
Big beautiful bill passed House, will go to Trump for signature and become law
Archive link courtesy of the new york crimes.
Can't wait to

Will head to Trump's desk for signature

US cities tax burden or benefit to state and federal government budgets? Particularly Democratic party cities
Wondering if anyone has hard numbers on this - for instance, "NYC benefits from $X billions from NY State every year, and generates $X billions back to the state through income tax and other revenue streams every year" etc etc
I asked deep seek and it referenced comptroller reports but it was difficult to parse...
I take for granted that urban centers subsidize suburban and rural areas but would love to see hard numbers
Done, thank you!

I had found a way to listen to audiobooks for free, now it's paywalled - seeking suggestions
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5008586
Used to use ElevenReader to upload ebook files and listen to them for free - it was too good to be true, and as of today they are now limiting monthly listening time.
Ironically, the last book I listened to with it was The Dubious Battle, which was based on a user's recommendation from this site! I enjoyed it a lot and am planning on getting through more of Steinbeck's work.
Libby is great but I don't need the feds looking at what I'm listening to.
Librivox is also great BUT limited to public domain books, plus the audio files are huge (as expected).
For now I'm back to Librera FD and its use of google's voice/TTS engine. I have found alternatives for this that I can re-research and link here, but it leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm on Android and have followed the app A Book's Story closely since there was discussion of implementing the Android TTS engine, but no dice there.
Suggestions welcome! I wo
Good idea - how do I crosspost lmao

I had found a way to listen to audiobooks for free, now it's paywalled - seeking suggestions
Used to use ElevenReader to upload ebook files and listen to them for free - it was too good to be true, and as of today they are now limiting monthly listening time.
Ironically, the last book I listened to with it was The Dubious Battle, which was based on a user's recommendation from this site! I enjoyed it a lot and am planning on getting through more of Steinbeck's work.
Libby is great but I don't need the feds looking at what I'm listening to.
Librivox is also great BUT limited to public domain books, plus the audio files are huge (as expected).
For now I'm back to Librera FD and its use of google's voice/TTS engine. I have found alternatives for this that I can re-research and link here, but it leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm on Android and have followed the app A Book's Story closely since there was discussion of implementing the Android TTS engine, but no dice there.
Suggestions welcome! I would cruise through a few books a month this way and want to keep up the momentum

Paycheck estimator for income after taxes except it's for lost surplus value
Like https://smartasset.com/taxes/paycheck-calculator except it also shows how much the CEO takes. And just tell chuds its pretty much taxes