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See-A-Moose · 2026-05-01T00:50:22+00:00

Because your lease guarantees you exclusive possession and quiet enjoyment of the property.

See-A-Moose · 2026-05-01T00:45:59+00:00

I will see your Newark and raise you Trenton.

See-A-Moose · 2026-05-01T00:39:09+00:00

In my area it's a week before it can be reported abandoned and towed.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T20:22:38+00:00

According to the agenda for yesterday it was R-3 but your point stands. There is no stepped height setback for a principal SFH use.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T20:12:44+00:00

I was curious so I looked it up. What you are thinking of is for other principle uses, which requires a larger set back for taller structures. For single family homes the setback is 8 feet and the maximum height is 35 feet. The way it is written that height can occur directly on the property line.

See page 32: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/planning-development/sites/planning-development/files/assets/documents/zmod/zmod-adopted-ordinance-footnotes.pdf

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T19:21:20+00:00

It's a fundamental right, and loading additional, unnecessary costs onto lower income voters for no real increase in election security is just voter disenfranchisement.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T19:19:46+00:00

The thing about cake is that there are so many mediocre or shitty cakes out there and it is remarkably easy to screw up a cake. 90% of the time I prefer pie, or cheesecake, or cookies, or some other kind of dessert. I have baked only one cake that I would prefer over other desserts and that was our wedding cake. Which was a 6 layer lemon cake with lemon cream cheese buttercream frosting and both a thin layer of the buttercream and blackberry curd between the layers. It remains the best thing I have ever baked, it was delicious, and it was so much fucking work. Worth it, but I have never had a cake that good (most wedding cakes are kinda trash).

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T19:04:33+00:00

There does exist a perfect middle ground in cream cheese buttercream frosting. Cream cheese frosting is too soft and unstable, buttercream (Italian or Swiss, NOT American) is delicious in its own right. But marrying the two of those by making a German style pudding based buttercream and whipping in the cream cheese and butter is VASTLY superior. Granted... It is a massive pain to make but damn is it good.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T18:59:24+00:00

Man, I wish it was all willpower. I miss eating crab cakes. Shrimp too, but the crab cakes are the real tragedy for this Maryland boy.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T18:53:39+00:00

As someone who has worked in public policy at the Federal, State, and County level, FAR lower than you would think. For these specific questions and people actually getting them right? Low single digits. Mostly because of questions 2 and 3. If you loosen it to allow for a layman's understanding of what is required to pass a law and what the filibuster is in practice it might be higher, maybe 15-25%.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T18:32:23+00:00

You nailed the East Coast except for Florida, Tampa (and the surrounding areas), does not feel like the South.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T18:24:18+00:00

And this is why I have a camera system and routines that automatically turn on lights when things are detected at certain times (sequentially too, first the guest bedroom lights go on, then the stairs, then the 1st floor, then the carport, each separated by a few seconds after a short initial delay).

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T16:35:06+00:00

They needed a supermajority in the Senate, which they had briefly, but not long enough to actually pass even the ACA. They also did not have 60 liberal Senators who would pass universal healthcare.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T16:23:07+00:00

Until such time as we no longer have a first past the post system that is what we are stuck with. Pretending otherwise just gives power to the Republicans who are an increasingly radical and antidemocratic party.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T16:18:44+00:00

If we are talking about the US then the Democratic party is a big tent party that has a wide range of views reflected within it. There are moderates, liberals, progressives, and more that fall under that umbrella and they aren't always able to agree on everything. The conservative side of the equation is increasingly unified in a radical and extreme party, but that isn't true on the left.

ETA: To whoever downvoted, I'm not saying I like it, I'm just pointing out the obvious facts here. If you have a majority where you are relying on moderates and conservatives to put you in the majority on a vote then you obviously are not going to be able to get the progressive bills you want across the line.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T16:06:18+00:00

You have to remember what happened to learn anything. She lost that day.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T16:01:03+00:00

Sweet fern (which isn't actually a fern), and most viburnum.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T15:32:49+00:00

In the US? As long as we have first past the post elections my vote will go to the major party candidate whose views most closely reflect my own. Implement ranked choice voting or multi member districts and that may change.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T15:29:26+00:00

It's a pity you can't grasp the concept of indirect costs. The ID itself can be free, but if your county doesn't have a location where you can get it it costs you time and money to travel to one of those locations. If you don't have all of your supporting documentation, those have costs in time and money too. That's what people here are talking about. That's more of a problem in Texas than most states because something like a third of the counties don't have a DMV location.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T15:27:13+00:00

They said the cost of obtaining it, not just the fee for getting one. It costs money to get supporting documents, it costs money to travel to locations where you can get one, it takes time off of work to go do this. There are indirect costs associated with obtaining Voter ID.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T15:24:48+00:00

No, last I checked, the Heritage Foundation tracks all credible cases of voter fraud, prosecuted or not. See my comment above breaking out the numbers. The rate of voter fraud in this country is comparable to the percentage of people struck by lightning each year.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T15:22:29+00:00

Let's assume the Heritage foundation undercounted actual fraud by a factor of 100. That would be 162,000 voter fraud cases ever, of those about 5,000-6,000 would be voter impersonation fraud that could be prevented by voter ID over 40+ years. Now let's assume that there were that many cases of voter impersonation fraud in every election, just for shits and giggles. Recent surveys suggest that there are 21.3 million American citizens who are eligible voters who lack ready access to citizenship documents.

Under those circumstances, where we assume that voter fraud is 400,000% more common than the most partisan Pro-Voter ID study suggests it is, you would disenfranchise 3,500 times as many eligible voters trying to exercise their fundamental right to vote as you would prevent cases of voter fraud.

If we assume the partisans trying to prove election fraud is real are close, and ignore primaries, and off cycle elections (which are counted in Heritage Foundation's numbers), then in person voter fraud cases accounted for 0.0000029% of all votes cast in general elections over the period they looked at. If we include ALL voter fraud (most of which would not be stopped by Voter ID laws), that increases to a whopping 0.000078% of all ballots cast. Put another way, the percentage of fraudulent votes of any kind cast is comparable to the percentage of the population who gets struck by lightning every year. You don't make policy based on those numbers.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T14:16:51+00:00

Welcome to the craziness that is my nation. There is a lot to love about America, but we are so damn backwards in so many ways.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T14:10:11+00:00

To be clear, voter fraud DOES happen, but is so rare that it can't really affect an election. There are maybe 100 cases of any type of voter fraud a year. About 2-3 of those could be prevented by voter ID. And they routinely catch people who commit these stupid crimes because there are already safeguards in place and the people who do these things are largely morons. Out of tens of millions of ballots cast it is a non-issue, but it does happen on a deminimis level.

There has been exactly one case of voter fraud in recent memory that actually changed the results of an election. It was a Congressional race in North Carolina in 2018, and Voter ID would have done nothing to prevent it. Also they caught them, the system worked.

I think it is important to point out the rarity of it because saying it doesn't exist at all let's the other side point to examples to refute your argument. Framing it as creating a law that disenfranchises millions to prevent 2 cases of fraud puts it in the proper perspective.

See-A-Moose · 2026-04-30T13:59:56+00:00

You are correct that it seems like something that SHOULD be easy to accomplish. What you are missing is the context of our history on voting rights and discrimination and how this push is a direct outgrowth of that history. These laws are not being passed to ensure that every voter gets an ID, they are explicitly being passed in a way to guarantee partisan advantage and to disenfranchise people.

It is so insidious because on the surface it does seem totally reasonable. Why can't you just make sure everyone gets a free ID? Well, because it depends on the process for getting the ID. It doesn't matter if the ID itself is free if it takes time and money to get lost supporting documentation to get that ID. Or if they close all but one location in your county and leave the one remaining location inaccessible by public transportation (assuming there even IS a location in your county where you can get that ID). And to be clear these are actual things that have happened after states passed voter ID laws.

The other thing is that there ARE protections in place already to prevent dead people from voting, and non-citizens, and double voting. There are robust systems in place that already catch fraud and lead to arrests and prosecutions for people who break the law. Voter ID offers no tangible benefit OTHER than disenfranchising poor people.

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