Not an American, so I’m probably missing some info. I’m confused about the comments re Biden. Didn’t the NLRB (sp?) recently make changes that gave a lot of leverage to unions?
It's just republicans trying to politic to their base by misconstruing the facts. Fact is republicans have always been anti-labor. While, unfortunately democrats don't campaign well on their actual accomplishments for working people and tend to expect those accomplishments to stand for themselves. This is also why republicans are mostly dumb and tend to believe whatever the most reactionary (and loud) voice in the room tells them is true, even while those same people stab them in the back while lying to their face.
We've learned that words are meaningless without follow through. The NLRB change is great, but until it actually starts being enforced there isn't anything to get excited about.
Biden is the most pro union President in my lifetime, but that isn't saying much.
It’s fallout from breaking a big railroad workers strike last year. Breaking a strike is a BIG DEAL, so there’s a lot of well-earned mistrust about his dedication to union power. The anti-union-busting thing is a pretty damn good change, but saying “you can’t strike” cuts at the very heart of worker power and kind of eclipses it.
Having worked in public education for nearly a decade, I can tell you that many of those homes are not fit to adequately cool the children either and many of the parents are not adequately fit to deal with their kids during a surprise early dismissal. Some of those kids will probably die at home.
Cut the athletics budget and use the funds to cool your fucking schools. It’s too damn hot for sports anyway.
Not really. There’s something for everyone to hate, without any details at all about what was really going on
The ACAB types are going to be all angry they were ever trying to arrest the guy… the law-and-order types are going to be angry that they didn’t get him.
I think a lot of people in this thread are missing the point. They didn’t refuse out of hate, they refused out of fear. There’s a Nazi problem in Florida right now, a lot of them target companies and organizations that teach about racism.
The JCC isn’t being a dick here, their being cowards.
There isn’t a Nazi problem in Florida as compared to anywhere else. Don’t let photos of actors in costumes and masks give you the wrong impression. Surprisingly, this was Boyton Beach which has a very strong Jewish community around it. Normally they wouldn’t care if this had disturbed someone.
Dude I’ve lived in Florida all my life. Trust me we have a Nazi problem. Shit has only gotten worse the past decade. It’s just actually being televised now because it’s becoming more of a main stream current issue. But I’ve seen this shit sense i was a kid.
If you think those videos your seeing are actors, my friend you have too much faith in humanity. I have old friends from highschool that I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they were part of those groups. People are hateful, spiteful people, especially here in Florida where it’s reinforced by community and now law.
While not all mt life, I’ve lived in Southern and Central florida for some time. Right now, I don’t see any larger problem with Nazis as anywhere else. What I do see is a bunch of guys all dressed up in costumes demonstrating against something or other trying to get their pictures taken with their cool masks on. These guys are from Maine but they act the fool here. There are a lot of red necks where I live but very few of them pledge allegiance to Hitler. But, you won’t find those that do in Boynton Beach.
Those are facts. Biggest problem areas from my experience are boon docks central and northern Florida. Central Florida around orlando and further south is still the same as it was a decade ago, not that bad, existent, but not that’s bad.
Yeah your right the dudes that were protesting in Orlando just recently were from Maine. But I think that’s the point. Those protest have been happening outside Disney for like a year, they just now are getting bigger, and people are traveling to attend them.
So while Boynton beach is in South Florida, it’s not that much of a hassle for racist to travel a few hours.
You have evidence that those people aren’t Nazis? That they were actors? I know people who could make you pretty famous if you could blow the lid off that.
Their organization True Blood or whatever it is is headquartered in Maine. If they’re nazis, and it would be fun to give them a knowledge test on that,they are Maine Nazis not Florida Nazis. They are here to get their picture taken. They dress up to do it. What do they call that? Oh yeah, acting.
There isn’t a Nazi problem in Florida as compared to anywhere else.
You’re getting down voted, but you’re right. The Nazi problem is national. From Florida to Maine to California to Washington to Wyoming, there are white supremacists finally feeling comfortable enough to come out of the woodwork.
As much as I’d like to laugh as any Russian military stupidity, the aircraft in the picture doesn’t appear to have propellers attached, so it’s likely in some form of maintenance. Without the weight of engines and props, any strong wind over the wings is likely to move the plane around quite a lot. Putting tires on the wings disrupts the lift and helps keep the plane from moving around in storms.
That feels like a better explanation then the other theory that they are used for some form of anti-drone tech.
Would the tires do anything to protect them other than blunt the damage? Ignoring the fact that each tire conveniently has a bomb sized hole in each section?
I would imagine shrapnel would have an easier time going through a tire then through the exterior of the plane. And those bombs already do that.
Tires are very tough. Aircraft skin is very thin. I think tires would help reduce damage from shrapnel, but agree that weight and airfoil disruption is also a very plausible expansion.
I don’t know how I feel about this. On one hand: I dislike the trend of commercial companies buying up living space to turn around and rent it out to disruptive short-term tenants.
On the other hand: I don’t want to have anyone else present in my rental with me because that’s creepy.
They are trying to address housing shortages. The hotels might benefit, but so does everyone else because it effectively bars commercial operation of AirBnB. No landlords with 50 units etc.
This will not actually help with the housing shortage. It will even result in further evictions as some people lose the potential income of renting out excess space to get over the hump.
Like what, exactly? If you can’t afford a fire alarm or sprinkler system, you really shouldn’t be running a rental business. Hell, if you can’t afford a fire alarm, you have much bigger problems than whether or not you can rent a room to a stranger.
…which makes you a business. You’re making income from rentals. A landlord who has 500 units but can’t seem to fill them but once or twice per year for a weekend doesn’t suddenly stop being a landlord. And if they told me “I’m just supplementing my income” in order to get around installing fire alarms, I’d laugh in their face.
If you’re providing a commercial service to strangers, you should be able to ensure their safety, full stop. If you can’t afford to do that, you can’t afford to provide the commercial service.
What a cockamamie take! We’re not kicking these people out of their homes by forcing them to follow simple rules to ensure they don’t burn families of random strangers in a raging inferno. They’re still free to…y’know…have and live in their home.
By your exact same logic, if someone is making and selling meth out of their home in order to make supplemental income and bridge payment gaps, then by telling them to stop we’re effectively telling them “only the wealthy deserve a home, period.”
<span style="color:#323232;">Meth dealer: "But I can't afford my home without it!"
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Me: "Um, tough shit. Stop it."
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Is “people can’t afford to live” your “get out of jail free” card?
So people should be able to do whatever they want as long as it helps them pay rent, because them making rental payments ipso facto impacts housing availability?
Should a hair stylist require schooling and training? Yes, they put caustic chemicals on people’s heads which can cause sever harm.
Should police have more training? Yes.
This isn’t a good argument because the lack of police training has no bearing on the licensing and training of hair stylists.
Here’s the take you are trying to get people to say, if you cannot afford to own a home without supplementing income by provided room rentals which are potentially unsafe and do not meet the bare minimum of fire code, then you cannot afford that house. It doesn’t mean you don’t afford a house. Just that you cannot afford THAT house. And I make no mention of “deserve housing” because all humans deserve housing.
Putting people’s lives at risk to make a few extra dollars is unacceptable. You have no right to gamble with other people’s lives.
I don’t think that’s an ideal analogy. No-one sells meth legally.
It’s more like selling people food prepared in your uninspected and potentially unsanitary kitchen, and complaining about being told to comply with the food hygiene regulations that every licensed business is required to adhere to.
I find this viewpoint fascinating. Like arguing that trying to put out a burning building will hurt poor people trying to keep warm.
The housing market as a whole is the problem, one which AirBnB is exacerbating. That it locally enriches those renters able to find people willing to rent out their homes – which I’m guessing is disproportionately going to be people without elderly family members & kids – doesn’t mean it isn’t detrimental to the housing market as a whole, particularly at the lower end, and to everyone who rents.
If they can’t afford to sit on multiple empty houses due to increased AirBnB regulations, then they can always sell some of those assets back into the market. In fact, that’s the point of the regulation :P
The idea of some poor landlord barely scraping things together because their 50 rental properties (and thus millions of dollars worth of assets) are less profitable is preposterous
Judging by how hard they are attacking this thread (seriously like half the comments are them), I am going to say yes. I don't believe them denying it.
Units made available as short-term rentals must also abide by building and fire codes, including one that prohibits placing locks between rooms and having certain sprinkler and fire alarm systems on the property.
Growth in home-sharing through Airbnb contributes to about one-fifth of the average annual increase in U.S. rents and about one-seventh of the average annual increase in U.S. housing prices.
Those struggling renters might not be struggling so much if other people renting out their apartments on AirBnB weren’t pushing up their rent by an extra 20%.
Housing markets have problems. AirBnB is not a responsible solution to those problems.
As mentioned previously, then they shouldn’t be housing others. You spend a small sum of money to make money, when I worked for the city of new York, all us engineers knew the saying, “regulations are written in blood” because NYC was one of the first cities to experiment with new housing methods and such. We were thus the first to witness the horrors of lack of regulation.
I wasn’t alive for the triangle waistcoat factory disaster. Will I learn from it? Yes. Will I force others to learn from it and protect innocent people around them? Also yes. Fire does not care about your class or situation, they happen and the steps to being protected are necessary.
If a person has extra rooms and can barely afford rent, they are occupying a unit that doesn’t fit their needs. They would be better served by downsizing to a smaller, more affordable place instead of heaping their financial problems onto the rest of society. Alternatively they could sublet the room(s) which would better serve their community instead of catering to tourists.
Host requirements start on the bottom of page 16. The requirements boil down to posting a fire exit diagram of the unit, keeping records, and not violating building or fire codes. Nothing in there that really seems that onerous, and is stuff that obviously protects the guests.
Oh look, here’s a list of fires that happened in buildings with short-term rentals, where egress, fire alarms, and sprinkler systems saved actual lives…
Yea you’re not really arguing in good faith here. You know fires happen and the lack of basic alerting systems is a concern. These regulations aren’t costing folks 10 grand to do. There is a cost of doing business and New York has stated this is that cost. Take it up with your state assembly if you don’t like it.
It is quite firmly my stance that none of the people barking up this “fire bad” tree are engaging in good faith at all, since none of these AirBnBs demonstrate undue risk worthy of their own fire code ordinances
Asking a person to install their own fire door to rent a room out is absurd.
Then I guess they shouldn’t be opening living spaces to other people for commercial purposes. Almost like doing that implies you have a responsibility to your guests
It’s the same as ride-sharing … which, when it started, was advertised as a cheaper alternative to taxis/cabs but that’s no longer the case.
I use taxis instead od ride-share because taxis are regulated and they have to buy licenses. Does this make them better? Not really, but they are contributing to the local economy through the tax base … and that alone does make them better.
I’ve stayed in plenty of Airbnb’s that the owners were on-site the whole time. It’s not bad at all. I even used Airbnb to rent out a spare room for a couple years and it wasn’t weird at all (except for the people who were much more comfortable with nudity than I was).
The time I visited NYC, the Airbnb I rented was a small apartment divided up into three rooms with other renters staying there. Same as if the owner was there, wasn’t a problem or creepy.
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