My local newspaper was also stupidly paywalled, but one day a civil prosecutor noticed they were a non-profit and paywalling was a violation of their tax exempt status. Within weeks they dropped the paywall but tried to brand it as something enabled by generous donors and not a legal requirement.

That’s a picture of the instructor not the student

That is actually the opposite argument as this project had. We’ll never know the full truth because in the Utah legislature the Republicans exempted themselves from FOIA/GRAMA requests. What it looks like happened based on the emails and records we do have is the Republican House Leader Stuart Adams (a land developer) bought 640 acres of waterless desert land for $10. He then tried to lure the data center to the land next to his by promising Kevin O’Leary it would be tax exempt. This would have made his plot exponentially more valuable.

The local county (about 50,000 cattle and peach farmers) government calculated the data center would cost the county government about $5 million per year because they’d be on the hook for police, fire, ambulance, water, sewer, snow removal, road maintenance etc. The county government didn’t think it was a fair deal for them so they got O’Leary to agree to a one time payment of $20 million, long enough for these local Republicans to win reelection and then everyone forget by the next cycle.

Fun fact O’Leary originally proposed a solar, wind, and battery powered data center but the state level Republicans put a condition on approval that it must be fossil fuel powered. The Utah Way!

California did the same thing with the Freeway Killer

They thought it was one guy, but was 3.

My parents were very anti-sugar/processed foods and extremely controlling of our diet, there was a lock on the pantry door and everything (which is how I learned to pick locks 😉). All of us went wild in adulthood. All of us are obese except my sister who runs a half marathon per day. The funny thing is my parents never ate healthy, they would devour desserts at work and hide candy in their bedroom closet. My dad still drinks a gallon of chocolate milk per week

This is what’s happening to Vegas, the number of visitors is dropping but the casino profit is increasing. The city no longer caters to the middle class but to millionaires.

Yes that’s my point. Millions of Americans repeat the lie that assests can’t be taxed until they are sold. They fret about the administrative details, logistics, morality of it. Meanwhile it’s happening everyday for most homeowners.

Property can’t be taxed, but any money made from selling property can. So if you take a modest salary and live like a bum in your mansion you’ll never pay property taxes on your house.

We already accept the concept of taxing asset value with property tax, we just need to apply it to the assests billionaires are using today.

But how much water? This winter the Rockies had their lowest recorded precipitation ever

Republicans don’t believe in ‘universal rights’ or ‘equal rights’.

Justice to them is doing good to friends and harm to enemies.

I agree with everything you are saying. What I’m saying is actually living under fascism has made Portugal and Spain more resistant to fascism and other right wing non-sense than other countries in Europe. Not perfectly immune, and this will not last forever in the face of limitless digital propaganda, but for now resistant enough.

It helps that millions of voters here actually grew up under fascism and still clearly remember how much it sucks.

Basically there is a small percentage of Grindr users who are full on addicted to the app. Grindr knows this and the last five years or so the company has been fully focused on squeezing them for every penny, even at the expense of losing millions of free users.

Don’t take my word for it, here is a Wall Street analyst talking about it with receipts.

My dog is afraid of trains which is occasionally inconvenient for traveling somewhere far as we live car free.

If I had just paired his vaccines with Tylenol he would have instead been able to identify the year and model of every locamotive 🚂 and seek them out like he does now with french fries. 🍟

That’s wonderful you are a data engineer, but in a normal business setting most people are not. I’m the only one at my company who knows SQL exists. But everyone knows what Excel is, everyone knows at least the basics of using it. Even if I got my coworkers familiar with and writing SQL (which is a laughable thought) there are still clients.

Data is everywhere, and Excel has been the default program for light data analysis for decades. I hate it as much as the next person, but right now it’s inescapable and irreplaceable.

Excel/Access is literally the only reason I ever boot to Windows anymore.

Power Query

They keep saying “both sides have to make sacrifices”, what exactly is Russia giving up? Why isn’t the size of the Russian military being severely limited as well, especially given they are the aggressor in multiple conflicts…

They will be adding trans and pride flags in their place, maybe a Palestinian flag for good measure.

Let’s also not forget many countries that today don’t have a visible black population were also very active in slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Argentines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Uruguayans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Chileans

Generations of conservative politicians have sold Americans the idea that government can and should be run like a business. That if it were run like a business it would be sunshine and rainbows with low taxes, and high quality services. Many people do genuinely believe this.