I swear we’re all under a crown, we just don’t know who they are.

The protests roiled the country for months and forced the national government to cancel the contract, returning water services to public control.

But after the consortium filed a legal claim against the Bolivian government in 2002, seeking up to $50 million, the popular uprising transformed into a broader fight against the legal system that allowed this. Investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, lets foreign companies bypass national courts and sue governments before international panels of arbitrators.

These tribunals have awarded hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to companies, even in cases where they flouted national laws, polluted the environment or were accused of violating human rights. Most of these cases have been filed by companies from wealthy nations against developing countries, prompting critics to say ISDS acts like a form of modern-day colonialism.

Right, like I did. They’re safeguarding Disney and other places like that now. It’s just the little guys who get screwed.

https://imgur.com/a/these-are-new-niki-mice-drawings-phone-company-chainsaws-merms-donut-logos-burger-mc-winfruit-computers-republunch-political-party-logos-Rhgi0OC

I know poor and wealthy people in every generation. Why aren’t we blaming the banks for the 08 crash, the politicians for taking away almost every social service and trying to take away more, and the psychopath CEOs who care about their dick measuring contests every quarter? This generational divide obscures the real issues.

Here is a better example of the different classes in architecture: https://www.landzero.com/post/understanding-property-zoning-a-comprehensive-guide

As far as the windows, I don’t know that site and the window requirements, but it’s hard to see what’s going on on the sides. The overhead trusses are easily accessible as well. Maybe, maybe not.

I disagree with you on what you think you can do with “Class B” , but I don’t think you’re wrong about anything, if that makes sense.

The class B pic shown in your link would be a perfect candidate to retrofit to housing if it’s unrented. The classifications you’re showing are classes of rentals, not building construction.

We’re not talking about grandpa and grandma renting out their extra home: Meet the Billionaire Investors Behind the US Housing Affordability Crisis

What brought you to Lemmy and are you on other social media platforms?

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It’s been this bad before? That’s funny too.

which makes a lot of them keep their old house when they move, and just rent it out.

Yeah, that’s not a thing:

Meet the Billionaire Investors Behind the US Housing Affordability Crisis

With roughly 800 billionaires in the U.S. with combined wealth of $6.2 trillion (and 2,781 billionaires globally with over $14.2 trillion), ultra-wealthy investors tend to diversify their holdings across multiple kinds of assets. A huge amount of this billionaire wealth is invested in property, land, and housing. Billions and possibly trillions of dollars are sucked into predatory investment practices and luxury housing schemes — where global billionaire investors park vast quantities of wealth in U.S markets.

This is not your grandparent’s gentrification, but rather a hyper-gentrification fueled by concentrated wealth driving up land and housing costs, expanding short-term rentals, and treating housing like a commodity to speculate on or a place to park wealth. The billionaires are displacing the millionaires, and the millionaires are disrupting the housing market for everyone else.

I think you misunderstood me, rentals should have more of limit on how much they can raise the rent, not that banks should get more money from homeowners. I guarantee that banks are making a shit ton of money or they wouldn’t do it.

It’s still a weird feeling when you’re 3 years later and everyone is complaining about their rent going up and yours is staying still. It kind of feels like cheating.

Congrats! You’re now going to find out that some of your expenses will go down. Your insurance specifically and that unless you take out another loan on the house or got a balloon loan, your monthly bill won’t change. It’s a fun thing to find out.

I just checked on Axios and it’s owned and ran by the billionaire Cox family.

James Cox Kennedy (born November 29, 1947) is an American media executive and the current chair of Cox Enterprises, the conglomerate founded by his grandfather, James M. Cox. According to the 2017 Forbes billionaires list, he is the 105th-richest person in the world, the 37th-richest person in the United States, and the richest person in the state of Georgia.

This is a few months old, but it might help you make a decision on who to partially trust. There is no one to fully trust, no one.

List of media sources that explains who owns and runs them for the elections.

Freeze

Another response to danger is your body hitting the pause button altogether. The freeze response involves becoming immobilized or “freezing” in response to a threat. This can involve a state of paralysis or being unable to move. It’s thought that this response might have evolved as a way to avoid being noticed by a predator or to remain still in the hopes that the threat will pass by.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-happens-to-your-body-during-the-fight-or-flight-response

I would suggest emailing improv groups around you to see if you could join a class that’s supportive. Make sure to ask the teacher ahead of time so you can get a feel for if they’d be good for you or not and if they’re willing to work with you. If you could take a friend that’s interested as well, that would help for you to work with someone you trust.

I thought tankie was for any government that used tanks on their own people? So many others should be included, China is missing, I think the Phillipines maybe? There’s more. I’m open to being corrected.

The republican party and adjacent is mostly white nationalists, what would make you think that they would switch to voting for a Jewish person? He would have unfortunately lost.

So they picked the worst possible option? That doesn’t even make sense. I doubt he would have won either at the time, even if he wasn’t sabotaged. Do you think the RNC wouldn’t have gone after him worse?

If you haven’t seen the documentary by his daughter Rashida Jones on Netflix, go watch it. I had no idea how much he was part of American culture.