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  1. Comment on In defense of squatting - the community utility of squatting in a world of algorithmic landlord collusion in ~life

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    So I have never owned any real estate, and I naïvely assumed that in the United States paying property taxes must work like paying my income taxes in terms of self-assessing your tax burden. Well,...

    So I have never owned any real estate, and I naïvely assumed that in the United States paying property taxes must work like paying my income taxes in terms of self-assessing your tax burden. Well, it doesn’t seem to be the case. I don’t actually know how this aspect works, and knowing how much adverse possession varies from state to state, I have a feeling it’s not very consistent. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

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  2. Comment on In defense of squatting - the community utility of squatting in a world of algorithmic landlord collusion in ~life

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    It’s not about delinquent taxes it’s just about demonstrating that you’re serious about taking stewardship of the property. The government’s not gonna complain about getting double property tax on...

    It’s not about delinquent taxes it’s just about demonstrating that you’re serious about taking stewardship of the property. The government’s not gonna complain about getting double property tax on the property. I would like point out that there is a problem with all this, though. A critical component of adverse possession is that if the title holder shows up and asks you to leave, the clock starts over. And I don’t mean it starts over when you get evicted I mean it starts over the instant they show up and ask you to leave.

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  3. Comment on Atlanta’s squatter problem is vexing Wall Street landlords in ~life

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    I want you to quote specific claims I made, and very clearly articulate your dispute with them. Not make bets with me. And not speculate. And considering you were the one to suggest that there are...

    I want you to quote specific claims I made, and very clearly articulate your dispute with them. Not make bets with me. And not speculate. And considering you were the one to suggest that there are judges who have ruled against adverse possessors, who would’ve otherwise satisfied the requirements demonstrably I don’t understand why I’m the one who has to find legal opinions to support what I’m saying.

    I just want to remind you that the main point of my comment was criticizing you for claiming that the adverse possession term in most states is 25 years which is demonstrably false, and that was really all I was interested in you addressing.

    For what it’s worth, I do regret stating that there is no going to court. It was not totally accurate, but my point is that you don’t need a judge to uphold your adverse possession claim if no one ever sues you.

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  4. Comment on In defense of squatting - the community utility of squatting in a world of algorithmic landlord collusion in ~life

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    it’s actually recommended that a person attempting adverse possession claim pay property tax on the property while they’re occupying it. Not hard for state government to verify that. Another way...

    it’s actually recommended that a person attempting adverse possession claim pay property tax on the property while they’re occupying it. Not hard for state government to verify that. Another way you can strengthen an adverse possession claims is by improving the property or even just maintaining it. It’s not hard to show with the building looked like before you got there and what it looks like now.

    and you better believe that every single time it happens the true owner of the property is going to tie up the city in a lawsuit claiming they have the legal right to the property; even if they don't.

    Maybe we shouldn’t just take for granted the idea that there’s people in our society who can just legal throw legal temper tantrums and get their way by filling frivolous lawsuits designed to obstruct the legal system with impunity. I guess my big problem is when somebody uses Problem B to justify terminating their thoughts about Solution A, they never seem to go back to thinking about how to solve Problem B.

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  5. Comment on Atlanta’s squatter problem is vexing Wall Street landlords in ~life

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    I have studied adverse possession for a long time, and I have never heard about the idea that “most judges won’t uphold it”. Also, the term length is not 25 years in most states. Honestly, it’s so...

    I have studied adverse possession for a long time, and I have never heard about the idea that “most judges won’t uphold it”. Also, the term length is not 25 years in most states. Honestly, it’s so inconsistent from state to state that it’s actually difficult to even say something like this. But if I were to eyeball it, I’d say that most seem to be around 10 years. And even in the states where the term isn’t 10 years long, there’s often conditions you can meet to bring the time down to 10 years, such as paying property taxes and maintaining and improving the property. The point is it’s a lot more complicated than “most states have a term of x years”, and if you choose a random state, the chances are that it will probably be much smaller than 25.

    https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/state-state-rules-adverse-possession.html

    Also, I feel like people tend to have a very confused understanding of adverse possession. If you succeed in an adverse possession claim, there is not really any going to court. The whole idea is that you went a certain amount of time literally trespassing on this property openly and brazenly and after like 10 whole years, no one kicked you out. The fact that anytime during that 10 years the property owner can take you to court and have you evicted is actually part of the adverse possession process and not a judge disagreeing with the concept.

    Adverse possession is essentially statute of limitations on recovering your real estate title.

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  6. Comment on Mexico aims to compete with Panama Canal by using cargo trains in ~transport

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    Sorry if it’s not clear, but to reiterate, I understand the concept of trading routes competing on volume, but that wasn’t really the point of my comment. Which is that even a trade route which...

    Sorry if it’s not clear, but to reiterate, I understand the concept of trading routes competing on volume, but that wasn’t really the point of my comment. Which is that even a trade route which isn’t universally better than another is still gonna be better some of the time for some of the people and as long as you have enough of those to support the route, then it doesn’t really matter if you can’t compete on volume.

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  7. Comment on Why the world cannot afford the rich in ~enviro

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    I do not believe that what I said has anything to do with trickle-down economics, it just acknowledges the economic reality of who we currently assign the benefit of produce to. The workers...

    I do not believe that what I said has anything to do with trickle-down economics, it just acknowledges the economic reality of who we currently assign the benefit of produce to. The workers produce it, and then it’s retained by the equity holders. The point is basically nobody’s capturing wealth. Pretty much all the wealth is already captured. And the people who captured it also get to decide how it’s distributed.

    By the way, I actually thought to include in my original comment that the wealth was made by the other 99% as well. But I chose not to because I didn’t want someone to try and drive a wedge into what I’m saying, by pointing out that there are many examples of businesses in which the principal shareholders do play a very active role in creating the wealth, which is true. Don’t mistake me for saying that what they get out is proportional to what they put in though.

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  8. Comment on There’s a crisis in male fertility. But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave. in ~life.men

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    let me get this straight: you believe that what my comment is, is a criticism of you for sharing your personal feelings?

    let me get this straight: you believe that what my comment is, is a criticism of you for sharing your personal feelings?

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  9. Comment on There’s a crisis in male fertility. But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave. in ~life.men

    bloup
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    In my opinion, taking someone at good faith means that unless they literally tell you that they’re implying something, you don’t get to make positive assertions all on your own about what they...

    In my opinion, taking someone at good faith means that unless they literally tell you that they’re implying something, you don’t get to make positive assertions all on your own about what they must be implying. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s go through each of the things that you’ve quoted here.

    But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave

    If you take this at face value, it actually just suggests that the behavior of the average man betrays the statistical reality of men’s reproductive health. Do you disagree with that?

    And it’s hard not to feel enraged by the number who are dating women 10 years their junior in the hopes (subconscious or not) of delaying the conversation.

    Honest sharing of feelings is not blaming anybody and if it makes you feel a certain kind of way that is on you.

    It’s not entirely men’s fault

    She literally is saying that you can’t just blame men for this…

    But men’s complacency about their sperm quality

    She literally immediately before writing this spends an entire paragraph writing about the external factors which can explain men’s complacency about their reproductive health. She literally writes an entire paragraph explaining to you all the ways in which it’s not men’s fault. There’s literally nothing to even talk about here with respect to this quote, unless you’re contending the idea that in general men are more complacent about their reproductive health than women.

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  10. Comment on There’s a crisis in male fertility. But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave. in ~life.men

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    I just don’t understand how you can read this article and feel like someone is blaming you for something. Not even the things you quoted were anything but assertions of facts which you didn’t even...

    I just don’t understand how you can read this article and feel like someone is blaming you for something. Not even the things you quoted were anything but assertions of facts which you didn’t even seem to dispute. Have you considered that maybe she didn’t explain the causes of these phenomena, not because she is “blaming men” for something, but because she’s a woman and doesn’t have that perspective herself?

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  11. Comment on Why the world cannot afford the rich in ~enviro

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    I really hate how we frame it like humanity is just producing this big pile of unclaimed wealth and it’s just up to each individual to capture some of it for themselves. When the reality is the...

    I really hate how we frame it like humanity is just producing this big pile of unclaimed wealth and it’s just up to each individual to capture some of it for themselves. When the reality is the situation is a lot more closer to (but not exactly, so save your actually)

    Between 2020 and 2022, the world’s most affluent 1% of people retained nearly twice as much of the new global wealth that they paid out to the other 99% of individuals, and in 2019 they used their retained wealth to engage in activities which emitted as much carbon dioxide as the poorest two-thirds of humanity.

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  12. Comment on Mexico aims to compete with Panama Canal by using cargo trains in ~transport

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    Talking about shipping channels “competing” with each other always seemed a bit strange to me. Like maybe in terms of raw volume I can see why someone might be skeptical that it could “compete”....

    Talking about shipping channels “competing” with each other always seemed a bit strange to me. Like maybe in terms of raw volume I can see why someone might be skeptical that it could “compete”. But there would obviously be particular geographic markets where this railroad would be unquestionably more economical, even when the Panama Canal is at peak capacity. And of course there’s the fact that they’re literally talking about building this because the Panama Canal is especially vulnerable to natural changes in weather patterns.

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  13. Comment on There’s a crisis in male fertility. But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave. in ~life.men

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    I want you to list three “great monoliths” which historically you were allowed to criticize but now you’re not. And marginalized groups are not “great monoliths”. I feel like if you read a history...

    I want you to list three “great monoliths” which historically you were allowed to criticize but now you’re not. And marginalized groups are not “great monoliths”.

    I feel like if you read a history book, you’ll tend to find that “great monoliths” tended to subjugate people for criticizing them, until it became economically unviable to do so.

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  14. Comment on There’s a crisis in male fertility. But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave. in ~life.men

    bloup
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    Literally, how do you read this article and think it comes across as angry?

    Literally, how do you read this article and think it comes across as angry?

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  15. Comment on There’s a crisis in male fertility. But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave. in ~life.men

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    I actually chose to read it in the context of the article, which is that for some reason, men don’t seem to feel the same kind of social pressure to have children that women do, and so issues...

    You can choose to read that as women being blamed for infertility or that men's problems are being ignored by society and women receive disproportionate amount of focus on their health and wellbeing.

    I actually chose to read it in the context of the article, which is that for some reason, men don’t seem to feel the same kind of social pressure to have children that women do, and so issues related to their fertility go unaddressed. The average woman is taught to pay a lot of attention to her reproductive health, while the average man is not. Women are saddled with some kind of sense of social responsibility to maintain their fertility. Men are not. You can just ignore all of this author’s other words and pretend like it’s some nebulous “society” keeping men down, but fyi if you do that, you’re literally just feeding into the system she’s criticizing, and only participating in the “societal ignoring” of men’s fertility issues. The truth is, there’s not really anything stopping men from simply just taking a more active role in their reproductive health, or at the very least, not expecting more from women than they do of themselves. And guess what, if more men did, less women would feel this way.

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  16. Comment on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US in ~transport

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    I don’t really feel like it’s fair to project this imagery upon their comment. Here’s a question for you: do you think that unless there’s literally a mustache twirler literally saying “I have...

    I don’t really feel like it’s fair to project this imagery upon their comment. Here’s a question for you: do you think that unless there’s literally a mustache twirler literally saying “I have contempt for poor people and don’t care if my business practices hurt or even kill them”, then you can’t describe the situation as “an executive willing to kill people for money”?

    If that question makes you realize that “yeah, there’s actually like lots of abstract social situations where these kinds of pressures and incentives can effectively create such a situation without requiring an actively evil person to be doing it”, then I think you really should reconsider your comment.

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  17. Comment on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US in ~transport

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    I really don’t appreciate this, and I personally feel like it completely misrepresents the things I wrote to you, as well as almost all the things all of the other people wrote as well. Here are...
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    I’m not going to bother responding to every comment as I don’t think this will go anywhere. I will say that I have known people who will swear that Hillary Clinton has had people killed. They’ve had much the same evidence and reasoning.

    I do not like Boeing. I do not like the Clinton’s. That does not mean that I’m going to assume they’re having people killed and capable of covering it up. Especially in some scenario where frankly it’s absurd to think they could pose any threat worth that risk.

    I really don’t appreciate this, and I personally feel like it completely misrepresents the things I wrote to you, as well as almost all the things all of the other people wrote as well. Here are the nature of the replies:

    1. Me, I told you that your accusation was ridiculous and contingent upon a semantic misunderstanding of an idiom. Nothing to do with Boeing conspiracy theory.

    2. u/nosewings, who simply asserted that they can understand why somebody would avoid Boeing on moral grounds as well as pointing out that retaliating against whistleblowers to any extent doesn’t make people feel very safe either. This was also the only person at this level that you actually engaged with and I just want to point out it had nothing to do with conspiracy theories.

    3. u/andreaschris, who points out that the fact that the pattern is, as you say, “totally not uncommon” doesn’t really make them feel any better about the situation. Again, absolutely nothing to do with conspiracy theories.

    4. u/TanyaJLaird, who writes the only comment which I would be comfortable describing as engaging with the conspiracy theory on any level. But still even then it’s not like an accusation just a “I really wouldn’t put it past them.”

    I would really appreciate it if you revised your edit to reflect these facts. It’s fine to not engage with others but you don’t have to lie about what they’re saying. It’s not fair to whoever marked your post exemplary that they probably think every person who responded to you was a ranting and raving conspiracy theorist.

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  18. Comment on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US in ~transport

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    I will say though, the more that people express their discontent with Boeing, the more likely it is an enterprising actuary realizes they can make a lot of money by offering such an insurance product.

    I will say though, the more that people express their discontent with Boeing, the more likely it is an enterprising actuary realizes they can make a lot of money by offering such an insurance product.

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  19. Comment on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US in ~transport

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    You know that’s actually not such a bad point and I didn’t really think about it. Even if Boeing didn’t plan out some conspiracy to murder this person, I feel like the order of events makes it...

    You know that’s actually not such a bad point and I didn’t really think about it. Even if Boeing didn’t plan out some conspiracy to murder this person, I feel like the order of events makes it pretty difficult to imagine a scenario in which this could not still be considered a casualty of Boeing’s negligence. It’s possible, but come on.

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  20. Comment on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US in ~transport

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    There’s no evidence presented of foul play. But, I don’t think you’re really appreciating the meaning of “the last straw that breaks the camel’s back”. It literally is calling this “a straw”. As...

    There’s no evidence presented of foul play. But, I don’t think you’re really appreciating the meaning of “the last straw that breaks the camel’s back”. It literally is calling this “a straw”. As in, otherwise completely insignificant. As in, if Boeing did not generate so much bad will for itself beforehand, this individual might not feel so uncomfortable giving them the benefit of the doubt on this. I don’t think it’s fair to interpret this as possibly suggesting they think Boeing killed someone.

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