When I say free money to the owners, I mean the primary effect on the market is only to increase the price, giving more money to sellers and more equity to owners. Without a significant increase in supply, it won't help much and giving 25k for single family homes would be counterproductive​ in general in my opinion. You want to fuck speculators and parasitic landlords, you do it by increasing supply. That can include a focused effort on high density and mixed use housing that the 25k doesn't help with.

Nah, using tax dollars to increase property values in a housing crisis is counterproductive as fuck. It increases rents for everyone else as well. Better off attacking it from the supply side with a massive subsidized housing effort and just tanking the market. But that's politically toxic.

The worst idea is ever giving down payment assistance. Government subsidizing actual builders, sure, but free money to property owners just increases the price to meet supply and demand and goes right into their pocket. It actually increases home prices. Extremely stupid.

I like 7 gigawatts over 7,100 megawatts.

Most of them would be denatured by stomach acidity but the risk of something like paradoxin finding a small route into your blood stream is too damn high.

When it comes to venom that is also used as a toxin in other species, though, and is a big killer of humans, the crown goes to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin which is used as both a poison against predators for things like pufferfish and a venom for things like the blue ringed octopus.

I wish we used Magyar nicknames in our American locker room. I was big delicious but I don't know what that'd be in Hungarian.

Kids slamming bathroom stall doors and kicking them with their feet seems to be pretty common from my vague memories.

Does Dan Harmon voice Tyson?

Watching the tree to see when the fruit is ripe and then carting around a ladder to pick it? That sounds like a fucking job.

I think they've gone beyond somewhat friendly with China. They've got PLA troops in Pakistan now doing anti terrorism work. The chances of the Chinese establishing a naval base in Pakistan is far from remote at this point, though I think it would be a back channel red line from the Americans regarding further military funding.

More like India remembers our position in the cold war and doesn't have any desire to be beholden to us. Doesn't matter if it's the Hindutva or INC, neither are friendly to US hegemony. I'd hold the same position if I was them of course. I mean we still embargo Cuba for fucks sake.

Quite different compared to staunch US ally Saudi Arabia.

You'd think so, but fascists are generally cheap and will happily use whatever they can that's made by liberals and leftists. See mastodon being created because of a rumor of Peter Theil buying it and then it's code was used to run Truth social.

I was being quite sarcastic.

Russia supports Iran while the US supports the paragons of Israel and Saudi Arabia. Kind of like the US was leaning Pakistan while Russia leans India. Now China finds more value with Pakistan than we do though (which will eventually make us do something stupid to "support our interests").

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo

John Madden. Football.

Overall billionaires wasting their money to pay for idiots that then waste it in consumption would be a tax positive, I believe. We should encourage that behavior instead of them buying assets and then extracting rents like the parasites they are. I don't care if they get to write off the money they lose from their income.

I doubt choosing to stick up a vehicle covered in cameras with someone who likely isn't even carrying cash is anyone's idea of a good payoff.

"I'm aware, Amazon just hosts things I got from libgen and the #bookz undernet irc channel."