Oh no! Anyway …

And also Double Fine

Tax Increment Financing, a financial tool that deems an area blighted often using nefarious rubrics to meet that definition. TIF diverts sales tax funding for municipalities for decades from areas in lieu to fund rapid development deals. First and foremost these billion dollar for-profit companies can fund their own developments but prey on desperate city councils who see a short term win with supposed long term benefits. They often put these deals on a fast track with a lot of public protest.

TIF lures in struggling cities and leaves areas without funding for decades under the assumption that in the long term, sales taxes will be recooped. Developers and businesses often seek new development faster under these deals so these neighborhoods don’t see the recoopment. It historically predates upon minority neighborhoods that have been prey to decades of divestment.

TL; DR: we citizens pay for development under TIF, see no sales tax for the average life of a development, and then the business finds a new city to leach TIF development off of for another new development.

Costco bulldozed a black and Korean neighborhood in my city using TIF money. All the earned and unearned press they get can fuck right off.

Ohio.

Nope, I don’t like corporate-exclusive keitrucks that skirt laws and regs. Keitrucks are the designed result of regulations.

That’s a keitruck without regulations.

I know a few people who have alpha gal from field work, you do not want alpha gal, even if you don’t eat meat already.

There is very little competitive turf between these two purchases IMO. Nintendo folks will buy Ocarina. Gamers will generally buy both. And GTA folks will still buy GTA. And both will probably earn billions of dollars for their respective companies.

The only thing going against Nintendo is Switch 2 adoption will hit a bit of a hurdle with the 9/1 console price increase.

Yeah, for sure. Laws are the minimum but seen by companies as the maximum.

That’s not how the US works. Servers hourly wages paid by the company are dictated by law. In many states in the US the wage is $2.13 an hour.

That people who eat there are assholes.

Yeah you definitely don’t know the internal politics of Israel.

Fox News would find any reason to criticize Obama and one time he wore a tan suit and they flipped the fuck out saying it was not presidential. They basically created a vertical out of it.

Yeah I understand that impluse but I’m not in Australia and I apologize for veering out of Australian context with this community. I’m not being lied to.

Ameren. I am not an owner so I don’t know the charges, but I’ve heard it from multiple people.

Yes we all understand there is cost to maintain the grid but I thought that was handled with base monthly rate before usage. Maybe wishful thinking.

My public utility energy company is now charging folks with solar and battery backups novel fees that makes their bill generally the same as they were prior to their new home energy system install.

I don’t have solar or battery but it definitely cooled my dreams of having them.

TIL scissors are water.

Soap and hand sanitizer do better in tandem.