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nytimes.com

The Six-Figure Price Tag for Selling a $2 Hot Dog

Vendors who want to sell drinks and snacks in city parks bid hundreds of thousands in annual fees for the privilege — particularly in Central Park.

Sam Roberts

[triggeredmedia]

He pays the city’s parks department $289,500 a year just for the right to operate his single cart there.

Without gov’t regulation who is going to charge someone over quarter million dollars to sell hot dogs?

[throw-away-opinions]

When people talk about government hurting small businesses, this is exactly what they mean.

[manicgothicoctopi]

Small businesses are only hurt by their cruel owners/bosses the government has never and can never do anything wrong.

[mitigatedchaos]

How much space in the parks and streets in the cities should be devoted to hot dog stands?  

This is not a trick or rhetorical question.  It says right there in the summary that they bid money to be allowed in Central Park.  You have to limit the number of vendors or it won’t be a park anymore, but a market.  Tragedy of the Commons and all that.

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[theshitpostingwillnotbetelevised]

leftbook tankies are worse than Tumblr tankies ever have been

[mitigatedchaos]

Does anyone else remember all those “but if people use their real names, they’ll be kind and not trolls” idiots?

Yeah.  It is as I and many of you predicted.

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[mitigatedchaos]

それが日本語じゃないですよ。

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[perkachow]

*uses my monster musume miia dakimakura as a whip in a pillow fight*

[ranma-official]

@zoobus

[mitigatedchaos]

You know they actually made one that was, what, 37 feet long? And I think it sold out.

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Anonymous asked:

but like. i am american. i live in america. my experiences with american cops have all been rather pleasant. its just... odd to see such discrepancy between my experiences and the experiences of others with the police.

argumate answered:

Google suggests that there are some 1 million law enforcement personnel in the US, so even if only 10% were total assholes that’s still 100,000 assholes that you might never meet, depending on where you live and how they are distributed.

In practice the assholish behaviour is more likely to be structural than personal, making the distribution even less balanced; so you would expect that some people will meet only asshole cops and others would meet hardly any.

[mitigatedchaos]

Quality and aggressiveness of law enforcement varies significantly within the United States, and I don’t just mean state-by-state, I mean town-by-town.

I lived in a professional suburb growing up, the kind of place professionals move to when they want to raise children.  We didn’t have the shootings, framings, etc.  We also didn’t have much in the way of crime, and town revenues were not a problem.

But then you have other places where the town is running out of money as density collapses and decides to loot the population to stay afloat.  Or places in the inner cities where structural problems lead to severe cyclical poverty and no one with power cares about the police not being terrible.

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[collapsedsquid]

Eclipse Phase is weird because they chose to make a market socialist economy as one of the factions but then decided “I’m not sure about the rest of this market stuff, but I think what we really need is accumulation.  People using money to manage consumption or allocate resources is crap, the only use of money should be for individuals to exercise outsized control over the economy.“

[mitigatedchaos]

I have mixed feelings about Eclipse Phase, including their RL gender politics policies on their forums, from what I’ve heard of them.

The good news is that Eclipse Phase is probably impossible.

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[wirehead-wannabe]

Interestingly, informal men’s spaces seem to go for “a lack of people that we’ll be attracted to and/or that are off limits”, which tend to be inclusive of all men, plus less desirable women, Kinsey-6 lesbians, and women that are already taken and will remain so for the foreseeable future, so long as said women have masculine enough personalities to fit in.

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Anonymous asked:

Why do we have to pay to educate them, which is a dubious proposition anyway, when we can just stop feeding them? We owe them nothing.

mutant-aesthetic answered:

starving africans make baizou feel bad

[mitigatedchaos]

If you were in that situation, you’d want someone to come sort things out, too.

The difference between education vs food is that one of them doesn’t increase the exact problem it is trying to solve.

(Also, isn’t is baizuo, not baizou?)

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Anonymous asked:

Look. I get that you get off on being "edgy" and "controversial". It's kind of your brand, you're a contrarian, and it excites you to be going against the grain. But the chaos were the best thing about the Sonic Adventure series and I take any attempt to mitigate them as a personal attack, so sleep with one eye open, binch.

Reality check, Anon-san: Sonic doesn’t exist.  There have never been any Sonic the Hedgehog games, there never will be any Sonic the Hedgehog games.  No matter how much fanart and how hard you desperately meme, you blighted furries will never make the Sonic franchise a set of real video games.  

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brazenautomaton asked:

so am I basically Marvin the Paranoid Android

Yes, but in anime girl form.  Because anime.