From AIPAC’s perspective, they’re very effective.

No it’s just a fact you are lying about San Jose.

You spout nothing but bad faith bullshit and you accuse me of being the one who’s lying? That’s rich.

The fact that San Jose’s zoning law got overridden by the state two seconds ago doesn’t somehow magically instantly change the entire built environment of the city that resulted from decades and decades of the previous policy, and you fucking know it.

YIMBYs oppose public housing more often than NIMBYs.

Cite or GTFO.

My point is trying to inject your libretarian housing politics focused on zoning to a discussion about gas reserves is stupid.

THEY WOULDN’T NEED THE GODDAMN GAS RESERVES IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE SO MUCH CAR DEPENDENCY!

How absolutely moronic and dishonest do you have to be to refuse to acknowledge that extremely basic connection?!

There is literally not true: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/single-family-zoning-reform-highlights-a-breakthrough-in-california-housing-policy/

“The fact that people just now finally made some headway in solving the problem proves the problem never existed in the first place!”

Sure, buddy.

The idea that zoning is why private markets are failing to build supply is delusional, you can look at housing production in the US, tell me when zoning laws changed based on this chart: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST .

They changed before the chart started. Your “gotcha” demand is disingenuous.

Private markets just aren’t good at building sufficient adequate housing, because housing isn’t fungible building luxury flats for landlords to further inflate the housing market isn’t the same as building public housing or affordable housing.

And yet that still has fuck-all to do with windmills and solar panels, so what’s your point? Do you deny that NIMBYs oppose public housing?

The “influential Christian ministers” are the Zionists, entirely for their own doomsday-cult purposes. Nobody gives a fuck about Jewish people themselves, except to herd them back to the “Holy Land” because that’s what their fairy tale says is a precondition for getting “Raptured.”

I mean, sure, the Israeli government is happy to encourage that because it serves their own interests, but simple bribery doesn’t even begin to explain Christian Zionists’ motivations.

The UK doesn’t use US style zoning though.

Maybe not explicitly, but make no mistake: “modernist” American city planners’ terrible ideas were exported to the whole English-speaking world.

Take Milton Keynes, for example.

And zoning on both sides of the Atlantic has very little to do with the under supply of housing.

It has everything to do with it! In most North American cities, something like 75% of all residentially-zoned land is single-family only. In the worst, it approaches 95% (e.g. San Jose, CA). Housing is not fungible: people want to live in or near the city center, not the exurbs, and in these places it is literally illegal to build the dense housing necessary to meet that demand.

I mean, think about it: the entire purpose of restricting density is to create shortages of dense housing; if the demand weren’t there, the restriction wouldn’t need to exist. Shortages are the goal! You might try to rebut that by saying they want single-family housing to be produced as a substitute good, but land is finite so physical reality does not work that way. If you restrict the maximum number of people who are allowed to live per unit area of land, then the rest of the people who want to live there, can’t!

The idea of fixing the undersupply of housing without abolishing zoning density restrictions is just straight-up delusional magical thinking. Geometry and physical reality simply does not permit it.

And getting back to the original point: when you literally enshrine suburban sprawl into law – whether by North American-style Euclidean zoning or whatever the fuck the UK did in New Towns like Milton Keynes – you force car-dependency and make your country vulnerable to oil price shocks. That’s just how it works, and windmills and solar panels have fuck-all to do with it!

I wouldn’t say “especially” renewable electricity. The magnitude of that NIMBYism pales in comparison to opposing zoning dense enough to support walking, biking and transit (which is, in turn, the far bigger contributor to “petroleum supplies cut off” being a problem).

Headline is propaganda: it tries to imply that the device was used to attack the mayor, but it was actually used to attack the fascists protesting the mayor.

It’s a fascist paramilitary now, not a legitimate government entity.

I had something to say here, but I can’t say it without breaking instance rules.

“OOXML” is literally just an XML serialization of MS Office internal data structures that Microsoft bribed the standards body to push through.

Either the person is lying, because MS Office claims compatibility with OpenDocument files, or it isn’t actually compatible and Microsoft itself is lying.

Ah, so the same checks you need anyway to make sure the thing can actually be read – because a 2x2 vs 3x3 block might start to get hard to differentiate, for example – also happens to obviate OP’s issue as a coincidental side benefit.

Of course not; it’s the distro that makes the call. But I want the Librewolf folks to make the effort to get accepted by the distro.

I don’t want to have to “taint” my distro install by adding a repo. I want it to be available from my distro’s official repo.

$ sudo apt install librewolf
[sudo: authenticate] Password: 
Error: Unable to locate package librewolf

Ah, makes sense.

“Pay no attention to the [US government buying 10% of Intel] behind the curtain.”

LOL, it lights up when the character jumps.

LOL, nah, Firefox isn’t that stable. If 10% of crashes were caused by bad RAM, it means 90% were still caused by something else.

(My install regularly gets a memory leak that eventually makes my system unusable, BTW. I don’t think it’s necessarily the fault of Firefox itself – more likely Javascript running in tabs, maybe interacting with an extension or something, and some of the blame goes to the kernel’s poor handling of low memory conditions – but it’s definitely not “dev humblebrag stable” for me.)