We're just meat bags with terrible sensory perception and reasoning skills. This is the reason I am more open to claims of "no reality" and the like. Plato's cave but no one sees the whole picture

The claim “we cannot ever know anything with absolute perfect certainty” is a quite different statement than “nothing is true”.

Even “we aren’t able to properly conceptualize any true statements” is, while not plausible, is still better than “nothing is true”. (It may be that many things we think are true are fundamentally confused/slightly-nonsensical in ways that we can’t correct by virtue of how our thought processes work, but I don’t consider it plausible that nothing we can believe is entirely true.)

Everything is worth what it's purchaser will pay for it; every transaction is subjective

I couldn't tell either fwiw but that's an interesting point; sounds more like a suicide method than an act of state punishment though

This idea that we need to be stricter is what led to the crime bills now under bipartisan attack

So nice you posted it twice?

If the property is adjacent to a gentrified neighborhood but not yet pricey, the landlord can degrade service until the low income tenants leave, renovate the property, and charge new gentrified prices as well. I know of a couple buildings in the DMV area that were doing this within the last 10 years

Well in my families case it was what ever the reverse of gentrification is. As the original owners died off in that neighborhood the neighborhood got worse and worse, more crime, less value, etc etc etc

The owners of the properties were not waiting out the poor people hoping to strike it rich like you seem to be implying

Just wanted to add there's lots of factors at play besides the renters specifically

The No Name brand is one of my favorite parts of visiting Canada. Excessive branding and flashy packaging gets on my nerves

I think workers rights has less to do with automation and more to do with forcing exploitative bosses to negotiate via collective action but what do I know

"Vertical Farming Does Not Save Space [when exclusively considering solar power]"

(And wheat) - do the same calculation with rice or potatoes and I’m sure he’d have different results.

Yeah, my first reaction was, "Who's actually trying to grow wheat indoors at scale???"

And the suggestion that one can live on a loaf of bread, using that price to extrapolate a yearly cost, it's a true worst case scenario.

How is it legal for them to regulate interstate commerce?

Probably not. But especially in emergencies it's often better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. (Also, domestic in-state political signaling.)

Anyhow, the legal effect may be irrelevant if the gas producers wouldn't bother trying to export. I would imagine that producers are having trouble just delivering on their long-term, fixed-price contracts in Texas. The short-term prices might be so jacked up precisely because there's little to no surplus to export, period.

Texas Railroad Commission has been around since before relevant federal statutes were passed