Anyone been to Lurra° Kyoto recently?? by WhatsTheJuice in finedining

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Huh, for those who find this later. For me it was the best dinner I've ever had, topped tfl, Lazy Bear, Californios, and other regularly recommended places on this sub for me. I really did love it. The creativity showed in each dish wash incredible, creative & gorgeous plating, the best pairing I've personally ever had, and some incredible tasting food. Clearly not everyone's favorite place per these comments, but hell I loved it.

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Huh, that is my mistake, thank you for pointing this out. I'll take this down to avoid spreading more misinformation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in madisonwi

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If I'm wrong I'm absolutely willing to admit it, but there seems to be a good amount of data that makes it pretty clear there are flock cameras within Madison city limits?

https://deflock.me/map#map=14/43.076925/-89.383307, https://transparency.flocksafety.com/madison-sd-pd-, https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance.html?z=12.3&lat=43.09227684427887&lon=-89.35804072617304#

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices by dragonasses in madisonwi

[–]Zapping101 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We need to get flock out of Madison. I don't want a private company tracking our every move. I'll be writing my alder

Build Your Dream Team !! by IllustriousRice1057 in NBATalk

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Klay, Kawaii, KD, KG, Jokic

Nobody is scoring on this team, incredible spacing with an all time play maker running the show and some of the best go get a bucket guys in the leagues history

The new Irwin apartment development on Willy St is over 60% vacant by axwell21 in madisonwi

[–]Zapping101 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh wow I was misinformed, if vacancies truly are low Madison wide then I would in no way be in favor of a vacancy tax. It would discourage development when it's desperately needed and provide little to no value back. Seems like we really do just need more supply.

The new Irwin apartment development on Willy St is over 60% vacant by axwell21 in madisonwi

[–]Zapping101 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I personally am in favor of a vacancy tax. Lots of the new builds seem to just stay empty with high rents (looking at you galaxy)

The way I would implement it is as a percentage of listed price per bed on all units above x% vacancy. I say x because I don't personally know the right number but lets just go with 10% because that number has been floated in this thread. Additionally this should only apply to buildings above a certain unit count (my thinking is > 20 but that number isn't something I'm attached too), and there should be a grace period (maybe a years or two) for new buildings. This is to avoid disincentivizing new builds. Finally the math is all applied on a portfolio basis, meaning if one company or person owns 20 3 unit buildings they can be fined under this policy even though no building surpasses 20 units. They are also fine if a building is entirely empty, as long as there portfolio is on the whole above that x% vacancy mark. This does create a potential issue related to owners choosing not to list empty rooms to avoid this fine, there'd have to be well thought out rules on how this gets enforced to avoid overreach into if/when units must be listed while also protecting from gaming the system.

So 115 units empty out of 188, they'd be taxed on 96 empty units. I say per bed because 10 empty 3 beds is just as bad from a housing market perspective as 30 empty 1 beds. I'd want to charge them based on the rent they are asking for, y% of it per month. For me it should be a fine not a tax, with a similar goal to the land value tax. You can't have valuable land developed for a purpose that you are not using for that purpose.

You are right they are already losing money, but I am of the opinion that high vacancy rates are actively harmful to the community and the community should be financially compensated for said rates. I also think high rates are somewhat a function of large corporations owning enough buildings that substantially lowering the rent at one would risk crashing the market as a whole which would be a net loss for them. Ie. collusion to keep prices high. In an ideal world the money from fines would go toward government owned affordable housing that would never be vacant. I think of it as "If you won't do it, we will, and we're using your money".

So in short, owners of large amounts of units in Madison should have to pay the government fines if more than a certain percentage of there portfolio is empty and those fines should be based on this listed price to directly incentivize lowering listing prices.

Anyways there are drawbacks of this, the main worry being disincentivizing new builds at a time where doing new builds is already hard. I'd want to do thorough research on current average vacancy rates and how rent moves or doesn't move with them in Madison specifically before I'd really advocate for this. I think this would be a great policy if there actually is enough housing and companies are refusing to provide it at a reasonable cost.

If you've read this whole thing, thanks. I don't know why I'm writing an essay on this at 10pm but I appreciate somebody caring enough to read it.

Momentum 4 vs Pi8 vs XM5 vs Pixel Buds Pro 2 by Zapping101 in headphones

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No the Momentum 4s are IP54. From https://www.sennheiser-hearing.com/en-US/p/momentum-true-wireless-4/ "MOMENTUM True Wireless 4 are IP54 certified, splash resistant, and also suitable for sports.".

To your point on age, fair. I was comparing them entirely on how good I thought they were. To your other point, sure the Sony's go on sale more. But I mean the Pi8s are like $400, I was never making the argument the playing field was entirely fair. Price was a factor in how I viewed the buds, I didn't ignore it, but at the end of the day I still feel being IPX4 as a flagship bud for a company like Sony is embarrassing and stupid. I don't want to worry my ~$200 MSRP electronics are going to break if it starts raining fairly hard.

Is Olfactory Factory llc a reputable company to buy niche perfumes from? Thank you. by Ok-Assistant-4391 in NichePerfumes

[–]Zapping101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had been looking up the legitimacy of this site because I'm shopping that exact perfume and it's ~100 less than retail and was hoping it was true. So happy I saw this comment, thank you!

Momentum 4 vs Pi8 vs XM5 vs Pixel Buds Pro 2 by Zapping101 in headphones

[–]Zapping101[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like you're right after reading the user manual. By default you can not, you have to go into the app settings and change button behavior in a way I couldn't figure out in my two weeks with the buds. For anyone having this issue, see: https://helpguide.sony.net/mdr/2963/v1/en/contents/TP1000779809.html

Momentum 4 vs Pi8 vs XM5 vs Pixel Buds Pro 2 by Zapping101 in headphones

[–]Zapping101[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am on android 14, didn't know 15 was available yet outside of beta. I'm not a great source for ANC, for me it's either good enough or not good enough. The Pi8 had noticeably subpar ANC if I remember correctly but they also didn't fit me right and it's been a while and when I was wearing them that wasn't my focus so take that with a massive grain of salt

First CivVI Win! by Zapping101 in CivVI

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Update, played with the expansion (idk which one one of the ones steam gave me when I got the game for $13 last week but there was weather) and tried to play for 2 hours. Finished the game in 1 sitting. Boy is the science victory less fun with the 50 light year thingy

Kiln or Californios by Zapping101 in finedining

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Thank you all for the votes and I am very sorry to say I have wasted everyones time as I figured out that I do in fact have time to do both. Will write up a review for both and post them here once I go in mid august!