I am fairly sure the people behind Gnome don't actually really know what they're doing when it comes to HID and Ux.
Gnome terminal for example will offset the right click contextual menu with a new line of bin/hex/oct representation of a number that you happen to have selected. By default, no it can't be disabled.
Good luck with the muscle memory to hit the contextual menu items now that everything is shifted down.
You grew up in the states or similarly well-off place, right?
The first point is actually huge - soviet russia was the textbook example of the tragedy of the commons. If you're in system where your get paid the same token amount of money regardless of outcome, the rational optimization if to minimize effort.
The netflix series Chernobyl does a great job capturing the aesthetic of this - everything is just a little shitty and run down, every interior has some paint flaking, every exterior has something rusting etc.
Need to in group signal, especially if you're a normie.
I wonder if this actually is a meta-art project of upmarketing a high-net-worth lifestyle (look at me, I live on a boat!) to a far left wing audience. Just need a vague manifesto ala https://xkcd.com/451/ and you're halfway there.
When the real solution is obvious and the proposals are nowhere near it, the game at play isn't to solve the problem:
Remarket collectivist expropriation with some gen-z friendly word salad and backfill details on how this solves ____.
The paradox, to me, is that the set of people pushing for redistribution is almost entirely disjoint from the set of people responsible for creation of the thigns to-be-redistributed. One would think the skill set needed for the latter would make them exceptionally suited for the former, yet here we are.
Rent controls is universally considered a stupid idea, the only reason why it continues to exist for the benfits of the political class that leverage votes out of it.
Handing out subsidy checks for the same amount accomplishes the same thing without the deadweight loss of people getting locked in aparments that economically prohibitve to keep habitable , or the units stay vacant for the same reason (see NYC).
Even government run HUD aparments end up with the same problem, given the exact same economics.
> Rent controls is universally considered a stupid idea, the only reason why it continues to exist for the benfits of the political class that leverage votes out of it. Handing out subsidy checks for the same amount accomplishes the same thing
Fine, if subsidy checks then it’s subsidy checks. But subsidies or handouts will never work in the current political climate because it is “handouts for the poor”. So I don’t necessarily blame them for going this route.
All I am saying is that uncapped rent increases has put me at a major disadvantage, because every time I hope to save and buy for a house my rent jumps substantially and I find myself back to square one. I’m making progress toward that down payment sum, but the cost of moving + paying higher rent has made this a struggle.
Homeowners enjoy(ed) a lot of government perks - the GI bill spurred construction, property taxes are capped, interest can be a tax deduction. Renters get absolutely nothing, and 40% (vs 60% homeowners) is a non-trivial amount. Why can’t I have any protections or programs that help me save a bit more so I can actually be a homeowner?
Even the downvotes to my previous post seem to indicate that nobody really cares about renters - and I’m caught in this weird middle where I make too much to not qualify for subsidized housing and I make too little to save at a cadence where I can catch up with home appreciation and bidding wars. Now, I’ve to deal with bidding wars a renter too - it’s not the norm yet but I have certainly run into it. What the hell am I supposed to do?!?
> 1. Eliminate the Mortgage Interest TAx Deduction. It's giving money to the wealthy;
That's literally the most popular deduction in USA; with home ownership rate of ~ 66%t by construction this covers more than half of the income distribution (ie not just "the wealthy" boogeyman)
I would venture a guess you've never owned a property to conflate "empty second home" with that "free housing for homeless" insinuation, as if those two concepts are in any way related.
Pretty sure that housing isn't the only place where you see redistribution as the solution though, that pattern always holds strong.
Fitts law? Never heard of it, but I didn't go law school.
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