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  • The rural population isn’t the issue, it’s suburbia which is where the majority of the US population lives.

    It’s not dense enough for public transportation to be viable and it’s zoned in a way that makes pedestrian traffic a non starter.

    Suburbia causes a lot of problems. I understand why it exists - owning a house with a yard is nice. I personally wouldn’t want to give that up to live in an urban environment if I didn’t have to




  • My mother is like this. She rents out her house for under half it’s market value.

    The tenants know they have it good though and do a lot of things that really should be my mother’s responsibility like pay for or do minor repairs when they come up.

    I have told my mom that the needs to raise rent at least some because she’s not saving enough for big things that will come up like roof replacement, but she’s terrified of her tenants leaving.



  • In the era of social media it’s become common for someone’s racism views posted on their personal social media to get forwarded to their professional relationships (employer, clients) leading to fallout, for example.

    This is an attempt at stifling that sort of thing. When this first started the people on the receiving end complained about ‘freedom of speech’.

    They where told freedom of speech isn’t freedom of consequences.

    This is Floridas attempt at getting rid of the consequences by silencing free speech, ironically.













  • Apparently the plan was to disband the local department and merge it into the department of a neighboring area, then split the cost in an effort to lower the overall operating costs of police services in the area.

    The other city they were going to do this with declined the deal and so this town had to keep their local force in tact.

    Upon hearing that the city they worked for was trying to eliminate their jobs, a bunch quit.


  • We have quite a while yet. We spend about 200 billion servicing the debt right now and have around 4.8 trillion in revenue.

    The warning line is having a debt equal to your GDP. The US has a GDP of around 28 trillion but a debt of 34 trillion. So we are past that warning line, but by itself that doesn’t mean anything.

    For other countries it would signal to banks and other countries that it might be a bad idea to loan to them, but the US has a kind of special status in the global economy and this hasn’t slowed down loaning so far.