I’d start with taxing 100% property taxes of empty properties as a logical next step.

Unfortunately, the stock market has been not been pricing stable mature companies. Only growth stocks get money.

Ah, thanks.

Help me understand. Why August 3rd?

If my memory is correct, this was used by a number of restaurants in Japan that it got enough attention for a news story.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Or in this case reduced profits by a private company that isn’t disclosing anything.

Ha, that’s a funny joke. Is this a satire site?

It’s not? Odd… surely someone else is reporting this.

Yep, it’s real. Source

Ooh, should I start looking at the stock market for some deals to sell next week when the ceasefire is back?

It’s updates like this that make me wish for a ‘git diff’ of those changes.

One may hope some R’s see the light.

Not while he’s in office. I don’t want him to be idolized by his followers. Wait until the impeachment and removal from office has happened next year.

For the Americans, here. Go register to Vote & get your neighbor to register too.

Correct. Anything MAGA doesn’t like is Communism.

• Enforcing Tax codes -> Communism
• Lower Fossil Fuel usage -> Communism
• Being told no on being asked out on a date -> Communism
• Investigating anything for corruption -> Communism
• Having to ask for mustard on your sandwich -> Communism

Basically anything.

Nothing says small government like the bigger government telling the smaller government no.

Ah, there’s the reason. Texas has a law requiring it and an appeals court allowed it to go through.

https://ccianet.org/news/2026/05/appeals-court-pauses-injunction-on-texas-app-store-law-that-likely-violates-first-amendment/

Yep, I was not going to provide data to any website for age verification. So my BlueSky account is gone.

Literally a plot point in Sword Art Online

Even if they offer DRM free copies, I’d use GoG first. The Epic Game Store just doesn’t have the feature parity with GoG or Steam stores.

But they don’t even do anything with that greed. Some idiot has a trillion dollars to his name and his impact in the world is negligible to his contemporaries. All of them want more to have more and do nothing with it.

This is the FB marketplace experience. People ask stupid questions instead of reading what is on the description or looking at the pictures.

I wonder how many turtles & fish wash out of the training program.