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by javagram 2y ago
Partisan gerrymandering doesn’t affect senate or presidential elections (with the small exception of Nebraska and Maine’s electors) yet those elections have also become more partisan and polarized. Moreover, the growing rural/urban par
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In the USA, iPhones send videos/photos over MMS when including Android phones in a group conversation. There is a quality degradation but they aren’t missing. This feature works fine for me with the Android users I know in real life. I
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by javagram 2y ago
Rental apartments are important for people who plan to live there less than 5-7 years. If all apartments were condos and there was no renting , where are people who don’t have a down payment saved supposed to live? What if they need to move
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by javagram 2y ago
Construction loans are for custom builds where the homeowner is contracting directly with a builder, with no developer middleman, I thought? Someone I knew recently “built” a home through a developer and they didn’t need to get a loan until
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The local government in many areas is often requiring an HOA to be formed for new developments to manage stormwater and road maintenance that they don’t want to be responsible for. In those situations the HOA could be seen as government imp
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by javagram 2y ago
Look up “Ferguson effect”. Regardless of police budgets, policing in the USA has taken a step back in the last decade and reduced enforcement. The result can be seen everywhere - more car crashes and deaths, speeding, homicides, car theft,
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by javagram 2y ago
> They keep customers to donate money and then donate the money in the businesses name and get a tax write off False if you Google search the claim. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-000329849244 “ Stores can
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by javagram 2y ago
There are many systems that allow generating a API token to be used with other apps. The article clearly indicates that this school learning system, “Canvas”, had such a functionality until it was removed during this saga, apparently by hid
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by javagram 2y ago
Unrealized capital gains aren’t income, so it’s not a tax loophole.
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by javagram 2y ago
Chick fil A is privately held and their franchise operator model doesn’t require a large infusion of cash from the franchisee. Only 10k cash, so it’s more like a manager job with profit sharing and I don’t see how it could be a MLM.
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by javagram 2y ago
Banks sold a lot of mortgages at 2% rates without anticipating the rapid rise to 7%. The unlucky banks still had these on their books instead of having already sold them off as MBS and became insolvent when the mortgages became worth less.
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Part of the problem with this stat, which I saw someone point out on Twitter, is that conservative demographics have changed since 2011. College-educated white voters, especially women, have shifted significantly toward the Democratic party
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The McDonald’s coupons are always available under a menu in the app. You have to know to look for them though. Might be regional but in my area there’s always a 20% off your whole order coupon plus some others that can do even better. Not t
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by javagram 3y ago
> I have a young family member who was taught exactly the opposite -- setting the parking brake was "harmful" to the car somehow and not to do it. I knew a friend who was also convinced of this somehow. It seems to be a common
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by javagram 3y ago
> And isn't the whole point of being a judge that you're impartial, are they subtly alleging the court is partial to whatever laws are made by one of the two major parties or something? Federal appellate judges are typically ap
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> People don't have to "do their part" when they benefit from a subsidy (like vote for a specific party because they subsidized the price of gas), and usually neither do companies. This is typically false, usually the subs
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by javagram 3y ago
Older houses “breathe” aka leak air like sieves. Air pollution from a small source like a pilot light is quickly diluted by air exchange with the outdoors.
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by javagram 3y ago
Lithium ion battery fires are self-oxidizing, according to google search results.
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by javagram 3y ago
Many gun owners keep their guns in a bag, purse or backpack that’s full of other things. Many people don’t clean out and repack their bags before traveling. Many people are absent minded. Combine all these and you get a pretty large interse
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by javagram 3y ago
The article says he self reported it after realizing mid flight it was in his bag.
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by javagram 3y ago
> Mind you - the gov already has copies of ALL the forms. They just want you to f it up. Not completely accurate - you’re required to pay tax on side jobs under $600 for instance, but neither you nor the IRS get a 1099 tax form for it. R
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by javagram 3y ago
There are plenty of people in the USA who live in apartments today. Building more apartments is outlawed in many areas due to land use rules. If people truly won’t live in the apartments, land use rules can be abolished and developers and b
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by javagram 3y ago
Wouldn’t a chargeback result in being banned from Uber?
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> A main idea of passkeys is that the private keys are bound to hardware and cannot be copied. This seems incorrect. “ Like passwords, passkeys are encrypted and stored in your iCloud Keychain” I also just recently set up some passkeys v
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by javagram 3y ago
There are a lot more than 1600 “millionaires” in the sense you’re describing. Moreover, people who just have a expensive house and some 401k savings won’t have 250k or more of back taxes owed. It’s likely a more accurate term for the 1600 t
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by javagram 3y ago
If you have to deal with “donation receipts” you have an unusual tax situation. Most people (87%)[0] are better off taking the standard deduction rather than itemizing. Taking the standard deduction, your donation receipts don’t matter. If
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by javagram 3y ago
The article discusses that they would pay people who integrate with Vehicle2Grid solutions. Sounds like a smart way to avoid duplicating infrastructure. People who know they don’t need their full battery charge except for rare, long trips c
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by javagram 3y ago
Aren’t robotaxis public transport? They’re a personal rapid transport (PRT) system that uses existing infrastructure (the roads), rather than requiring expensive railways be built throughout every neighborhood. There’s a light rail project
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On the other hand, Musk’s tweet was about whether myocarditis risk was “common” which it isn’t even for previously infected individuals who receives the vaccine whether it was voluntary or “forced”. Moreover previously infected individuals
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by javagram 3y ago
I clicked on the article and it’s about European rail prices. FWIW, in the USA I thought the rural Amtrak routes are money losers subsidized by the northeast regional passengers. They only continue to run because politicians want them to, s

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