[-] [email protected] 98 points 8 months ago

Unironically the answer is "shop less."

Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.

Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it's just that you have to encourage building rather than "live somewhere less" because the second option really isn't tenable, for obvious reasons.

If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.

[-] [email protected] 90 points 8 months ago

Worth noting this ruling is explicitly based on statewide legislation, meaning this could be changed at any time, if the legislature cared at all.

You really do get exactly what you vote for.

[-] [email protected] 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Brave people push boundaries so that less brave people can read things in books.

Edit: I assume the people downvoting this obvious truth think I'm calling them cowards. I assure you I will be right there with you curled up reading books about caving. Fuck all that.

[-] [email protected] 166 points 9 months ago

He changed his tune in a later arbitration case with Netflix, where he claimed that not only was the money contractually his to do with what he pleased, but Netflix owed him more than $14 million in unpaid invoices.

The absolute sack on this guy lmao

[-] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago

I get that he has to fight this, for political reasons, but this is the dumbest fucking rebuttal ever

What he’s targeting here is private citizens with no legislative purpose. I think it’s completely and totally inappropriate,” McConnell said at a press conference Tuesday

The Supreme Court is hardly your average citizen and Congress absolutely has reasons to investigate potential corrupt in the Supreme Court.

[-] [email protected] 99 points 10 months ago

Sucks that he got to that point, but props for not going through with his plan.

[-] [email protected] 110 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are going to be a lot of people saying how stupid this entire concept is in the comments.

Let me tell you something, as a person who spent years in finance. There's no fucking chance on Earth this happens. You will win the Powerball twice consecutively before Musk pulls this off.

None of this infrastructure exists in X and all of this infrastructure is exactly the kind of shit Musk hates. Automobile regulations are fucking nothing compared to financial regs.

Adoption aside, which you'd have to be fucking insane to adopt this platform as a payments platform, the regs alone will ensure this never, ever, materializes.

What Musk describes will someday exist. He will not be involved, and the day is well over a decade away.

This is "Kanye West running for President" level of stupidity. The people close to him have let him down by not telling him how stupid this is.

[-] [email protected] 91 points 11 months ago

The clarifying language, oddly enough, gives it protection as protest art.

[-] [email protected] 304 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This article is fucking hilarious top to bottom and if you came here to comment without reading, I highly suggest you read it.

Absolutely worth the time.

[-] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lmao my town is in an uproar because there is no bussing for the high school, but my town literally voted to disincorporate (and won!) rather than pay a double-digit yearly increase on their taxes... to pay for bussing.

[-] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago

They already banned Shakespeare in several schools for being too sexual.

[-] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago

Genuinely hope someone buys Mar A Lago and turns it into a document storage facility.

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