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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Your comment is a great example of the sort of zero sum ignorance that gets us where we are. Yeah, you can always use state violence to take from one group and give to another but that's less than zero sum because it costs you use of s
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
> It’s feels like icky European feudalism. Pairs nicely with the permitting processes that basically boil down to "thou shalt pay the guild"
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Really old urinals don't splash back. The engineers have spent the last 50yr trying to reduce water usage and material usage without making the product "noticeably" worse. Of course you add up 50yr of "it's 99% as
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
2-way stop and the other guy hit the Tesla at 40-60 no seatbelt? That would track with the injuries in the Tesla as well. Gotta come up with the energy somehow. If the Tesla doesn't have it the other car needs to.
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Kinda like how Toyota just ignored turbos and pure EVs and instead sold cars to rich people (because rich people don't spew clapped out examples onto the used market) and now they're making money hand over fist on their reputation
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
This is a meme predicated on internet fanboyism and sampling bias. The best selling car in most of the 90s was a Taurus and the Impala and friends made a great showing in the late 90s. But those cars got chewed up and spit out comparatively
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by cucumber3732842 1mo ago
Pre (like 20+yr) WW2 the scope of the activities that the government laid claim to was infinity smaller so the blast radius was likewise infinitely more limited. This is how you wound up with historically ethnic banks, universities, etc, et
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Which are a completely different set of ecosystems with different needs than the gulf coast, or the southwest, or the northeast. Like for example aquifer depletion is a serious thing in the southwest. It's borderline irrelevant in the
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
You are ignorant of how much of what the federal agencies do is create rules and recommendations and best practices and then tell the states they don't qualify for grant bucks if they don't implement somme amount of all of it. Thi
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
This is tautologically true for everyone all the time because most of the government is unelected.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
An under-examined axis of this problem is that people choose to believe in corruption because it's better than the alternative. It's way more comforting to believe that Bill Clinton's buddies (or whoever) got rich selling ind
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
You're only looking at the glass half empty side of things. The environment in the US is very diverse so why is it federally regulated to the degree it is? Not having to put up with rules that make sense in the arid plains or western d
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
What rots will fall down. Now, if you had some grand master plan to use some part of the federal government to stomp some people in some state for doing it wrong this is probably bad for you. But on a 30-40yr timeline it'll probably j
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
"Guys we can't sell a VR headset that doesn't do porn good, nobody will buy it" seems just as likely to me.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
It's just the most obvious tumor. The cancer is present everywhere that people's rightthink score is meticulously kept.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Let's be real here, they're all gonna get viewed on a screen.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
The problem isn't the beavers. The beavers bring water with them. With water comes wetland rules and regulation and setbacks and, and, and, and.... and all your plans for whatever you were gonna do with the land go up in smoke. Doub
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Regardless of specific political ideology it only takes a room temperature IQ to realize that copy pasting the concept of Royal Forests from Norman England to today is probably gonna cause all the same perverse incentives and hardship and s
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Just another flavor of short sighted do gooders.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Regardless we'd do a lot more pinprick development and develop fewer acres and there'd be less pressure to do greenfield development if not for the rules adopted at the behest of half baked 20th century environmentalism.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
The problem with gated communities is the kind of people who are attracted to them. It's literally a parallel world.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
>They charged her criminally instead of civilly, Joke's on them because now she has rights. I'm being a little hyperbolic but not nearly as much as I wish I was. The .gov can make just about anything stick if it's civil.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
I meant like today. It's not like they're not still drunk crashing into stuff. Also nobody really cares because you know they can just write the check to make it right.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Everything you do to waste land area by "lightly" touching it further increases sprawl because it increases the land required to do things. Environmentalism is in direct conflict with densely packing "stuff" onto land wh
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Because the government makes the water that comes with them a huge liability. Tons of vacant land owners would be happy to allow beavers and everything else if not for the fact that it destroys any prospect of doing anything on the land.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Exactly. Pit mine sees who's buying what and is worried copper will go down. Datacenter people see who's inking deals and are worried it's gonna go up. They both need to get big fancy loans from their bankers to execute th
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
>We can get pols to not deploy them with public monies, but I think that’s all we can do. If we tighten the 4th through 8th amendment case law to reign in the current wild west that is civil enforcement by holding them to the same standa
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Doubtful. Look at the Kennedys. The political class was never in serious danger. Worst case they have to do a favor for the department that has dirt on them.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
The local code enforcement situation is not great compared to a lot of other states due to how funding works (causes incentive to be predatory) but you probably won't notice coming from NYC.
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by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
> It's why the best approach to slowing motor vehicles in places with people walking is to physically design the road to feel uncomfortable driving too fast, rather than slap a 20mph sign on a wide straight road. Unfortunately that

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