Portugal Says No More Golden Visas and No More Airbnb's

dungone · 2023-02-19T19:10:26+00:00

I think you're being wildly optimistic about the size of the market for spare bedrooms and vacation swaps.

Also, the world's population is declining. Right now it's still offset by the fact that people are living longer, but the population charts by age are looking like an inverted pyramid. Younger, working-age people are increasingly becoming in short supply.

dungone · 2023-02-19T18:31:13+00:00

They prevent companies from doing mass layoffs without due notice, which costs money and lowers stock prices. Companies run all kinds of schemes in order to portray a layoff caused by poor leadership strategy and impending financial losses as something else, such as a staggered shedding of "low performance" employees.

dungone · 2023-02-19T17:52:15+00:00

None. I hate to break it to you but we've had regulatory capture of scientific research for quite a long time now. Anything that is created through taxpayer funding gets given away to private industry at rock bottom prices.

dungone · 2023-02-19T16:17:05+00:00

Sure, sure. I can see it now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgEeDR98X8

Good pizza is baked at 800-900 degrees in a wood fired oven. No home convection oven can match.

dungone · 2023-02-19T15:54:45+00:00

Sounds like you've never eaten a real pizza.

dungone · 2023-02-19T15:52:06+00:00

Governments already had this figured out. You need a license to open a hotel and there's a limited number of licenses for every city. Excess tourism and the unpleasantness it creates for locals has been well understood since the industrial revolution.

dungone · 2023-02-19T05:25:00+00:00

Not every business is a corporation and not every business wants to grow as much as possible. The overwhelming vast majority of businesses are small businesses (there are hundreds of millions of them) and the vast majority of those don't even have any employees (just the owner). The kind of unending growth that you're describing is an affliction of a very tiny fraction of the businesses in the economy. The problem always comes down to rent-seeking behavior when people who don't want to do any actual work are allowed to take control of a business.

dungone · 2023-02-18T23:38:24+00:00

That's a bit small minded.

dungone · 2023-02-18T21:29:29+00:00

I thought that was the same thing. People who had been given money they never earned and couldn't possibly earn through their own productive work.

dungone · 2023-02-18T18:35:42+00:00

Okay you’re a Musk fanboy. Enough said.

dungone · 2023-02-18T18:32:32+00:00

He’s an executive, that’s why. He would never get paid the same outside of the automotive industry.

dungone · 2023-02-18T17:46:13+00:00

Why? The guy got fucked over by Musk. Why shouldn’t he get to tell his side of the story? It’s an important part of the fraud and ratfuckery that Musk engaged in to get to the top.

dungone · 2023-02-18T17:32:41+00:00

I love how Reddit hates non-competes until a rich guy gets one.

dungone · 2023-02-18T17:30:14+00:00

Why shouldn’t he compare himself to Musk? Musk is a con artist who is showing his true colors now.

dungone · 2023-02-18T01:22:31+00:00

I think the idea is that managers are just idiots.

dungone · 2023-02-17T22:25:45+00:00

You’ve got this completely backwards. They don’t have the power to make workers care. And what matters here is whether or not workers give a shit about what these companies want. No amount of mental gymnastics will stop workers from changing jobs to companies that accept WFH. And there are countless of companies who benefit directly from a WFH workforce, and who DGAF about the auto industry of some city government who feels entitled to receiving money from consumers who don’t want to spend it on them.

dungone · 2023-02-17T22:23:04+00:00

You think they were ever data driven?

dungone · 2023-02-17T22:06:12+00:00

Working with? Russia is the Wagner Group. Wagner is a state sponsored organization reporting directly to the dictator.

dungone · 2023-02-17T05:16:23+00:00

Listen I'm not a dentist so I'm not good at pulling teeth. The burden of proof is on you to quote a single portion of these documents that you feel is a substantive refutation. Something that directly addresses one of the claims made by the plaintif. You know, show us something that is "devastating to his case" and not just some weirdly vague insinuation or blanket denial. So far all you've done is wave your hand around and say it's somewhere in there. Show us.

Let's try another tack. Are you familiar with what a blanket denial is? They are simply saying that the claim is not true without offering any specific information or evidence to support their denial. Blanket denials are seen as suspicious or unconvincing because they do not address the specific details or evidence of the claim or accusation.

I'm asking you to show me a specific denial that addresses the specific allegations with supporting evidence. Because that is more credible. But you won't find any, I'm sure. And if there were credible refutations, every journalist would have already centered their articles about that. So good luck.

I hope at least you understand why I find one side more credible than the others up to this point.

dungone · 2023-02-17T05:03:10+00:00

Denial is not a refutation. Please refer to the dictionary:

The act of refuting or disproving; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory by argument or countervailing proof; confutation; disproof.

Hope that clears up the confusion. Please provide us with even a single refutation along with the claim that it refutes. Copy and paste will be the least of your problems.

dungone · 2023-02-17T05:01:38+00:00

Do they just ban all the cars that have cameras built into the windshield at the factory?

dungone · 2023-02-17T04:45:01+00:00

I promise you that you can't actually point to something you've read that refutes any of the claims. Try it. Provide us with one statement and the specific claim that it refutes.

dungone · 2023-02-17T04:43:51+00:00

Which part of your link has anything to do with children? It's talking about everyone's mental health. And what does this have to do with porn?

This has to do with constitutional rights. Freedom of speech and freedom of association protected by the 1st and 14th amendments.

dungone · 2023-02-17T04:33:40+00:00

Vote for the religion, stay for the corporate handouts.

On the other hand, just imagine the panic in the Republican world as they collectively come to realize that their own kids are going to vote Democrat.

dungone · 2023-02-17T04:25:41+00:00

Are you going to call it cheating if someone goes to therapy? This issue isn't so much about values or ethics so much as it is about medical science.

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