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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I wanted to build a duplex but “zoning laws” say that wasn’t allowed, only single family detached houses with at least X amount of land.

    Most zoning laws are serious bullshit and work as defacto segregation to keep the dirty brown poor people away from the nice good rich folk. It’s why suburban school is a totally different things from poor urban school.

    Zoning laws are why developers in LA can’t afford to build anything other than luxury condos. Land is literally too expensive to build. As an example: a requirement to have at least X parking spots per X units, even when it’s built right next to a metro and a bus depot and you’re building low income housing for people who are less likely to own cars in the first place.

    Too many NIBYs whining about things.









  • Actual health insurance is literally illegal in the USA. It’s all some sort of partially pre-paid health subscription crap that you get punished for not buying. Every time the government steps in the help they make it worse, even as far back as WW2 with “salary caps” leading to extra non-monetary incentives, like medical insurance, company car, etc. Then the government gives business tax breaks to provide insurance making it more expensive for an individual to buy so now your health is tied to your work. Then they help by… etc. etc. etc.




  • 9 hours later, reading through this whole thread, has it changed your opinion? Because about 80% of the comments are from hexbear users generally being shitheads.

    Is that what you want the newcomer experience to be?

    “Just build a block list of a couple dozen communities and a few hundred @hexbear accounts and then it’s not so bad!” isn’t something a newbie is going to put up with.