Imagine a kid runs out on the road suddenly... What a dumb fucking idea!
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The more properties you own, the more tax you pay on the price of the next one - excluding if you only own one, but escalating quickly after like 3 or 4.
Possible formula: Tax for n-th house = n-th Fibonacci number + 5 * max(0, n - 2). So low numbers like three get penalized by that linear part, and high numbers grow exponentially due to the Fibonacci number.
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All adult sex work should be legal across the board. Anyone, of legal age, should be allowed to not only sell their services but they should be able to pay taxes and be allowed to unionize and collect benefits from any organization they work for (brothels).
A lot of the people in this world who are messed up in the head just need to get laid, and those doing to dirty work should be celebrated and rewarded for their efforts. I genuinely think this would make the world a better place.
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If you brake check, the car will eject you through the sunroof. If you don't have a sunroof, you do now.
Always puzzled me, let's say the dude behind failed the check and hit your car, what the hell did you gain from this?
At least in the US, a lot of fault hinges on rear impact. Not worth a damn, however, with how many dashcams people have now. These idiots still try though.
Fun fact, in a lot of states even if they slam the brakes if you hit them you are still at fault. You should have been at a safe following distance, and no one knows what that actually means. People will argue that a distance of less than 2 seconds is totally fine and safe because they do it all the time. But a safe following distance means that at your current speed of travel if the car in front of you came to an impossibly instantaneous stop you should have time to notice and stop without hitting them.
At freeway speeds this is a minimum of 4 seconds following distance in dry condition. As in when the back of their car passes a sign that you should be able to start counting Mississippi's and not reach that sign with the front of your car for at least 4 Mississippi's
Now, if they come up from behind you swerve over and then instantly slam on the brakes obviously you're fine(if you have a dash cam) there was nothing you could have done, but if you have just been riding their ass and then they slam on the brakes? You're totally a fault as far as the law in many states is concerned
Oooh, I didn't understand what you were talking about until the last paragraph. I always thought "brake checking" was a specific move when you change lanes in front of the car and slam on the brakes, just a type of road rage. So, when you said that you'd be at fault if you hit them in the rear, I was really confused.
On the other hand, if you "ride their ass" and they check you, that's completely fine in my book. Personally, I always keep the safe distance and it makes me really nervous when someone follows up close as I like to be in control of the road situation around me. An animal could run onto the road, something could fall out of a nearby truck etc. I mean, what is the person behind going to do? Anyways, I don't usually check them, but rather slow down gradually so they also have to, and then speed up. They usually get mad, but if you're going to drive like a dick, expect someone to react.
That's exactly the mechanism being exploited, yes.
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If you own a house with nobody living in it, you gotta pay rent to the state each month for the privilege of keeping it empty.
After a while, it's just part of the cost.
Not much of an expense imo. Like giving a speeding ticket to a billionaire, it doesn't actually mean much if you're rich enough.
Id rather make the initial purchase cost extraordinarily expensive after buying more than two houses. Third house is 5x the cost. Fourth house is 50x the cost. Nobody needs four houses so it's a fuck you tax.
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They do this in India. You're allowed 2 homes, 3rd onwards you have to pay Income tax for deemed rent received if it's empty.
Slight disagreement:
This will give assholes who thinks a turn signal gives them the right of way more ammo to be jackasses in traffic.
What about just needing to steer along a windy road?
I'm thinking more likely accidents are going to occur when people try to avoid road hazards or go around corners and they don't remember to turn on their turn signal and the car just goes straight and barrels into something...or someone.
They're already assholes though at least this way we know what they're doing.