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treesrule··on Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
Fair enough, let me find you a good article on the subject
treesrule··on Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
This is a total nosequitor, building more apartment buildings would make apartments cheaper, being allowed to build two houses on your one house lot would make houses cheaper etc. Like do you have a reasonable path from "people have more latitude to build on their own property" to putting families or individuals in a dangerous financial situation.
treesrule··on Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
I mean, there are specific regulations we can point to that are making houses and housing more expensive, I don't see how "allowing people to build more houses" could destabilizing living?
treesrule··on Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
I mean, regulation is why the housing market is so bad (SFZ environmental review etc), so really what we need is forced deregulation.

Edit: Some people might have misunderstood what I said so here's what I mean: What we really want is states to force localities to reduce zoning restrictions on new construction

treesrule··on Kelly Criterion
brb updating the stardew valley wiki https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Fair

Edit: whoops they already had used this strategy

treesrule··on Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
I think he specifically does not want you to know what he thinks about these things.
treesrule··on Uganda bans social media ahead of election
We've been doing this for a while: https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/07/politics/uk-elections-media-b...
treesrule··on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
> Anyone with right of center political views is casually censored from the platform with no recourse

As someone half/two-thirds of whose twitter reading is right of center/right wing people, I find this comment perplexing?

treesrule··on Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat conference
Do you have any opinion surveys to back up the claim `third explicitly want to put women back in the kitchen`? If not is there a reason you suspect that?

Also genuinely curious re `At least one supreme court judge has stated that birth control is next.` Do you have a source for that?

treesrule··on Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat conference
It is controversial because I want to live in a country where I am not ostracized for having unpopular opinions.
treesrule··on Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat conference
I mean, its not just the tech industry, even people like Senator Cruz who used to `ostensibly` be for the constitutions has toyed with a ban on supporting BDS and regulating private companies speech.
treesrule··on Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat conference
So I think this claim is extremely overblown. One of the votes he was criticized for is a stem bill which I don't have the time to look up, and does not look defensible. The other things are abortion rights and he or the people he represents think that abortion is immoral. You aught to stop pretending like everyone who wants to put abortion restrictions in place wants to put women back in the kitchen, its not true and frankly it shows immaturity on the part of people who are unwilling to accept that people who disagree with you might not be corporate agents (even though congresspeople are on some issues).

In conclusion, your comment boils down to the idea that somehow half the country is just lying about their preferences and somehow magically the other half of the country knows exactly what they are really thinking.

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