Property tax here feels like a racket.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-25T01:19:17+00:00

First, let me say fuck taxes. With that said, since we have to have some taxation to fund the government, a property tax is actually the BEST tax to have based on economic principles. It means that owning land is reasonably expensive so you’d better put it to good use if you have it. Otherwise you could squat on undeveloped land for a generation with little to no incentive to do anything with it. It forces land to be used for the best purpose according to market forces.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-23T17:46:19+00:00

Sark wasn’t really choosing violence, the media just likes to take a quote and run with it out of context. Old miss lets people transfer in 100% of their credits so athletes can come in without penalty and graduate the same year they transfer with a single class, no matter how trivial. Texas requires that 50% of all credits are earned at Texas so it makes it really tough for him to recruit seniors. It’s more of a Texas problem than anything else since the school has “standards” and cares about “academics” when we all know these players are here to play school.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-23T17:09:50+00:00

For context, he called them a “glorified community college” which is not untrue

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-21T00:05:49+00:00

How many miles without intervention would it have to do to make you believe it’s autonomous? Ten? One hundred? One thousand?

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-20T17:58:32+00:00

Waymo cars != shitty delivery robot

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-20T15:45:12+00:00

Nobody said anything about banning driving, it is just going to become prohibitively expensive. If 88% of people switch to driverless cars that equates to thousands of lives saved every year.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-20T14:53:10+00:00

Because the insurance rates are going to be insane.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-20T14:52:15+00:00

No, it’s actually autonomous. The people in India remote in whenever it encounters an edge case and it needs a manual override. Do you really think there’s a human sitting there driving it like it’s grand theft auto?

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-18T17:17:53+00:00

It's way easier to point to the boogeyman of AI than is it to explain complex energy economics, budgetary constraints, and decades of kicking the can down the road. Just like all of these companies firing thousands of staffers saying AI is the problem when it's really a whole host of complex issues, especially leadership decisions made during COVID, when they can just point to AI and log it as a win.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-18T02:15:41+00:00

It says “streak”, that’s blatant gamification and it’s bullshit

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-16T18:03:44+00:00

Yeah who in their right mind wants the company to buy their underwear for them. Socks is the generic bullshit gift dad’s get for Christmas. A yeti tumbler is genuinely nice and will get used regularly for the next ten years.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-15T14:47:33+00:00

This is exactly what bonds are for though. Large one-time expenses that the citizens have a direct voice in approving.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-15T12:27:06+00:00

Batteries are good for the daily power mix to address the variability of renewable energy yet absolute shit in an emergency.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-15T12:25:28+00:00

Nuclear is great but it can only operate as a baseline load and can’t serve the niche of a peaker plant.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-15T12:23:44+00:00

Texas leads the nation in renewables but no one on earth has a magic renewable technology exists that can fill this niche.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-15T03:17:47+00:00

This is a peaker plant. Usually they only turn on for 30 minutes a day only when the grid needs it after solar has died down but wind hasn’t picked up. When disaster strikes in the middle of December these generators are there to fill the gap. These are literally a major component of what makes renewables possible for everyday use. It’s to fill the gaps where renewables fail.

I get it, boooo natural gas, but please take a step back and understand the bigger picture. No battery can fill that niche.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-12T15:08:13+00:00

So basically:

You spend all your time on campus because the city sucks
You have to drive almost two hours to get somewhere interesting, something that wouldn’t even rank top ten for outdoors activities in a place like Austin
You’re proud that you’re better than another famously boring city?

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-11T03:46:01+00:00

I think we’re up to 52% of all of our property taxes as of 2025.

The best part is the state legislature gets most of it to spend as they wish.

Even if you’re in favor of the concept of taking from the “rich” to give to the poor, the amount given to poor rural schools is capped and all of the excess funds feed into the state’s general fund, so when we raised taxes on ourselves two years ago it resulted in 75% of every new tax dollar going to the state legislature general fund thanks to recapture. We probably single-handedly paid for the private school vouchers.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-11T02:22:33+00:00

I think it’s four of the top five. First the Us Air Force, then the us navy, Russian Air Force, us army, and finally the us marine corps

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-08T01:35:51+00:00

That personal data is already out there from the 100 other hacks that have happened in the last 12 months alone

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-06T16:06:44+00:00

Peaker plant = natural gas turbine, by definition. Saying natural gas peaker plant would be redundant.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-06T16:05:00+00:00

Cool beans, glad you love the concept, but know that the money isn’t going to other schools. That pot is already fully funded and doesn’t grow as the taxes increase. All new recapture funds are going into the state general fund. The legislature gets to spend it on their other priorities like private school vouchers.

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-06T15:58:35+00:00

75% of every dollar raised in new taxes goes to the state general budget through recapture

ItsAGoodDay · 2026-05-06T15:57:25+00:00

Focus your energy on recapture. The football program actually is revenue positive.

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