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I'm not exactly sure that we should be encouraging the opening of these types of "small businesses".

This is a bit of a naive viewpoint considering the massive amount of damage that modern agricultural practices have done to the environment.

So well. We've destroyed the planet but we have cheaper TV's, so that's a win in my book.

/s

Went through this exact same process recently with our apartment building. I went down with the intent to negotiate on price / months in our next lease and we were told there was no room to negotiate on anything. I think we maybe received a free month of parking.

It's awful.

The issue is rent-seeking. This is the basest form of rent-seeking and the downstream effects are felt by the entire economy.

So yes, there is something wrong with it. Instead of letting the prices float to the settling rate of the market, they're being manipulated to reach a specific financial goal.

That is morally reprehensible, especially when it comes to shelter.

Awful, awful comparison. The market for rental units in a city is not even in the same sphere as the market for oil, WHICH IS WORLDWIDE.

Idiots are driving this, literally and figuratively.

Idiots who complain about inflation and the price of gas yet who also are spending gobs of money on vehicles that get awful MPG.

You can't fix stupid. I have no sympathy for these people.

You're missing the main point of Georgism. The main thing is that community-derived wealth (i.e. the value of land, not the value of the property on that land) should be redistributed to the community, as the community was the one that caused that increase in wealth.

Someone can maintain a piece of land unproductively if they want to. They just have to pay for that right, same as anyone else that would want to own that piece of land.

There is a broad range of situations here. No one should want a blighted property just sitting there in places like NYC or LA where homelessness is rampant. However, no one is arguing to just teardown places like Central Park to put in more housing.

History says that #2 is where we are heading. That was Piketty's main thesis in Capital in the 21st Century. The era of relatively inequality we saw after WW2 was an aberattion. We are returning to the historical norm of high-inequality.

Still remains to be seen how much closer we have to get to feudalism before anything happens to change our trajectory.

An easy heuristic for anything coming from the right-wing in the US: if they are screaming about it, it means they are doing it. Pedophilia? They're the ones diddling kids. Censorship? The supposed "censorship" literally happened during the Trump administration. We're spending too much money? The Trump administration increased the national debt by 25%.

Anything coming from the right should be taken with the biggest grain of salt the world has ever seen. There's a 99% chance that they're screaming about nothing and a 100% chance that they're not telling the entire truth.

The Twitter Files were a gigantic nothing-burger, hence why it fell out of the news cycle so quickly and no one gave a crap about it.

Please explain to me how anything in the Twitter Files shows government censorship. Did the government threaten Twitter in any way? Did they force Twitter to remove these tweets? I'd also like to point out that this supposed "censorship" took place during the Trump administration.

Which "true events" are you speaking about?

Why do you believe the executives should be paid more in these situations? They take less personal health risk than the front-line workers and by your logic it seems that executive jobs aren't that difficult if the job can be acquired by just taking a management course. So they clearly aren't being paid more because the job is harder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AR_platform_cartridges....

For anyone that says "It's not an assault rifle!" - the AR platform comes off the shelf chambered for two different types of MILITARY ammunition. It is a weapon specifically meant to fire human-killing rounds. This is not an opinion; it is a statement of fact.

So to answer the question posed by the OP's post: the AR-15 mutilates the human body, as it was designed to do.

You're basically saying "we need SFH so that rich people can have room for all of their hobbies. Screw anyone else that wants to live in density!"

That's not helpful and it's woefully ignorant of people's opinions.

Can you provide proof of what you're saying? Respect does not equal authoritarianism. That's an extreme stance to take.

Really wish they were tackling literally anything else in the world of HP. We have the movies, we have the books. We know need a TV show rehashing the same things?

It just screams laziness and as a fan of the HP world it's a disappointment to not get to learn anything else about the Wizarding World.

It was a legitimate question. I truly don't understand how anyone can imagine property crime as "not scary". I was trying to get a better understanding of the person so that I would not be rude if he actually was neurodivergent.

It's extraordinarily hard to differentiate between trolls and non-trolls online anymore so I don't see what's wrong with asking that of someone.

How would Chicago be safer with more guns? Please explain this logic.

There's a lot of fascist-apologists on this site. It's truly bizarre.

And Hitler was a vegetarian. No amount of supposed "good" outweighs the absolute evil of the man. The same applies to Trump. The man is out-and-out Anti-American and is almost literally the embodiment of the seven deadly sins. I don't give a crap if her personally saved 1000 puppies from dying in a fire. It doesn't outweigh the rest of his actions.

It's a lot harder to murder a large number of people with a knife than a gun.

What an absolutely asinine thing to champion. How does that do any good to actually help with "policy" as your initial comment seems to intend? All you seem to be doing is acting like "I'm smarter than all of you!"

SF is a dangerous city. That seems to be the main point of concern here.

I really don't understand your viewpoint here. You seem to be implying that property crime is fine and dandy and no one should really be worried about it because "having a child assaulted is worse!". Again, a bizarre world-view, hence the autism question.

Just because they're not emotionally equivalent doesn't mean that property crime isn't bad. SF has a massive issue regarding petty crime. It leads to a more dangerous city overall.

Still seems like a good opportunity to me to bring up the general "whatever" nature in SF regarding crime. Perhaps this stabbing took place because the assailant felt more brazen knowing that the police in that city won't do anything?

Let's just let the homeless and the mentally deranged do whatever they want in SF. That's definitely a good way to run a modern city. Better than hurting their feelings! /s

That IS a less safe space. What are you actually talking about? An area with homeless, open drug use, and petty property crime is 100% a more dangerous area. No one would allow their children to go walking through an area like.

Seriously what sort of weird ideological rant are you on in this thread? You have some really bizarre thinking regarding this issue.

You've got a really weird black and white view of these things. As long as people aren't literally murdering you then it's ok? The idea that "real crime" only happens AFTER the actual crime has taken place is super bizarre. That's not how the world works.

Go find me a city that has people that are super happy and nice to each other and also has a high murder rate. Wait, I bet you can't.

Talking about the petty crime and the "vibe" is absolutely on topic for this, because that sort of laissez-faire attitude leads to murders like the one we're discussing.

Or maybe they realize there's no benefit of being on Twitter anymore and they're not willing to take disrespect from a trollish man-child?

It's a pit of right-wing extremism and some of the most fawning sycophancy I've ever seen.

It's a direct attack on the reputation and credibility of the organization from a man-child. Musk is targeting certain orgs and people because "hurr durr lolz I'm funny!" He's a troll.

I'm so glad that NPR is leaving Twitter. Many more will come. The world will be a better place when that cesspool is no longer bubbling.

Have you ever happened to think that maybe everything Trump did was awful and un-American, and hence it was reported on ACCURATELY?

Truly amazing how Conservatives always claim bias instead of stopping and thinking "Are we the assholes?"