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The “SSH” picture would work for SSH tunneling
6·21 days agoI guess the argument is that they will raise rent by the maximum, even at excessive risk of losing tenants? Because if the tenants will pay that much, why wouldn’t the landlord charge that anyway?
2·1 month agoDefinite agree with the core of what you’re saying, though for US and EU (and to a lesser degree “High income countries”), the numbers are quite close, as clean grid energy is significantly outpacing electric vehicle adoption (and EVs rely on a clean grid to be clean).
4·1 month agoTo be fair, it would be more effective to build a handful of mid-rises rather than clear-cutting space for a new exurb
The antecedent of “its” is America, not the drug
The report describes living comfortably as spending no more than 30% of one’s income on rent.
This is abusing a crude, outdated rule of thumb that never worked in HCOL areas [1]. Put simply, if your rent goes up by $10K annually and all other costs remain the same, you only need $10K more per year to be just as “comfortable”, not $33.33K.
Granted, $35.1K is a lot (that would be 100% of minimum wage in Los Angeles). The median rent for a **1BR ** is $2.2K [2], so 26K per year (i.e. still too much).
In short, minimum wage isn’t enough to afford rent in L.A., but you certainly don’t need to be making $100K.
Every presidential election is important, and it never makes sense to make a “protest vote”. That’s just not how voting works.
I’m sure somebody has cried wolf at every election, but McCain and Romney never aimed to become dictators. Republicans currently have a published plan to institute fascism. It’s pretty obvious that these elections actually are exceptional.
I don’t think it’s accurate to say that זָכָר (zakar) is usually translated as “boy”. It is generally translated as “male” and often clearly includes adult males.
Funny enough, all prohibitions are specific to men, even in the NT (arsenokoites).
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181·2 months agoAh, that’s one of my favorites. It’s just so sincere and fun. It’s definitely unrefined, like a student film that somehow got a massive budget, but that is part of its charm.
Industrial strength anthropic principle
4·2 months agoOh man, don’t stop
You got it! Here’s some other consumer protections the administration has introduced recently:
- Direct filing with the IRS
- Price limits on asthma inhalers and insulin for seniors
- Requiring ISPs to provide consistent up-front information and pricing
- Restrictions on college junk fees and disallowing witholding of transcripts
Hungry for more? Check this out:
White House Statement on Junk Fees
That’s from October, so some of it overlaps, but among other stuff there’s still a “Click to Cancel” rule working its way through the FTC.
Sadly Biden has been spending a bunch of time on lame crap like climate change, human rights, health care, infrastructure, election integrity, etc., so it might take a bit longer for him to single-handedly usher in consumer utopia.
This seems entirely opposite to my observation. I’d say Biden and his administration are unusually focused on unfair or annoying business practices. In just the past two weeks the Biden administration:
- Set clear rules requiring cash refunds for flight delays
- Banned non-compete clauses
- Set new rules on “junk fees” for credit cards
- Increased the minimum salary for overtime exemption
- Expanded fiduciary duty to retirement “advisors”
- Announced a lawsuit against Live Nation (TicketMaster)
- Re-instated net neutrality
Testing helicopter capabilities.
CH-53K carrying an inoperable F-35C airframe (CF-1) refueling from a KC-130T
27·2 months ago
The complete rules are here: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/refundsfinalruleapril2024
The meat of it is the table on pages 9-14 and mostly comprehensible.
Worth noting:
- A change to your flight number is always a “cancellation” and you may choose to accept a refund
- The expectation is most people would not, for the same reason most don’t cancel their refundable tickets - they want to go on the flight
- There are no carve outs for weather, etc.
- I am really glad to see this because airlines could claim “weather” for connecting flights, so any weather anywhere meant they could delay your flight
- A change to your flight number is always a “cancellation” and you may choose to accept a refund
Funny running across this article after reading https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Spoiler: the author does not have a high opinion of Raghavan.
16·2 months agoPossibly from here: https://lemmy.world/post/14481959
It’s a general rule of wine pairing that the wine should be sweeter than the food