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Ma 27 2921 "It’s not really realistic to assume we’re going to subsidize our way out of this. Which is why we need the private sector to do what it does, which is to build housing."    calmatters.org May 20 2021 "But there’s a difference in scale and precision between the practices of local landlords and national-scale institutions, which are increasingly using residential property as part of financial investment schemes."    minnpost.com May 20 2021 "As one recent study out of California’s Institute for Policy Studies reports , a handful of very wealthy investors control over 4% of the nation’s housing stock, concentrated in areas of the country hit by high costs and low availability."    minnpost.com   🐤 May 20 2021 Real-Estate Frenzy Overwhelms Small-Town America: ‘I Came Home Crying’ | Buyers far from big cities lose out to investors and deep-pocket rivals in places where properties until a year ago offered affordable en...

May 29, 2021 "A group of California lawmakers on Thursday touted 11 bills they’re advancing to get better control of the worsening wildfires that have razed towns and neighborhoods across the state in recent years."    sfchronicle.com "To know whether incidental collection is good or bad or neutral with respect to the civil liberties of its subjects, you have to know not merely that it occurred, but what happened to the information afterwards."    lawfareblog.com "You know how kids say you have to trick the meta on Instagram or on Tik Tok to get on top of the algorithm, you have to do three posts a day and you have to use these hashtags? He’s saying that’s what we need to do with music."    newrepublic.com "Whistleblower status offers Jones certain protections under Florida law, including the potential for reinstatement or compensation should the ongoing investigation find the department retaliated against Jones for the concerns she ...

Seth Godin just validated my spending urge witout meaning to in Are You Making Something? : One reason for this confusion is that we’re often using precisely the same device to do our work as we are to distract ourselves from our work . The distractions come along with the productivity. The boss (and even our honest selves) would probably freak out if we took hours of ping pong breaks while at the office, but spending the same amount of time engaged with others online is easier to rationalize. Hence this proposal: The two-device solution. I limit social media + youtube + dailykos.com after five minutes time limit using the timeout plgin. But that's not enough anymore. If I have to do kindle, and a tablet/iPad, and a laptop I'm OK with that. This work by AJ Fish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License .

Hello Roku Support, It appears there is a dark pattern on your platform wherein when I click the '*' button on my Roku remote while in the HBOMax section, I cannot pull up an "unsubscribe" menu option. I also tried to pull up the option by pressing the big "A" in the upper left corner which stands for my first name "A.J." and lists my settings. REASONS I WISH TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM HBOMAX: 1) It is a luxury channel and if I'm paying three times what I pay to subscribe to Hulu, I expect luxury treatment, not dark patterns. 2) When I click "play" to watch the most recent episode of Bill Maher on Saturdays, the app keeps replaying an episode from April 2020. This has heppened two weeks in a row. 3) I've seen the two good shows you offer now "Made for Love" and "Search Party". When I clicked to watch Season 2, Episode 1 of "Crashing" the app froze and crashed. This alone would not be a deal breaker wer...