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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Willing to bet they only pay enough to make it worthwhile for the property owner. In classic capitalist fashion, it completely ignores the externalities that the rest of society has to bear.

    Property taxes on parking lots should be assessed on the full potential of the property. What kind of tax revenue could that same property bring in if it were an apartment or office building? That’s how cities should be looking at it imo



  • It depends on context, and I think most people realize this intuitively. If you put pumpkin in somebody’s berry smoothie they’re going to be pissed no matter what the scientific community says lol. It’s the kind of thing that only matters for trivia.

    And honestly science appropriated the term from common parlance, not the other way around. So a layperson could just as easily walk into a botany lab and say “fun fact, these actually are berries” and be completely correct.