Notices by gentoobro (gentoobro@shitpost.cloud), page 5

tf you smoking? How is that related to building a house in the side of a hill?

Illegal, most likely

They live in places where public transit is full of smelly, violent crackheads.

Jalisco. The busses and trains are crowded during rush hour, but crackheads aren't shitting on the seats. Then again, the roads are also crowded during rush hour.

Kinda embarrassing, tbqh.

It's clean and peaceful where I live. What, can the US not manage to have better trains and busses than Mexico?

We only went to Chinatown in Bangkok, aside from some temples or whatnot. Mainly it was where our international flights were, before going to more interesting places in Thailand, like Chiang Rai.

I was on the west side of Phuket, though at public beaches. We just sort of bummed along the coast riding the "busses" until we found a semi-decent beach, then rented a decent hotel across the street for like $40/night.

Expensive being the key word there. Guess I was too poor, not staying exclusively in private resorts.

Thai beaches are dirty as fuck, speaking from experience. There's trash everywhere. Not just a candy bar wrapper or two, but straight up whole broken bags of domestic trash.

"People who are disciplined in one area tend to be more disciplined in other areas too"

And there's no such thing as welching on a national scale. No matter what you do you're taking it up the ass one way or another, whether that be onerous taxes just going to debt payments or insane inflation and the exchange rates that go along with it.

Regulation is requiring preemptive compliance with arbitrary rules (inevitably naively) intended to prevent an infraction (but never actually does), whereas criminalization is leaving people the hell alone so long as they don't do the bad thing, then punishing them after the fact if they do.

Regulation prevents nothing; no amount of paperwork ever stopped a single barrel of DDT from getting dumped. Worse, in practice regulations tend to protect the big offenders from prosecution, since, after all, they did file all those papers that the little guy couldn't afford to.

"Regulation" is always the wrong way to approach the problem. Don't want companies dumping toxic waste? Pass a law saying that if a company does that the CEO gets hanged. But making them file a bunch of senseless paperwork ahead of time is nonsensical, ineffective commie bullshit.

A good IntelliSense-style tool will always be better than a pile of matrices trained on millions of lines of the worst code ever written (with a little good code mixed in accidentally).

That's true. But also a new low-end smartphone will cost $1000 in today's money. That's what the austerity will look like.

And we all share the same pond in the back of it.

It's clearly not, since all the businesses left for Asia. EPA in China? lol. OSHA in China? lol. A simple restaurant owner needing to pay thousands of dollars to a professional accountant just to figure out how much and to which agencies they need to pay thousands of dollars in taxes every month just to have an employee? nope.

London did, by banning industry. NIMBY doesn't work when you aren't looting your nation. Somewhere is going to have smog, and that place will get the money from the other places.

The company boss doesn't make much more than you when there aren't a bunch of regulations and taxes preventing you from starting your own company with blackjack and hookers and 0.2% lower profit margins (thereby pushing him out of the market unless he sells his cabana).

And poor you will be, if you live in the US and it manages to install and keep high (200%+) tariffs on non-economically-crippled nations. You'll have a lot less stuff than the Boomers had, but you'll have a job and only a little smog, which is a lot better than having cheap dog toys you can't afford because there are no jobs while China buys your power plants. It's by far the lesser of evils, but will require a degree of austerity.