esoterica

7 ms·

31.
by esoterica 3y ago
An S&P 500 corporation hiring a hitman to murder a witness is beyond "unusual", it has literally never happened in contemporary America. You can't even give me an example of it happening because it hasn't.
32.
by esoterica 3y ago
No, professional corporate hitmen do not exist in contemporary America. Again, movies and video games are not real life. The only "hitmen" in real life are idiot junkies who get hired by their idiot cousin to kill their estranged
33.
by esoterica 3y ago
No, not they are not. The military and intelligence apparatus does not care if Boeing has to pay a fine. They will not carry out an execution at Boeing’s behest just to save them from a lawsuit. Conspiracy theorists love conspiracy theories
34.
by esoterica 3y ago
Movies aren’t real dude.
35.
by esoterica 3y ago
Google needs to stop allowing themselves to be bullied by brainrotted culture warriors on both sides. Someone screams at them for not being woke enough and they panic and overcompensate. Someone else screams at them for being too woke and a
36.
by esoterica 3y ago
There is literally no contradiction there?
37.
by esoterica 3y ago
The limitations on building infrastructure are artificially imposed by NIMBYs. We have the technological ability to quickly build large amounts of housing and other infrastructure and we used to do so before we let the NIMBYs grind everythi
38.
by esoterica 3y ago
If there were only two people both of you would be living in a cave and foraging for berries because you can't sustain technological civilization with two people. You wouldn't even be capable of creating pollution.
39.
by esoterica 3y ago
1. Most of the writers and directors on those movies were white men. 2. The notion that every time someone who isn’t a white man is hired to do something it’s an example of DEI is profoundly evil and stupid.
40.
by esoterica 3y ago
Big office buildings have very deep plates which make them very difficult to convert to sensible apartment layouts. You can have windowless conference rooms but you can't have windowless apartments.
41.
by esoterica 3y ago
When cars do a “rolling stop” what they are really doing is slowing down to 10-15mph, which is the same speed as a cyclist “blowing” through a stop sign at full speed.
42.
by esoterica 3y ago
Why are you commenting on a legal issue if your knowledge of the law is so minimal that you don’t even know what the word “standing” means? Of course shareholders have standing to sue on corporate governance issues, even if their case has n
43.
by esoterica 3y ago
Nvidia is more than twice the size of Tesla currently and 17xed over the last 5 years.
44.
by esoterica 3y ago
Nope, multiple instances where she plagiarized (including from Wikipedia!) with zero citations anywhere.
45.
by esoterica 3y ago
Everyone except you, your spouse and your attorney can be compelled to testify against you. The court doesn’t care about your “librarian code of ethics” lmao.
46.
by esoterica 3y ago
No it has not always had expensive housing. How do you think artists used to live in Greenwich village?
47.
by esoterica 3y ago
New York’s population did not decline by 5%. The population estimates between censuses always undercounts New York relative to the actual census. The last population estimate for NYS before the 2020 census had the state’s population being f
48.
by esoterica 3y ago
If you choose to live away from civilization then you’ve chosen to forgo the benefits of civilization. It’s ridiculous that we massively subsidize people who made the voluntary decision to live in a way that makes providing infrastructure f
49.
by esoterica 3y ago
It does not need to exceed the rate at which investors acquire supply, because the homes investors buy are not removed from the market, they are just rented out, and increasing the rental supply will drive rents down.
50.
by esoterica 3y ago
Key phrase is “as high as they can”. When supply goes up their ability to charge high rents goes down. They do not have the power to defy economics and charge arbitrarily high rents as supply tends to infinity. More supply pushes rents down
51.
by esoterica 3y ago
This is just wrong, there are many people who rent for non financial reasons (e.g they plan on moving within a few years). Just because you’ve chosen to nest in the same place until you die doesn’t mean everyone wants to.
52.
by esoterica 3y ago
Banning investors from owning homes will do NOTHING to alleviate the housing crisis. The problem is lack of supply, not the capital structure of the supply. We will never solve the housing crisis as long as people like you continue to deny
53.
by esoterica 3y ago
Manhattan and SF has built almost no housing over the past several decades, and demand has continued to rise anyway, causing skyrocketing prices. Those metro areas are proving the exact opposite point you are trying to make. Building more h
54.
by esoterica 3y ago
Investors that buy houses just rent them out again, so the houses are not removed from the supply of housing, just moved from the homeowner's market to the rental market. There is nothing wrong with this - renters need a place to live
55.
by esoterica 3y ago
Ironically thats the opposite of how the current system works, where you pay very little property tax if you own a vacant lot and your tax burden increases if you build something productive on the land.
56.
by esoterica 3y ago
All the major airlines I’ve used show the prices including mandatory fees and taxes up front. The only things not included are optional add ons like extra bags.
57.
by esoterica 3y ago
This literally does not happen with first party airline sites (idk about sketchy third party scam sites). Where did this conspiracy theory come from? Which airline did you see doing this?
58.
by esoterica 3y ago
Since when is it “adversarial” to charge people who consume more of the product (more legroom, extra bags) more money than people who consume less? That’s how all businesses work. Is it adversarial for a restaurant to charge extra if you or
59.
by esoterica 3y ago
Why are you accusing me of ignoring physics? I’m literally advocating for slower cars because I understand the physics of being struck by a speeding car. America has a higher pedestrian kill rate than any other first world country despite h
60.
by esoterica 3y ago
The non profit board controlled a for profit company that issued equity to employees.

More ›