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by shazbotter 1y ago
Exciting is one word for it. The dot com crash was also "exciting", I suppose. I see it as a chance for the capital class to sell everyone shovels and build railroads that will further cement their power and influence, all the whi
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by shazbotter 1y ago
What's more likely, worst tsunami ever, beyond previous safety stones? Or company shortcuts safety and falls over because they failed to account for predictable circumstances? Given the latter happens constantly, and the former is once
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by shazbotter 1y ago
People still have Facebook accounts? I genuinely don't know why anyone does at this point. If you are a woman, did you know Facebook has been stealing menstruation data from apps and using it to target ads to you? If you take photos wi
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Tack on to that the fact that a certain crowd will absolutely lose their shit and harass any women in the role. Don't make it super attractive as a job.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Was. Was in the U.S. Was is past tense, indicating a historical problem, not a current one.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
It's not, you refuted their obviously poorly constructed argument directly. They just have an ideological axe to grind.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
It's still wild to me that someone named their company "dangerous and corruptive object that will lead you to ill ends while making you believe you are powerful and wise" and people go, "yeah, that company seems above bo
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by shazbotter 1y ago
They famously got inundated with tsunami water. It's pretty reasonable to assume they were below the line of tsunami high water marks.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Just because authoritarian communism is also not equipped to build nuclear reactors does not mean capitalism is. If A, then B does not imply "B, therefore A". This is called "affirming the consequent".
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by shazbotter 1y ago
And my beehives could be trained to make butter sculpture replicas of Michelangelo's David. But I don't see either realistically happening. This is a puff piece that's far, far too credulous.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Hasn't scientific fraud always been an industry and we rely on signal to noise ratios to be good enough to get by? Alternatively, in times of high wealth inequality are we putting a higher burden on our academics to survive, and forcin
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by shazbotter 1y ago
But once you own a house, it's in your interest financially to stop others from building them. Either as a bloc or as a massive corporate landlord, pressuring cities to "retain the historic character of a neighborhood".
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by shazbotter 1y ago
That's a different goal post. Seattle is doing things to encourage building housing. Full stop. Which refutes the claim made. Whether Seattle is building enough housing, or whether the region is doing enough to encourage housing develo
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I understand their point. What's the minimum a business has to pay for a one hour shift? That's the point that all the parents above them are concerned with. So a semantic argument is needlessly pedantic.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Appreciate it.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
What does it mean to open source this? Genuinely. Won't the irs just say, "we only accept digital filing from known providers"?
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Poor information diet. Positioning this as a program from the previous admin (therefore bad). Positioning this as a win for privatization (therefore good). And people not willing to look at politics as something beyond a sport. Quite frankl
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by shazbotter 1y ago
You know what would actually help workers in tipped positions? Going after wage theft. Taxes on tips are a drop in the bucket compared to wage theft.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
This is a lot of words for a distinction without a difference.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Deducting 25k does not mean taking home an extra 25k. It means, probably, somewhere around $1-3k, depending on their tax bracket.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Presumably because anti monopoly right is much less common? Or because the anti monopoly right is concerned with different aspects of monopoly? If someone said they were anti monopoly, that the government should do something to prevent busi
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I tried five times. I cry at lots of media, I'm no stoic. I just find different things cry-worthy than the majority of others I think.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Wait till you learn about art, where other humans use audio visual mediums to evoke feelings. It's going to blow your mind.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Land isn't. And the house is depreciating, but not the value of having a rental at that location. My house is worth four times what I bought it for a decade ago. The house itself is depreciating, and because I rent a portion of it, I c
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Seattle upzoned huge chunks of the city, allowed ADUs (now two adus are permitted on all lots), and removed single family zoning. All within the past five years. Last year, Seattle built 20% more houses than the highest of any of the previo
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I mean, I can't speak to housing problems in this thread, but your second sentence sounds like every post mortem and root cause analysis I've ever seen. Sometimes problems have root causes that must be addressed first.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I'm about as far left as you can be, as a syndicalist anarchist, and I definitely perceived a bit of what you described. But I'm not super worried about it because he didn't say "the left", but rather a specific lef
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by shazbotter 1y ago
You assume they are buying homes to live in. I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. Maybe they buy real estate because it's a useful part of a portfolio. They can rent it or just sit on it and sell it later.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Because an EV lot is delivering power to a point (the charger) and parking is a business the city regularly operates. There's nothing novel to the city there. A laundromat does take power routing, and there would be sufficient expertis
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by shazbotter 1y ago
The city runs a municipal electrical utility (Seattle City Light), so building and maintaining electrical infrastructure is absolutely something they both have experience with and should be doing.

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