Yeah, that’s and that’s “reputable company” … Just wait until it’s RECOMBAXCKS or whatever hey will sell on amazing n.

I mean we see their cheap shitty batteries catching on fire in bikes, hoverboards, phones, laptops… Can you imagine their cars going up in flames?

I was hoping for the same thing

That still seems like an insane amount of power for one transaction.

Eh, you can quickly create a new division/bureau/area and hire for the new roll and when it doesn’t work out you can fire easily. That ain’t possible within government where everything is governed by statue or rule

Having worked on both sides. Private industry has the ability to quickly maneuver and change tact.

Imo

Things like this make me glad I can only query my db.

Given your online demeanor I feel like you probably fit in well, and I’m guessing the locals love you.

Enjoy being part of the problem but not realizing it.

I mean in my neck of the woods the issue is less landlords driving up the price as it is influx of California s selling 1000 sqft homes in California for 1 million and being able to pay cash for any affordable house here because we don’t have a supply… again see my other reason for not having supply

Yes. That’s why record number of people are moving to Idaho/Montana and Texas… because they are so undesirable.

You do realize it’s possible that it’s more than one thing that is contributing to the cost of housing, right? … and not just landlords, despite what lemmy keeps telling everyone.

I’m not saying slums… but look around the United States and see what states are monumentally cheaper to build in. Hint. It’s not blue states.

And I say that as a progressive in minnesota.

Are you kidding me? No area benefits from deregulation?

Regulation in a lot of areas is put in as a protection to businesses already in the space to help alleviate competition. Is Charter/Comcast is out there pushing for deregulation so that small cities and communities can come in and setup their own cheaper broadband services, or are they fighting it tooth and nail?

Does my barber actually need a license to cut hair? Sure you could argue that the barber is technically more hygienic, but that isn’t always the case… it’s just another way to make it harder for me to open up a competing barbershop.

I’ll agree that is A problem, but not the only problem.

• Nimbyism
• Building laws
• licensing laws
• zoning

Those things also add to the exorbitant cost of housing. It’s not investors who are causing houses to cost 300 a square foot in my city, it’s lack of buildable land, contractor availability, licensing, residential zoning laws. All those things equal cost… some of those things could be fixed with less regulation.

Let’s be honest there are areas that would benefit from less regulation.

(Looking at you housing!)

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Judging from the fact that it was contagious as fuck and when it did pop up in a community, the spread was quick and ferocious… I kinda just think people who claim to have some weird shit in early 2020, just had some weird shit. Not covid.

Every place I’ve ever worked has had a bobafet.

No offense but I never once went to a subreddit and thought that the mod might be qualified, except r/science.

So if I accidentally stumbled on canning, I wouldn’t have assumed that anything there was safe to do without reading the comments first to make sure the op wasn’t a c bomb.

Got any good recommendations for template games that you can mod?

In all fairness. The USA has some fucking gnarly terrain and is sparsely populated.

Sending out a chopper team to get you off a cliff face isn’t cheap and is completely self inflicted, so I kinda get why they charge you for that.

Getting cancer on the other hand, shouldn’t bankrupt you.