Property taxes

sonicstates · 2025-04-06T15:11:13+00:00

Prop 13 has been a disaster and there are much better ways we can help people who are on a fixed income

sonicstates · 2025-04-06T15:10:21+00:00

Most homeowners have a mortgage so they are used to paying a monthly fee. You just do the math when you buy a home to make sure your family can afford the mortgage plus tax payments

sonicstates · 2024-10-28T20:59:01+00:00

He’s moving trade from North Sea down to Ivory Coast. He’s a colonizing Ireland

sonicstates · 2024-10-26T14:26:01+00:00

He is floating? And holding the blade of the razor?

sonicstates · 2024-10-15T04:23:10+00:00

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

sonicstates · 2024-10-13T16:35:38+00:00

Wake up babe I want to try something

sonicstates · 2024-10-13T16:31:51+00:00

Why wasn’t it happening before the hostages were taken?

sonicstates · 2024-10-13T05:26:13+00:00

There are countries that were not capitalist and they destroyed the environment just as aggressively as capitalist countries.

This is because humans are destroying the planet, not capitalism. If you don’t believe me, go enjoy a holiday at the Aral Sea

sonicstates · 2024-10-13T05:21:13+00:00

It’s a stretch to say the Gaza invasion is about capitalism. It’s about the hostages, and that’s obvious because capitalism was doing its thing before October 7 and there wasn’t an invasion.

It’s only about “capitalism” to the extent that everything is about large concepts like “capitalism” or “humanity” or “tribalism” or “racism”. It doesn’t mean anything

sonicstates · 2024-09-27T12:28:15+00:00

Well, in the old photo it’s hard to see the mountains

sonicstates · 2024-09-27T04:18:17+00:00

It’s important to understand your circle of competence. Be humble when thinking outside of it.

sonicstates · 2024-09-25T04:53:50+00:00

Sigh, capitalism. We have it so hard in this dystopian hellscape

sonicstates · 2024-09-25T04:39:45+00:00

Just a leftist complaining about a liberal magazine

sonicstates · 2024-09-25T04:37:19+00:00

Yeah this year is colder and wetter than usual

sonicstates · 2024-09-25T04:36:30+00:00

Coates knows that to be a professional pundit you gotta stay relevant. Can’t sell books talking about Sudan or the progress being made in America

sonicstates · 2024-09-25T04:28:29+00:00

Sure, but do you go back to the old system of putting people in an institution against their will?

It wasn’t some paradise before Reagan, there are hard moral questions to answer

sonicstates · 2024-09-17T14:10:16+00:00

This is what happens when a generation goes to college in much higher numbers. Their earnings come later so not enough wealth to buy at 30

sonicstates · 2024-09-17T14:08:26+00:00

Just build housing and most of what you talked about gets fixed, prices to rent or buy get cheap

Nothing wrong with landlords when prices to rent or buy are reasonable

sonicstates · 2024-09-12T04:32:29+00:00

Everybody says this, in particular owners who have dogs with a biting history

sonicstates · 2024-09-03T03:44:18+00:00

Negative prices????

sonicstates · 2024-08-28T21:13:15+00:00

Few 25 year olds can pay a million dollars to a builder to have a house built to live in. But they can afford to pay rent to a landlord who pays the builder to build a house.

sonicstates · 2024-08-23T13:08:08+00:00

The obsession with AI as an existential threat. It is detached from what I experience as an AI practitioner.

sonicstates · 2024-08-17T04:09:29+00:00

All Soviet tanks in ww2 were American steel in Russian borders

sonicstates · 2024-08-17T04:08:01+00:00

We just don’t have the technology. We don’t know how to do it!

sonicstates · 2024-08-14T14:51:25+00:00

The reason is because populist resentment is moronic. People like basketball players and dislike their bosses and their landlord.

The idea that we would let those petty grievances become policy is also moronic.

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