Now there is a $10k cap which includes your state taxes paid

I figured there was something I was missing and I think thats it.

Fwiw, I really appreciate the long-ish form response. I feel most others were content to downvote and move on, but I feel I’ve learned something that I wasn’t otherwise motivated to go learn on my own.

How is that punishing to city dwellers?

I get that it rewards non-city dwellers more than people who live in cities, but is that really the same thing?

I don’t think I get what you mean when you say “Walled Garden” in this context. Can you elaborate?

Interesting. Ugh, I feel the need to go peek at it now, but I also expect to really not like it. Oh well, here goes.

Yeah, I’m not a fan of the microblog format, but I’m pretty sure everyone here is going to agree that Mastodon is the superior Twitter replacement.

Zac Efron.

The girl I was crushing on in high school crushed on him really hard as he appeared in High School Musical. I spent wayyyy too much of my youth trying to emulate Zac Efron as a result. Eventually, that whole style just kinda became my whole style. Seems like a good fit.

Oh no, now we have to ban them all?? What a shame!

/s

Imma need the stats on this so I can throw it in someone’s face later.

Sorry, was definitely reading this 90% asleep as I rolled out of bed. Thanks for the extra link anyway.

Can you pass a link?

I can’t tell if this is real life or sarcasm…

Did I really miss the memo on this one?

Yeah, and who could vote against being a Patriot? Man, that Patriot act sure did wonders.

Ads appearing as messages in the inbox? Pretty sure Gmail is on the way out too.

I do seem to have overlooked that the article focuses on the creators / developers (my brain just lumped all of the “next generation” of employees into a single group). You right.

Now if only they’d be ROM friendly…

Upvoting for admitting you were wrong in your edit.

I wish more of the internet acted that way.

As a “non-foot” person, my rationalization: seeing people with bare feet isn’t typical. Usually, when you do see a barefooted person, its in an intimate or very personal setting and so your brain gets those vibes from seeing feet.

Why dirty / smelly / gross feet appeal to people will forever be beyond me.

If that’s really how that works, then I can see why the expense has been kicked down the line so long. I worry this allocated money won’t be enough then and that we’re probably talking “show” money vs “getting things done” money.

Yeah, but every dollar spent on repaving roads is a dollar that can’t be spent on lead pipes.

I suppose the example I’ve provided is flawed in a sense though. Probably a better example would be that an intersection gets torn up to replace pipes, but the local town council insists on using his brother’s asphalt company. “They might cost twice as much for the repavong, but I promise, it’ll be higher quality” kinda junk.

Like, it feels like this should be the kind of money to put a real dent in the problem…but I worry that the corruption of local governments and the associated contractors will probably soak up a lot of this on tangential things (e.g. lead pipes run under this really old road at one point; guess we’ll need to tear up and repave 20 ish miles of it, just to be sure)