This shit is just a powder keg waiting to go off. All it’s going to take is one person to decide they’ve had enough of this in a situation like this and just floor it and run those assholes over and the whole country is going to explode. It’s just a matter of time.

We watched our cat, on multiple occasions, take a piece of dry food out of his dish and play with it on the floor - batting it around and chasing it - for 10+ minutes, then eat it, then spend the next 10+ minutes looking for it. He was not the brightest.

John Oliver just did a show where this was a key talking point, as well.

Mistborn books 1-3 would make an absolutely fantastic 3-season show.

Got bad news for you if you think any modern car isn’t already doing that. :(

Her best card, in my opinion, but still janky because of the shard mechanic. It limits how many of her cards you can reasonably run in a deck which I just dislike. Great game, though!

Just wish her cards weren’t so janky!

The X series (X3 and X4 in particular) might be fun. Very sandboxy. The late-game turns into more of a management game than a ‘fly around blasting stuff’ game, but you don’t have to go that route if you don’t want to.

Seems like the sort of loophole that, once identified, would be pretty easy to close if the legislators actually desired to do so.

What’s your solution for folks who need short-term housing (for example someone relocating for work for a year, or someone going to college who doesn’t want to stay in dorms)?

In my magical Christmasland hypothetical scenario, it would be something like $10 ^ [number of qualifying properties] per year, for each property.

Mom and pop have a vacation home, or a property on the market? $10 / year. No problem. Got 5 vacant homes? That’ll be an extra $500,000 per year. Get a tenant or sell.

Would need some sort of limit such that the tax ceased when homelessness reached, say, 0.01% of the population or less, because right now there’s about 26 vacant homes in the US per homeless person; the point is to reduce homelessness, not to bankrupt everyone, of course.

Solution: A tax on residential property that isn’t someone’s primary residence for more than half of the year, that scales up exponentially with the number of such properties the owner owns, regardless of whether the owner is an individual or a corporation.

Take the money this generates and put it towards helping the homeless and low-income families.

Make it cheaper to put someone - anyone - in a home (even for free) than to keep it unoccupied.

Personally, I prefer your last case. I put comments before my functions that explain in plain text what the function is doing, e.g. “If the widget is vibrating, do X; otherwise, do Y”. If the function is particularly complex, I’ll put more comments inside it that explain how it’s accomplishing that, but I like being able to just see at a glance a summary of the function’s… function, without scanning the whole thing for comments. It’s like the index of a book. You quickly scan to find the page with the thing you’re interested, then you read that page in detail.

Didn’t know that! I use an always-on VPN and I’ve never had issues with Catbox (but imgur blocks me), for what it’s worth.

Nope! It’s an image host, not a social media platform, which in my opinion is the best thing about it.

Catbox is basically what Imgur used to be before it went to absolute shit. You upload images, you can link to them. That’s it. You don’t need to create an account, but if you do, you can see everything you’ve uploaded. It’s free. Not really sure what more you can ask for in an image host.

He should absolutely try it anyway. Maybe after the Fed mints those coins with his face on it. Just give him a room full and let him dive in head first.

…which makes it so baffling. They could buy a lot of goodwill if they just made the store more consumer-focused, even if they earned less from it in the process. But no, they have to just commit whole hog to just being the worst.

Spyware cum!