putting too much sauce on the bottom causes the crust to be soft and undercooked. So if you like a bit more sauce you can put it on top instead.

One is basically meat pie without a crust top. The other is just a thick ass piece of bread, often something tasty all its own like sourdough, with pizza toppings on top (think more like putting cheese on bread sticks and calling it pizza). For some reason they are both called deep dish but one is all filling with a thin crust and the other is all bread topped with a pizza.

Me reading this while watching Paw Patrol with my youngest child: Uhmm, hey, why don’t we watch some Octonauts for a while?

Fucking swallows…

You are kind of right but your focus is way too narrow and short-sighted. The better off people around me are, the better off I am. Society is what brings me the comforts and freedoms I have today. Without society I would likely be some peasant living in a hut and trying to farm some desolate piece of land until I died at a very early age.
By donating to medical research, I am able to improve medical care for all, and that includes myself. By donating to the arts I get to see art that I would have never been able to see otherwise. By donating to the poor and things like education, I reduce crime and violence where I live.
So yeah, basically everything you do is self-serving, just try not to be such a basic bitch about the scope of your actions.

I remember back in school how they told us that jumping from the Golden Gate bridge would definitely kill you. In all that time since, I have not died from jumping off the bridge. I have never jumped off the bridge, but I have also never died from jumping off the bridge. So, now I think I was being lied to.

Over 7 million deaths confirmed to be directly caused by covid. And that’s with states and entire countries lying about the number of covid deaths. It’s actually between 19 and 36 million if we analyze the actual total number of excess deaths.
And that was with most countries attempting to minimize people’s exposure.
I don’t really want to know what you would call a catastrophe if somewhere between 7,000,000 and 36,000,000 dead humans doesn’t qualify.

Well, he did say it was the “fucking ED”.

Not at all. Because if I had enough money to avoid family for the holidays, that’s exactly what I would be doing too.