There is a large chunk of dark red nearish to me on this map that could be described as one of the least inhabited parts of the state (state forest + wildlife refuge).
Though the groundwater level is probably rather high there so that might mean less chance for it to be filtered out through the soil.
North Dakota like many states has a renters refund for those with lower incomes which is designed to at least partially offset that. Limits look to be a bit low but every little bit helps.
We should move away from income taxes. Consider a progressive income tax system, where the first 15k is not taxed, and the next 15k is taxed at a rate of 10%. Start here. Why are we taxing income at these levels?
That is already exactly what we do today. Your personal standard deduction means that the first $10k you earn is not taxed. Everything over that starts in the lowest tax bracket and is only taxed at that level, filling each progressively higher bracket as you go up. Additional dependents increase the starting point of when you get taxed.
When you do your taxes they give you charts to handle this calculation which gives you your "effective tax rate", but those charts are based on this progressive system.
Trade is good when it's taking advantage of geographic advantages in a healthy way: I will trade you maple syrup for lemons. But not when a developed country is just exporting their exploitation: I have health, labour, environmental rules and you don't let's trade... A tarrif to equalize here makes sense.
Very true but it isn't entirely about labor/environmental rules. I think capitalism likes to tell us to blame their failings entirely on those things.
In reality they have a few advantages that our capitalists don't want you thinking about. When you have a billion people in your country you are working with scales that are considerably different. Also countries like China seem to be fine with giant vertically integrated monopolies (probably because they know they have the power to keep their corporations in line) which lets them reduce the middlemen taking their cuts along the way. And of course their giant government subsidies.
And if we have industries that are so important and add enough overhead in cost to our other industries (such that they can't be competitive with overseas monopolies), maybe the government should take those over so they aren't running to make profit instead of adding tariffs that just tax the people. That could put all the other businesses in the country dependent on those base things (power/steel/batteries/etc) on at least a little more level ground.
Tariffs may still be required but let's not blame the entire situation on missing labor/environmental laws when uncontrolled capitalism is taking a big bite out of our end.
Lastly developed economies should tax corporations on revenue (not income), this makes sense once they get to a certain size or share of the market. At the point where they are no longer adding value and instead just using size to hold market position through uncompetitive practices.
I would say it is difficult to make laws that can effectively do this especially since different sectors have different sizes/expected revenues. It would be better if Congress would just do their job to just break up those companies when they get to that point. Or if their portion of the market no longer can foster healthy competition maybe it is time to treat them like a utility.
H2i® models provide heating, even in outdoor temperatures as low as -13° F, producing up to 100% heating capacity at 5° F. These units offer year-round comfort even in extreme climates
Their technical documents show that they are down to about 20% of their usual heat output at that lowest temperature so they need to be sized up accordingly. The reality for most folks in an area cold enough to require these is they have backup heat sources for the coldest days anyways.
It also doesn't say that the line on the bottom is straight, so we have no idea if that middle vertex adds up to 180 degrees. I would say it is unsolvable.
I've got several full color Hue bulbs that are the most used lights in my house. I haven't had a single failure in a decade.
I was more than a little annoyed when they decided to stop supporting my original controller for them though.
Gerrymandered districts are more in danger not less. Gerrymandering is about spreading out areas which are easy wins, and instead spreading those votes over multiple districts.
You gain more seats, but you make every race closer.
In any KDE app you can connect with SFTP in the open file dialog. Just type sftp://user@server/path and you can browse/open/edit files the remote server. ssh keys+agent make things a lot easier here obviously.
The switches don't have to control the lights they are wired to. I have Inovelli z-wave switches, and on these you can disable the relay. So the switch can still send out commands/scenes on the network but the relay is always on.
Then you would put in a relay unit in the electrical box of the lights or if you have enough room in with the switches. Then setup the switches to control their respective sets of lights.
Might even be a switch out there that lets you disconnect the relay from the buttons on the switch but still control the relay which would cut down on the device count.
It might be the least effective especially for those not in swing states, but it certainly isn't the least important.
And as far as "not a democracy" the NPVIC isn't that many states away from effectively rendering the problems with the electoral college moot. Certainly a steep uphill battle though.
If voters actually turned out for primaries/elections there would be much better candidates. So your argument becomes "nobody else does it, and because of that the system is broken, and so I won't do it either".
It seems like people get caught up in the media hype on the presidential election and forget that some of the most important change needs to start from the bottom up, and a couple of. votes can make a huge difference in State levels, and congressional/senate elections. A president is worthless without a Congress/senate passing laws that actually matter.
Just look at what Minnesota has been able to with voter reform in the last year with their very narrow trifecta. I.e law went into effect this year that allows residents to sign up to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election/primary in their area. A minor improvement, but an important one. Guaranteed that there will be folks that wouldn't bother to vote on non-presidential elections that will be now.
They also added a "right to be absent from work to vote" which gives Minnesotans the ability to vote without using any sort of vacation/leave time without losing pay. Full list of other rather import changes here
Things like that can snowball into a larger shift at the state level.
The state has no need for you to legitimize them. Even if the system is weighted against you every vote still has power, and the only thing that not voting accomplishes is sending a message that you are okay with the system as it is. There are plenty of politicians out there that want change to happen, and they can't do it without enough votes behind them.
Best solution I have found for this https://spotifyshuffler.com/
I've got a rather large playlist (couple thousand tracks) that I just reshuffle every now and then, then play with random disabled in Spotify.
Add a -f to your umount and you can clear up those blocked processes. Sometimes you need to do it multiple times (seems like it maybe only unblocks one stuck process at a time).
When you mount your NFS share you can add the "soft" option which will let those stuck calls timeout on their own.