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Sorry, I didn't realize you're a parody account. A typical trip on the NYC subway is not 20 dollars haha. You almost got me.

Thanks for the jokes bud. Hilarious that there are serious people who say mostly the stuff you are saying (but actually believe it!)

You seem to have a axe to grind against cities. And based on how you describe them, you actually never lived in a city with children.

If you think most families who live in a city only have access to "one" park or "one" daycare you must be joking. Things are denser in cities. What do you think all that dense stuff is? It's parks and daycare and stuff.

Maintaining a car payment, gas, garage, oil changes, etc is not "freedom". Surely it's fine for many people, but cars do not equal "freedom" in any sense of the word. Their use is entirely dependent on government spending, just like transit.

Nobody is forced to take out 200k Gender Studies degrees that don't pay anything.

Yes, that sounds great! I love my iPhone and air conditioning. Don't you?

Will you be the first to go volunteer to back to the stone ages?

I didn't think so.

People have been saying the climate is going to fall apart and kill us all for the past 30 years. It's time for a new approach.

Our expanding economies and improving quality of life depend on young people and a growing population. So it brings up an interesting question.

In 20 years, will countries start to compete for young people? Tax breaks, benefits, etc. Will some countries thrive while others die off completely? The proportion of young people will be a huge issue regarding military strength, innovation, etc.

Could get very ugly.

That would be true if the money spent was actually optimized on output rather than expensive contractors, consultants, and third party profits. :(

Some of these farms are truly impressive. Although balancing the health of the fjords is hard. People seem to prefer "wild" salmon but just like we don't eat "wild" cow anymore, I imagine in 30+ years it will be the norm. Hopefully we can shift to that norm in an environmentally friendly way.

Imagine seeing a comment you disagree with and find the urge to dig into someone's history and try to tar and feather them. Do better.

Insane? Please stay on topic and avoid personal attacks. Disagreement is not insane.

Believe it or not, not everyone who disagrees with you is some paid shill. Like... really? Hilarious. Grow up.

> Hold management accountable to promises made to staff

This is just silly. Management are the most accountable people in any organization. This makes no sense.

Handwavy. Voluntary recognition is just that, voluntary. Opposing is not inherently evil so I'm not sure what this whole thing is even about.

Sorry, I don't need collective action to tell me what soda to buy, or what beverage to consume. What a silly notion. I take action myself to moderate my soda intake all the time. Your assertion that this is not possible is simply absurd.

The aspect you are missing, as always in these discussions about government regulation, is the role of parenting and family in the job of nurturing healthy lifestyles.

And no, corporations are not "fucking" anyone over. They are making something people want. The problem lies elsewhere.

Comparing soda to cigarettes is ridiculous. People like soda, and in moderation, it is completely fine. There is no reason to single out sugary sodas to try to "solve" obesity. It is a consumer problem, not a product problem.

Again, what is the benefit exactly? Avoiding hurt feelings? Are people's skins that thin?

You cannot enforce this one way and not the other. Interviewing and hiring and managing a company takes a lot of time. What if a candidate "ghosts" me? Can I sue him for hurting my feelings?

I seriously have to think this is a parody or joke. Nobody with a real job can think this way haha.

The Sheetz lawsuit is absolutely nonsense the more you read into it. Absolutely ridiculous position to take with no valid claim to "racism" at all.

Mandates and quotas are not the solution and always backfire.

What a sad situation for those families, and kids, to be in. These buildings are not designed to be livable with just passive cooling, it seems.

Why does the UK have such an aversion to AC?

Also, why are homeless people being put up in luxury apartments on the taxpayer's dime?

The EU has tons of regulations on this stuff and we see what "innovation" they have. No thanks.

Relationship? There is no relationship. It is a business transaction. Both parties are free to leave at any point.

I spent a lot of time thinking about this, actually. If this silly idea became law, companies would find some lawyer-approved boilerplate that would satisfy the silly law and accomplish nothing. Nothing would change. I guess you would say the candidate could sue because the company didn't provide warm fuzzy custom-tailored apologies about why they didn't fall in love? Or a specific "reason"? Is a judge going to adjudicate that "reason"?

It's not a strawman. It's either jail time or a fine, right? Have you thought about the implications?

Lines for goods and services are for the USSR. We know better now. Price is a much, much better way to ration goods. The poor have less time than the rich, so making people wait in line is not actually more "fair" or "just".

If there is a huge queue of people in a waitlist for a housing development that is a direct, crystal clear signal to that company, and others, that more of that thing should be built.

None of those examples you gave are agency. What you are describing is dependency and a welfare state. And no, it is not more "stable" or safe, given how elections lately have been going.

I don't want my house, for my children, to be decided by the whims of some government stooge in the Trump admin, thanks.

Making this "illegal" does not solve the problem at all. People really need to stop providing this knee jerk outlawing reaction to things they don't like. I assume you'd also make it illegal for a person to turn down a company without a reason, right? How about we make that 6 months in prison.

"Higher prices for everyone" is not the argument, though. The article is about supporting the construction of market-rate housing as a relief in the market. More and more, the evidence for this argument has been proven valid.

You complain about saving for a nice house, but the idea of waiting for some government agency to give me a unit, only to potentially outgrow it or need to move for work, and then deal with it all over again, seems absolutely disastrous to me. I want agency in my living situation, not whatever the government deems appropriate for me.

I think some parts of Vienna there is a 2 year waitlist for a spot.

Because if you can't ration via price, the only other way is via time.

Did you read the article? There is ample evidence to support the article's title.

This is really all that needs to be said about this.

>Yiatin Chu, a public school parent and the co-founder of Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education, a group that has supported gifted and talented programs, said that the entrance exam was a “race-blind, income-blind test.”

Ms. Chu attended Bronx Science and her daughter will be a sophomore next school year at Stuyvesant. She said the exam was a fair measurement that should remain.

“These schools are rigorous and demanding, and students who go to these schools should be well-prepared to take that on,” Ms. Chu said. “Why are we minimizing the effort that is put in for something that is important to them?”

They distilled the entire internet. But now that's not ok? Cry me a river.

Nope. Just opposed to climate alarmism that has simple not worked over the past 20 years. In fact it's done more harm than good.

What data are you referencing that proves this? There is nothing inherent about degree X that makes someone less gullible. In fact, many college campuses are insulated echo chambers that do the exact opposite.

It is quite sad how doomerism has taken so many people. Our planet cannot "die", it is not a person. Take a deep breath!

Whether the US can make "gloves" is actually less interesting than whether the US even has the technical ability, infrastructure, and knowledge to spin up a glove factory in an emergency. Just like drones, batter tech, etc. Another area where the current admin is failing, and putting our country behind China.