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  • I know this is quite a bit later, but this comment confused me. I do not see how loosening zoning laws that limit density and banning corporations from owning houses are mutually exclusive.These policies can and should work together as part of a bigger urbanist policy. I also don’t see how supporting local developers is that bad of a thing. I’d rather have the money stay in the community and go to a community member than some multinational corporation who owns thousands of homes across the country. Still it isn’t the best. Cooperative housing or need based housing who is better, but realistically those can’t fill up the excess of stock that we need. We will need input from private developers, as well as a big government housing initiative.


  • qwrty@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIt's just business
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    8 months ago

    “deregulation” detected. ready the down votes. /s

    Seriously though, zoning laws are a big reason why we have the current housing crisis. If given the opportunity, someone or some business will build high density housing. But you can’t with he current implementation of zoning laws. Without that barrier, you would see a lot more high density building projects

    Still we do need zoning laws. I don’t think anyone wants a factory or a garbage dump in their back yard. Used correctly zoning also helps limit sprawl.



  • My experience in IT is that most of gen z doesn’t care about understanding anything on the Internet outside of social media

    Yea, I’ve found this frustrating as the “tech guy”

    classmate has a problem

    “It’s impossible, I don’t know how to fix it”

    I Fix it with simply restarting the program.

    They seem to be completely content with consuming media but even most of the big game streamers are millennials it seems like.

    Every generation is like this. Typically, the media of a generation is made by older generations. Much of Boomers music was made by the silent generation. Most of the Millennial pop culture was made by Gen-X and Boomers. I would argue that millennials and gen-z are set apart by how to prevent their own generation is in their own pop culture.


  • I’m Gen-Z, my parents are older Millennials

    Millennials use the Internet but they don’t get it like Gen-Z does. Most of my peers seem to have a much better understanding of online culture than most millennials do. They use much more irony in both online and irl conversations.

    One thing I noticed was that millennials have weebs, but Gen-Z doesn’t. It’s not something special for Zoomers to watch anime or be interested in Japanese media/culture. Almost all of my peers watch anime or consume some other Japanese media frequently. My parents didn’t watch anime until my sister got them to.

    Gen-Z is more individualist in less of a “the only person that matters is me” sort of way and more of a “you can’t count on anyone, especially the government to help you” sort of way. You can see this through Gen-Zs political engagement. Most of my peers are differently engaged that millennials. Most people my age don’t affiliate with a specific party, but rather by an ideology.

    Also, Gen-Z is much more depressed




  • If it works, sell or donate it. If it doesn’t work, you can see if it is worth repairing. If it’s not, recycle it. You can check on your municipality’s website on their waste management page to see if they recycle electronics.

    If you do sell, donate, or recycle, make sure there is no data on the drives that you would miss, then wipe it. If you plan on recycling, you can take out the drive and destroy it. Magnets and paper shredders are helpful.






  • qwrty@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHere's your mirror kings
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    11 months ago

    (Not disagreeing, but offering a bit more insight)

    To be fair, what the IDF is doing is hard. Fighting irregular forces in dense urban environments is hard, especially with their opponents having hundreds of underground bunkers and using civilian shields. Even if they were operating under best practice, there would be a lot of civilian casualties.

    However, they aren’t operating under best practices. I don’t know how the average IDF soldier feels, but the top brass at best doesn’t give a shit if they kill a hundred palestinian civilians per one Hamas member; At worst, they see this conflict as an excuse to actively target them.