would you work in coalition with Steve Bannon to vanquish Elon Musk?
Prop 13 is rent control for homeowners. And it's supply effect occurs where constraints actually bind, at the decision-making of local government, where in supply-constrained CA jurisdictions rents have usually been more than high enough for new construction to pencil absent non-price constraints.
eminent domain is much under emphasized, especially by a YIMBY coalition that includes a lot of libertarian roots. the East Solana project discredited itself by surreptitiously buying up land to avoid hold-up problems. the right way to avoid hold-up problems is democratic buy-in and eminent domain.
So dumb. "The suspensions apply only to properties and facilities in 'substantially the same location' as before the fires, and whose height and footprint do not exceed 110% of their original size, the order says."
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some punters cheer, some moan, over where the ball has rolled just now. but the wheel very much is still in spin.
they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, up there. for the love of apple pie we have to do something. has anyone even checked whether one of those icy little rocks isn’t a sex island? what if Jeffrey Epstein didn’t die at all + he’s there with JFK jr now? Peter Thiel will tell us the truth!
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tech took a tongue lashing in the tech lash so they bought all the tongues.
people think philosophy is obscure and all, but the most urgent crises we face now are basically problems of epistemology.
what you want is people who lie a lot are amplified less. what you have is people who lie a lot are amplified more.
i mean, you could have rummaged through their stuff and confiscated any birth control!
the best way to recover from the *blah* that comes from eating something much too heavy is to immediately go and eat something light.
people who speak ostentatiously about their ambitions to serve humanity often act with brazen unconcern about what their projects might do to actual humans.
the Biden Administration was just too mean to billionaires and their surveillance monopolies. the poor dears. they are very manly.