[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The first step in not living in a shithole is to not build a house in a shithole, e.g. swampy Florida.

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Unbounded risk-taking such as insuring people building houses in risky locations will lead to bankrupting the country.

If insurance is going to cover it, then there needs to be stipulations on the home owner to reduce the risk - for example, building the home out of steel and concrete, raising the structure high enough so that floods and storm surges cannot reach indoors, etc.

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Putin is also one of the world's richest man and funds Trump.

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Your "technically you can" is actually a huge logistical nightmare to implement.

Having electricity rates go really low is intended to incentivize people or companies to sink the excess energy to wherever they can. And also to discourage producers to produce more at that hour, if they are able to.

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

More exception rules means more loop holes. Now I can get my employer to pay me in tips instead of a regular salary.

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago
  • Police State: Thin blue line flag flyers all support Trump, they are all against Black Lives Matters, which is protesting about police brutality
  • Making Free Speech Criminal: Republicans banning books in Texas because it doesn't agree with their world view
  • Private Interests over Public ones: Republicans wants to give school vouchers to religious schools and take away public school funding
[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

How about this one from about 2000 years ago:

37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;

Matthew 9:37

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9%3A37&version=KJV

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

I think the experience of building the previous smaller ones helped though. I think if you just go for the large one, it will probably fail or overrun the budget and we'll have nothing to show for the money spent.

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

Such a weird hill to die on for Apple. How much does it really cost to just add 8GB more RAM? $5?

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

It would be interesting to see Kamala Harris vs. Nikki Haley in a future election -- Two Indian-American woman vying for the US presidency.

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

I use Firefox exclusively. It is fast, responsive, and works on all the sites that I visit. So I don't really understand why the share of users are so low. What sites are ya'll visiting that doesn't work on FF?

[-] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Inflation is like acceleration. Acceleration going down means you are still speeding up, just at a lower rate. For prices to go down, we need DEFLATION!

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