With or without this new payment system, they can order the banks to freeze your account or block transactions (as your example shows they were able to do before this payment system was rolled out).
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The problem is that in cities that have regulated apartments out of existence it's the only existing place for renters to live, so we should be mindful of things that will squeeze its availability before enough apartments can be built to take up the demand.
> The biggest conventional munition they have
The problem is that for large corporate landlords this is a statistical risk that can be priced in and accounted for across hundreds of units.
For small mom-and-pop landlords renting out their basement, it's a roll of the dice on whether any given tenant will completely ruin their life and be impossible to get rid of.
Of course many people will respond to this by saying that the rights of people to have a place to live are more important than the rights of homeowners to have a bit of side income, but if the law makes it too risky to rent out a second suite, nobody will want to do it -- which makes the housing crisis even worse for renters as there will be fewer places available to rent.
True YIMBY policy would be zoning for six-story apartments by-right citywide, with density going up to 20 stories near rapid transit.
But even policies that sound great on paper are often sabotaged by cities with unworkable affordability requirements that prevent anything from being built.
I'm not cheering for an American Empire. America is choosing to align itself with a declining dictatorship on the other side of the world, for no particular reason beyond its leader's personal animus towards his domestic political opponents.
I usually appreciate the well-reasoned intellectual tone of your comments. This is just disappointing.
As for the substance of your comment, America is free to experiment with replacing all of its mutually beneficial relationships with adversarial ones. The consequences might not be particularly advantageous, or easy to undo.
It has a surprising amount of configurability that I almost missed at first glance. Pills as portals, infinite scroll, flying pills...
When properties in California become uninsurable due to climate change: This is a capitalist conspiracy by the big corporate insurance companies and the ruling class to exploit a tragedy for profit!
Yeah, I mean "Every Chinese citizen has a Little Red Book in their pocket!" is pretty compelling for a social media app.
It's not necessarily political beyond that, but the connection is obviously there.
And the characters for "小红书" directly and literally translate to "little", "red", and "book". It's the most literal and obvious translation of the name, no agenda needed. Go ask any Chinese person.
The app didn't even have an English name until recently. It was just "小红书" which any Chinese person would render in English as "Little Red Book". "RedNote" is a recent branding exercise.
I asked an actual Chinese person about 小红书 and they assumed I was talking about Mao's book until I clarified.
I think a lot of the opposition comes from people who dislike that it represents a building that is obviously new and well maintained, and associate that with their general distaste for wealth.
> They say your social cluster is 150 people
Maybe yours is.
The only solution is to legalize building more homes, especially at higher densities that allow more people to live in desirable locations.