@k111qq@actsmaniac You're right, we should only tax the unimproved value of land, that way the government isn't punishing you for building things that create value.
@tramwayz_@actsmaniac You should see Los Angeles, suburbs stretch about a hundred miles inland which often forces people to lives hours from their workplace. West of Chino should look like Tokyo by now.
Housing policy platform for the young:
- increase property taxes to get boomer homeowners to downsize
- abolish rent control to get boomer tenants to move out
- legalize construction of big apartment blocks
- scrap parking minimums and improve transit to make a cheap lifestyle without a car easier
@NYPDretiredHV@Goldbug_101@Danny_Crypton AI isn't going to fill my gas tank or grow and transport food to grocery store. If anything all the AI "revolution" is doing making the cost of energy and computing more expensive, all while being used as a leverage tool against the working class. This war is making things worse.
no creator wants the dislikes removed & dislikes help viewers gauge whether or not videos (tutorials especially) are worth watching. no different than movie ratings or restaurant ratings. the dislikes were removed years ago to coddle the feelings of corpos, the whitehouse & youtube itself after their awful “rewind” video bombed
"Parents should be able to control their kid's online experiences!"
THEY ALREADY CAN!! THEY ALREADY FREAKING CAN!! THEY CAN DO THIS RIGHT THE FRICK NOW!!
WE DON'T NEED TO VIOLATE OUR 1ST AND 4TH TO ACHIEVE CHILD SAFETY!! PARENTS JUST NEED TO DO THEIR JOBBBBBB!!!!!
🔔ICYMI: A controversial deal in the U.S. could fundamentally rewrite internet freedom as we know it.
The congressional deal would trade the deregulation of artificial intelligence for unprecedented federal censorship powers.
A high-stakes compromise is quietly brewing in Washington as the White House negotiates with congressional leaders to fundamentally reshape the digital landscape.
Under the proposed deal reported by Axios, the federal government would strip states of their authority to regulate artificial intelligence—effectively halting progressive state-level efforts to hold tech companies accountable and restrict energy-heavy AI data centers.
In exchange, lawmakers would push through three major federal censorship bills: the Kids Online Safety Act, the NO FAKES Act, and a federal online age verification mandate. While framed as common-sense protections for minors, civil liberties advocates warn these measures represent an unprecedented expansion of federal control over online speech.
The backlash to this legislative trade-off cuts across typical political lines. Even conservative-backed organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) have issued stark warnings, declaring that the package would dismantle the internet as we know it by empowering the Federal Trade Commission to dictate acceptable online speech.
Opponents argue that enforcing these rules would effectively eliminate online anonymity, while giving the administration an incredibly powerful tool to censor dissenting political views and control what users see on major platforms like Instagram.
As the White House maneuvers to secure congressional backing, Americans are left facing a troubling dilemma: the long-sought-after regulation of big tech and AI may come at the direct cost of their fundamental constitutional rights to free expression.
Source: Wilkins, J. (2026). Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet. Futurism.
@Jammin_221@SpaceInvestor_D And these prices are very artificial, driven by government constrained supply and artificially low property taxes on hoarded land by old property owners and businesses alike.
@Jammin_221@SpaceInvestor_D These opportunities primarily exist through credentialism, it doesn't guarantee top talent, only those that could afford to sit through college. The young scrappy engineer who could learn through experience, the people more likely to start companies of their own, are left out.
today, no legal system is based on the Mongols’, nobody reads ancient Mongolian books, its history inspired nothing.
Rome still exists in the Catholic Church, Civil Law, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian languages, the entire notion of a republic.
Eat a dick, Genghis.
@ChebzReal@Stone_tossers Not to mention all the people rushing to "learn to plumb" in fear of being unemployed while also being pushed by companies that stand to benefit from a glut of desperate labor.
In every single country that passed age verification laws:
1) databases got leaked
2) innocent websites got censored
3) governments became more censorship heavy
4) protests became more criminalized
5) information got harder to find