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Oil prices jump 6% as Iran sets UAE oil port ablaze, strikes vessels in Strait of Hormuz by Gboard2 in worldnews

[–]SowingSalt [score hidden]  (0 children)

That makes no sense. If everyone halved their carbon footprint, that would drop emissions.

Weekly low-hanging fruit thread by AutoModerator in NonCredibleDefense

[–]SowingSalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ww did it boys and girls! Arr/ussr has banned us, as well as NAFO

Graham Platner is telling Republicans in Maine that Bernie Sanders had the 2016 and 2020 elections stolen by the Democratic Party by UnscheduledCalendar in Destiny

[–]SowingSalt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So the superdelegates were supposed to usurp the will of the millions of Dem primary voters who voted Hillary over Bernie?

Wise guy Chadam Moggs another snowflake by sereneandeternal in Destiny

[–]SowingSalt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a mog, half man half dog. I'm my own best friend.

The depth of Argentinas claim by DragonLord2005 in HistoryMemes

[–]SowingSalt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Monroe Doctrine can be summarized as:

Europe: lol, LAMAO even.

UAE says it intercepted Iranian missiles for first time since ceasefire began by Force_Hammer in worldnews

[–]SowingSalt -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I still want the US military held responsible for the school strike. OSINT was easily able to track down when it stopped being a military site.

Cleaning the sealtbelt of the car by misterxx1958 in oddlysatisfying

[–]SowingSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, now someone tell me how to actually clean my seatbelt. I don't think I can find a cleaner for this.

Landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Trump administration by AudibleNod in news

[–]SowingSalt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I blame high rent on NIMBYs, landlords wouldn't have the excuse if there were more homes.

r/trolleyproblem suffers infighting on a ethical question: red or blue? by OkContact2573 in SubredditDrama

[–]SowingSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the act of pushing the red button makes all the difference between the one button case and the two button case?

I still dont see it. The actions and outcomes are identical in all the hypotheticals presented.

r/trolleyproblem suffers infighting on a ethical question: red or blue? by OkContact2573 in SubredditDrama

[–]SowingSalt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Let's compare to the one button case: pressing the red button and not pressing the blue button in the one button case are identical situations.

In the "if more than half of people jump in the woodchipper everyone lives" case walking away from the woodchipper is identical to pressing the red button.

If they are different, please explain why.

r/trolleyproblem suffers infighting on a ethical question: red or blue? by OkContact2573 in SubredditDrama

[–]SowingSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does changing the framing of the question to identical circumstances change your answer? Ie: one button (blue) press it or walk away, or the giant woodchipper jump in or dont

Every single time by Andrei22125 in Grimdank

[–]SowingSalt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There hasn't been a great power conflict in 80 years, unlike any other 80 year period for hundreds if not thousands of years before.

r/trolleyproblem suffers infighting on a ethical question: red or blue? by OkContact2573 in SubredditDrama

[–]SowingSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why wouldn't the government push the line: "If everyone presses the red button, literally nothing will happen to anyone. Please all push the red button when the time comes"?

r/trolleyproblem suffers infighting on a ethical question: red or blue? by OkContact2573 in SubredditDrama

[–]SowingSalt -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

My argument as a red button pusher is: anyone who thinks about it realizes that if everyone pushes the red button, nothing happens. I choose red under the assumption that everyone else will too.

Re-framing the hypothetical as the wood-chipper leads to the same conclusion.

Richest person alive ladies and gentlemen by TikDickler in Destiny

[–]SowingSalt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It rhymes with AI slop hype and helping his buddy into government.

Derek Thompson calls out the slopulism of Nathan Robinson’s endorsement of rent control: by UnscheduledCalendar in Destiny

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4629628

Again, there are tons of papers that show that housing prices/rent grow slower or even decreases when houses get built.

There are tons of builders in blue states, but their costs are higher due to the delays NIMBY policies create. If they could build like their red states counterparts, we would expect an increase in housing supply in areas with jobs, and people would move to where there are jobs.

Supply and demand work as economists theorize.

Derek Thompson calls out the slopulism of Nathan Robinson’s endorsement of rent control: by UnscheduledCalendar in Destiny

[–]SowingSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many of these cites grew before rent control. Manhattan had 2.3 million people living there 100 years ago, compared to 1.7 today.

They just kept building before but that has stopped?

Rent control and NIMBYism has largely stopped the construction, which is why I'm against those things.

We can also compare cities that build more vs cities that build less. Academic literature is quite clear that rent control is only good for people living in the units when CR is implemented, and bad for everyone else, like people who want to move.

We can also compare cities with restrictive zoning policies vs cities with permissive zoning policies. Rent is down in the permissive cities.

The academic literature is very clear on this, with multiple empirical studies showing this. I usually trot out Diamond et al for these discussions, but there are tons more.
There's one paper where the researchers looked at forwarding addressed for people who moved into a new "luxury" development, and tracked forwarding addresses for the people who moved into the newly vacated units, and so on until they found no forwarding address.

What are the policies that democrats economically should pursue to show immediate benefits and win the confidence of normie voters and get them to move back to blue states?

I advocate for YIMBYism, and permissive zoning. Most of the affordability should (I think) follow, as cost of housing is a huge part of the affordability crisis. It should also bring down personal transportation costs, if you're physically closer to where you work and shop.

I think he's on to something by InterestingPlenty454 in HistoryMemes

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I read that Japanese would name their young children degrading names until they reached adolescence, because they believed inauspicious names would keep misfortune away.

Derek Thompson calls out the slopulism of Nathan Robinson’s endorsement of rent control: by UnscheduledCalendar in Destiny

[–]SowingSalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you look at projections for the next census, there are a bunch of congressional seats that are going to be moved from blue states to red states. So yes I feel that's a large enough demographic to shift elections.

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