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  • You know, there was a girl I was chatting with once. She suggests we get lunch, then calls it off last minute.

    A few days later she complains about some guy she likes who stood her up for lunch that lives near me.

    Then she just ghosted me.

    I’ve always wondered if she meant me and the whole thing was her miscommunicating and then trying to be coy and indirect.








  • In the era of social media it’s become common for someone’s racism views posted on their personal social media to get forwarded to their professional relationships (employer, clients) leading to fallout, for example.

    This is an attempt at stifling that sort of thing. When this first started the people on the receiving end complained about ‘freedom of speech’.

    They where told freedom of speech isn’t freedom of consequences.

    This is Floridas attempt at getting rid of the consequences by silencing free speech, ironically.



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    1 year ago

    If your policy change is going to harm the less fortunate then you should re-evaluate the policy.

    A land value tax just shifts those who can’t afford it out of their homes and hands more land over to the wealthy.

    Land isn’t the problem with housing. The problem is that developers have figured out it’s more profitable to build fewer expensive properties than a large number of affordable ones. Not only do they have to do less work, but it keeps the market artificially low and so lets them charge more for what inventory they do have.

    So they do just that.

    And the residential development market has such a huge investment level to enter you won’t see many willing to roll the dice on mass producing affordable housing.

    Show me a home builder who has plans which are less than 3k sqft these days. You won’t find one.