mmirate

mmirate t1_j0ny97m wrote

If you live in Portsmouth because you work in Portsmouth, then you're pouring money down the drain.
This is very simple economics and I am exasperated that you people refuse to grasp it.

To wit:


The best place to put most types of businesses that use human labor to manufacture things is near as many prospective employees as possible; i.e. in a centralized location. The best place to put a business that provides sales and/or service to visiting customers, is near as many prospective customers as possible; i.e. in a centralized high-density location.

Therefore, centralized high-density locations (i.e. cities and large towns) are extremely valuable for retail, industrial and other commercial uses.

The status quo is that zoning, parking minimums and other such local corruption, all but prohibit building any more apartments atop (e.g.) retail buildings. Therefore using any land in a centralized high-density location for residential purpose, excludes that land from extremely valuable retail or industrial use for which developers will likely pay very handsomely. The only reason the owner of such land would not want to sell to said developers, is if she can find some way to convince some residents to rent from her at an exorbitant price.

I imagine there are some people willing to pay that price; otherwise Portsmouth's population would be zero.

For the rest of us who want to earn a profit from life, the best place to put our residence is in a location which is as decentralized and low-density as possible, within a certain commute distance of one or more large towns whose employers can compete for our services.

(And yes, automobiles are the only way to extend commute distance such that multiple large towns are reachable from the same corner of bumfsck nowhere. Deal with it.)

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mmirate t1_iyjmdo4 wrote

A headshot is only quick and painless if it destroys the brainstem. That is a relatively small target that is easily missed. (And hollow-point bullets don't make the task any easier because the brainstem is not surrounded by enough tissue to make an incoming hollow-point bullet expand significantly.)

If the brainstem is missed...

Without the frontal lobes the brain can still survive; ask Phineas Gage.
Without the upper respiratory tract, there is the risk that the body (and brain) can still survive via artificial life support if the EMTs' attention is drawn too quickly.

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mmirate t1_iy1fmcc wrote

No, the State requiring us to have our own vehicles inspected is also a crock of shit. Driving a shitbox without knowing how to maintain control of it is dangerous to, you guessed it, the driver. School buses, and background-checks of the drivers thereof, are a non sequitur in multiple ways.

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mmirate t1_ixzdnx3 wrote

What else - other than attempting repair of the fused disks even if it meant guinea-pigging for medical experiments, or at least attempting to control the length of time the fused disks are consciously experienced - could possibly be the objective in life of a person with fused disks?

EDIT: you should be ashamed of yourselves. Downvoting questions instead of answering them.

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mmirate t1_ixhaavx wrote

No, getting rid of the War on Drugs police-state is the whole reason for legalizing it. As long as there is an illegal black market for police to go after (whether because the plant is entirely illegal or because smuggling it is cheaper than paying the taxes and regulations), the mission is not accomplished. Ask California and New York. (And contrast Colorado, who headed this issue off mostly correctly.)

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mmirate t1_ixcxvf0 wrote

tl;dr: tl;dw: outside the Interstate Highway System and similar highways, driving >25mph anyplace is technically unsafe because once in awhile people fail to maintain awareness of their surroundings and control of their vehicle; but driving >25mph is also how people get from home to work and back, and do work in between, all in a single day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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mmirate t1_iwugz4a wrote

Employees of one business use their wages as customers of other businesses. Those other businesses have to pay for their unemployment taxes via slightly higher prices, diluting the purchasing power of those employees.

One transaction at a time, everyone in the economy pays taxes, directly and indirectly.

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