xthexder

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is the plot of The Incredibles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

My username is from playing Thexder on my grandparents' Apple ][gs. I had a lot of fun learning Basic on that computer.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

If you're already deleting all your cookies every time you close, then this new change should be identical to your first login of the day when your browser has no cookies. If you're only getting 2fa requests after this change, then maybe you weren't actually deleting every cookie, and Google was still fingerprinting you somehow.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This wouldn't make you have to log in every time you watch YouTube. It means by signing in to google.com, youtube.com can't tell that you're signed in. If you sign in on youtube.com, you'll stay signed in on youtube.com unless you have something else deleting your cookies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I watched the entire linked Not Just Bikes video, but I only read the first few paragraphs of that article. Linking to a full article like that is like the opposite of TL;DR.

I think we can agree urban sprawl is a problem. It forces a cities resources to get spread thinner and thinner as things are built out, and like your link video stated, it leaches from the downtown areas that are self-sustaining.

In my opinion the taxes should exactly reflect the expenses such that it incentives more efficient land use. What that would actually look like from a legal sense, I'm not going to pretend I know enough to write.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The problem is that property value of homes has nothing to do with cost of building out city services. In many areas the value of homes is going up much faster than the cost of maintaining the roads and services around them.

Property taxes should be tied to things like acreage, road access, zoning type, and the city's budget. Not the free market value of the home, which is unrelated.

Housing prices have gone up roughly double in the last 10 years, while inflation has only gone up 35%.

It is extremely unfair to single homeowners to be paying for the housing demand increase, and I say this as someone who's only able to rent. Those property taxes get passed right along to me through rent increases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fact it's AI alone means it's extra effort for any reader to determine if it's actually true. What's the point of posting claims if noone believes them until they do their own search? If you already checked it yourself, just post the actual source instead of AI's plausible sounding BS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As it turns out, moving oil across the ocean is really expensive. Even if you can buy oil at the same price in the US and Europe, it's still cheaper to buy it locally and not have to deal with moving it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I think this meme has the images backwards... He should be taking off the rose-tinted glasses, not putting them on.

(Yes I know they're sunglasses and not rose-tinted)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I don't think anything changed. This isn't a false statement depending on the product. As long as there's some single rare scenario where it could be 100% effective, they're not lying. Really it's just to make you feel a certain way even if the sentence doesn't actually say anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's 47 million in tax payer dollars. So instead of stealing millions from a few people, it's pennies from millions of people. Definitely a lot of better things that money could have gone to.

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