No, and I think I would’ve been too scared even if I had the capacity to keep up such a ruse. I’ve always hated lying, it just feels bad.

I still dont see how that’s relevant to the comment you replied to in the context of this thread.

I really don’t know how to interpret this… Grounding in the here-and-now is bad for people who dissociate? But that doesn’t make sense, please explain: What do you mean?

That is indeed a hot take.

Why would people ever develop/improve (aside from maintenance/keeping living standards) on their land, build more, change zoning, generation house on the same lot, etc, when that would only result in their government rent (aka tax) going up?

Wouldn’t rich people be able to rent a lot of land for higher prices than normal people, driving the prices up until they control most of the government rentals, then rent it out to the rest of us for insane prices (kinda like now, except their whole revenue has to come from tenants, without the security of being able to sell the land and recoup the losses that way)…?

You say the government makes no money from the transaction of the specific buildings on the lot so they have no reason to overvalue it, except that you said the lots value would depend ont he buildings on it, so the government would receive higher rent fron higher valued buildings in lita so they have incentives to value it higher to collect higher rent…

I have a local newspaper for my municipality every morning.

It mostly deals with local news that doesn’t reach the big news outlets. It’s slow to report world events (which I like to think is because they actually bother to confirm events before printing). It balances upsetting reports with feel-good and positive stories, and informs me of happenings (markets, small festivals, historical celebrations, crafting, classes and other events) locally that I would never hear about any other way.

Its not forced or an concerted effort or a conspiracy to get content creators to use/promote AI.

It’s laziness/simplicity.

They Google the question and screenshot the first result, which nowadays happens to be the AI-answer due to how the search engine presents the results.

Not everyone does it this way, but those that do show AI don’t do it because they want to show AI specifically. It’s more likely those that does differently does it because they specifically don’t want to use that first option because it’s AI.

Frame it

It’s frugal.

… It’s not. Yarn is expensive as hell, even more so if you want any type of durability or wearability or comfort.