Speaking for san francisco:
No
No
Yes, in March last year we passed a proposition exempting them from real estate transfer taxes
Yes, there's a vacancy tax, but there's a decent amount of exemptions so it only effects large multi unit buildings
No, but there aren't really any strip malls in the city
He's so used to being the boss and having everyone always laugh at his shitty jokes that he thinks he's funny.
He's not a politician and has no charisma or any way of getting people to do what he wants outside of ordering them to, which is why he'll never do well in politics where building and maintaining relationships in your coalition is one of your main jobs.
Not if you measure it by how many shiny objects a small group has access to.
Small capital is still capital and relies on labor exploitation. If your talking about manufacturing wages globally then you should be talking about that SBOs income globally too which would put them in the top 1%. If there were no labor exploitation and the revenue from the sale of the products were split evenly among the laborers the SBO would be payed far less and the manufacturing workers in China would be paid far more.
Yeah but the only reason those supplies and services aren't available in the US is because China has all the manufacturing scale. It's not as if China is the only country that can make silicone.
If trump keeps to these tarrifs and importing silicone becomes too expensive then someone will open a factory to produce it here. Same with small scale molding. If there is truly a demand for something the market will find a way to produce it.
It may be more expensive because of higher labor standards, wages and environmental standards, but that just means it's getting closer to the true cost of the product, instead of the one subsidized by environmental destruction and labor exploitation.
It is a word but it'd be more common to use the word beauty or attractiveness in that context, or "based off looks". People would understand what you mean either way though.
Yeah, it's the top posts that were posted in the last six hours. Unless you have a pretty wide sub list it's usually better if you do it for everything/all, eg. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopSixHour . Otherwise top 12 hour or top day is usually good
Maybe he wants to court the left block because of the three part hung parliament they're in right now so he can get more defense spending and Ukraine support passed since the u.s. is backing off Europe.
Maybe he's trying to fill in the power vacuum in the middle east after the u.s. lost all its soft power supporting this war.
Maybe he's tired of the houthis attacking shipping and hoping to get a French pass if they recognize palestine.
Maybe he's just a good guy and is just disgusted by genocide.
Or molly, all of these fucks could stand to learn some empathy.
This is lemmy, people hate China, America and commercial social media. Not a big fan of any of those three either so yeah, fuck em. Would be better if we banned all commercial social media but I'm not gonna cry over only some of them getting banned.
Don't worry, won't be working there much longer once the tarrifs cause staglfation and trump fires you for not cutting rates and replaces you with elons master of coin.
Don't they know, trump did CLEAN COAL , all the coal is clean because of CLEAN COAL and you can't get black lung from CLEAN COAL