Where I live (relatively upscale Philly suburb) the absolute magnitudes of the assessments are irrelevant -- all that matters is what your assessment is relative to everybody else. For example, my house is assessed at $93K, but I bought it three years ago for $142K and its current sale estimate is about $215K. Everybody's assessment is way below market value, but what happens is the school board decides what their budget is going to be every year and then they set the millage rate to whatever it needs to be in order to generate that much property tax revenue (the school tax is about 85% of our total property taxes). So it doesn't really matter how up-to-date the assessments are since it won't affect your tax bill.

If you're buying up derelict properties, renovating them, and then selling them, you should get an exemption from property taxes entirely. Many communities already offer such exemptions, and even if they don't, you're getting a de facto exemption as it is because the houses aren't worth shit until you fix them up.

I tried them a couple of weeks ago for the first time. A burger each for me and my mom and we split one order of fries and we each got a fountain drink. $44, so two orders of fries would have taken us over the $50 line. And the food was absolutely nothing special, although it was at least a small step up from McDonald's. For bonus points, my dementia-riddled brain couldn't figure out how to use the soda dispenser machine.

They still give you tons of fries, at least they do at my local place. Unfortunately, for me it meant so much grease that my bag ripped at the bottom as I was walking into my house.

the average person isn’t using AI for anything important

You're discounting all the students who are using AI to make it seem like they're learning something.

Well, the teacher did have a lot of great stories about growing up in one of Tito's concentration camps. And we got to watch Das Boot.

I invented my own runic script and would write all the German I was supposed to be learning on the covers of my notebooks, hidden in drawings of monoliths or spaceships or whatever. I would have these notebooks on the floor during tests and I would get perfect scores. Now I don't speak a fucking word of German except for what little I remember from Nightcrawler in the X-men comic books. Unglaublich!

Great question!

Eh, it was just BASIC combined with the best (by far) visual forms editor available at the time.

You should see what Visual Basic used to do to people.

The Japanese took Singapore largely thanks to bicycles. There must be a few photographs of that shit.

make them want the right to drive unregistered

Lol so many of these fuckwits already think that's true ... as long as they're just "traveling" and not involved in commercial activity.