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You are correct, this list is suggesting the casual is the problem. Eg, "oh my gosh, I'm soooo OCD about my Starbucks order".

It's definitely not, the braves have faced criticism over their name and iconography for a long time

And your experience is reflective of all folks who have OCD? I can absolutely imagine someone being pretty upset by seeing how casually "oh I'm just OCD" gets tossed around.

I'm queer, I would never presume to say that another queer person's challenges or trauma were the same as mine.

It's often used in a wild west sorta way, "we were surrounded by braves". It's super outdated, for sure, as are most words that mean "my enemy's warriors".

I don't read it as conflating, they just say these are all harmful, not that they are equally harmful. A hangnail is harmful and a car crash is harmful, I try to avoid both. I'm less put out by a hangnail and I go to great lengths to avoid a car crash.

Any list like this should be read as: "you are causing harm somewhere between a paper cut and a gunshot wound, you may not realize it. Be advised you might be causing that harm, in case knowing that would cause you to take a different course of action"

Too soon to say. Seattle just opened up zoning after fighting a bunch of nimby pushback.

Prices seem to have fallen very very recently. Hopefully the upzoning helps more.

It's not an addition. It's a totally separate building with four rental units.

Did your parents build 2 additional units in a building detached from their house and charge rent, including to people who weren't you from day 1?

If so, then yes. (Assuming it didn't fall under accessory dwelling unit rules.)

She wants to build 4 rental units on a lot in downtown. That's an apartment building. Why should an apartment building with 4 units be exempt from offering affordable housing? She will not be occupying those four units. She will be staying in her fifth unit.

This policy is good, and this isn't even an edge case. This is a landlord who is about to spend a million dollars on more rental units and doesn't want to provide affordable units.

Yeah, why should we do any planning or zoning at all! Every individual is equipped with all the knowledge and expertise to make good planning decisions that impact their neighborhoods! /s

Or make the units that she's renting to her kids at affordable prices stay affordable units for 75 years.

That seems eminently reasonable. "Landlord plans $1m expansion of non affordable housing to help their family only" seems more reasonable to me.

A landlord in Seattle wants to spend $1m to build apartments, discount them for her children but not be on the hook to extend that discount to meet local building regs around affordable housing.

If you are building big enough to need to hit the affordable housing regs, then you should commit to either providing affordable housing OR pay to make sure someone else can.

This is a story about a landlord trying to avoid having to help their community.

There is tons and tons of evidence that Musk is moderating capriciously at this point.

Because if they don't they have 60 days before they get deported.

Classical liberals are typified by Reagan style republicans and the current democratic party - business first, pro capital, infinite growth party.

The policy says comments like, "follow me @ on Instagram" are explicitly forbidden. One could very easily argue linking to ones own Facebook post could fall afoul.

Of course

You used the expression correctly, but it often implies, "... and therefore the criticism is invalid."

E.g., NYT shouldn't level this criticism because it could also be subject to the criticism.

Hard to tell with a written forum post.

There's no defense of this policy. (It's his platform, he's free to do what he wants within the bounds of the law, of course, it's just a stupid policy and antithetical to free speech.)

It, unfortunately, regularly hits the front page.

It's Quillette, a right wing propaganda outlet. They write articles to serve their narrative first, then true to bend facts to that narrative.

I'm always surprised when it shows up on HN, because usually the crowd here is interested in factual, rational discussion rather than agitprop.

The statement is "[4chan] is linked to massacres". This is simply a statement of fact, and it doesn't mean NYT isn't.

(I'll be the first to call the NYT a rag, as a leftist, but it's factually correct to say 4chan is linked with massacres.)

A just hierarchy might be:

"we are working with a federation composed of 40 other anarchist groups. We elect a delegate and delegate small decisions to them, and they can be removed easily by the group."

"We have a safety officer on the factory floor who has the power to stop the work of others if there's a concern. They can be replaced easily"

"A teacher removing students who are disruptive to learning, but finding them alternative learning models."

An unjust hierarchy is when one person has power over another for no reason and whose power is self reinforcing or permanent. (A wealthy capitalist has more power, and gains power faster than a factory worker.)

I've met those types of anarchists. They get nothing done in the name of ideological purity. They'll still be getting nothing done two centuries from now.

I think incrementalism is a dead end too - at some point we need to make some hard cuts away from current systems, but it's self defeating to not acknowledge the material reality in front of us.

In the United States it is absolutely true. Read up on CAFOs, where cows stand on hills of manure with no plants in sight.

Pigs are truly awful: https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...

I have zero objections to eating meat, but factory meat is absolutely complicit in industrial suffering.

Because I'm an anarchist, that label is both correct and useful?

Heck yeah. I might disagree with my communists friends, but we're closer together than we are far apart.

Go re read my posts. I think we should not have the federal or state governments.

But we do have them. So using them as a tool, until we can replace them with something better, is fine.

And indeed, most anarchists are just "be a good neighbor, at scale".

This is not, by any stretch, what modern anarchists would use as a definition.

Try instead, "a society free from unjust hierarchies". Most anarchists are comfortable with the idea of democracy, elections, and delegation of decision making. As long as it's consensual and democratic. Think of like, "hey, we need a treasurer to manage the finances".

Anarchism is not a unified idea. Anarcho syndicalism is different from Anarcho communism is different from Anarcho socialism.