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virtualboyCOLOR posted:This is a solvable issue. This can be solved quite literally today. Just need the party in power to find their morals. Dems in Washington state fought hard for serious reforms in this area during the last legislative session but no one seems to give a poo poo no matter how many times I bring it up. Some progress has already been made, other progress (including bills that would completely redefine the definition of R1 zoning) continue to be fought for. No republicans are supporting this, it's all democrats up to and including the governor. But once again we ignore this because it's easier to say "dems bad" than actually look at what's going on in areas outside of our collectively accepted comfort zones. And just because they failed to get everything in one go doesn't mean that they don't care, especially when they keep fighting for change. There's still work to be done convincing people that this is the right thing to do. Also, it's really loving weird how there was only a single mention about the new tax on stock buybacks. Like holy poo poo folks, stock buybacks are loving toxic and should have been heavily regulated a long time ago.
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Not sure if this was posted but... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-porn-found-documents-alex-jones-sent-sandy-hook-family-n1018541 quote:Lawyers representing families of Sandy Hook massacre victims who are suing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said they received child pornography in documents they were sent by the Infowars founder, according to court papers filed Monday in Connecticut.
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Cimber posted:Not sure if this was posted but...
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Cimber posted:Not sure if this was posted but... It was posted. It's from 3 years ago and nothing happened because they sent an archive of the entire Infowars website and the CP was from people sending emails to the Infowars email address.
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Aug 5, 2022 18:27
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Yeah it was posted back in 2019 when it happened. aww gently caress, i thought that was today's news. My bad.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:germany and japan, the two developed nations with the most affordable rent have attained this through the magic idea of building units to match increases in population. Tokyo is one of the most expensive cities in the world yet the average price for a studio with kitchen in shibuya is around $800 USD , In berlin you could be looking at around 1000 euros which would make it competitive with cosmopolises like Cleveland and Nashville in the US to live in one of the world's great capitals.if you see cranes everywhere and they build 5000 units but your city at the same time has 10,000 more households then there's going to be an increase in rent because demand is higher than supply. housing construction in the US and especially in big cities takes forever to work through the permits, and then once you do get the permits in order some NIMBYs will organize a campaign against it. It can take several years before you even put something in the ground. That means in realistic terms that demand is almost always going to be higher than supply in the us. Even when there is construction taking place its responding to the demand from 6-7 years ago not the demand from today so by the time the needs of the people from 7 years ago is filled there's now a couple thousand more who need housing and are pushing prices up. According to that link, that $800 Shibuya studio can be as small as 130 square feet. If my conversions and my reads of that chart are right, a whopping 600 square feet (which is closer to what you'd generally see from a US studio) could go for as much as $2k in Shibuya. It's more than just building a lot of units, it's a fundamentally different approach to housing size and land use, compared to Americans with their McMansions and their luxury apartments.
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Main Paineframe posted:According to that link, that $800 Shibuya studio can be as small as 130 square feet. If my conversions and my reads of that chart are right, a whopping 600 square feet (which is closer to what you'd generally see from a US studio) could go for as much as $2k in Shibuya. which is still it should also be pointed out roughly half the rent of a manhattan or San Francisco studio for the center of the biggest city in the world. BIG FLUFFY DOG fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:germany and japan, the two developed nations with the most affordable rent have attained this through the magic idea of building units to match increases in population. Tokyo is one of the most expensive cities in the world yet the average price for a studio with kitchen in shibuya is around $800 USD , In berlin you could be looking at around 1000 euros which would make it competitive with cosmopolises like Cleveland and Nashville in the US to live in one of the world's great capitals.if you see cranes everywhere and they build 5000 units but your city at the same time has 10,000 more households then there's going to be an increase in rent because demand is higher than supply. housing construction in the US and especially in big cities takes forever to work through the permits, and then once you do get the permits in order some NIMBYs will organize a campaign against it. It can take several years before you even put something in the ground. That means in realistic terms that demand is almost always going to be higher than supply in the us. Even when there is construction taking place its responding to the demand from 6-7 years ago not the demand from today so by the time the needs of the people from 7 years ago is filled there's now a couple thousand more who need housing and are pushing prices up. I think the other issue that's sort of implied by your post, but should be made explicit is the following: in Canada and the US, we have a huge issue in that we have lots of land and houses, lots of cities and larger towns, where it basically loving sucks to live for most people, and until we figure out how to make those places more desirable to more people, major markets like NY, SF, Toronto, Vancouver, are going to be nuts because you have induced demand for economic, cultural and social reasons that's exacerbating the housing shortage. It's an economic issue, it's a cultural issue, it's a political issue.
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Mercury_Storm posted:How is anyone continuing to accept the framing that prices rising is "inflation" instead of the obvious of companies just raising prices to cover for lost profits due to the pandemic? Because that is what inflation is. "Inflation" is when businesses raise the prices of goods and services in order to increase their profits. Economists like to frame it as the devaluation of money because that is a framework that is very favorable to wealthy business owners. It turns it from a profit-driven decision clearly the fault of greedy corporations into some sort of economic "natural" disaster. Like an earthquake that nobody could predict or control, but with money. However, if it were true that inflation were just the natural course of money becoming less valuable, then wages would rise at the same rate as prices; but that is almost never the case. For example: wages have only raised about 5% this year, while CPI inflation is nearly double that. So really, wages have fallen relative to prices. Cpt_Obvious fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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PT6A posted:I think the other issue that's sort of implied by your post, but should be made explicit is the following: in Canada and the US, we have a huge issue in that we have lots of land and houses, lots of cities and larger towns, where it basically loving sucks to live for most people, and until we figure out how to make those places more desirable to more people, major markets like NY, SF, Toronto, Vancouver, are going to be nuts because you have induced demand for economic, cultural and social reasons that's exacerbating the housing shortage. It's an economic issue, it's a cultural issue, it's a political issue. i mean we know how to make it more desirable: walkable mixed-used with street shade trees and public amenities. its just that would require voters making their commutes take longer or move closer to their jobs or middle american cities having development plans other than give tax breaks to big companies until they move their facilities here and nobody wants to do that.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:i mean we know how to make it more desirable: walkable mixed-used with street shade trees and public amenities. its just that would require voters making their commutes take longer or move closer to their jobs or middle american cities having development plans other than give tax breaks to big companies until they move their facilities here and nobody wants to do that. Well, it's not just that, is it? Assume you have a great, modern, walkable city with good transit and amenities at the local level, but it's located in a state or province run by vengeful conservative assholes that limit your ability to make policy municipally, that systematically destroy things like education and healthcare at a state/provincial level, that are committed to removing people's basic human rights. I don't give a poo poo how walkable the city is or how many trees there are, people are going to want to move away from that poo poo. It's not a question of urban planning alone.
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The RNC chose Milwaukee to host their 2024 convention. The DNC also has Milwaukee as a finalist for the 2024 convention spot. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1555603301017833474 The other finalist spots for the DNC are Chicago, NYC, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Houston. Milwaukee is probably out for the DNC, but it would be the first time both conventions were ever held in the same city if they did.
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Madkal posted:In regards to forgiveness I recommend giving The Sunflower by Wiesenthal a read. It follows an account of a Jewish prisoner being asked by a nazi soldier for forgiveness and then posits the question to some big thinkers about the answer could be. I hope the answer is "no", or "yes", followed by a gunshot. Bar Ran Dun posted:I don’t think people who lost children should care about if the rest of us think think what they say is a “noble sentiment” it ain’t about us, or the person they’re forgiving. I am not saying they should, but I'm still allowed to comment on it. If you believe that you need to forgive people in order to move on with your life then that is understandable and good. I'm just going to say that I'd prefer consequences being more permanent. Veryslightlymad posted:Because forgiveness is incorrectly seen as an act of moral judgment, which it most assuredly is not. Is it not? Like someone mentioned above is forgiveness not a denial of anger that may also be justified? I suppose. I'd still disagree with it.
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PT6A posted:Well, it's not just that, is it? Assume you have a great, modern, walkable city with good transit and amenities at the local level, but it's located in a state or province run by vengeful conservative assholes that limit your ability to make policy municipally, that systematically destroy things like education and healthcare at a state/provincial level, that are committed to removing people's basic human rights. I don't give a poo poo how walkable the city is or how many trees there are, people are going to want to move away from that poo poo. It's not a question of urban planning alone. Eh.... tell that to Austin. Texas, IMO, fits your criteria but Austin has exploded in the last decade.
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Josef bugman posted:I hope the answer is "no", or "yes", followed by a gunshot. Judaism actually requires you to, not just forgive someone, but to do whatever you can to give them the opportunity to truly apologize and reform if they mean it. It's a two-sided concept called teshuvah and mechilah. One is a duty to truly repent and ask for forgiveness and the other is a duty to not hold debt (including emotional) over someone when they earnestly try to repay it. It's the entire point of Yom Kippur.
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Yeah, I'm not sure that "exterminating the Jewish people" was one of the slights that Yom Kippur was meant to resolve. Murder is explicitly punishable by execution under Jewish law.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Yeah, I'm not sure that "exterminating the Jewish people" was one of the slights that Yom Kippur was meant to resolve. Murder is explicitly punishable by execution under Jewish law. Nah, there is a difference between personal forgiveness and consequences. They also only have to if the person is truly remorseful and changed. One of the very first rabbinical debates they make you go through at Hebrew school on a Tuesday night is the debate about the justness of collective punishment and the holocaust always comes up. The official talmudic position is that you have to forgive to them if they truly mean it, but you still have to apply consequences for their actions and contemplate their humanity/how they reached a point where they could harm you in such a way.
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Kalit posted:Eh.... tell that to Austin. Texas, IMO, fits your criteria but Austin has exploded in the last decade. You can't have a hard and fast rule, but how many cities do you think there are like Austin versus similar areas in blue state? And once you leave Austin, what then? I mean hell, you can still move to say eastern Washington or the outskirts of the Seattle metro area where the CoL is lower and still benefit from being in a blue state. The state government isn't constantly trying to overrule deep blue areas or gerrymander away their federal representation either.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Because that is what inflation is. "Inflation" is when businesses raise the prices of goods and services in order to increase their profits. You are correctly identifying that current cpi increase (which is the more important of the obvious inflation metrics) is almost entirely supply driven and largely greed driven, and extrapolating to all inflation everywhere. Your argument basically excludes the idea of the money supply existing, which is... inaccurate.
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Solkanar512 posted:You can't have a hard and fast rule, but how many cities do you think there are like Austin versus similar areas in blue state? And once you leave Austin, what then? I mean hell, you can still move to say eastern Washington or the outskirts of the Seattle metro area where the CoL is lower and still benefit from being in a blue state. The state government isn't constantly trying to overrule deep blue areas or gerrymander away their federal representation either. I'm a little confused on what your point is, can you please elaborate? My point was just pushing back against PT6A's insinuation of the politics of a state can make it impossible (or improbable?) to change a city to be more desirable on a national level by making positive, urban-planning related changes such as walkability/transit/etc. Kalit fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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Almost all major zoning decisions are done at the local level anyway. New York state has some of the most permissive and absurdly strict residential zoning schemes existing simultaneously in the state. A state could go out of their way to take power away from localities over every since zoning issue, but they generally don't. It's local government and local citizens that are traditionally the biggest impediments to getting housing built. In places that have tried to make more housing-friendly zoning laws, the state government usually does it over the objections of a lot of local governments.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:You are correctly identifying that current cpi increase (which is the more important of the obvious inflation metrics) is almost entirely supply driven and largely greed driven, and extrapolating to all inflation everywhere. Your argument basically excludes the idea of the money supply existing, which is... inaccurate. Not at all. Money supply has spiked significantly recently:  https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL And yet, wages have risen half as fast as prices. Why is that? Well, both prices and wages are determined by the same group of people: Employers. They decide how much money you make, and how much your bread and shelter and gasoline costs. So when they see a spike in the money supply, they see this as a great time to increase profits by increasing their income. Raising wages would lower their profits because wages come out of their pockets.
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People don't move to the two or three cities in this entire country that matter because of poo poo like walkability or public transit. It's because that's where the jobs are.
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I'm also not fond of the sleight of hand in Some economists are being shitheads about current cpi -> all economists / most economists / economists as a group "like to say" the money supply exists and can drive inflation -> because The Economists are trying to protect capital -> the obvious conclusion is that... economists have nothing worth saying about inflation? 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Milwaukee is probably out for the DNC, but it would be the first time both conventions were ever held in the same city if they did. Its actually happened 6 times so far: 1884, 1936, 1944, 1948, 1952 and 1972.
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Not worth doing unless they're also scheduled for the same day and convention center, IMO
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Epicurius posted:Its actually happened 6 times so far: 1884, 1936, 1944, 1948, 1952 and 1972. I meant after the primary process and delegates system actually mattered (post 1968), but it turns out I was wrong about that too because I missed 1972! Thanks! That's interesting. I didn't realize that Nixon had the RNC in Miami both times. For some reason, I thought he did it in California at least once. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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Veryslightlymad posted:Because forgiveness is incorrectly seen as an act of moral judgment, which it most assuredly is not. I disagree with that. If a person wants to personally make a private decision to forgive someone who has wronged them to "purge their negativity", that's their choice and their right. Nothing wrong with that. Once they make that a public decision, an announcement that they forgive, that changes it from a private personal decision into a public act of moral judgment.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:I'm also not fond of the sleight of hand in I don't want to sound snarky, but I legit don't know what you're talking about. I have never said that there is no such thing as a money supply. I have simply pointed out that it fails as a complete explanation for inflation because wages and prices do not increase at the same rate despite increases in the money supply.
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As someone who works for a company who manufacturs retail poo poo produced in Asia, the supply shocks hit us a bit, but everyones using it to slam in price increases that we wanted to do anyway, far in excess of the impact to our bottom line. The only thing limiting is how much much we think customers will take before they stop buying our poo poo. Food, shelter, et al don't have that because you need it regardless of price. Labor isn't driving the price inflation either. We aren't spending more at all on it. Our profit margins are fat, just like our competitors.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I disagree with that. If a person wants to personally make a private decision to forgive someone who has wronged them to "purge their negativity", that's their choice and their right. Nothing wrong with that. Once they make that a public decision, an announcement that they forgive, that changes it from a private personal decision into a public act of moral judgment. Forgiveness can also be an act of defiance. To tell someone they have no power over you anymore. And there is value in this proclamation. It is a mistake to conflate this with an instruction to the public that someone is trustworthy now.
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Veryslightlymad posted:It is a mistake to conflate this with an instruction to the public that someone is trustworthy now. Whether or not that's what the forgiver intends, that's how it gets seen by many, many people, and the one who is making the public statement of forgiveness should take that into account.
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Professor Beetus posted:^Does it count as "not enough housing" when investors and Airbnb sociopaths are constantly hoovering up every last home in sight?^ I lived in walking distance to a WinCo for the last 14 years. I recently went into safeway to buy some stuff since I moved and it is insane how much higher the prices are there. Everything is 30-50+% higher and the "deals" require you to buy multiple of the thing to get a discount, so it's 6 bucks for a 12 pack of pop or buy 4 12 packs and they're ONLY 4$ each. Fred Meyer was only a little more expensive than WinCo but safeway really trying to capture those crazy whole foods prices.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Whether or not that's what the forgiver intends, that's how it gets seen by many, many people, and the one who is making the public statement of forgiveness should take that into account. This is a burden to force upon the aggrieved. Why should they be forced to accommodate the ignorance of others? It falls to the rest of us to call out when someone tries to weasel their way out of facing consequences using a bad faith argument.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/01/as-inflation-surges-more-americans-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck.htmlquote:Inflation has been causing economic hardship for workers across all income levels. If most of America is living paycheck to paycheck, I don't think that means we have a good economy. I know for the rich, Americans had "excess savings" and wanted to raise prices on everything to get rid of those savings. And then you have over a third of those making 100k or more living paycheck to paycheck which is honestly just funny and I don't have much sympathy for them.
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https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1555672072625455106 that is, uh, a fuckton of money
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Speaking of the jobs report, it's good to see such an important part of our democracy, the Fourth Estate, pulling their weight in these difficult times. https://twitter.com/HalSparks/status/1555535495169355776 https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1555560444445790213
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So yeah Alex Jones getting hosed for millions of dollars and Trump Lawyer's apparently in talks with the DOJ which sounds like a possible prelude to discovery otherwise what else could they be talking about? Actual justice in the States is so hard to come by, but seeing a little sliver of it lately at least. I'm very skeptical Alex Jones is worth $45 million dollars so hopefully this just ends him and whatever horrible poo poo he might get up to down the line and he spends a very long time finding ways in which to pay that off and/or forced into crippling bankruptcy. e: I'm finding numbers all over the place ranging from $10 million to $270 million according to the prosecution so who really knows. I'm doubtful of the second number though and figure it's probably a claim to allow them to pursue their case against him. Kale fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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Kale posted:I'm very skeptical Alex Jones is worth $45 million dollars so hopefully this just ends him and whatever horrible poo poo he might get up to down the line and he spends a very long time finding ways in which to pay that off and/or forced into crippling bankruptcy. His store pulled in $168 million in sales over 3 years and Jones was making $100,000 a day from 2018 to 2019.
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-Blackadder- posted:Speaking of the jobs report, it's good to see such an important part of our democracy, the Fourth Estate, pulling their weight in these difficult times. This is very funny. The interest rate hike has completely failed to curb wage growth and now they don't know what to do.
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