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PleaseBmoreCharming t1_iy4yvvb wrote

Reply to comment by mickeyflinn in Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America by bmore

How is this legal, honestly?? Aren't there any federal regulators to prevent literal charlatans from pulling a fast one on cities across the country!?

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mickeyflinn t1_iy50dv7 wrote

I don't know what there is on the Federal Side, but really the answer is in what u/PleaseBmoreCharming posted:

> The Republican Hogan administration sped up the bureaucratic process for Boring, granting a conditional permit in October 2017 and an environmental permit a few months later.

Amazingly we have all become convinced that the Bureaucratic Process is the problem. The Bureaucratic Process is what prevents shit like this.

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PleaseBmoreCharming t1_iy51288 wrote

Lol that was me who posted that 😂 But you make a good point by highlighting it.

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Angdrambor t1_iy5x6h0 wrote

Just take your time, do your diligence, and get it right the first time. But no. Hogan is a slut.

(apologies to all the actual sluts of the world)

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Hisyphus t1_iy6eywj wrote

Hey! We don’t want Hogan. He’s a genital wart.

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[deleted] t1_iy6bjxn wrote

I think the thing is that the bureaucratic process for individuals to access basic, regular, necessary services (MVA, basic home improvement building permits, etc) is so overburdened, underfunded, and intentionally arduous that big business and the media uses that to reduce necessary bureaucratic regulation of large businesses.

And they never find or improve the shit most people deal with like the MVA as that would make people understand bureaucracy doesn’t have to be a bad word.

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gaiusjuliusweezer t1_iy83zwi wrote

Nonsense, the bureaucratic process strangles completely routine public works projects for asinine reasons, and we should demand better.

We’d be better off with a one bullshit boring tunnel and two subway tunnels than none of those things

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