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by potato3732842 10mo ago
Because when they're not blinding everyone they work really, really, really, well (to the safety and convenience of the users) and so anyone who tries to "do anything" will be caught trying to mediate between the two groups o
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
>How it works is they try to influence the experts at the agencies to support their position The real winning move if you can afford it to pay for a bunch of academic labs who won't at the margin publish stuff that's bad for th
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
>Which, not suprisingly, is precisely what landlords are doing. The bulk of the political will for this garbage doesn't come from landlords. Landlords want more, more, more. There literally aren't enough landlords in this cou
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
What I was getting at is that these richer areas are pretty bimodal. They either support the shit out of the police or they think that enforcing petty theft laws are racist and both cases lead to more orwellian crap (the latter because the
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
>I'd argue recording people to the point of virtual stalking, selling data, building dossiers, etc is a violation of basic trust and the foundation of a low trust society. I agree. I'm not sure making the employer-employee rel
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
>Criminality is a breach of trust. I dare you to explain how without using a) an example where in the absence of law trust would not also be breached b) claiming the tipster's trust is breached because they inherit that breach throu
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
It's so weird to me that the stores in "nicer" areas seem to be on the forefront of this crap. I suspect it may have more to do with how local law enforcement handles shoplifting and theft generally than actual customer demog
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
We haven't even tried to solve this any other way. Pitting people against each other should be a last, last, last, resort. Low trust is VERY expensive. It's asinine to introduce it to anywhere it doesn't already exist.
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
Why do you people always need to use more jackboot? At some point the juice is not worth the squeeze. If the rule changes fixes it in 9/10 cases and 1/10 games it then call it success and move on.
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
Ironically, supply would probably increase for no other reason than those are the kind of people who just add cash only units without giving a crap about expensive permission and permits.
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
>its not that hard. Repealing all the bullcrap from the last 50yr that makes that artificially expensive to the point of being a non starter if not outright illegal is the hard part.
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
>Most jobs do not consistent entirely of literally rent-seeking. First off you're using "rent seeking" wrong, it's a specific economic term that means something else. But using your definition.... There's entire
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
>but the sum total of the community's efforts and entrepenural spirits. More like "was too rural or too poor in the 70s/80s/90s to indulge in the then trendy policy like zoning the crap out of themselves and passing a
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
The municipality cares about the taxes, sure but it goes far beyond that. Literally everyone in every department is more convenienced by attracting the well off and being hostile to those who aren't. Those rich people in those big ho
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
It's a club and you ain't in it.
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
Is the department of agriculture not "the professionals"? And even if they weren't not a day goes by that government doesn't do things based on research/influence/numbers from academia that was produced with fu
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
"The professionals" produced 2.5-3 laughably bad food pyramids depending on how you count. Of all the things this administration has done to "run around" the system on this or that issue, this is not gonna be one I&#x27
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
This technique is used by a very solid fraction of people who's job is to do things that are somewhat bad for either a lot of people or very bad for a few people. So your local cops, everyone on every local commission except the secret
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
These people usually know enough to know when it's "not quite right". Same "don't trust the docs" story that existed in many workplaces long before AI An example I saw recently was someone asked for a modern e
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
Single and few number family residential and owner stuff gets all sorts of exemptions in just about every town's zoning code because if not the townsfolk would revolt. This is why everyone on the internet screeches "well I put up
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
This. They don't want the local septic man and the local roofer partnering up to GC a development of a dozen houses or even worse, an individual doing the bulk of the work of building anything, so they get it all saddled with requirem
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
God forbid someone not sell out of their home. /s Home ownership isn't exactly a crappy life milestone to be stuck at. Yeah it would suck for a select few people who need to get out of one and into another RFN due to life reason
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
Your take is questionable and increasingly becomes asinine every time a boomer croaks and a young person makes it to voting age. No amount of seductive "institutions who's inner workings we will figure out late as though they don
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
LA has a low end to a lot of things that is simply missing and not an option in SF Applebees is gonna be the same in both places but in LA you're gonna be much more able to find some categorically lower and lower priced end non-franchi
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
I'm talking about people who shower after work not people who shower before work. I have no doubt that people who are having AI foisted upon them by admins at the behest of someone else hate it. They use AI as basically a leveled up ve
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
Bespoke AI has not gotten everywhere but generic AI absolutely has. The workforce is happily making themselves more efficient by using AI on their phones for what used to be multi step look it up in the literature or your supplier's ca
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
A lot of people lack the ability to do or credibly threaten sufficient violence for that to be actionable. Serving all the details up to the cops, who have nearly infinite ability to threaten violence, on a silver platter "here's
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
Pretty much all these franchise chains operate on hub and spoke for their fresh baked stuff. The thing you buy at 6am (or 6pm, lol) was in an oven or a mixer (depending on whether the chain in question is baking on site or at the hub) at 12
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
> but they will never have scale to make their own or make great bread Every time someone figures out how to do something that's subjectively graded at scale the definition of "great" changes because a large part of it is
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by potato3732842 10mo ago
>1. They’re not talking about any lucrative activity — the primary worry is longterm sexual harassment via stalking. There's potential for far more, and far more lucrative corporate and state harassment here. Think like low effort

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