tellah

joined 1 year ago
[–] tellah 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If I was on that instance and subscribed to this community, I wouldn't see these posts any more? If I wasn't paying attention would I even know it was gone?

[–] tellah 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

There is a logic to this. Private developers will not make multi-year, large capital investments in something if they think that its value is guaranteed to decrease. That should be obvious.

And we desperately need to increase supply. For better or worse, we do still live in a capitalist society so its going to be up to the private sector to increase supply, with the govt providing an incentivizing role. The govt ever saying anything like "we need to bring house prices down" would paralyze private sector investment into building houses.

FWIW, in my esteemed position as an armchair big-social-problems-fixer, the solution is obvious: Govt investment/subsidies to convert downtown commercial real estate towers into condos. Instead of forcing people back to the office to salvage what's left of the real estate value for those empty towers. The owners get their handout, people can continue to work from home, it's good for the environment too! I dunno, I think it makes sense.

[–] tellah 19 points 1 year ago

No but it's weird that I never see any comments supporting Ukraine from hexbear users. Like the country was invaded, there is evidence of massive human rights atrocities. It is beyond the pale that so many people would just coincidentally celebrate every piece of bad news for the people being invaded and spin everything negatively against them. One would expect some diversity of opinions from any reasonably large instance but hexbear users all act like pro-russian trolls.

[–] tellah 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The drinks are not bad, "bon jak" for example. They have lots of flavors in 5 or 2.5 THC . For someone who doesn't consume much, I think one or maybe two 5mg THC drinks will be more than enough for a nice time.

[–] tellah 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What will count as a news site? So obviously ones like Reuters, CBC, The Guardian will be blocked, but what about the disinformation bullshit sites like C0v1dHoAx-Chronicle dot net ? They were only "news" insofar as they could piggyback on reputable information and spread their bile.

I suspect only the fake news sites will wind up on Facebook, furthering the echo chamber of right wing disinformation.

[–] tellah 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I missed these updates when reddit closed sync. I've been following the war since day 1, or more accurately, since Crimea was invaded in 2014. I'm really happy I can follow them again. I can't believe it's almost a quarter million Russian casualties, this war needs to end.

Are there any other active communities on lemmy I should follow for Ukraine updates?

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