Sconrad122
@Sconrad122@lemmy.world
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Low income taxes. And our sales tax is typically lower than European VAT when the comparison is valid. But those generally go to the feds and the state, that do not fund municipal services, so municipalities have to collect the remainder they need through property taxes, typically on real estate and cars. And none of them fund healthcare, so we have to pay a company premiums for that. Basically the same for higher education. When you look at our total financial burden to receive the kind of services that are funded by taxes in other developed countries, we can be deceptively expensive, especially if you start thinking about the comparative quality of those services. But our income and capital gains tax rates are low, especially if you are very rich! I made myself sad
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
My city has a senior discount on property taxes, where seniors that have a net worth and income both below certain numbers pay reduced or as low as 0% of their regularly assessed property tax. I’m not sure how they verify net worth, but it seems like a good system to me as long as they have figured out a way to do that efficiently and effectively
- Comment on Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary 2 months ago:
Sure, sure, so just rephrase the statement. Many workers believe working in the office justifies 25% additional compensation (80 to 100% of what they are paid today). That doesn’t mean workers shouldn’t be paid more, it’s just capturing the delta in compensation required to justify in person work
- Comment on Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate 2 months ago:
Unethical life pro tip, depending on whether respecting others’ religious traditions is part of your ethics: no mass I’ve ever been to has checked identity before giving out communion. If you’ve got an hour to burn for a free tasteless chip and a sip of wine and backwash, just walk in with mild confidence, mimic others, and mumble along with the prayers, and people will probably just assume you usually go to mass at another time or are traveling. There’s no Eucharist police that’s going to tackle you halfway down the aisle and throw you in an inquisition dungeon because your papers don’t check out
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
Instructions unclear, hid roadkill bear in Central Park
- Comment on Seconds 7 months ago:
short distances in solar radii
I think astrophycisists and I may have a difference of opinion on the meaning of the adjective short
- Comment on You don't say 8 months ago:
It’s easier to read if you read it as a line spoken by the Silicon Valley TV character Jian Yang
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 8 months ago:
Respect to those folks. A miserable ride is often rewarding because it’s one of those lows that is eminently temporary and gives you an appreciation for the highs, especially if you are dressed appropriately so as not to catch a cold or some such. Kind of like shoveling snow for that sweet sweet mug of hot chocolate on the sofa afterwards. But yeah, also a good city will provide alternative options for its citizens, trains, buses, rideshare even. If a 30 mile bike ride is the only alternative to driving from place A to place B, your government doesn’t want you to have any kind of freedom to choose how you get from place A to place B, if there are no affordable housing options or good job opportunities that change that equation, your government is working on behalf of the big car manufacturers and dealers to keep you enslaved in debt to them, which is pretty fucked up
- Comment on New unit of measurement 10 months ago:
Low key convinced this started out as “monster hail” and then got butchered by an AI or like 5 Google translate passes
- Comment on Implications 10 months ago:
Haha, I figured it was 50/50 on whether I would get this comment or something about the ASCII representation of the letter A
- Comment on Implications 10 months ago:
Pi is an infinite series of non-repeating digits, and yet you will never find the letter A in pi because there is a 0% chance of the letter A being a digit in a decimal system. By the same logic, infinite possibilities do not guarantee that every conceivable state occurs, if that conceivable state has a 0% probability. As finite beings, it is very difficult for us to accurately distinguish between a 0% probability and a infinitesimal probability, so we end up circling back to “we don’t know”
- Comment on At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. 11 months ago:
30-40% is not a strong majority, they are just overrepresented thanks to a lot of those “safeguards” the founding fathers put in place. 2 senators per state, electoral college, first past the post, the concept of a supermajority needed for many things of note to even get done all mean that 30% of the electorate can hold the majority by the balls if they are rural landowners whose goals align well with obstructionism
- Comment on doggos 11 months ago:
New study suggests dogs capable of celestial navigation: “Columbus was a sucker for using an astrolabe when he could have just brought along a good boi and watched him shit”
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 11 months ago:
Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful
- Comment on mycology 1 year ago:
Based on the Wikipedia article on biological immortality referencing species that live for a couple hundred years and the Wikipedia page on armillaria ostoyae mentioning living specimens that are multiple millenia old (and thousands of acres large!), I’m guessing that may be what the prof is referring to?
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 year ago:
Congratulations, you now speak Khitan and only Khitan. Good luck finding one of the few researchers in the world who will understand that you are speaking an extinct language before being thrown in the looney bin for spouting nonsense Andreas Toma-style