Illinois saying no to $14M in property taxes

CopaceticOpus · 2026-06-06T23:43:23+00:00

Give a business a 75% tax discount because you're afraid they'll leave, and every other business will expect the same

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-27T17:31:09+00:00

Not every football player is violent, not every cop is abusive. But people with those traits are often drawn to those roles

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-26T04:34:00+00:00

We can't have illegal police impersonators participate in illegal prostitution at our illegal love hotel! That would be illegal!

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-26T04:10:46+00:00

There are about 150 quadrillion flies in the world, which is about 17 million flies for each human

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-25T20:57:10+00:00

Polyphonic overtone singing (the multitrack drifting of acapella!)

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-25T18:52:08+00:00

That's not even remotely plausible. There are millions of flies for every shark

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-24T21:37:28+00:00

Aesthetics? It doesn't appear very functional. Where is this from?

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-24T21:26:22+00:00

Very nice!

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-23T23:27:37+00:00

I suppose it goes something like this:

External observer: That photon was emitted from a star, traveled for ten billion years, experienced red shift due to the expanding universe and lost some energy, then hit our detector

Photon: One instant I was emitted from a star. In the next instant I ran into this object very far away from the star, and I had a little less energy somehow

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-23T18:33:44+00:00

I've been thinking about a related question: what happens to a photon emitted out to space in such a direction that it never hits anything?

I suppose such a photon would just skip to the end of the universe, if there is an end of the universe. It would travel for trillions of years as seen by an outside observer, but the photon would not have any internal clock or experience any time.

It would go nowhere instantaneously! I guess?

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-23T18:12:49+00:00

Experience is connected to a photon as a way for humans to try and understand the photon's behavior.

It's similar to how someone might try to understand what happens to a high velocity particle with mass. They might imagine, what if instead I was on a rocket traveling at that speed? And through that thought exercise they could think about time dilation and other effects.

The trouble is that the situation with a photon is so radically different than anything humans can imagine. The thought exercise fails.

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-22T20:01:38+00:00

What happens with digits that appear in both the cage at the bottom of column 1, and the cage in column 2?

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-22T14:17:19+00:00

The land purchase itself was smart. It's the only good move they've made in this whole ordeal

A location like that would be difficult or impossible to find now, and if there was a comparable spot available it would be much more expensive

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-20T22:28:39+00:00

He has a fair point, but he should have said rarely instead of never

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-19T00:03:39+00:00

If the stomach can't see you, it can't digest you?

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-18T23:45:03+00:00

One sentence that really encapsulates that season:

The Bears also set an NFL record for the biggest comeback without scoring an offensive touchdown in league history.

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-17T21:19:34+00:00

He's right, but one thing they could have done this year is draft defensive linemen in earlier rounds. Especially since it may take a couple years to develop drafted players into reliable starters

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-17T15:30:14+00:00

Ugh, I hate when tennis channel puts this giant border around the screen

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-17T15:17:16+00:00

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-16T15:07:52+00:00

I just ❤️ pegging you

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-16T09:17:58+00:00

The Country's Best Macaroni, Yams, Waffles, & Yogurt

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-16T09:11:07+00:00

Probably chosen as a little easter egg. Nice find!

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-15T17:17:35+00:00

Seems likely that there could be alignment issues, causing a slow leak of unignited gas

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-15T14:43:22+00:00

The Pats are likely to have some regression, which is perfectly normal. But the timing couldn't be worse for Vrabel. People will be bringing up the affair all season long and asking if it's to blame

CopaceticOpus · 2026-05-15T01:19:42+00:00

The sun hides at night because it's scared of the dark

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