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    Property Tax "Total Net Taxable Value" increase this year

    Doesn't gov't have a role in higher ed? What about gov't regulation of education as an industry, to ensure that 'schools' (like ITT) aren't loading up poorly informed 18 year old 'consumers' with gov't backed debt for a value-less 'degree'?
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    Whealthy (next to Fukoda)

    hard to believe that they are making money without the huge profits from beverage service.
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    Realtors Face Federal Scrutiny of Broker Commissions Justice Department probe

    They are attempting to disrupt the old-school monopoly that the NAR trade group has exercised for decades to extract 6% from every real estate transaction.
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    FDA panel

    So all of these scare fake statistics were presented by wack job 'public commenters'?
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    Vaccine Passport

    So you believe being denied your right to eat a chocolate croissant at the restaurant rather than taking it home is equivalent to genocide?
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    coronavirus

    empowering parents to endanger their children, one dead kid at a time waiting for the next measles outbreak!
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    coronavirus

    I believe that the average reading level is 6th-7th grade.  The average educational attainment is high school plus a few years of college, iirc.
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    coronavirus

    the law allows/ed 15 and up to access preventive vaccines. I think that 16 year old are mature enough to decide they want these, even if they have anit-vax parents.  We do the same for kids of JW families, and more.
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    Insurance Costs

    our renewal bill just arrived.  home/autos up 15% over last year.
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    SoCal Odd listings

    tenants making meth in the bomb shelter?
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    Loandepot asking me to sign new note

    I wouldn't sign it unless it was identical to the original.  Otherwise, I would ask for them to pay for your lawyer and accountant to review the documents.  (why would I pay to cure their fault?)
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    Apple New Products

    mods deleted a spam post about "MatkaSatta". I had never heard of that, so looked it up and posted the result.
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    Florida Building Collapse

    Imagine how many apartment buildings in LA would collapse in an earthquake without the tight building codes. Now imagine how tight the building codes are in Florida where the air is salty, the land subsides, and there are hurricanes.
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    Apple New Products

    Matka gambling or satta is a form of betting and lottery which originally involved betting on the opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted from the New York Cotton Exchange to the Bombay Cotton Exchange.
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    Work situation?

    Florida:  natural selection incubator
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    Any TI Residents looking to move out of state?

    I like NH, but you get what you pay for with regards to taxes.  roads bad, schools mostly mediocre (though Bedford itself has good schools), and property taxes not low. Life is full of trade-offs...
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    Is this the beginning of the end for love letters?

    But will the CAR oppose a law banning the love letters? Hard to imagine that Sac won't follow Oregon's lead.
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    Work situation?

    never stopped going in. tired of the whiners, including both the tech bros and teachers, complaining.
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    Is this the beginning of the end for love letters?

    coming to California soon? Oregon has joined the fray. House Bill 2550 directs the seller?s agent to reject communication from the buyer, such as a personalized letter. That?s because, according to Representative Mark Meek, who is also a real estate agent, ?personal letters could lead to...
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    Tax the rich

    VAT are hugely regressive.  Rich people don't buy stuff that is taxed in proportion to their income or wealth (they buy properties or companies).  It hits the middle class very hard, since it is a sales tax with few exemptions for necessities like food or medicines.
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