JAlexoid

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by JAlexoid 5y ago
They're not. To the point that they had a whole issue dedicated to the death of modern conservativism and how their editorial policy is classic liberal.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
The Economist doesn't hide their ideology and advocacy. Unlike many "well renowned sources" (ahem... NYT)
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You do realize that people that manage the subscriptions aren't the same that write the content, right?
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
The Economist is one of the least biased sources of news, that routinely publishes letters, opeds and articles contradicting the sated editorial agenda. Very few other news sources actually do that. They're not perfect, but it sure bea
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
The last Transformers movie was literally targeted at audiences in China. So maybe it's just market forces... If you indicated that you want to see more minorities cast - then you have the option of going to see Moonlight, over La-la-l
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
> Buddhists in Jordan must not eat in public during Ramadan That is very different! Buddhists in Jordan a legally barred from doing so, whereas there's no law demanding that you actually celebrate Christmas.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
> I grew up in a major Jewish population center in the United States, most jews did not celebrate christmas outside of the ceremonial going out for chinese food. Going out for Chinese food is literally a tradition of said holiday. It&#x2
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Please don't read HuffPo, they're as reliable as The Daily Stormer.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
It does, as much as talking about Sunday as a day off denotes Christianity. Did you know that Sunday is a day off in China as well?
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Right to repair started out as a demand by farmers to be able to repair their John Deere's. This "greater safety" concern is nothing but masquerade.
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These laws obligate the manufacturer to release maintenance and repair manuals, like the ones they provide to the authorized service centers; and ban all litigation related to someone providing unauthorized services, etc... Depending on the
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One of the things that is in shortage - ASICs for automotive industry. So it will help a little bit.
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Mostly because they're incompetent, not because they actually wanted those services to go under the radar.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
I'm in US. I have a few people that I send emails to, who's MX servers are in Russia. I would be extremely annoyed, if I suddenly couldn't contact those people... because Russian "sovereign internet" system blocks m
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It's a business decision and I doubt that they made it lightly.
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They still want their customers to be able to send emails to Russian servers. Having their servers straight up blocked would be annoying at best, disastrous for some users at worst. Because email isn't like internet, the MXes connect d
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
That's the problem. Prop13 makes your taxes high upfront, with lower taxes later on. This is counter intuitive, when you want to encourage people to buy homes.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Current "trend" is medium density housing, with smaller roads. Most of US is 9+ months out of the year a walkable climate. Putting down a small self driving street car for short trips removes a lot of road congestion in town. And
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
More people = more service consumers = more jobs = higher demand for housing = higher demand for services
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Opposition to development hurts the homeowners value, a lot. The value of your home doesn't only depend on the fact that it's in a rich neighborhood with beautiful lawns, but the services and proximity to said services. NYC is des
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Property taxes are supposed to cover your local government's running services - police, fire brigade, trash/sanitation, water and roads. Properly distributed, they should not be high. Property taxes are not a slush fund for the go
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
> It's not like most of the things property taxes pay for are proportional to the value of the property Exactly! The extraordinary taxes on property are a result of unfair distribution of cost of services. A city needs to collect fo
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Why should they get services, that are paid by people with no money? Also - they wouldn't be paying $30k per year. If you had a rational government cost distribution among people in the area, you wouldn't need to charge people $30
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
That's BS. If I pay $10k in property taxes(excl school taxes), that means I cannot invest that money into something more tangible. Thus depriving me of working investments to subsidize wealthier individuals is worse, than steadily incr
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
If a corporation own a property - that it should pay the full tax, no exemptions. Primary residence clauses must never apply to corporations
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
So why would people like you oppose development of other single family homes in your area? Or go out of your way to oppose development of high density buildings around transit stations? (Don't take it personally, but you know that many
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Investors in passive assets can go screw themselves. Developers aren't passive asset investors, they ... you know ... actually create things.
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Nah... That's just ignorance. It's like the American opposition to pedestrianization of blocks. Pedestrianized blocks increase local business footfall and increase high margin economic activity. New developments in your community
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BANANA results in higher homeless rates, that means that denying any building anywhere... you're actively supporting increase in homelessness.
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by JAlexoid 5y ago
Oh.... Cool! So I'll give you $200k as a gift and you gift me your house "as a gift" ;)

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