Its the DNC, not the IRA. What else do you expect from them?

I have $800M worth of lint in my belly button, apparently

Itd be pretty amazing if the Episcopal church turned all of its infrastructure for resettling migrants into infrastructure for sheltering at-risk migrants in the US and protecting them from ICE. Im just sayin’

All cities that rely on a tourism based economy should be paying at least one person, if not a team, just to focus enforcement on this particular issue.

All illegal STRs either would be paying proper taxes as STRs, or wouldn’t be STRs and instead would be long term housing, if these laws were enforced.

All tourist cities struggle with the same issue of lacking workforce housing, which means there are no real locals, which means there really is no real vitality to the area at the end of the day. Necessary services that a city needs to survive rely on a workforce that lives an hour drive away.

Taxes on STRs are often directed towards solving housing issues, which is generally helpful. Overall though, the dominance of STRs is the death knell for any desirable tourist town. The conversion of what would otherwise be normal housing into a STR might make business sense. For example many STRs in my town charge more per night than they would probably garner a month in long term rent. But its something that should be allowed only in extremely limited use cases, like people being allowed to STR their own primary residence only. I think what we are learning from STRs is that there is a finite limit on how much living space in a city can be for tourist use before the city itself can no longer function.

Unfettered it just destroys rental markets by removing otherwise available stock. The only way it ever generates more money is by squeezing stock out of the LTR market, pumping the value of land/rent in the general sense, driving up the value of what they can charge per night while real people are out in the street because there are no places cheap enough (or in existence) to rent for a month.

Towns have to stop acting like they are the CEOs whose sole job is to raise land valuations for their shareholders. If pretty much any town or city in the country had only focused on what produced higher land value since their founding, then they probably wouldnt still be around now. In fact, many of the worst decisions made in the history of American urban design were made chasing the rabbit of higher land values.

Paying people to enforce STR laws isnt just a good way to collect tax revenue, but literally a way to protect the remaining stock in the rental market. Hopefully it only becomes more important and we see a crackdown on STRs in general

It has brain health implications when ingested at levels way above the standard levels used in virtually all water systems in the United States. Stop spreading bullshit. The only evidence of negative health effects from fluoride is based on studies where people were exposed to over 2x the levels of fluoride in municipal water

This is the first thing I thought when I heard about this line item they want to sneak in. Didnt the first lady just advocate some legislation for regulation on AI not one month ago?

But having money makes you not related to one of the worst cartels of all time, even when you are.

Magical stuff, that money is. Apparently they weren’t sending their best because their best didnt have the $5M

Even if Lemmy grows to a point of being on the radar, theres still no hope for any real IP to lock down for anybody. The whole design is fairly antithetical to being taken over and turned into a cash cow of some kind, despite feeling very much like something centralized in terms of how we interact with it.

I agree with OP, and I think this can even become an even better repository for information than something like Reddit, because it’s more democratized and deters astroturfing or many types of malfeasance by design. Especially as it stands now, early on. Thats why I started a community for billiards. The reddit community for billiards, as well as old forum sites, are great wealths of information that is hard to otherwise find. It would be great to build something like that here over time

That title seems like the epitome of a false dichotomy

Air Farce One

His face says “bitch, did I tell you you could have some of my crackerjacks?”

If only the woke globalist DEImocrats had thought to put “no takebacksies” in the language of roe v wade 🤦‍♂️

The borg are just low key nihilists frl frl

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Trump: “when have the Saudi’s ever hurt us with an airplane? 🤷‍♂️

Believe it or not, he still finds time to get groceries and clean around the house too

Watch him take away their tax exempt status

The reality is that the job is kind of irrelevant. We had a manufacturing economy then, and a service based economy now, but the real difference between today and back then were wage strength and social parity. Of course pensions existed too, but still.

Back in the day one man could make enough to support a family on a relatively entry level skill level income. Today one person can hardly afford rent by themselves anywhere in the US for the same skill level of work.

Instead of paying people any more than absolutely necessary, we pay shareholders. No pensions, let alone benefits for a lot of people.

We need taxes on the wealthy and higher wages, if not legally mandatory profit sharing schemes for all businesses

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Im all for making the traditional market more efficient and transparent, if blockchain can accommodate that, so long as we can also make crypto more like the traditional market. At least in terms of criminalizing shit that would obviously be illegal to do with securities