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A crêpe, rather.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson.

I’ve been thinking along these lines for years. Contrary to what is often said, about landlords being leeches, I believe they provide a service. Not everybody can afford or wants to buy a house, but renting should be affordable.

Land, however, is a finite resource, and should be taxed accordingly, to redistribute wealth, and normalize the market.

I find people who invest on housing as a means to enhance their retirement, for example, fine.

However, hoarding and speculation that leads to inflated markets is not.

A proggresive taxation on individual owners, say 10-15% on the first 3 properties (maybe one or two could be second residences, why not), 20% on 5-10, 50% on 10-20, for example (I’m throwing numbers around) would make hoarding a diminishing returns game.

Businesses should have much higher brackets, on residential. Commercial should be taxed, but less so.

Empty residential should be taxed punitively, and also progressively, and after a certain period, made available to municipalities for social housing.

Capitalism is good, when there are effective checks.

Social housing should be a priority.

There are tons of ways to promote a sane and socially responsible market.

I believe in capitalism, with effective checks, and redistribution of wealth, progressively.

Better yet, Windows IoT enterprise LTSC. Debloated Windows with LTSC

Us nerds don’t buy laptops?

I don’t either, but there are many in my family and friends I will gladly support.

Shit. I used Baileys. Is that bad?

Also, metal needles or equivalent can raise contacts and do their damage. I cut the toothpicks with a cutter so that they are wedge shaped.

I have been a Serif user since the early 2000’s and Affinity since V 1

I love the suite, and use it to do pro stuff, mostly typesetting supported by photo and designer.

Tracing is one of the features I really missed. Now I have it.

I have the universal license for V2, and it’s so good that it’s going to be relevant for a while.

The fact that Canva is, for the time being making it free, and not forcing AI, and allowing it to be optional, is OK by me. If I need AI for a job, I can pay for a month, pretty cheap for what I’m going to be paid.

I like the situation.

Canva is essentially making migration from Adobe easy and free, to poach users.

Win Win in my opinion

I’m sure there is some chapter in the art of the deal that describes something like this that the democrats could quote back to him.

I’ve done this. The blank look on his face is a priceless memory for my kids and I.

Wit

Titus tech tip’s windows decrapifying tool is pretty awesome for removing windows shit.

His YouTube channel is pretty cool too.

Toilet

Makes sense. It was talcum based, which is a pretty bad thing to breathe.

Wurth is just a badge engineering company with stupid high markup. I used to own a sign company, and we bought stuff from them. We slowly realized that they essentially sold convenience, a one stop shop formula.

Give me the real GOATS anytime: 3M, Hilti, any of the big pro power tool makers, etc.

With the internet, the convenience factor is gone.

Yes, but please, get a good one. A crappy one is likely to strip heads.

Ifixit sets are highly regarded.

I have a Wiha set, but that may be overkill for many.

For swamp crotch, Gold Bond is the GOAT.

If you use an electric toothbrush, every two or three brushing, use a manual one. Both brush differently, so you will reach more nooks and crannies by alternating.

Time to order a few SanDisk cards