notch656c

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by notch656c 4y ago
The argument of existing homeowners is "forget improving my own house, let me externalize costs to others to raise my own property values." We as a society have strong reasons to provide a glide path towards reducing that moral ha
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by notch656c 4y ago
You know the process for executing someone is very long, expensive road. Eager is the worst possible description of the death penalty. There are plenty of criticisms for the death penalty but now you're changing the goalposts as you r
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by notch656c 4y ago
Someone tried to rob me at gunpoint many years ago. Pointed a gun to my head when I got a flat tire innocently trying to bike home from a bad part of town. Why was I in a bad part of town? Working in a hospital with the people helping t
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by notch656c 4y ago
In a politer society with more reasonable laws using a gun to take someone's money would have exactly one outcome: a 9mm hole in that robber's head. Anything beyond that is charity.
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by notch656c 4y ago
Bavaria is the second most well off state so it seems a little unreasonable to assume the average numbers must be near that. These are the kind of crimes disproportionately concerning the poor.
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by notch656c 4y ago
Your comment is unpopular but in some ways it's probably right. I think family, indirectly, forces a lot of crime. Once you have kids to feed the desperation is real. You may be able to support yourself on minimum wage but add a kid
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by notch656c 4y ago
The reason I would be hesitant to hire the ex-con is not because they're bad. OR I think they're going to be bad to me and thus I need extra insurance or whatever. The reason I wouldn't hire them is because the system saliva
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by notch656c 4y ago
It will make more sense once you realize the judicial system, cops, prisons etc demand their tribute and if less people are breaking the current laws more will have to be invented or prison sentences made longer. Government apparatuses don&
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by notch656c 4y ago
It would be simple for me. I would refuse to go to your restaurant because dealing with multiple systems is too much work for my feeble mind. And my wife tells me I'm better with math than the common person. Your system is better. B
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by notch656c 4y ago
It's more profitable to our lower classes to keep the Mexicans / Guatemalans / whatever locked up in their own country to suppress their wages and competition and then allow free trade of goods. That gets us lots of cheap sh
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by notch656c 4y ago
Hey you can play fuck fuck games all day about how 5 person years of labor, almost half of that highly skilled (I'm accounting ~150k+ all in compensation) is not enough for a cookie cutter 2000 sq ft house. I'm calling bullshit;
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by notch656c 4y ago
I would only apply such standard if it passes the symmetry principle with currently legal houses which is the context in which above mentioned about the not being worth bulldozing/fixing if they met the old codes. I.e. if the problem
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by notch656c 4y ago
The building inspector can't see all the people you're making homeless right now by creating ever more expensive building codes. The permitting office doesn't see the good food people can't buy their children because th
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by notch656c 4y ago
The government will never never allow any kind of bank account that cannot be closed and is forever accessible. The closest we have to that is gold buried in a hole somewhere or maybe a cold storage seed phrase in your head and the discipli
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by notch656c 4y ago
I'm sure this varies so I came to this same scenario at a high end sushi restaraunt where there is a waitress, a sushi chef, a non-sushi cheff, hostess, bartender etc and every single one of those people are working on your dinner (clo
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by notch656c 4y ago
You said tips were akin to feudalism. Personally I didn't agree with your redefinition, but since you go by a completely different standard than everyone else I went to your level to make you understand your absurdity. > It is logic
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by notch656c 4y ago
Minimum wage is feudalism again though. You're outlawing the jobs of those who create less than minimum wage in value, thus relegating them to the black market and/or less employment. It separates the wage workers and benefits s
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by notch656c 4y ago
What the businesses I saw this at did was the waitstaff worked the tables part the time and prepped take out orders part the time. So in effect delivery workers were stealing time they could use to wait tables or directly serve a takeout c
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by notch656c 4y ago
The issue is the waitstaff that prepare takeout at some restaurants are "tipped" service workers. Which means they don't earn almost any wage. So if they spend all their time prepping takeout orders for delivery workers they
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by notch656c 4y ago
>because updating old houses to the new code frequently requires rebuilding substantial portions of the house to comply with new requirements OK but if I build a new house to the old code then I also will need substantial work to rebuild
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by notch656c 4y ago
I was working as a contract worker through postmates. I was not paid by the hour and earned nothing if the customer cancelled. Later the courts ruled this was technically employment and I got a token check in a class action, but of course
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by notch656c 4y ago
See my below post. The issue is the delivery driver has to pick up the order from a full service restaurant much of the time. The full service restaurant workers will blackball the delivery driver if he doesn't tip them, and that hap
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by notch656c 4y ago
Yes that's the scam. Magically the houses are not held to the same code. Got mine, fuck everybody else.
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by notch656c 4y ago
Yeah I did food delivery and a sizeable amount didn't tip at all. It also created huge problems picking up food because many of the places people ordered from were full service restaurants, and the workers would purposefully go slow a
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by notch656c 4y ago
I don't know all the mechanisms behind how it happened. I expect indirectly yes, as employees choose to work where they are paid highest (if possible) and employers putting the pre-calculated percentages on the receipt / point of
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by notch656c 4y ago
I noticed the expected tipping percentage go up after most customers started tipping in credit. Tipped workers had to up their game because they can no longer do tax evasion with everything on the record. Back in the days where most paid t
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by notch656c 4y ago
"Paraphernalia." IN my state it is a felony have a reagent that say tests for THC whereas ownership of the THC itself is legal.
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by notch656c 4y ago
I've been homeless and I think part of that is just for someone with no problems it doesn't make sense to be inner-urban homeless in these crim-ridden areas. I assume those people are all fucked up for one reason and therefore as
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by notch656c 4y ago
It seems selfless but not pragmatic. Prohibition doesn't seem to make the opiate problem smaller, it just makes it more dangerous for users, the public, and the people selling it.
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by notch656c 4y ago
Die-hards make up the most volume for recreational substances. Alcoholics by far consume the majority of alcohol sales, for instance.

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