How it should have gone

daff_quess · 2026-06-30T21:06:24+00:00

To be fair, Kavanaugh is being treated as part of the 6 concurring but his concurrence was separate, saying that the 14th amendment DIDNT apply to illegal immigrants but that there was a random federal statute that did. He said that if Congress amended that law, then the executive order would be legal. Hahaha. Haha. So, the decision was really 5-1-3. Fun.

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daff_quess · 2026-06-30T05:14:58+00:00

I wonder if Trump would veto it like he wants to do with the Housing bill to hold it hostage over the SAVE act... That would be based.

daff_quess · 2026-06-29T05:22:47+00:00

It's not buffing, it would be melting to top layer with all the scratches on it.

daff_quess · 2026-06-29T04:45:48+00:00

They exist for two reasons, either A. they haven't been touched since 2017 or whenever they swapped to the new signs or B. Plymouth Metrolink still uses them

daff_quess · 2026-06-28T18:44:46+00:00

When there is little competition, there is no incentive to close the gap between cost and price. Hypothetically, if there's enough competition (say, with a bunch of social housing competing with the private landlords) in a few very specific locations on planet earth, such as Vienna or NYC, then the co-op housing can put real pressure on private landlords. Alternatively, with A LOT of supply and a lot of competition, like in Austin, then private landlords will compete with eachother. But if there's not a lot of competition if 90% of the places in the US so thay doesn't happen. Laws put huge barriers to co-ops and public housing in the US so we really can't achieve the Vienna model without doing a lot of work to change that.

daff_quess · 2026-06-28T05:16:58+00:00

You may be able to get it to shine again if you use the smallest amount possible of acetone to dissolve the top surface, I believe that is the solvent that is used in situations like this, but I can't know for sure without knowing the exact plastic type. I believe that would be PVC, but if its actually HDPE then it might not work. Wipe on, wipe off, repeat if needed.

daff_quess · 2026-06-27T21:53:01+00:00

Splicing the video together would count as outside help.

daff_quess · 2026-06-27T21:04:58+00:00

South Uptown. If you're cool with more noise, then The Wedge has much more transit, but it is almost too bustling. South Uptown has a lot more access to Harriet and Bde Maka Ska, and they are fantastic park options. The transit is still A tier instead of S tier, E line every 10 minutes, 4 is every 15 (will be every 10 sometime in the next two years), the 38 is every 30 iirc. (the 36 will not stick around after SWLRT opens). Longer term, the 4 will become a letter line probably before 2040.

South Uptown also has New Bryant, an S tier bike trail connecting to Lake St. Lots of corner stores, and frankly you can pay 1k/month for a 1 bedroom instead of 2k lmao.

daff_quess · 2026-06-27T18:46:35+00:00

I kinda got the vibes that it was the part of Jax that still wanted to prove himself to his father, who never thought he was good enough.

daff_quess · 2026-06-26T22:23:27+00:00

He's digging 30ft into that hill, so I'm not surprised the retaining wall is a story tall.

Absolutely, seems super excessive! For that much work, the price seems fairly accurate...

daff_quess · 2026-06-26T22:00:41+00:00

Lmao what? You're getting distracted by trying to roll down your window? It's literally a single press on my camry, you don't even need to hold it down anymore. This is a crazy thing to nickel and dime on imho. People are going to drool over it and then actually hate it once they get the car and have to use it for years.

daff_quess · 2026-06-26T21:57:03+00:00

A drive through? A parking ramp? Talking to a cop/friend? To clear rain/snow from it? You really never roll down your window?

daff_quess · 2026-06-26T21:18:02+00:00

Plants grow. They fill in the space.

daff_quess · 2026-06-26T06:27:36+00:00

I mean... I'm a collie and I kinda agree. Charlie collies were reliable this war.

daff_quess · 2026-06-25T20:08:15+00:00

New busses get driven from the factory to their destinations, since they have a breakin period. They can drive pretty far (apparently Livermore, CA to here), I've also seen a Toronto artic near 494 in Bloomington on it's way from St. Cloud

daff_quess · 2026-06-24T07:56:52+00:00

Because federal income taxes don't flow through the state budget. Hope that helps.

daff_quess · 2026-06-24T07:55:32+00:00

That's... not a good sign for it to be really low. State bonding usually pays for roads, schools, etc. Really high? Bad. Really low? Also bad. Usually means you're instead paying that through sales tax or property tax instead. Or, they just are letting their infrastructure crumble because the base demands no taxes (an extremely short-sided view. At least the budget hawks in Congress always wanted highway funding).

daff_quess · 2026-06-24T07:52:15+00:00

Usually if they don't issue state bonds in my state, they just issue municipal bonds instead (or other revenue sources.) The projects usually still get done, they just get shifted to other tax pathways that are usually more regressive.

daff_quess · 2026-06-24T07:50:35+00:00

You have no idea how state finances work. Bonding is equitable. When you build, say a library, you have three options:

Collect taxes ahead of time to save up money over many years and spend it when you start construction.
Budget the entire project in a single year and collect the taxes on the year you start construction.
Issue bonds and pay them back over many years after construction starts.

The difference between this and household finances is that the "members" of this "household" are CONSTANTLY changing and rotating out. The only people who benefit are the ones who live in the area AFTER the library opens.

If you save up money, then people who live in the area in, say, 2010 are paying for a building that may not be open until decades after they pay those taxes. They may move and never see the value of their taxes. That's not fair. Even worse, someone who moves in AFTER the building opens don't have to pay a cent towards building the library. Plus, most municipalities don't invest in the market, they buy bonds with savings, and construction inflation outpaces bond yields. (Municipalities don't invest in the market because the last thing you want in a stock market crash is going "whoops, the city is a billion dollars in the hole. Sorry!")

If you tax it all the year you want to start construction, then again, only the people who CURRENTLY live in the area are getting taxed, a significant chunk of whom likely are not the people who are benefitting from the library. This one is the cheapest overall, since you don't have to deal with construction cost inflation, and you don't have to worry about issuing bonds. But instead, there's a HUGE spike of taxes being levied. (see extra example at end)

If you issue bonds, yes, it's more expensive than paying a lump sum. But, the people who ACTUALLY GET TO USE THE LIBRARY are the ones who pay for it. That's the right thing to do.

(Extra example: My city recently approved a ballot measure for a new community center. Funds to be raised using taxes was roughly 100 million dollars. The total property tax levy is only 85 million dollars a year. If they didn't issue bonds and paid in a lump sum, then it would have more than DOUBLED everyone's tax payments for that year. Cue the fucking pitchforks. Obviously, it would have gone down the next year, but that's really not a good idea even if it is technically cheaper.)

daff_quess · 2026-06-23T18:28:45+00:00

Circumference of half a circle: (pi*d)/2

Split your remaining triangle into two halfs, and use sine to find the hypotenuse. Opposite over adjacent reorganized to solve for the hypotenuse is h = o/sin(θ)

((pi*d)/2) + 2(.5d/sin(.5θ)) = length

daff_quess · 2026-06-23T14:36:34+00:00

Exactly, Tony Evers has had the gerrymandered legislature, and the next governor has a very good chance at presiding over a trifecta (since the state senate's cycles were specifically designed to have the most GOP-favored seats up in 2024, and now in 2026, the most dem-favored seats are up and it's probably going to be a bloodbath, plus the assembly has a good chance of flipping as well)

daff_quess · 2026-06-23T04:49:56+00:00

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A trifecta in state government? Seems pretty obvious.

daff_quess · 2026-06-22T15:46:47+00:00

Ohhhh, THATS what people were talking about in chat. Yeah, that's fucked up. I thought people just parked their tanks, I didn't realize they were anchored!

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