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by bpt3 1y ago
A community of SFH residences makes you recoil? You're an extreme minority if so, which makes this no better than your initial statement.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Explicit? Probably not. But zoning is handled at the local level traditionally.
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by bpt3 1y ago
No, the existing community made decisions that already exist. Potential new residents should have no say, and actual new residents knew what they were before they purchased the property.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Well consider me convinced by your thoughtful response! I guess that overrides centuries of precedent.
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by bpt3 1y ago
It's an inherent right, otherwise CA wouldn't have to pass laws to override it (which is an overreach IMO). No one is entitled to affordable housing in any specific location.
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by bpt3 1y ago
That's not what I'm talking about at all. Zoning regulations should reflect the desires of a community, and there's no inherent reason they can't be more restrictive than yimbys would like.
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by bpt3 1y ago
> The only reasonable way for them to be entitled to prevent density is for them to own the property and not build anything. Of course. > Well then those people should buy the land and keep it low density. Can't afford it? Too ba
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by bpt3 1y ago
Most people in the US live in a home owned by themselves or a member of their immediate family. On top of that, more of those people vote than the renters in their area. There's not really much more to it than that.
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by bpt3 1y ago
The problem is that there's a "housing crisis" (which really just means that desirable places are more expensive than people would like for the most part, because homelessness is not up significantly since that term became po
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by bpt3 1y ago
Property owners absolutely are entitled to stop efforts around them to increase housing supply or density, and I say this as someone who also has done similar work to you. If a community wants to remain SFH-only, that is their right, even i
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by bpt3 1y ago
You can live comfortably in many, many places in the US on $58k a year as well. It highlights that the problem most of these people have isn't a lack of income.
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by bpt3 1y ago
There is no formal study. It's all handwaving by urbanists with an irrational hatred for people who don't want to live like them. The lines are so blurry between consumption of local services and taxes paid that it's almost i
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by bpt3 1y ago
Then you haven't met many Americans. Unfortunately, I encounter many, many, many more public transit zealots online (and in person, though much less frequently) than I need to hear parrot the same talking points from fuckcars and NotJu
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by bpt3 1y ago
> That's a bit too far in the other direction. I don't think so, but partially because the person I responded to is off the charts in the anti-car direction. > I know plenty of people who choose transit even though they own
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by bpt3 1y ago
Good for you. You're in the minority, both in your own country and globally.
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by bpt3 1y ago
You seriously point people to one of the most biased and obnoxious sources for public transit info and expect people to accept his conclusions? The first minute is nothing but conjecture and personal opinion full of misinformation, and it j
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by bpt3 1y ago
The Dutch have a lot of cars because they are rich. The ugly truth (for public transit zealots like the parent poster) is that there is no amount of investment that can make a person with the ability to afford a car willingly choose public
588.
by bpt3 1y ago
In my area (Washington DC), fares pay about 10% of the budget for the subway each year. Why should those subsidies be expanded, yet any subsidies for cars (which certainly exist, but drivers pay for more than 10% of their vehicle costs) sho
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by bpt3 1y ago
Of course they did. I've never met an online public transit advocate who didn't come off as a zealot, lecturing the uninformed masses about the obvious benefits that will come from joining them while dismissing any criticism or sk
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by bpt3 1y ago
> Are you campaigning with your city council to favor more/better public transit options? Why would I do this? It's just not possible for public transit to provide equal quality of service to a private vehicle unless I lived in
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by bpt3 1y ago
Do you honestly believe that workers received 0% of the productivity gains over the last 40+ years? It's wild how this site has turned into reddit over the last couple years.
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by bpt3 1y ago
You're missing the point. Your good friend has to work on his music outside of his paid profession. It's a hobby that is not financially viable for him as a career. You expect someone who writes software for 8+ hours a day profess
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by bpt3 1y ago
Yes, I am questioning whether the parent poster would have supported those cuts or uttered the same cry, as some individuals and communities were absolutely worse off after those cuts.
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by bpt3 1y ago
Yes, I understand that Democrats have cut government in the past. I was young, but I remember cries of "you can't do this to people!" then as well, just like we hear from a select group of people every time any cut is contemp
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by bpt3 1y ago
1. What exactly do you think are delivered in Windows Updates? 2. Why do you think the pirated versions of Windows largely used in China are getting updates? 3. What do you think happens when patches aren't applied to Windows?
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by bpt3 1y ago
What does this mean, practically? We can never reduce the size of the federal workforce because it means people will lose jobs? We can never cut any federal benefit or subsidy regardless of the cost, importance, or overall value to society
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by bpt3 1y ago
Sure, but claiming they have literally just started is completely inaccurate. They've been making discrete GPUs on and off since the 80s, and this is at least their 3rd major attempt at it as a company, depending on how you define &quo
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by bpt3 1y ago
Intel has been making GPUs for over 25 years. Claiming they are just getting started is absurd. To that point, they've been "just getting started" in practically every chip market other than x86/x64 CPUs for over 20 year
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by bpt3 1y ago
What hardware isn't supported by Debian stable that is supported by unstable? Or is this just a "don't use Linux" gripe?
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by bpt3 1y ago
Why on earth would I not let the "money people" dig their own grave? There's no downside for me and lots of upside.

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