I've lived in Mississippi Hill Country, the Delta, and the Mississippi coast. The Delta is awful. Mechanization in farming and fleeing industry left the population behind to wither. North MS and the coast both have great things going for them and are relatively nice places to live, especially when cost of living is taken into account.

> Accounts you can create inline as you go. Scheduled and automatic movements that just happen.

Things Gnucash does.

Considering the rampant fraud in a certain country's university system, give me local CC graduates.

As opposed to the US, where nobody ever cheats in school?

This is the concern I have with all the driving aids: adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, lane departure assist, et cetera. It all leads to drivers paying less attention to the road and more attention to their @#$%&*! phones because "Muh car drives itself."

Human drivers have been day dreaming for decades. It is not hard to move your car down the road without paying attention - until you run right through a red light or worse into a car.

> Buyers and sellers alike pointed to the same reason: growing up in the digital age has intensified the desire for analogue objects and tangible connections to the past. There is something special about holding history in your hands.

Books don't change. The online written word is subject to revision and change, as are ebooks. A physical volume which one owns and holds cannot be memory-holed.

There's plenty of books that have revisions, but yes, the first version does not physically change. Then again, other than collectors, I don't know many people that have multiple books of each revision/reprint of the same book. To your point, it's not like you can read a book, go to bed, and then wake up to a modified book. However, you could damage your book and go to have it replaced with a different version. Say you loan/give your copy away knowing you can get a new one easier than having your recipient get a copy for themselves. Your new one could be different. It's happened to me

Digital files that you store on your own storage media with free software also can't change (without your intervention). But in new generations many only have phones, not even laptops.

Absolutely, and the future where everything digital is "in the cloud" seems closer and closer every day. RAM and SSD costs skyrocketing sure is squeezing out the consumer and making her more dependent on cloud-based services.

I am just hoping that the cost will eventually go down in a few years, and we will be able to start homelabbing again.

My server drives are not going to last forever...

No, because the state owns a monopoly on violence and cracks down hard on vigilantism.

Thinking that middle management is useless isn't a fad, it's an acknowledgement of reality.

Lotta middle managers here goofing off instead of working :D

If I own property in multiple municipalities/states, then I should be able to vote in all of them on local issues.

Absolutely not. If you don’t live there, then your vote shouldn’t matter as much as someone who does live there.

that's a different legal question than the one here.

This case is specifically about allowing voting for non-resident property owners when the ownership is held by a corporation rather than a natural person.

correct. and the comment I replied to is about allowing voting for non-resident property owners when the ownership IS held by a natural person.

The poster did not indicate how they hold their ownership. Many people hold their real estate indirectly; a trust is common; if I read the opiniom correctly, a majority of properties in the municipality in question are held in trust.

Why?

Nice assertion. No. You should be able to vote where you live. Full stop. Nothing else. You don't get more than one vote.

What about the notion of No Taxation without Representation? With that in mind, shouldn't you get to vote wherever you are (substantially) taxed?

No. One person, one vote, with registration tied to where you live.

Now, to discuss No Taxation Without Representation: we haven’t had proper representation since the number of representatives in the house was capped because we ran out of space for more chairs, so personally I consider that ship has sailed. I would love to get back to a place where We The People had representation. Alas we do not. Let’s start by addressing the absolutely absurd chair problem.

Yeah that would be good to address too. I wonder if we'd end up with vertically stacked Representatives like in Star Wars.

Well, if we're going to go all Star Wars with it, let's elect some kids to office. Smart kids. Kids with a sense of justice and fairness. But yes, I expect a sphere might be the best layout. Like King Arthur's Round Table, there is no head or foot.

Corporations don't have the right of representation, because corporations don't have rights. People have rights, and corporations are not people.

> Malawi has also long been a darling of donors. Malawi’s aid per capita in 2023 was roughly 2.5x the global average.

Maybe the population doesn't feel like it needs to be productive, if they're continuing to receive such generous largesses. Isn't that the goal of UBI for developed nations? People should be able to pursue their passions and not have to worry about the necessities of life?

The legislative process has a check valve. Vote on it until passes, then it can't be undone ever.

Any new legislation can override old legislation in most countries though? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but if your legislature is hostile you need to fix that, not attempt to keep the hostile legislature from passing hostile legislation.