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That's the 2022 budget which has been in effect for less than four months. And so far in 2022, crime has not "gone way up" -- at least not according to the city's crime dashboard[0]. That shows a grand total of 47,612 crimes in 2021. Divided by 12 months gives us an average of ~4k per month. So far the only total for 2022 is from January and shows a total of 4,023 crimes.

[0]: http://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/crime-das...

Brilliant insight.

> These bills are mostly useless if they don't include bonus and stock compensation

Most employees in Washington State receive neither. Step out of the tech bubble for a second.

You've already changed your argument from "they never said anything about that" to "okay they said it but I think they were making assumptions". Log off. Go touch grass.

The fact that they can afford to build a second mansion while millions are homeless. It's a pretty simple equation.

> They literally mentioned nothing about societal issues

I guess you missed the phrase "extensive societal advantages" in OP's comment.

I guess we can file yours under "callous indifference". Someone complains about the societal issues that allow a couple to build a SECOND mansion like this in the woods while millions of people are homeless and your response is to paint them as "jealous".

There are lots of places to play sudoku and crosswords for free too. Yet people are happy to pay the NYT for those games. Why wouldn't the same be true of this game?

> Meanwhile, green is used to represent decreases in stock value.

Okay. Now explain why the "chart decreasing" emoji is blue instead of green.

What an incredibly rude thing to say to another person.

It would appear that the difference between your hypothetical scenario and this one is the introduction of scientific data. Interesting huh?

That link isn't working for me, but I think this is the same article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-10/methane-p...

He is terrible, but in today's GOP there is nothing exceptional about Governor Parson.

Maybe because no advertisers have requested that ability.

One third of US workers don't have any paid time off.

https://qz.com/1702181/a-third-of-americans-dont-get-paid-va...

Can you think of any reasons why we moved away from that model?

> It’s probably <$200 flight almost anywhere in the country.

This is the kind of privileged naivete I come to HN for. The cost of an airplane ticket isn't the only cost to travel out of state for a medical procedure. At a bare minimum you also have to consider the person's time and that many people don't have flexible enough employment to take time off for something like this.

You're using the term "walled garden" incorrectly. A public repository is the opposite of a closed ecosystem.

You seem to have missed the part of my comment where I said "if an automaker was allowed to make their new vehicles only available from a direct showroom". If the automaker didn't allow other dealers to sell new vehicles, they wouldn't be able to compete. It's very simple.

> There wouldn't need to be laws restricting Tesla from selling direct to consumer if that was the case.

That's just not true. Consumers wouldn't have a choice if an automaker was allowed to make their new vehicles only available from a direct showroom.

Here's a direct link to the report from the Treasury: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-case-for...

The US didn't exactly "win".

> "She had not been trained in handling dangerous prions or responding to accidents and did not wear both metal mesh and surgical gloves, as she was supposed to, says Julien Bensimhon, the family’s lawyer."

> or rich

With that definition, your assertion that "all successful people are hardworking" is clearly false. Lots of people become rich without hard work. Inheriting a fortune, winning the lottery, etc.

> all successful people are hardworking

That really depends on your definition of "successful".

I hope we hear more from the operator of SaveVideo. Their post was very vague so it's hard to tell what exactly happened at this point.

Unemployment insurance hasn't necessarily ended. The extended benefits have in many case though. Those extended benefits included things like more money per week and benefits for longer.

Regarding increased competition for people working from home, you're right. It might not be a huge factor, but I know two people who used to work in IRL service roles pre-covid who now work for call centers from their homes. So it is a possible factor even if it's a small one.

Yes.

Ending the extended unemployment benefits only reduces the weekly unemployment payment. In my state that was an extra $300/week. Our Governor got rid of that, but the labor shortage remains.

> is there something else here that I'm missing about why that wouldn't also mitigate the current labor shortage

- 600k+ dead people.

- Increased hiring competition from more remote-friendly jobs.

- Workers who don't want to return to employers who laid them off at the beginning of the pandemic or required them to work in unsafe conditions as "essential" workers.