Kepabar

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[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but I'm talking about if this happened to me when I was a kid.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good thing you aren't making policy.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website -3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

No way. That would fuck over way too many people who are just trying to live out their lives in the home they've built/purchased/inherited.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I kinda would have been, but I had a dictionary at home so didn't use the library one much.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

A 16 year old can get emancipation from the court in Florida. Doing so would make it so parents or guardian would no longer have claim over any money earned.

That's the one decent argument for this law; an emancipated 16 year old needs the ability to work a full time job to support themselves as no one else is legally required to do so.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cool as fuck though.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago

They mean the OG Germanic tribe from medieval Europe.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't know, have ublock.

[–] Kepabar@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

I've seen... Primer and Gattaca.

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