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If you're worried about the cost, have you looked into getting it through your library? That's how I did it.

Alave filed suit later that year, arguing that the city meant for bicycles to be rented and operated in the area and city officials therefore had the duty to exercise reasonable care for intended road users, as required by state law.

The city isn't trying to avoid building reasonable infrastructure, here, they're trying to avoid liability for cyclists hitting potholes.

Their argument seems to be that unless a road is included on the official bike plan, it shouldn't count as one intended for biking on for the purpose of legal liability, regardless of if there's a nearby city-operated bike rental.

Honestly, unless the ruling were that "the city is liable for bike injuries anywhere in it", holding the city liable here might produce perverse incentives to make bike infrastructure worse.

Nope. The idea in no till is just adding stuff to the top and letting worms and roots handle the tilling.

I've had good luck just dumping a foot or two of finished compost on the ground and growing in it.

Another solid no-till approach is sheet mulching. You put down a layer of cardboard (to kill weeds), then layers of carbon and nitrogen like straw and kitchen scraps. Wait a few months, then plant. So you could do that in the late summer or fall to prepare a site for spring planting.

A lot of these things depend on location, though. Something that works great in Pennsylvania might not work as well in Utah.

Is it possible to regain legitimacy after doing that, or will the state always be illegitimate?

And how geographically widespread does it have to be?

Because that sounds an awful lot like the US's historical genocide of the Native Americans and China's current genocide of the Uyghurs.

To translate that into something sensible, the RDA in the US is 50 mg/kg = 110.25 mg/lb. 15% of that is 16.5 mg/lb. So 1653 mg per 100 lbs of bodyweight.

A can of diet coke is about 200 mg of aspartame. So that's a bit over 8 cans of coke per 100 lbs of body weight. Or 1.5 2-liter bottles per 100 lbs.

That's... kinda a lot.

The story of the census appears in the gospel of Luke, which was written around 100 CE and edited for a while afterwards.

It places Jesus' birth during the census of Quirinius, which happened in 6 CE.

That's flatly contradicted by the earlier gospel of Matthew, which has Jesus being born during the time of Herod the great who died in 1CE.

There's no historical evidence that Roman censuses required people to go to the town they were born in; it'd be such a big disruption that it seems fairly implausible. It's more likely that the story about the census was made up by early Christians who were trying to edit details of the story to make Jesus fulfill more prophecies.

Saturnalia trees are probably a myth.

The first references we have to Christmas trees are in 16th century Germany. They probably didn't come directly from any pagan traditions seeing as Germany had been Christian for multiple centuries at that point.

We don't actually really know.

One idea is that Jesus's conception was said to have been in March for assorted reasons, and December is 9 months after March.

Another is that it appropriated Roman solstice celebrations.

The calculation shouldn't be "chance of things getting worse", but "expected value of how much worse it'll get".

Israel isn't Judaism.

But if you take an old antisemetic trope and paper over the word "Jew" with "Israel" or "zionist", its still pretty antisemetic.

Antisemites can be anti-zionist or pro-zionist. Neither absolves them of their antisemitism.

What are you even talking about?

You originally said

Fuck the realestate industry period. It shouldn't be commodified to the point where there are more empty houses up for rent, airbnb, or sitting empty as "investments" than there are homeless.

Yes, there's more apartments sitting empty for a month or two than there are homeless people.

There are fewer apartments for rent sitting empty for a year or more than there are homeless people.

How exactly are you proposing that we fix the homelessness crisis with apartments sitting empty for a month?

Owner-occupied housing is great. The only person who brought it up before this was me, when I pointed out that some vacant homes are actually owner-occupied.

Why is having housing in flux a bad thing?

The goal should be to have affordable housing and low homeless rates.

Why should my goal be for each apartment to be moved into the day the previous occupant moves out? What's the point?

Do you think those houses would've gotten so run down if there was soneone living in them to see the need and do maintenance?

I don't think you understand that category of vacancies. Vacancies under repair isn't "long term vacant buildings that needs repairs to become livable again", its "any building currently being repaired or renovated that doesn't have people actively living in it".

My sister's house, for example, was vacant for a couple months when she renovated her kitchen. It was owner- occupied just before the renovation and just after, but it was vacant during the renovation because she temporarily moved in with my parents.

After natural disasters, there's often a lot of housing that's vacant under repair.