machiabelly [she/her]

Racist piece of shit

Currently drinking the “EA does the marketing” cope

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WHAT? THE FREE MARKET GIVES TAX BREAKS TO CORPOS WHEN THEY LOSE MONEY??? I DON’T KNOW WHAT I EXPECTED BUT I’M MAD

Why do they do this? It doesn’t make sense. They don’t have to pay to keep it listed.

Dudes rock

royals are for guillotines

Hawaii was great until the haoles fucked it up. So was a lot of pre colombian america. And parts of pre colonization africa.

Just because Europe was shit doesn’t mean it was shit everywhere. Europe is pretty unique in that it has been total warring itself for over 2000 years straight. The streak ended in world war 2, but goes back to the bronze age.

Could those places I listed be improved by modern medicine and trains? Sure. Doesnt mean they were terrible.

I’ve been lucky that many of the people around me were happy to learn. I haven’t worked a white collar job yet so my work has been unrelated to the vocabulary. And people aren’t insecure or defensive about education because they aren’t payed to be educated. It was actually fun to teach the ones that wanted to learn. But I would also see lots of confused looks and so I lowered my vocab.

But I mean less terms like a-priori and more like flabbergasted or circumnavigate, pincer, dilapidated. Just higher reading level words that you might use in a description or as an adjective. nothing too jargony.

Terrifying. I was so stunned when I left college and realized how much I have to limit my vocabulary around most people. It made me feel distant from many of my peers.

This kind of oppression is so insidious and creates so much shame. Ive been following the tik tok of a ~35 year old man learning to read. Its been such a hard journey for him.

We live in a society based around the rule of law. People cant read the fucking laws. What the fuck.

Foucalt was right. If schools were anything other than prisons, the kids would be able to fucking read when they were done.

damn google has really gotten shit then. I used to avoid duckduckgo because of how much better google was.

thanks bb

I downloaded freetube, is that one ok?

I had no idea there was a vanced replacement!!!

You’re right to mention how interconnected it all is.

• Tenant rights helps to prevent evictions, discrimination, and to ensure good maintenance.
• Vacancy taxes ensures that landlords can’t artificially shrink supply to raise prices and increase values, and to prevent capital strike.
• Public housing creates competition that lowers prices for renters.
• Appropriate volume of supply makes sure that everyone is housed in a basic sense. But only if it is the right kind of supply
• If any of these categories are off they impact the others

I see lots of people rush to say that supply is the problem but you have to consider how market forces act upon the supply. “Luxury” developments don’t help most people. And as you said it has to be the right density too. In my city more than 10% of units are vacant at any time. Thats at least 20,000 units. This is why I want vacancy taxes so much. Zoning needs to be improved, and its worth new construction to do so. But in most US cities, idk about Australia, vacancy taxes would be enough increase in supply on their own.

Its also super important to mention the ramifications are commercial zoning. Vacancy taxes are even more important there. Commercial landlords are all holding out for a big chain to move in so they can jack up prices. Its why there are so few niche stores in US cities nowadays.

I’m ok with very high density zoning if its paired with expansions to mass transit. But generally speaking row housing and 3-4 story apartment buildings are the bread and butter. However any current city dominated by single family detached housing needs serious changes, seriously quickly. In those situations “spikey” development is worth it.

I would love to see vacancy taxes in my city. Its the only way of countering the assetization of housing. People are more concerned about the value of the property than revenue. So they keep rent high to make the property look good. Vacancy taxes are the only thing that solve this directly.

Public housing can make rent more affordable and improve housing security. For people living in the public housing as well as those in the private properties that are now in competition with the public sector.

But only vacancy taxes can reign in property investment firms hoping for profit from appreciation rather than revenue. With vacancy taxes they have to actually provide a product and not just hold onto land.

lmao theres literally a movie about someone from the south being stranded in the north

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064932/

It’s kinda funny to me that anywhere in france could be considered the sticks. You can’t go 5km without some kind of a town or village. Relative to apalachia or the rockies it may as well be manhattan.

I always thought it was corsica. What part of the north? More towards brittany or Lille? Or normandy more specifically?

Samosa!!