without subsidies they’re is no profit incentive for developers to build the necessary housing stock

So cap rent. If a developer wants to build, they need to build what people actually need. You don’t need to hand them boatloads of money to make affordable housing more profitable than non-affordable housing, just ban the unaffordable housing nobody needs.

Lemmy just can’t handle someone who’s anti-genocide

They can’t when that stance conflicts with their party. Hence why “The dems need to stop the genocide, people are not going to vote for genocide” gets you downvoted.

“fuck Biden for arming Israel” meme that has 1,500 upvotes

Those exist on .world? I see too many “You have to vote for genocide because trump would do genocide and also other bad things” type posts, it’d be weird if they coexisted.

can do some version, though, if you’re interested

Sure if it’s trivial I’d be interested, but don’t put too much work into it.

Maybe, but conservatism is considered much more acceptable among Americans than anything left of liberalism. Particularly now when the dems are trying to reach out to conservatives with policies such as closing the border, “tough on crime” rhetoric, unlimited support for Israel, etc. You can check by whether you’ve been banned from PleasentPolitics

legally” and “Illegal

Adding “this should be done according to the law” doesn’t divorce an action from its morality.

Rounding up millions of immigrants, some whom have been here for decades, and nearly all of whom are here because they’re fleeing the effects of the US constantly couping their governments and training/funding terrorists is an immoral action, whether they’re legal or illegal.

At one point I tried to illustrate with data just how big a jerk you have to be before it starts banning you. If you’re interested, I can start doing that again.

Would you?

My understanding is that downvotes reflect whether or not someone agrees with a post or comment much more than whether the user is making a constructive comment or not so they can only be used to infer how agreeable the comment is.

I’ve also offered to delve, for any user who feels that this has happened to them, into the breakdown of why they’re being ranked down, which almost always is because they’re being a jerk about their “dissenting” opinion, and not the opinion itself.

Use me as an example, I regularly get dozens of downvotes for such hot takes as “facilitating genocide hurts the dems chances of getting elected, we need them to stop that if we want them to win.”.

So it would delete people’s posts if they get downvoted a lot or if the poster tends to upvote heavily downvoted posts?

You’ve automated the suppression of dissenting voices.

Cooking. 5 people working together can cook for 100 people easier, cheaper, and less wastefully than 100 people can cook for themselves/their families.

Unfortunately the current restaurant system in the US is incredibly wasteful, expensive, and pays fuckall.

If we applied the standards of Nuremberg, every president would hang.

Personally I think Jimmy Carter can be rehabilitated.

If I’m right it was the population who fraught back their oppressive regime but I can’t remember exactly when or where

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People’s_Liberation_Army_at_the_1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#June_5–7

Nobody knows who the guy was, who the guys who brought him away were, or what he was yelling at the soldiers about.

In 1990, the CPC essentially said “We got the guy’s name from some journalists, and the name isn’t listed as dead or imprisoned so who knows if that’s the real guy and what happened”

I read that as explosives and was wondering who the hell was downvoting you.

If your “urban fabric” doesn’t have public transit that’s faster and cheaper than driving, it’s just an overbuilt suburb. America has one city, NYC.

It makes it pretty clear how insanely unfeasible a ground invasion of Iran would be even with the most optimistic assumptions.

1.3 million just for the occupation of an 88 million pop country, and that number just comes from other occupations, without taking into consideration the terrain or people or last 50 years of preparation for asymmetrical warfare.

If anyone wants, here’s an extremely optimistic 2009 Brookings Institute white paper on how various hostile actions against Iran would play out based off numbers and history.

Chapter 3 analyses a “boots on the ground” invasion (the occupation would require a draft), Chapters 4-6 analyze American and Israeli airstrikes. Neither of them expect Iran to employ masses of drones or close the strait, and they consider ballistic missiles against US assets unlikely.

While they have an extreme western bias, there’s no way you can twist the numbers to look good.

As Xorollo pointed out, they did set up trailer parks for victims who’s houses were destroyed after Katrina and in 2012. They were full of Formaldehyde and people experienced “breathing difficulties, persistent flu-like symptoms, eye irritation, and nosebleeds”.

It seems like you could only apply if your house was damaged. If you were renting and flat on your ass with your work and all your stuff destroyed or worse, SoL I guess.

Yeah no, you’re not wrong, cow milk is just another type of milk, there is no one “real” milk, animal or plant based.

It might be less weird in other contexts, but the in the context of our current farming practices, the fact that it needs to be pasteurized due to the likely presence of dangerous pathogens and has bio-available hormones, is weird as fuck.

I think practicality is the only important thing here, if something looks and tastes like milk, and can be used as milk in 98% of cases, it’s fine to call it a type of milk.

Certainly if we’re gonna call peanut butter peanut butter just because it spreads like butter, despite having no other similarity, there’s no reason to split hairs over things that are interchangeable with milk.

The westerners ARE wrong though, like the story I and I’m sure many others, including OP learned is directly contradicted by the evidence.

The British government’s public releases about China are not credible, even less so when they conflict with evidence.

We have death panels, they’re the insurance guys who write prior auth regs and doctors who handle appeals.

I have not once heard of FEMA bussing and housing people who couldn’t afford to evacuate before a hurricane. Has that ever happened?

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