That’s not what property tax is. Whether he should be paying a greater share or not because he lives there is irrelevant to the fact that this specific tax is a function of real estate property and his boat is likely in fact, not that. They could easily create an excise or residence tax that applies to…

Property for tax purposes is basically never just an object regardless of how you use it. Residency has dick to do with it. If I build a building, a structure, on a plot of land, I pay property tax on it whether I live there, put a store in it, or leave it empty. Property in this case generally refers to real estate.…

Yep. Laws exist and are narrowly defined for a reason. Property taxes are generally for real estate. Plots of land that have things on them and can be transferred and bound by their location.

Actually I gave it quite some thought, but I’m not sure if a GPU is measurably different from a space heater in terms of (in)efficiency.

The most hateable person in this story is obviously the tesla driver but I honestly fucking hate everyone. Choi is clearly subhuman trash who was in on this stunting and he should be wiped off the internet, and the guy the article is about doesn’t need a fucking gofundme. He’s gonna get his insurance payout and he’s…

Electric heat doesn’t work that way. At the end of the day, unless you’re beaming light out a window, it’s basically all ~100% efficient. Thanks to the laws of entropy, if your goal is to create heat and emit it into a room, the wattage to heat output ratio of any heater is going to be pretty much the same. The real…

Flatly nonpartisan rules and laws can be and regularly are exercised for partisan purposes.

Spell check is not going to catch Mason vs Manson, ever. It also may not pick up on stollen because while it’s obscure and something like chrome or firefox’s spell check might pick it up a more robust one might actually recognize that it’s a German loanword used in English sometimes to refer to a variety of bread.

It’s not that the writers don’t care, it’s that the concept of copy-editing is basically dead. Back in the days of print media and even early internet, every single article you wrote would go in front of a copy editor who as a part of their job would read through it all looking for stuff exactly like this, not because…

The salesman doesn’t care.  He likely gets his commission the moment the deal is closed with financing.  Hell even the finance guy probably doesn’t care.  Technically he’s probably bound to not in good faith take the finance kickback if he knows you’re going to just convert it in a week but even if that’s the case the…

Maybe nobody at the Biden Administration has seen the “I did that” gas station stickers.

To be fair in most cases “livery designer” just winds up being “figure out how to make our other sponsor stickers fit on our title sponsor’s colors.”

If they can get them somewhere to integrate them in an orderly fashion, yeah. Captured vehicles were a big deal in WWII and they still are in some lower tech or asymmetrical wars.
That said... friendly fire is a lot less friendly when you’re wearing enemy markings. I would argue that in most cases anything but the…

The only time in recent memory that F1 cancelled any race because of political upheaval (as opposed to thinks like natural disaters and pandemics) was when Force India engineers literally had a molotov/firebomb bounce off their car.

There is apparently some nuance over whether you’re using the flag to signify the location vs a competitor’s nationality. Basically Russia can’t field a national team and call it the Russian national team with a Russian flag representing them, but if you’re using icons to just visually tell everyone where an event is,…

To be fair these things can be tricky to just change on a dime. Some locations may have contractual obligations that others don’t, or they may have some threshold of visibility and choose to remove the most time sensitive and visible ones first.

I... really don’t give a shit what my uber drivers rate me. Or anyone that I pay for a service.  You’re getting my money. I’m not here to keep you company or be interesting.  I believe everyone should be treated with dignity, respect, and politeness, so I’m sure going to do that, but... I really don’t care beyond that…

Yeah it’s clearly sped up.  You can tell by the how weird and unnatural the motions are of the people in the ambulance responding to its movements. 

They tend to wind up not being cops after they do that, which means there are no good cops. 

There is a difference between something you’re born into and living in a society that you are born into, and making a voluntary, diberate career choice.