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  • Bipartisan bill aims to block big investors from buying single-family homes

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  • That's why the homestead credit would only be payable to the resident. Residency is what matters here not the paper owner.

    I won't claim there aren't potential loopholes in a casually described plan, but the one you brought up doesn't apply without fraudulent claims of residency.

  • Bipartisan bill aims to block big investors from buying single-family homes

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  • Currently, large corporate landlords are willing to let housing units sit empty vs letting market rates drop. A company with 500 units makes the same amount leasing 400 units at $1500/mo as they would leasing 470 units at $1300/mo and they have less overhead. The realpage software lets them coordinate with all the other corporate landlords without direct communication.

    The reason I think this policy would help renters is by making vacant units significantly more expensive and pushing corporate property managers to actually compete rather than sit on vacancies.

  • Bipartisan bill aims to block big investors from buying single-family homes

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  • I think I'd rather see this adressed on the property tax side with a homestead tax exemption. Let counties and municipalities significantly raise property tax rates then offer homestead tax rebates to the primary resident. Maybe even offer a monthly rebate to match rent/mortgage payments. Rent would go up, but the rebate should match the rent increase.

    This would make empty units, short term rentals, and vacation home more expensive to hold on to compared to being pccupied by a long term resident. This would also let each region decide on the ratio of occupied vs unoccupied net property tax rates to dial in what works for them. A coastal community might have a much different equilibrium point than a suburb to a big city for example.

    A lot of areas already have homestead exemptions for seniors and low income residents, so it doesn't even require much in terms of new legal frameworks.

  • Same but worse

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  • '93 here and I think the passage of the Patriot Act was a pretty important demarcation line, not just for abandonment of due process, but also when all the major networks embraced telling their audience who to hate.

  • Everyone's got a fetish, I guess.

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  • Ground hornets pattern match too. I had a massive nest I had never noticed in an old stump. They hadn't bothered me despite having walked by numerous times. Then one time I hit the nest with the riding mower. Man that sucked. I'm not outright allergic, but a dozen stings does make me feel sick. After that, anytime I got within 20ft of the nest with the mower they would come out in force.

    Then a few years later I had the same thing happen with a raised garden bed. They never bothered me and I didn't even know they were there, until my weedwacker attacked the entrance of the nest. I had to steer clear of that section of the garden for a few weeks after.

    Ground hornets are horrible.

  • This New AI-Powered App Lets Users Chat With Jesus, Mary, The Apostles — And Even Satan

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  • Surely the second commandment was more of a suggestion.

  • PIC

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  • This is functionally equivalent to truck nuts. Just because it's gold doesn't make it not tacky.

  • ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge

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  • And they will make sure to continue to not know a single thing about what was said. Ignorance isn't a valid legal defence, but it sure is a common deflection tactic these days. Law makers have a professional and ethical obligation to become informed on the issues their constituents care about, but it seems like it's rare to find one that remembers that obligation.

  • Is there an actor you can't stand? Do they have any exceptions?

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  • Will Forte. His voice and "quirky" style I find just irritating and not at all amusing.

  • Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says

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  • "Fancy graphics" also doesn't correlate well with how visually appealing a game is. I would take Ori graphics over CoD any day.

  • Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says

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  • Which is to say that prices did increase every generation.

  • Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean?

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  • I wonder if it would be worthwhile to colocate large greenhouses with datacenters. The exhaust temperatures seem compatible with hothouse growing. The heat would still end up in the atmosphere, but at least it could enable growth of fresh local produce first.

  • "Thin strip of land"

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  • High aspect ratio just doesn't roll off the tongue does it?

  • Who said you can move furniture with a bike?

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  • I believe I see a disc brake on the trailer wheel.

  • Urban

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  • Wow!

  • Black Holes

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  • Yeah, black holes in media where they are depicted as a giant space vacuum cleaner is a big pet peave of mine. Unless you get really close, nothing is remarkable about the orbital mechanics of a black hole. The equivalent mass star would have burned you up at a much further distance than the gravity starts to become noticeably wonky.

    It's a shame that writers focus so much on the gravity and neglect accretion disks and astrophysical jets which do extend large distances and are visually stunning as well.

  • Pretty but pointless

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  • They'll have a unique Pollock inspired piece in no time.

  • TIL cows can suffer from fatal bloated stomachs. A way of treating it is by puncture and burning the released methane gas (to determine how much is remaining).

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  • The problem isn't methane production, it's excessive soluble proteins producing a thick foam that prevents the methane from being expelled through the esophagus. Any feed produces large amounts of gas in grazing animals. What changes is the animals ability to safely vent the gas.

    https://biologyinsights.com/why-does-alfalfa-cause-bloat-in-cattle/

  • TIL cows can suffer from fatal bloated stomachs. A way of treating it is by puncture and burning the released methane gas (to determine how much is remaining).

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  • Sometimes animals escape their enclosures and mis-feed themselves. The couple times I've witnessed this were the result of cows helping themselves to a field of alfalfa. Alfalfa is good as a component of a silage mix but is too rich to be consumed fresh on its own. But cows love alfalfa and are good at finding weaknesses in fencing.