Regardless, you are failing to engage with my actual point, which is that unnecessary restrictions on the production of goods will drive manufacturers to produce only the most high-margin options,

Yet you gave the example of food being cheap which has regulations. It’s cheap because it is subsidized. Farmers aren’t the only industry with lobbiests.

how we built affordable housing in the past.

1. We killed the existing land owners so there was a surplus of land.

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_of_1949 (required cheap housing to be built to replace any cheap housing torn down.)

So, we should remove these barriers first and see what happens.

The only barrier is the people who vote. If a community votes against a developer, that’s their constitutional right. Which is why I said the supply is the problem. Giving more money to renters does not change the supply. If more housing was built, the price would go down and ubi wouldn’t be needed.

Unlike food and housing, a screwdriver isn’t required to live. That’s why food is subsidized and regulated. Whereas non essentials are allowed to compete in a free market.

You can go to the grocery store right now and buy a tomato for not very much money,

Food is subsidized and highly regulated by the government.

Capitalism fails to meet housing demand because it is constrained by regulations about things like single family zoning,

That’s not true because when given an opportunity to build housing, developers always choose to build higher margin premium housing. Capitalism incentivizes profit and there’s no profit in cheap housing.

I find it funny who ubi proponents say we need UBI because capitalism failed to have wages match cost of living and simultaneously say UBI will fix it with capitalism.

Housing is expensive because there isn’t enough. If capitalism could fix it, then housing would have at a minimum matched inflation and should have decreased in price because of technology improvements. So giving people more money absolutely cannot fix the housing crisis. UBI would be a handout for landlords.

When demand is the problem in a supply/demand economy, you can’t fix it with more demand (cash).

There’s a great fictional movie called Gangs of New York that covers the real life anti immigration riots that happened in New York City during the civil war.

There are free dynamic DNS services so you don’t need to pay for a static ip. I like noip.com.

If build volume is a limitation, I’ve seen all sorts of snap together plates you could crib from. For example I recently printed this pacman boardgame. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5396911

The interlocks are completely hidden by the overhangs of the other plates. Once snapped together, you can’t see that it is made of separate parts.

There are too many terms. If you simplified every medical term you’d end up with too many words that were almost identical but meant very different conditions.

I see it like thinking you could compress any possible number string to a simpler number that’s easier to remember.

It’s a label so consumers know what they are buying. It has absolutely nothing to do with quality.

Gelato from the best restaurant in Italy is higher quality than Dairy Queen despite having lower butter fat content.

The definition of Quality: “the degree of excellence of something.”

The amount of fat in a food product has nothing to do with its excellence.

objective measure of quality.

It is an objective measurement of an ingredient. It says nothing about quality.

If burgers were traditionally spicy and the FDA declared a burger needed to be Scolville 500,000 to be called a burger, the level of spice still would have nothing to do with its quality. Its a label for consumers to know what they are purchasing. It is not a label about quality.

I didn’t say DQ is fancy. I object to confusing a consumer label about an ingredient with an objective measure of quality. No one would say the Gelato from Cremeria Cavour in Bologna is low quality because Dairy Queen has more butter fat.

Sorry I meant to say “quality food item”.

A label for fat content does not determine quality.

Amount of butterfat is a single ingredient. A single ingredient does not determine the quality of a food product.

Even if two food products were identical except for butterfat content, it still wouldn’t be an objective measure of quality because it only affects taste and taste is subjective. It’s like declaring that one burger is objectively better because it has more chili pepper seasoning. Now imagine if the FDA declared that to call a product a burger, it needed to have a minimum Scolville level of 500,000. The FDA would have created the requirement as consumer protection because people expected burgers to be spicy. The label would have had nothing to do with quality.

ice dessert to recognize it’s subpar quality.

The amount of butterfat says absolutely nothing about the quality of a food item.

Gelato from the Cremeria Cavour in Bologna is higher quality than Dairy Queen despite Dairy Queen having more butter fat.

Edited for clarity.

I wouldn’t go that far. Even labeling what should be called ice cream is good. The problem is not understanding the regulations that cause people to make judgements that have nothing to do with quality.

The amount of butterfat says absolutely nothing about quality.

Is whole milk not a “quality food item” because it’s only 3.25% butterfat?

Edit: I forgot the quality adjective which confused some.

5% butterfat vs 10% butterfat for the FDA standard.

Whatever. People write “it’s not ice cream” like it’s plastic.

I would if I could. I only see Bose and Beats replacements online.

I need to get new headphones for my daughter because her last pair did this.

Suggestions for something under $100?

It’s not clear at all from that pic that there’s a boot print in the planter. I see several small holes in the second planter that looks like squirrel digging.