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by Based-A 3mo ago
Assuming you're being genuine (which I have a hard time believing because your argument is quite literally a strawman, please read the definition), you're missing the context entirely. You can't conflate small DIY projects do
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by Based-A 3mo ago
Come on, are you really going to strawman "engineering should be inherently disqualifying" into "so people shouldn't DIY in their own home"? Please try a little bit harder.
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by Based-A 5mo ago
> It's too easy to blame the algorithms when the algorithms are a necessary evil. TikTok has millions of videos uploaded per day. You are not going to sort through all of those on your own. I don't necessarily think that people
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by Based-A 5mo ago
As someone who is actively working on the Bevy Book, the next engine release should include the first public release of the Bevy Book. And once it's out, then we'll be doing our best to keep it updated and expand it alongside the
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by Based-A 7mo ago
In the immediate order of things yeah, tenants aren't going to receive any relief from taxing land. The benefit lies in the second, or maybe even third order of effects that LVT produces. Do we want the landlords to just sit on all of
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by Based-A 8mo ago
Well I can't speak to the notion of corrupt politicians, but it's worth noting that if it's in the interests of the landowners, then they'd likely fight to keep anything that they feel would keep their value high. And es
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by Based-A 8mo ago
LVTs focus is on maximizing land value, not profit. It just so happens that when a landowner maximizes the value a piece of their land provides, higher profits are almost guaranteed. It's also a bit of a mistake to view LVT solely thro
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by Based-A 10mo ago
X11 applications will still "work" on Plasma Wayland session by utilizing XWayland, a tool that (afaik) runs a compact X11 session for each application. What is being removed is running an X11-native Plasma session, only Wayland P
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by Based-A 1y ago
Because there is only a fixed amount of land a city can ever possibly sustain. Urban sprawl all you want, but eventually you run out of land to keep expanding into or the city goes broke because there aren't enough revenue generating p
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by Based-A 1y ago
I definitely agree, I should have specified that it's said that way to avoid getting trapped in the weeds when talking with the average person, not when discussing actual policy implementation. The next paragraph in my original comment
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by Based-A 1y ago
> the value of the land is determined by "best and highest use" Absolutely valid to say that "best and highest use" is vague and untrustworthy at best, but it's said this way to avoid getting trapped in the weeds
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by Based-A 1y ago
> The LVT argument holds that we should ignore everything else: Their business ownership, their 401k, their stocks, bonds, cash, and even the house itself. Ignore all of that, tax people based on land. Land Value Tax is specifically conc
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by Based-A 1y ago
Considering that there is a fixed amount of land, I do want to raise taxes for those who choose to sit on undeveloped or underutilized land within urban areas rather than either selling it to someone who will develop or developing it themse