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Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%.
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Disabling it until JetBrains gets their act together. No help is better than that.

The AI completion feature in JetBrains Rider needs to be killed with fire. First, it's bound to the Tab key (a key that was *already* in use for regular completion) and you cannot unbind it. Second, it takes over and freezes the IDE completely and is sometimes almost impossible to roll back.

Seriously, browsers still do that kind of shit? Like, crash and throw all your tabs into a black hole? Don't use Microsoft Edge.

That's my cart :)

Excuse me, shouldn't the government seek access to the media, rather than the other way around? Why would the media "back off" in fear of losing a source of lies? Won't the government publicly publish the lies in question in places that the media will always have access to? This makes no sense.

Modern-day Nazis really, really like to call people NPCs, as an on-the-nose way to deny the humanity of the people they dislike. It's particularly ironic when you notice that Nazis in video games are pretty much ALWAYS NPCs. But hey, what do you expect from a bunch of illiterate morons?

Pressure washing is Zen.

Gillibrand and Jeffries and Schumer are not as concerned about what Grok said as they are by what Mamdani did not say.

The effects of leaving social media are comparable with those of therapy, large study finds: web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/re...

Just leave Facebook, Shitter, Instagram, Bsky, all of them. They are like mental disease.

Even cancelling service is harder than cancelling a gym membership. Web site crashes on login. Direct access to pages throws infinite redirect loops. Their phone system wastes your time asking you what you want before telling you nobody's there to take your call and hanging up on you. 2/2 #comcast

Hardly a hot take, but it's impossible to overstate how much Comcast / Xfinity sucks. This is a company that only exists because they're functionally a local monopoly. If people had a choice, nobody in their right minds would be their customer. 1/2

Transition animations in apps are nice and give an impression of smooth performance. When they're smooth. When they stutter, they give a worse impression than no animation at all.

Looking at you, #Outlook

I'm sorry. We're associating with that fucking Nazi piece of shit now? WTF Microsoft?

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards Part One: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Here's another one, on that topic... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrP...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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