Autumn_Sweater

Autumn_Sweater t1_j7neqwn wrote

anti police / abolition politics has been almost entirely driven by the police themselves, their inability to stop killing people and their incompatibility with and organized resistance to any supposed liberal reforms or solutions. likewise the essence of capitalism revealing itself in a hundred miserable ways in people’s lives has turned people against that system

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Autumn_Sweater t1_j6bnrt2 wrote

every time streets are blocked to cars and people can walk safely between different businesses it’s like a place is transformed into a healthy public space where people enjoy spending time and not just because they have a specific reason to be there. cars plowing through the middle of it makes it dangerous and pollutes the air. on the avenue they have tried outside seating for several of the restaurants but who wants to sit there in danger of getting run over by a pickup truck or even just choking in the exhaust fumes

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Autumn_Sweater t1_iyaluat wrote

the prior comment is saying you can get away with going to hotel pools, and my response is in line with what they said, not about them literally being free to the public. but to try to give you an actual answer, i don't have a pool but what i've heard is that for liability reasons most home insurance policies want you to have a fence around your pool so that it's clear that a trespasser has crossed your fence to swim in your pool, in case they want to sue you for something after that.

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Autumn_Sweater t1_iuay667 wrote

Reply to comment by wer410 in Nice espantoon by FriedScrapple

> Lying on mortgage apps

For anyone who's never had a mortgage you sign a bunch of forms saying "I solemnly swear everything on this application is true and if I'm lying I know that it's a serious federal crime", and Marilyn Mosby is a lawyer.

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Autumn_Sweater t1_iu7hw2k wrote

these buyers have no economical way to buy a run down property, fix it up properly, and sell it or rent it out for a good profit. their goal is to sit on a bunch of properties, not pay much in taxes per year on them, and hope for some kind of redevelopment initiative from the government eventually to cash them out, or major tax incentives that will make it economical. in the meantime they're not doing anything of value here.

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