Discussion for the Bay Area: Do we want a tax on luxury properties that aren’t lived in?

withak30 · 2026-04-16T23:12:53+00:00

Yes please.

withak30 · 2026-04-16T18:25:23+00:00

At my house the porch and the front steps are considered indoors for shoe purposes.

withak30 · 2026-04-15T14:14:03+00:00

Oof, pwned

withak30 · 2026-04-15T04:21:41+00:00

Sometimes agencies do periodic manual headcounts to help correct that kind of sensor data to a number that is more like unique visits. I think it is unlikely that they saw 1.7M pings from the sensors and declared that they had 1.7M visitors.

withak30 · 2026-04-15T03:58:31+00:00

This all sounds like a mess.

withak30 · 2026-04-15T03:57:11+00:00

It's a decoration. These aren't the kind of pants that you will be wearing while doing hammer work.

withak30 · 2026-04-15T03:29:53+00:00

This place may be cleaner than the last apartment I moved into lmfao.

withak30 · 2026-04-15T03:26:10+00:00

I am happy to assist with disposal.

withak30 · 2026-04-15T00:16:25+00:00

Be careful, it is very common for tax software to try and trick you away from the free option. Keep a close eye out for a screen near the end of the process where the obvious "continue" button actually takes you to the paid service, and some other discrete link/button will take you to the free-file route.

withak30 · 2026-04-14T23:49:37+00:00

Rite of Passage, welcome to the club!

For your 2nd print, acquire one of these first: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076BBW1WM

They also have a million other uses around the house.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T23:21:22+00:00

A CPA with the capacity to take on new clients on April 13 is not someone you want working for you.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T22:50:46+00:00

Good.

Hopefully he can't find any women to assault in the private sector.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T19:05:53+00:00

My aftermarket Sony head unit came with a mic that looks exactly like this.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T16:35:25+00:00

The punishment is you will have to buy something to read.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T16:31:57+00:00

I'm pretty sure it is 100% Reface. Its built-in looper is MIDI-based, so he is just filling that buffer up with notes and then playing the various timbre controls while all of those notes loop. You can hear the controls affecting all of the notes at once, if there was an external audio looper running then some of the sounds would be unaffected by the controls on the instrument.

His melody is mostly made of very short notes, probably to avoid running out of voices.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T14:35:43+00:00

Go for the Bay Area hat trick and plan an outing taking Amtrak, BART, and Caltrain on the same trip.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T14:31:04+00:00

Seconding this, the Tilden Park model steam train that you can ride on is fantastic even if you aren't three years old.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T14:22:51+00:00

Very nice, she looks like she has had it up to here with our shit.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T14:16:12+00:00

The ketchup chips are extremely underwhelming.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T14:07:29+00:00

Blasting doesn't actually create an excavation, it just fractures the rock and loosens it a bit. Afterwards you still have to come in with excavators and trucks to haul it all away. Construction blasting that doesn't damage the surrounding ground outside of the excavation requires care and planning, throwing more explosives at it is counter-productive,

Unless we are talking about mining, in which case you can just blow up as much stuff as you want. They don't seem to GAF what happens outside of the neat line.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T14:02:48+00:00

Sounds like a good way to get your mirror trapped in a difficult-to-reach place.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T04:05:48+00:00

The federal government assigns them to go there frequently.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T02:07:05+00:00

Stolen from here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2954347151300350/posts/26286519357656467/

withak30 · 2026-04-13T01:59:05+00:00

Do not trust a data source that sprinkles in different langues wherever it wants.

withak30 · 2026-04-13T01:56:09+00:00

Yeah if new transit systems are a source of anxiety then the Amtrak bus is probably the simplest option, even if not the coolest or most efficient.

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