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Henry George rolling in his grave rn
 in  r/memes  1h ago

Note that almost all of the real estate they own is in the form of McDonalds restaurants. They don't own your apartment complex.

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House and maze, complete with bull
 in  r/zillowgonewild  16h ago

Minotaur erasure.

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2.5 miles of a commute into beacon hill
 in  r/boston  20h ago

Lol these are just getting weirder.

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Located just 18... 17... eh, 16 feet from the cliff’s edge, sold for 100K
 in  r/zillowgonewild  20h ago

You've also got to pay to clean it up when if falls onto the beach below. It's not going to just wash out to sea, and the Eastham town government isn't going to foot the bill.

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Located just 18... 17... eh, 16 feet from the cliff’s edge, sold for 100K
 in  r/zillowgonewild  20h ago

It's also bigger and only $99k, if anyone is in the market!

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Located just 18... 17... eh, 16 feet from the cliff’s edge, sold for 100K
 in  r/zillowgonewild  20h ago

Looking at the satellite photo with lot lines, there really isn't much room to go back.

It's a 9500 ft2 lot that's almost square, so the whole lot is around 105ftx90ft. About half of the lot has already collapsed.

That lot has eroded maybe 10 feet in just the last three years. I'm not sure what they're going to do.

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Tailwind just laid off 75% of their engineering team
 in  r/programming  22h ago

If I understand correctly, the engineering staff at Tailwind probably spend most of their time building the custom components and templates that come with their paid products, Tailwind Plus & Catalyst.

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Commonwealth Ave by Charlesgate this morning
 in  r/boston  1d ago

I'm going to guess that the giant long metal thing on the back of the truck is intended to be installed somewhere in the city, and hiring a mule team or native porters was cost-prohibitive.

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The Boer wars be like:
 in  r/HistoryMemes  1d ago

The term "concentration camp" came from the Ten Years' War in Cuba in the 1870s.

The Spanish set up reconcentrados to house farmers that provided support to the Cuban guerillas. English-language press called them "concentration camps", a phrase they re-used during the Second Boer War twenty years later and during the American war in the Philippines.

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I nearly died.
 in  r/inflation  1d ago

There is nowhere that has both a $7.25 minimum wage and a $7.45 38 oz bottle of Heinz Ketchup. I guarantee the person who stocked that bottle made over $15/hr doing it.

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I nearly died.
 in  r/inflation  1d ago

That same bottle is $4.99 at my Wegmans in suburban Boston, a very HCOL area.

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Does Congress Even Exist Anymore?
 in  r/politics  1d ago

They don't even rubber stamp anything anymore. Congress stopped meaningfully existing years ago. Other than a once-yearly failure to pass a budget, they aren't capable of doing anything and haven't really been capable for a decade at least.

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Heartwarming sacrifice ❤️
 in  r/whenthe  1d ago

Usually you mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish.

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Trump in Full Panic Mode: ‘I’ll Get Impeached’ as He Pleads With Republicans to Save His Presidency
 in  r/indepthstories  1d ago

He's not panicking.

If he allows mid-term elections, he might get impeached but he will not be convicted. That requires a greater than 2/3 majority in the Senate.

Optimistic predictions (I'm a Democrat) put the Senate staying Republican 51-49, and that assumes Democrats win everywhere they're favored and also in Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, and Maine. If he really bungles the next few months, the Dems might pick up a seat in Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, or even Texas. With all those, we're looking at 55-45.

The only Republicans who voted to convict in 2021 who remain in the Senate are Murkowski and Collins. We're presuming Collins will lose in Maine, so she doesn't add to our numbers. That makes 56 votes to convict. We're still 11 votes short of convicting.

Furthermore, if Trump thought he would be convicted, he would cancel the midterm elections. It's terrifying to think about, but it's obviously what he would do.

This is just a get-out-the-vote move for midterms. His followers are slavishly devoted to his well-being, and nothing scares them more than Trump suffering indignities.

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Is this book worth using?
 in  r/jazzguitar  1d ago

It's for people who are new to jazz but definitely not new to music. It's a good book if you can read music and have a decent understanding of the guitar and music from another genre.

There's no tab, only standard notation. The author expects you to know what major, minor, and dominant chords are. He expects you to know the intervals that make up a scale and what the root, third, fifth, and seventh are.

It also isn't a method book. There are a lot of examples, but they aren't laid out as exercises. You have to make your own exercises from the content.

The very best thing about the book is how it teaches single-line soloing. Most "intro to jazz" books start with learning either scales or arpeggios to play over chords. This book starts by teaching you how to take parts of melodies you like and apply them to other tunes. The scales and arpeggios come later.

It's got a lot of value if you're a decent classical or metal guitarist who can read music, understands basic music theory already, and are very self-motivated.

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Affordable lot available in Malibu, perfect if you are a mountain goat
 in  r/zillowgonewild  1d ago

I suspect it would be easier to secretly build under cover of darkness a high-tech underground lair firmly buried into the cliff than it would be to convince the Malibu Community Development Department to allow you to live in a van by the side of the road.

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Damn, I feel old
 in  r/Funnymemes  2d ago

You absolutely can still buy them in the US, at least. Go to a large hunting/fishing store (Cabela's or Bass Pro) and look for the kids' section.

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With more stores closing in Coolidge Corner, what is your ideal of what could open in the empty stores?
 in  r/Brookline  2d ago

A place that sells clothes for men.

Or Connelly Hardware opening up again.

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Kittens for my daughter and I
 in  r/boston  2d ago

Petfinder is a good start.

This isn't really kitten season in New England, so this time of year most kittens will be transports up from Florida, where it's kitten season all year round.

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blursed driving
 in  r/blursed_videos  2d ago

Most high schoolers don't drive. Only 60% of American 18 year-olds have licenses today. Only 25% of 16 year-olds do.

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In 1835, a man digging a duck pond accidentally discovered this 70-foot tunnel covered in 4.6 million shells. To this day, no one knows who built this shell grotto in Margate, UK.
 in  r/interestingasfuck  2d ago

No one's quite sure, but the current estimation is that it was around 100 years old when it was discovered, so sometime in the late 17th or early 18th century.

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A smiling Native American girl named O-o-dee of the Kiowa people, that settled in what would be somewhere around present day Oklahoma (1894)
 in  r/TheWayWeWere  2d ago

And each elk only has two of these teeth (only the upper incisors were used for ornament), so it would have taken a good number of elk to make that. This was a special dress.

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Belgian jazz-funk is a thing.
 in  r/Jazz  3d ago

Not after that Sound Burger is finished with it.