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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 while insisting software and art are more democratic than ever. All the while using the same tools to build surveillance infrastructure that will make any dissent impossible.

So yeah, exciting is one word you could choose.

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 in generations upon generations, I think it's safe to assume the problem is human and the tsunami was within historical ranges.

Especially since other reactors were hit by the same tsunami and were fine.

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 with your smartphone, you know meta has been using them to train their ai? Even if you haven't published them on Facebook?

To say nothing of Facebook's complicity in dividing cultures and fomenting violence and hate...

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.

Was. Was in the U.S.

Was is past tense, indicating a historical problem, not a current one.

It's not, you refuted their obviously poorly constructed argument directly. They just have an ideological axe to grind.

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 board."

They famously got inundated with tsunami water. It's pretty reasonable to assume they were below the line of tsunami high water marks.

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".

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.

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 forcing them to do more and more, thereby increasing the likelihood they will turn to cheating to survive?

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".

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 development are separate claims.

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.

Ah, that makes sense. Appreciate it.

What does it mean to open source this? Genuinely. Won't the irs just say, "we only accept digital filing from known providers"?

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 frankly, I believe both parties are pretty foul, and people should be looking outside of them for policy positions that actually help people, but I suppose that makes me naive or whatever.

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.

This is a lot of words for a distinction without a difference.

Deducting 25k does not mean taking home an extra 25k. It means, probably, somewhere around $1-3k, depending on their tax bracket.

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 businesses from operating like that, I'd never expect them to be from the right to be honest.

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.

Wait till you learn about art, where other humans use audio visual mediums to evoke feelings. It's going to blow your mind.

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 can claim that depreciation, but the value of the property is going up.

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 previous ten years. (~13k units) And this year we're 11% above last year, so far.

What about that is not "actually encouraging more building"? I'd say your data might need revising.

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.

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 lefty position.

But also, the left isn't uniform on housing policy. Some folks want anti trust and limited capital ownership. Some folks want to de commodify housing. Some folks want all housing to be government built and owned. The left is a very diverse place (and the joke is no one hates leftists more than other leftists).

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.

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 expertise to do that part, but operating a laundromat is a business the city has never done before. It requires knowledge of machines, customer traffic, laundry care, and a bunch of other stuff the city hasn't done.

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.