Saurok
@Saurok@lemm.ee
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
No, China has one of the highest home ownership rates in the world.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
In China, you own the house, you just don’t own the land. Technically, the land is leased to you. For residential purposes though, you get about the same rights to the land as you do in the US though, but in most cases it’s a lot cheaper because you pay a fee every 70 or so years vs. every year that we pay property taxes. That also means that the government has fewer opportunities to take your land away from you than they do in the US (if you don’t pay your property taxes in the US, your land will be sold in a tax sale after a couple years). Your heirs still inherit your lease and have the right to renew when that 70 year mark comes back around. It’s a contributing factor towards the insanely high homeownership rate in China, which is around like 96 or 97 percent I think?
- Comment on fireflies 1 month ago:
It’s both. It’s a beautiful little call and response like system they have evolved to do. Typically the males will light up while they are flying and the females light up on the ground. There are some species that are predatory though and will mimic and use the lights to hunt the others.
- Comment on Erasure 2 months ago:
gp.org/help_elect_a_green_to_the_milwaukee_common… Here’s an example of them trying to get someone elected to local office.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 2 months ago:
Here’s the first thing I found when I went looking. shareable.net/driving-change-the-story-of-the-dri…
- Comment on It really is like this 2 months ago:
Do you have a source so I could read more about it?
- Comment on It really is like this 2 months ago:
What happened in 1984?
- Comment on It really is like this 2 months ago:
The social credit score stuff is basically a Western myth. There was some local level rumblings and plans, but most of it has been unpopular or axed. The only thing that exists at a national level for individuals is the equivalent of a credit score in the US and western countries. I believed this narrative at one point, but then I delved deeper. technologyreview.com/…/china-announced-a-new-soci…
- Comment on what a moment to live 4 months ago:
Sorry, just saw this. The answer is at the expense of the global south. Those social democracies still have companies that profit off of the labor and resources of the global south.
- Comment on what a moment to live 4 months ago:
You have to ask “At whose expense?”
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 4 months ago:
You could always use native grasses and plants. There’s nothing inherently wrong with grass, but it’s important to have grasses that make sense within your ecological context. Using a bunch of non-native grasses may help for soil retention on your hill, but native grasses would do the same thing – arguably better since you can use ones with root systems that grow deeper into the soil and they’re more drought tolerant – and they’d be multipurpose (food, cover, nest materials, etc.) for native animal species. They’re often prettier and more colorful during the various seasons and take fewer resources to maintain once established.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 5 months ago:
I own a house. I work and I hire people if I can’t fix something myself. So far I’ve only had to do that once in 4 years. Owning a house is not a job. Landlord literally has “LORD” in the name… kinda hard to defend, friend.
- Comment on Ant smell 10 months ago:
Like ball point pen ink
- Comment on Unions work. That's why the corporations don't like them. 1 year ago:
The workers are the union and the union only works if the workers participate. You should encourage your partner to get with her coworkers and put some pressure on whoever is in leadership to get contract negotiations started. It all starts with a conversation with her coworkers.
- Comment on Unions work. That's why the corporations don't like them. 1 year ago:
You can want fast food to go out of business while also wishing the workers there a very happy pay raise until then.