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I guess that makes sense. The channel is only 20-ish miles wide though, Madagascar is seperated by ten times as much water but nobody seems to get confused about whether it’s part of the African continent.

I was just making a joke, since the UK left the EU even though a majority of Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay. Seems like the British are in denial about being part of Europe.

Don’t tell the British.

What’s the alternative, just leave it empty?

I would think it could also be acceptable to transfer ownership to a relative who doesn’t already own a home. It just seems like a waste to have a house with nobody living in it while so many people are unhoused.

It’s not just another cost of doing business though, it’s specifically a cost of not doing business.

So imagine someone has been buying up homes to rent them. Market rate for rent is $1000 and they own 1000 units (just to make the math easy). That means they would profit $1 million every month with every unit filled, and lose $1 million every month for leaving every unit empty.

Now imagine they have half the units filled, so they are getting $0 each month. They could try and raise the rent over market rate to cover the cost, but that would make it harder to fill the empty units and encourage their tenants to leave. If they lower the rent a bit though, they could fill the empty units and erase the cost entirely. Now imagine every landlord is in this dilemma; it puts the pressure onto them to appeal to prospective tenants. They could even increase profit by housing people for free, just filling units with the homeless to reduce costs.

If they don’t change behavior and just eat the cost, then that’s more money for the state to invest in housing programs.

Ah, that makes sense. I just knew it was unavailable. Apparently .lan is fine to use, I think I’ll try that next time.

No, like market rate for the property. Everyone pays property tax, regardless of whether the property is vacant or occupied.

If you own a house with nobody living in it, you gotta pay rent to the state each month for the privilege of keeping it empty.

I guess you hate everyone in early-2000s Zimbabwe?

I don’t get why ‘.local’ isn’t a top level domain for LAN hosts.

That makes sense. Though it’s not unheard of for breakthroughs in battery chemistry to lead to increased energy density, which would increase range without increasing weight.

Pinky and The Brain almost sounds like euphemisms for dick and balls.

Love the analogy of visiting Canada as an American to explain how BSD is different from Linux.

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If you’re not adjusting for inflation you’re just betting that EV range won’t come down in price faster than inflation. Seems like a bit of a technicality, but I still wouldn’t bet on it myself. I have a feeling 350 miles of range is going to be pretty common in a few years.

Who started firing first? Russian-led militants took the town of Debaltseve by force six days after the agreement was signed.

The shelling was in response to Russian-led forces in Donetsk launching attacks with tanks mortars and artillery that also killed civilians. It seems like you’re upset about Ukraine defending themselves while hand-waving the role Russia played in instigating and perpetuating the conflict by invading sovereign territory with their military.

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Russia invaded for territory. It’s not unprecedented, it’s one of the most common reasons for a country to invade a neighbor, and they’ve done it before.