I bought a home six years ago for cash. Unfortunately it is a used school bus and I can’t actually live in it legally anywhere.

I was looking at one of these a few years ago, a decent 1BR unit for $125K. I thought that was reasonable until I learned that the condo fee was $960 per month and that the building had hit owners with special assessments for about $10K each year for the three years prior. Like, I’m supposed to pay almost $2000 a month just to live in an apartment that I already bought?

I just bought an actual 2BR house for $140K and the cost of my taxes plus homeowners insurance comes to $400 a month.

I randomly got a job recommendation from one of the sites that looked for exactly my programming skill set. I was interested until I saw what company it was – Palantir. GOD DAMN IT. On the plus side, most of these job listings are fake anyway, so it was probably just a phishing attempt of sorts based on my resume. At least the AI isn’t smart enough yet to know they should not mention Palantir with me.

I always laugh when conservatives describe Cali as a “shit hole”. Yes, that’s exactly why property is so cheap in California, because nobody wants to live in such an awful place.

You get what you pay for.

Around the world, rich people often do relocate personally for tax purposes. One of the reasons we don’t often see rich people in the United States do this is that we have incredibly low taxes compared to the rest of the world. And that’s just nominal tax rates; in practice the super-rich pay almost nothing, which makes it even weirder how rabidly anti-tax they are.

There is quite a bit of business relocation that happens because companies are lured to different locales through tax abatements.

False. Hawaii wasn’t a state in 1941 and Pearl Harbor wasn’t an invasion anyway. Wake Island would be a better example since it was actually invaded, but it was also a claimed territory and not a state. Assassinations are not “invasions”.

“Anyway, since you’re here, can you do something about autotune?”

We used to have a “Guess what?” “What?” “Nope!” routine going as kids. I still laugh at that one for no valid reason.

I’m a school bus driver and a former programmer. The elementary kids on my bus like to say “what is six plus seven? Six-seven!” and I say “sure, in Visual Basic”. They don’t get it, naturally enough.

My tenth grade nephew said something about how it started because NBA player Lonzo Ball is 6’7" and was described as “six seven” during a broadcast.

stray carts

This would be a good name for a rockabilly remix band.

some people also have larger-than-average holes

Like sleeve of wizard.

“Oh wait. You put a large cart in the small cart section.”

It’s not really a crisis – eventually he can go back to using regular toilet paper.

“Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter.” - fiscal conservative Dick Cheney

Also killed his own dog – which is apparently a popular fascist activity.

About that: my skoolie only has a single bed. You could have the hammock, I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho

The wikipedia article doesn’t mention the “pull together” (as in rope pulling) interpretation. That was from a book about Mao that I read a long time ago, I can’t remember what it was. The book had a bit about Evans Carlson traveling with Mao’s army and meeting him. I am certainly not a Chinese speaker so I’m happy to have my inaccuracies corrected.