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By You got 14 bricks right there? Go To PostThe Maga side having a field day with this here.

By Crusher Go To Post80 years old, I mean… I don’t want to be an ageist here but I know a couple of 80+ and I wouldn’t trust them with shit.

By Lunatic Go To PostHonestly insane how old the current American President is.

By Fenderputty Go To Post

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By You got 14 bricks right there? Go To PostI haven't checked the comments yet but I know they're going to be beautiful.

By Fenderputty Go To Post

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As Price of Oil Slides, OPEC Plus May Weigh Further Production Cuts

By reilo Go To Posthttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/nyregion/brooklyn-brownsville-no-police.html


Haha what the FUCK America

I ask again, what does the police actually do?

Over the years, cities and towns have demolished grand old structures to make way for garages and surface parking. When you see vintage photos of most American downtowns, what’s striking is how densely built they once were—before the relentless pursuit of parking helped hollow them out.

The opportunity cost of building new spaces quickly became evident. When Los Angeles upped its parking requirement from one to 1.5 spaces for a two-bedroom apartment in 1964, Grabar notes, even the car-friendly dingbat building became infeasible. Off-street-parking mandates, it turns out, are easy to satisfy when suburban developers are building fast-food outlets, strip malls, and single-family homes on cheap open land; meanwhile, large downtown commercial and residential buildings can generate enough revenue to pay for expensive garages. But projects in between fall into what’s been described as the “Valley of High Parking Requirements”: The government-mandated number of spaces won’t fit on a standard surface lot, and structured parking would cost too much to build. This is how parking rules killed off the construction of rowhouses, triple-deckers, and other small apartment buildings. Grabar reports that in the past half century, the production of new buildings with two to four units dropped by more than 90 percent.

Many housing experts believe that the waning supply of cheap market-rate apartments in small and midsize buildings is a major cause of the current housing crisis. Since 1950, the U.S. population has grown by more than 180 million people, at least some of whom—to judge by real-estate prices in New York’s Greenwich Village, Boston’s South End, and other former bohemian enclaves—would happily move to dense neighborhoods with lousy parking if they could. But many residential and commercial parts of cities that look like, well, cities cannot legally be replicated today. “If the Empire State Building had been built to the minimum parking requirements of a contemporary American city … its surface parking lot would cover twelve square blocks,” Grabar writes.

Precisely because parking mandates discourage apartments without banning them, local governments can make unrealistically high demands—two parking spaces for a studio, six for a four-bedroom apartment—as a way of excluding renters and preserving neighborhood homogeneity. For NIMBY homeowners, parking rules have become an all-purpose tool for preventing change in any form, no matter how seemingly innocuous. Grabar describes the plight of Ben Lee, a Los Angeles entrepreneur who wanted to turn his father’s carpet store into a New York–style delicatessen. Local regulations required so many parking spaces—roughly three times the square footage of the deli itself—that Lee would have had to buy and raze three nearby buildings. He tried a work-around: The mall garage across the street always had plenty of unused spots, so Lee arranged to rent a few dozen of them. “Unfortunately,” Grabar writes, “getting a parking variance in Los Angeles is, like trying to make it in Hollywood, a long and degrading process with little chance of success.”

By i can get you a toe Go To PostThis got heavily disseminated by streamer react crew too so not a shocker.

By s y Go To PostI read this like 3 times and I'm still confused.

Finally getting old 😩

By Lunatic Go To PostYou deserve it

By Laboured Go To PostMore "hahaha we're doing crimes!" stuff this time from Binance.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1665741537991335939?s=20

By Rob Go To Posthttps://apple.news/AMorF1Q6kT-G4U3EYqQYNFw

These delivery apps are trash if I’m understanding this correctly

Grubhub giving a restaurant $12.47 from a $20.69 order, but charging the customer $38.23.

The pharmaceutical company Merck on Tuesday sued the federal government over legislation that empowers Medicare for the first time to negotiate prices directly with drugmakers.

Merck’s lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, is the drug industry’s most significant move so far to fight back against a substantial change to health policy, which will go into effect starting in 2026. Democrats pushed through the Medicare-negotiation program last summer as a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act, framing it as a way of lowering drug prices.

Only some drugs will be subject to negotiation with Medicare and only after they have been on the market without competition for years. But in public remarks, pharmaceutical executives have cast the Medicare-negotiation program as a dire threat to new cures. Several said they were reassessing their drug development plans.

By Rob Go To Postdoes this mean i'll stop seeing coinbase logo all over the nba court now