Mamertine @ Mamertine @lemmy.world

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If they cap the rate the house can be assessed for at 3% growth per year, they won't have enough money to keep the state running if the actual rate of inflation is consistently around 5%.

Generally, the state is the biggest employer in any given state. If they don't have the money to give it raises that match the rate of inflation, the state employees have less purchasing power than they did a year ago.

Any social programs would have that same obstacle.

This is treating a symptom, and it's going to have repercussions.

Each state taxes differently. I'm not familiar with Georgia's specifics. I live in MN. School funding is done via property tax and supplemented with a per student amount from the state. If the property tax is capped to 3% a year, if property tax is the primary funding for schools, teacher raises would be have to be capped to 3% a year.

New developments or places with higher turnover (tax assessed value resets when the house is sold) could be able to pay significantly more for teachers than older stable neighborhoods. That excentuates the suburban flight.

Man, woman, person, camera, TV

The doctors were so impressed with how well I did on that intelligent test.

Fwiw, he passed a cognitive stroke exam 4 years ago.

Yes, but the school district police chief actively kept other officers from intervening.

I'll assume they're looking into that one person's actions.

You've filled your hand with ketchup? That's a real thing?

The article talked a lot about school buses in rural areas. Mass Transit isn't a thing in most rural areas.

In urban cities, yes that's a feasible idea. Most people in the USA live in places where mass transit isn't feasible.

We are a nation of car drivers who bought into the dream of having a house on a large lot in the suburbs. Mass Transit exists, but in the burb it's generally a parking lot where you take a bus to your job downtown.

My eye doctor calls them "floaters". They're pretty common from how the Dr talks about them. Dr says come in if there's suddenly a spike in them. I gather that's a sign something bad is happening with the eye.

Ugh, in the news here a few years ago, they showed a video of a lady jumping out of her car so she wouldn't be in it when it slid into another car. The news anchor advised people to stay inside of your car. It's a cage. You're safer inside that cage than lying in the road.

It's in the constitution! That sacred document that was divinely inspired. Granted it's an amendment so it wasn't part of Jefferson's initial creation, but it's been in there for 150 years.

Yes, and I'll counter that argument by suggesting we ban having sex with children regardless of if the molester is related.

Jokes aside.

Felony by definition means it's punishable by at least one year in prison.

So specifically, why are we incarcerating consenting adults for having sex?

From a moral point, don't do that. From a legal point, stay out of the bedroom.

I'll also add context of this is a very Western belief. Natives of America prevented inbreeding by not marrying within the clan. Your first cousins could be in a different clan and therefore open for marriage.

I'm literally not buying a Tesla because he's a douchbag.

When I see a Tesla on the road I assume they are a Musk fan boy. There's no prestige in that brand. There are a lot of us that assume that.

I'm familiar with that episode. I still like the mayo sandwich analogy. No one really wants it, but you know it's technically edible.

Are you suggesting the Border Patrol get into a shooting match with the TX national guard? Both sides are armed. It deserves a court case, not a gun fight.

I love that there's just an endless supply of Escalades exiting the freeway.

That's brilliant, but it's gonna be decades before the things we associate with horror films become public domain.

I was curious what was public domain. I found this article. https://cuttingforbusiness.com/8-characters-public-domain-crafters/

Classic Monsters Any horror genre fans around? If so, good news for you: Many of the classic monsters are in the public domain. These include Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, Creature from the Black Lagoon (film), and The Bride of Frankenstein (film).

What You Need to Know: You cannot use modern day adaptations of these stories. Instead, create your own take on the original stories and characters.

Not only that, they advertised recycling to push public opinion that it was okay to switch to plastic, because plastic is recyclable. But they didn't tell us, it's never going to be economicaly viable to recycle plastic toothpaste tubes.

Northern USA is the same way.

When I lived in TX, the water supply came into the house above ground. It was really strange concept for me a Minnesotan. The winter I was there, the supply lines froze. You had to defrost them with boiling water, or hair dryers.

Stew so potatoes, carrots, onion.

If you want to lean into the stronger flavors parsnips or leeks.

I've made stew from wild game before. It always comes out really gamey. I eat game, but I usually stick to the grill with it. The entire stew picks up on the game flavor, which I'm not keen on.

I spend as much time in one play through the free factorio demo as I've played in some AAA games.

In the hours entertained per dollar doesn't, factorio is stupid cheap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget

The USA spends a lot of money on military. Why, that's a very nuanced question with a lot of answers. Since it's the reasons are:

Fear mongering

Politicians Funneling money to give their constituents jobs.

Republicans perpetually want to spend more. Democrats can't cut the budget.

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