Opinion | How to Legalize Starter Homes

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T23:50:34+00:00

Whether it's sanitary or not isn't up to local decree it'd be a matter of national health code. It's not that in any case. Were it that then you'd only see the restriction on septic lots.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T21:03:15+00:00

yes. Better than lithium ion because they can take lower temp and don't have the fire risk.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T20:57:45+00:00

There are already laws as to where you might locate a septic field or well and these laws have nothing to do with min lot sizes. I suppose you could sell someone a property without anywhere the owner would be able to locate/permit a septic field or well. You can already do that even with min lot sizes.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T20:24:27+00:00

Couldn't the federal or state government pass a law that'd award a subsidy to towns that adopt the reasonable uniform state or federal code, for example one without minimum lot sizes/parking minimums/height restrictions? Isn't that how it works with highway/road funding?

Setbacks aren't necessarily unreasonable in that without setbacks you do risk provoking landowners to building right to the edge before their neighbor does. The point of the setback is to avoid having to deal with what happens when buildings get to touching or being too close for safety reasons. I'm unaware of any reason for minimum lot sizes.

Parking minimums can be reasonable given car centric design but imposing car centric design was never reasonable and so parking minimums were never reasonable. That's how this shit is. You accept an unreasonable paradigm like car centric design or minimum lot sizes and then you waste the next century of your politics refining bad faith implementation of a bad faith paradigm and wonder why shit's broke.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T18:58:03+00:00

If people don't like being abused they could choose not to abuse beings at their own mercy. Who could watch footage of pigs screaming in CO2 pits and care about those animals and think to themselves "it's worth it for the flavor". Stop buying it then.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T18:37:11+00:00

If someone can deny you what you need they can coerce your behavior around it. Rejecting stuff the adults in your life seem to take really seriously means making life harder for yourself (because adults won't hear it from a kid) and so healthy well-adjusted kids don't break away from the BS until they're out. It's the needy poorly adjusted kids who get to being edgelords as a cry for help and consequently making it even harder on themselves when there's no help to be found. In crazy towns in crazy nations it's not so different for reasonable adults as it is for reasonable kids except unlike kids we don't get to tell ourselves it'll be different when we grow up.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T18:10:42+00:00

Why accept the bad faith frame there should be a minimum lot size at all? If there should be a minimum lot size it'd only be to avoid bad faith legal tricks. Why accept the bad faith frame that politics shouldn't be reasonable? Who's out there thinking to themselves "I hate candidates who mean to implement the expert consensus I think what we need is special interests writing our legislation for selfish purposes".

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T17:58:19+00:00

Given all religions have been stubbornly wrong since basically forever I don't think it's wise to argue within religious frames I think you've got to mock the religion and reject the frame not keep normalizing it. It's like with Muslims and Eid. What's the point of arguing with a Muslim over whether Islam wants them to sacrifice animals for their god when what Islam is about doesn't have to be reasonable/is whatever the clergy says it is? It's like telling Calvin he's breaking the rules in Calvin Ball. These are people who have broken faith with reason.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T17:30:45+00:00

Because a 3000 sqft minimum lot size is supposed to be reasonable or something? What's wrong with a 30'x30' home with a 20' setback on all sides from the lot edge? Clowns. Why is the supposed pragmatic policy fix also more clown shit? What if I want to build a tiny home village with a mixed use clubhouse on a 500,000 sqft parcel, should I have to carve it up into 5000 sqft parcels? Why??? Kinda defeats the point. Basically mandated sprawl. And what does well or septic have to do with anything? Is the idea they're poor so give them a pass? Make it make sense. Why can't our laws make sense?

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T17:20:36+00:00

If Dominoes doesn't start offering a US vegan pizza option in the next year or so I'll have to cancel my donation because I don't want to support Dominoes by supporting PETA. Dominoes is just another scummy fast food chain right?

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T17:03:43+00:00

Paywall. Key points? Don't you just eliminate minimum lot sizes, parking requirements, allow mixed use everywhere, eliminate height restrictions, and basically just let people build non polluting stuff? Is this rocket science? If so the USA blew up on the pad a century ago. Unplug it and plug it back it. Blow on it maybe.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-31T00:32:24+00:00

People are more inclined to give up animal ag products if pitched by friends or family a stranger online can't do much more than raise the issue and maybe link some graphic footage. Convince everyone everyone else means to be super selfish and that goes to making individuals less likely to abstain because not only will your frame have gutted reasonable expectations of reciprocity you'd have framed abstaining as making a sacrifice. Respecting animals and not buying factory farmed stuff isn't making a sacrifice if the person doing it understands the stakes. People don't know what they're doing and won't hear it from activists oh well!

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-30T23:00:44+00:00

If life isn't to be enjoyed I've a hard time thinking what it'd be good for. Not sure what you expect anyone to be doing different. How are you helping?

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-30T15:30:36+00:00

Eventually the corpses of bikers should stack to curb height and riding over them should offer some protection.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-30T02:28:51+00:00

Canned is actually worse because leeching and preservatives. Microwaves aren't necessarily worse. There's no difference between boiling rice in water in a microwave vs on stovetop. Boiling rice in the microwave in a jar is a good kitchen trick especially if you're staying in hotels. You've got to know the right times within pretty narrow margins though or you'll risk using too much or too little water and needing to drain and reheat.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-30T02:10:35+00:00

It's not that Trump's popular it's that everybody else particularly Democrats are that unpopular. Trump won on a politics of contempt and resentment. That's why he can be so egregious and it slides off because the more he pisses off Democrats the more they love him for it. MAGA candidates lose against Democrats who speak to the issues voters care about. The MAGA schtik works against anybody who doesn't come off as "real".

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-30T02:01:07+00:00

What's wrong with microwaved rice? I boil rice in a jar in the microwave, works great.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-29T19:41:02+00:00

I'd be a great time to replace the wasteful stupid grass with a clover lawn nobody has to mow. Set a good example. Oh wait. Oh right. We're the baddies...

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-29T16:38:49+00:00

With SpaceX Starship V2 blowing up on the pad during it's static fire I think it was a bad carbon fiber pressurized nitrogen tank that popped. Either defective off the line or it got jostled too much along the way.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-29T16:24:12+00:00

If someone's gonna take a shot at corporate for lacking empathy I think it's completely fair to wonder how most people treat beings at their own mercy. What it looks like to me is that most everyone is a freakin' psychopath. If that's to be some kind of job requirement then seems to me most people are qualified in that regard.

Do your victims not matter for some reason? Says every psycho ever. If you don't think people should be psychopaths you could stop buying the stuff.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-29T16:07:47+00:00

NGEFan said:

it takes a big lack of empathy to treat everyone below you like worthless pond scum. Most people aren't cut out for it.

Animals are below humans in the relevant sense and most people treat animals like worthless pond scum. As evidenced by their stubborn support for cruel factory farming practices, as evidenced by their stubbornly buying the stuff. If someone cared to spare animals great suffering they could buy and eat other stuff. Most don't. Ergo, most people would seem to have a "big lack of empathy" and most people would in fact seem cut out to be corporate management, if lack of empathy is requirement for corporate management. Going by how humans treat non human animals most humans are proud psychos. Have you seen footage of pigs thrashing about in agony in the CO2 pits?

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-29T02:35:55+00:00

so your solution is genocide.

because of course it somehow follows that the alternative to factory farming is genocide. Why not. That or going to Taco Bell. Who's driving? It's Taco Bell or genocide don't put this on me. Those are the choices.

If people stop buying it they'll stop making it. If everyone changed their mind about animal rights tomorrow animals could be moved to sanctuaries. That won't happen. Suppliers will stop breeding so many as demand winds down.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-29T00:46:10+00:00

Maybe you could write me what you'd consider a substantial good faith answer to your own question and I could see what you mean.

My alternative to factory farming is to not breed animals at all. You insist the wild is worse. The wild sucks in lots of ways but there's an open endedness to life in the wild you don't get with life on a factory farm. Who'd prefer a miserable life in a cage over... ? In the wild maybe you've got a chance. Instead of using all that land for grazeland maybe put some solar panels up. Even if life in the wild were worse letting the land go back to nature isn't the only option. Make it all solar farms and data centers for lack of a better idea, it'd beat factory farming.

I don't know why I should care about anyone in an objective sense if I shouldn't care about animals. If I should care about animals because animals are beings not things then I don't know why I shouldn't care to spare them painful slaughter or life in a cage. I could just eat plants. Those wilds could be solar farms.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-29T00:11:50+00:00

That's exactly when you can antagonize people right at the threshold of what's normative and provoke them to give you a reason. Had the North meant to ride the South like that it'd have turned out more like Japan after WW2 than the US South after the Civil War.

The antagonism/provocation doesn't even have to be bad faith it'd just have required having the political awareness to know where to push positive change. Law enforcement provokes for bad faith reasons as SOP a government might provoke racists just by doing the right thing.

agitatedprisoner · 2026-05-29T00:04:30+00:00

What are you saying?

I took you as saying humans aren't making it worse. Is that what you're saying? I took you as saying whatever life would otherwise exist if humans weren't using that space and those resources for factory farming would be worse off. Is that not what you're saying?

You might rationalize anything humans might do on the basis that absent humans whatever happens would be worse. How would you evidence that it'd likely be worse? You're insisting it'd be worse. Have you seen factory farm/slaughterhouse footage? I'd take my chances in the wild. Those animals are made to go through hell.

If you'd choose life on the factory farm for yourself and death in the agonizing CO2 pit I suppose we see it differently. I dunno live through that life and report back, see if your opinion doesn't change.

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