The part I found most interesting after several years of hearing statements to the contrary: the pandemic lockdowns reduced, significantly, the suicide rate, which shot up again after businesses started demanding RTOs two years into it.
After being told for so long that the lockdowns had caused problems with mental health, it’s interesting to see the exact opposite appears to have happened. COVID, sure, it’s caused problems (which would explain why rates went down then up once COVID had infected people and WFH started to end for so many people) and suggests the WFH-damages-mental health thing might just have been a bad faith meme introduced by our incompetent overlords…
Allowing insane right wing MAGA states’ Attorneys General to censor whatever content they want should scare the shit out of regular Americans. Does anyone really actually believe that they’ll stop with just transphobia?
Please contact your members of Congress to urge them to drop their support, this bill is straight old people don’t understand how the internet works garbage.
Hotels are not an end all be all solution. They are significantly more expensive when dealing with large family’s or groups of travelers. Most do not allow pets.
Your last sentence says airbnbs are not supposed to be the same as renting a cabin for the weekend. I pointed out there are different companies effectively doing the same thing. Its not a far stretch. Let’s add in families like going to cities on trips and not just camping in the woods.
And you conveniently missed things like population density. Put some thought into the why instead of looking for the first strawman that jumps out at you.
Because the rest of NY state has a housing shortage??? Why do you want to enforce restrictions on real estate in places where people don’t want to live anyways? I’m from Buffalo and get told by people from NYC that no one wants to live here and it’s not a real city.
Ok. I agree. So why can’t I rent out my house on AirBnB when no one wants to come here anyways?
Please tell me where else in New York State there is a housing shortage and AirBnB is forcing people out of housing. I’ll wait.
The problem is there are more instances of people who own places just to rent. Ban those. But permit people to rent places they actually have established residency in.
As an example… Boyfriends and girlfriends with their own places but spending the night swapping between are also super inefficient usage of resources. I’m obviously not suggesting that couples must live together… But they’re perfect for occasional Airbnb rentals. Rent it for the week and spend that week at your partners. Same with people who travel for work.
Airbnb has fought the rules in court, arguing they were essentially a ban, and that they would hurt visitors looking for affordable accommodation.
They’re called hotels.
I don’t know about prices in NYC but I can assure you that the cost of an airbnb in asia is nothing compared to the cost of a hotel (for the same standard)
Airbnb prices are comparable to similar hotels, maybe even more expensive in the US and Europe. Same thing will happen in Asia once they gain the market share they’re looking for, then they’ll raise prices.
Absolutely incorrect in central/eastern Europe. Hotels are usually $100+ a night for a suite, Airbnbs depending on the city can be as low as $50 a night for the whole apartment.
When we don’t have a housing crisis, this argument will be much more appealing. There’s massive homelessness where I live (Bay Area), so how much someone has to pay for a room is a lot lower on my list.
Hotels in NY and other cities need competition, smaller scale land owners renting their condos while on vacation, or their parents home that they wouldn’t sell anyways is perfectly fine. Hotels take up a lot of land and often have many vacancies so that is just as much of a problem, and yes tenants can longer term live in hotels- I lived in a hotel for around 7 months because it was cheaper than an apartment(not paying the market price but just talked to the manager) during COVID, many(maybe most) nights I was the only person in the building. Prices are a supply issue which existed long before Airbnb but it’s just easy to blame.
For non-UK readers: UK councils have limited revenue-raising powers compared to local government in other countries, and rely on 3 sources of income:
Central government grants
Council tax (on residential properties)
Business rates (on commercial properties)
This amounts to c. 7% of the total UK tax base, versus c. 32% collected locally in Germany or 50% collected locally in Canada.
Central government grants were cut by 40% in real terms between 09/10 and 19/20 from £46.5bn to £28.0bn.
Council tax has gone up 30% over the same period, but it can’t go up more than 2% annually without passing a referendum (unlikely). Some councils in dire straits have recently been allowed to raise it 5%.
Local authorities have been underfunded for over a decade. Other UK councils which have already declared bankruptcy, either through running out of money, or through losing vast amounts of money in risky schemes attempting to replace missing central funding:
Equal pay is something women have had to fight for.
In this case,
the court found hundreds of mostly female employees working in roles such as teaching assistants, cleaners and catering staff missed out on bonuses which were given to staff in traditionally male-dominated roles such as refuse collectors and street cleaners.
Women in the UK only gained the right to equal pay in 1970.
I don’t think that’s a bad thing that they get equal pay, they’re blaming it on that when it sounds like the poster I was speaking to said it was corruption, risky schemes and decades of underfunding by stealing it for other things that was the problem.
You can only starve a government body of funding – making it muddle along depleting its reserves and selling off assets – for so long until a final bill tips it over the edge, so I’d argue that if it wasn’t this bill it would be another bill.
Other councils took risky approaches to replace money cut under Austerity:
Woking said that against its available core funding of £16m in the 2023-24 financial year, the council faced a deficit of £1.2bn.
Racked up to finance the building and acquisition of a vast empire of commercial assets, its investments included a complex of sky-high towers – standing as the tallest buildings outside a big city in England – including a four-star Hilton hotel, public plazas, parking facilities and shops.
Many councils piled into property and other commercial enterprises to raise money to fill gaping holes in their budgets and to undertake regeneration projects after sharp cuts to central government funding introduced under the Conservatives’ austerity drive.
Well, it sounds like if they hadn't violated the law by deciding that women didn't deserve equal pay, and hadn't underpaid what seems to be a lotof women for a long period of time (seriously, almost a billion dollars in claims they have to pay out?!), then it seems like they wouldn't be having this problem.
I'm not saying that underfunding government isn't an overall issue, but it really seems like the immediate issue is that they decided to systemically underpay people for an extended period of time. And that's on them.
“I guess we’ll just wait until the people who don’t believe in any of this are back in office so they can gut our funding to try and force us out of jobs. But, hey, it’s just us making decisions that can affect the health of the entirety of our populace and by extension the world, so it’s fine to wait.”
It’s stupid, but they also know that Republicans will gut it immediately if elected a majority. No point going through the effort, cost, and labor to implement it today if it’ll be destroyed tomorrow.
But then we’d be 2 years behind. Why not try to enact change today, which would get some balls rolling, and IF the bad people get in charge later we can deal with that?
This 4 year election cycle knee-capping important work is ridiculous. It’s like we only have two years immediately after a new president is elected to get anything done, then might as well wait. It’s nuts.
Women in female-dominated roles such as cleaners and caterers had complained that they were missing out on bonuses given to staff in male-dominated roles, such as refuse collectors.
In 2008 I worked in News Production for a local television station. There are two examples that come to mind to show how shallowly they train journalists.
First, there was NASA, they were doing testing of new lunar rover they planned to send back to the moon in a city a little over an hour and a half away. I brought it to the attention of our news department who quickly chided me with “isn’t that outside our coverage area?” as if we didn’t have a website that broadcasted to the whole planet, technically. Well, we only got coverage because me and another guy from Production called the NASA press corps and got an invitation for our news station. We went to the news manager and they sent someone out, but we never got any video online. For the next week, still photos from the test were the top story on WIRED’s website for over a week. We could have had that traffic, but nope. “Outside our coverage area.”
Another time was when there was a scandal with an official running for office. It was the governors race, and weeks before the vote, a new case was dropping that was showing one of the two candidates for governor getting illegal funding for his campaign. I went to the site of the prosecutor, downloaded all the relevant data, and put it on journalists desks. I got asked by the Producer “Are you sure this is true? I didn’t see anything on AP Newswire.” Jesus tittyfucking Christ I guess these people had never heard of BREAKING A FUCKING STORY before. We ended up running it after about ten different State papers ran stories about it, because apparently it’s not news unless someone else reported on it first and you just do a copy-paste job from AP Newswire.
Regan’s decision avoids an election year battle with industry groups and Republicans who have complained about what they consider overly intrusive EPA rules on power plants, refineries, automobiles and other polluters.
Those pesky rules that give us cleaner air getting in the way of profits.
As a historian, I can say something over 1000 years old that is not fragmented or on the verge of being fragmented is very good condition. Not missing anything or any notable pieces too? Damn near mint
Another important angle to this story is that Cuba is willing to publicly castigate Russia and take action against its partners in crime. Cuba and Russia/Soviet Union have been allies since at least 1959…
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