I read one a week ago or so that started with Matt Gaetz (I think, if not him someone like him) going to El Salvador to see their prisons, and I thought it was going to end with some line about him being appalled by the conditions. Turns out the visit was many months ago and after seeing it, it was his idea to deport people there.

is this real from the show or AI? lol

I’d prefer my measurements in giraffes

And be sitting ducks for a long time getting them back to saftey along a known route? Russia isn’t the most trustworthy when it comes to temporary ceasefires.

Wow, well TIL!

Thanks for taking the time to explain that.

Next election on the ballot.

Ballot measures by the people cannot be revoked / overturned / undone or in any way shape or form be contradicted, other than through a future ballot measure at the following election. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER RESULTS IN THEIR IMMEDIATE DECAPITATION IN A PUBLIC SQUARE.

Ya, I’m not opposed to taxes, we gotta pay for the services somehow.

How do you actually do the income taxes though? Is it completely separate from your federal/state that get filed each year? Or is it somehow combined with those into 1 filing and the city gets paid yearly from that? It seems like it would be a huge burden to be a separate thing, and it would be easier if it was somehow incorporated into a federal/state tax system where if your municipality has taxes you fill out a few spots and the money gets sent to them?

E.g an added section on your state/federal to add the municipalities tax id and tax rate (as it’d be variable by area)

Edit: And like I get if you are getting payroll deductions its easy for the city to just withdraw off the top before you get it, but you still need the final tax filing to accommodate mistakes, or income not earned through a payroll system.

I had no idea Inkscape could work with PDFs like that. Thank you!

Interesting, I’ve never personally seen that.

The thing about yearly property taxes is they often go to the city/municipality and that’s how they pay for things.

The city doesn’t charge income tax, that’s a state/province/fed level type thing.

We’d need a new way for cities to collect taxes themselves, or a new system to properly and fairly distribute taxes from the incomes to the cities/municipalities where they live.

Definitely doable, but it’s a bit different than just raising income taxes.

Putin: How long would it take to seize Kyiv? Can we do it in three days?

YES MAN: THREE DAYS SIR! YES SIR!

I moved from a location that had fluoride where I grew up, to one that didn’t as an adult, and with the same oral routine, I went from 1 cavity to like a dozen and multiple root canals.

I’m not saying my routine was sufficient and I’ve gotten better at it, but if people are used to one thing and it suddenly changes, they’re gonna be pretty surprised at the impact.

Did you say Magnets?

That’s the exact kind of thing experienced developers want to do.

They don’t always want to just write easy code again and again. That can get boring and tedious. They want to come into a project with difficult problems and take ownership of them and solve them.

I’m a senior mobile dev, and I needed a website for the app which I’ve never done before. AI was able to help me make one. Is it a well programmed website? Nope! Does it work? Yep!

With my knowledge I was able to troubleshoot problems the AI created, and fix things that came up, but it would have taken me so much longer to do that on my own, or I may have hired someone to make it for me.

I might need to do it better in the future, but for now it works and gets me off the ground.

Android dev of many many many years here.

Android Studio with Jetpack Compose.

I’d also suggest you try doing kotlin multiplatform. You can take your Android app and end up with a iOS app, and if you want, a desktop app. You would need a Mac for the ios app eventually, but not for the desktop apps.

There is minimal work to get it set up to start, they provide a wizard, and there are a lot of libraries available now that are multiplatform.

IOS and Desktop are both considered stable now, but the iOS beta was pretty solid.

All the apps it generates are native apps.

Even if you don’t want to do multiplatform to start, if you use kotlkn only libraries that are capable of it, you could easily switch to it in the future if you wanted to as it’d be structured properly from the start.

E.g for libraries if you use Koin instead of Dagger2/hilt you could switch to multiplatform in the future without much effort. If you chose dagger instead, it’d be a big task to switch. And if you start it as multiplatform but Android only, you’ll know which areas still need implementation work later to eventually work on iOS.

At first I thought, this isn’t toooooo terrible as making batteries to store any excess would actually be great, although there could be situations where you don’t need excess due to excess baseload already…

This is just bonkers though. Wow.

If you didn’t actually finish high castle, it just keeps getting good weirder.

There are some autonomous cars with lidar out there where the lidar is so powerful it can wreck a camera close up, but is still safe for eyes.

Switch up FaceID to use a more powerful laser which will wreck the phones camera, and start making webcams for non macs that are required to have this in them for Teams to work.