That was Chicago.
I think we'll see more of this stuff. It's just too tempting for politicians. They can fill a budget hole, lower property taxes, etc, and make it some future administrations problem. Especially if they structure it with a gradual increase in prices.
It's like taxing people 50 years in the future but getting to spend the money now.
I think it was the regular political corruption that exists everywhere in the US, lobbying, campaign donations and the revolving door. Texas is definitely winning the race to sell off all the public goods, but this kind of thing happens all over. Chicago sold off the rights to the parking spaces on public streets in a similar kind of deal.
Texas is the champ at letting private industry profit from government.
They built a toll road with $1Billion in public money, using a private equity firm to build it which resulted in large profits, and hazardous work conditions. Then they sold 50 years of toll rights to a different private equity firm for $600mil, with no limit to how much could be charged. When tolls predictably skyrocketed, they had to buy those rights back for $1.7 billion after the firm had collected tolls for 5 years.
I think it's overrated, like most high status foods. Lobster, truffles, caviar, and steak are all pretty mid, and terrible when considering the price.
For me what helped was finding ways to enjoy exercise and focusing on that. I think some of it almost was like self delusion at first, but now I legitimately enjoy my exercise routine. Treating it like some terrible tasting medicine you have to endure makes it easier to stop when you aren't in a great place. That's not to say that I don't still have days where I don't want to start, but once I get going I'm happy I did.
It's nice to have positive indicators of progress, but for some people it's difficult for that to be your sole motivation.
Genocidal freaks just laying it all out. Smiling and saying every Israeli would push a button to kill every single Palestinian, and basically admitting it has nothing to do with hostages(I assume that's what the statement "even if it happens later" means).
Edit: They have a Twitter post saying this was taken out of context. What context could make this better?!?!
One of the early Bitcoin arguments was that it would help marginalized people in the global south who were cut off from traditional banking.
Fast forward to fairly recently, when some people in Palestine are using crypto to receive aid, Binance cut off access when Israel asked. No court orders necessary. Turns out crypto is easier to freeze than money in traditional banking.
Tor works on clearnet just fine. A lot of sites block tor exit nodes, or at least limit them from creating accounts, but that shouldn't matter here.
I will not touch grass, no matter how nice you make it sound
I had those when I quit smoking weed.
Sometimes I'd realize I was dreaming, then wake up and explain the dream to my partner, all while still in the first layer of dream.