orange sight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41067208
It's a pretty interesting story but the tldr is that anyone can buy fentanyl precursors or pre-precursors from China at bargain basement prices and have them shipped to their door in the US or Mexico. These precursors can then be trivially turned into fent (a Mexican who dropped out of school at 12 years old told them how easy it is lol). It's hard for regulatory agencies to keep up because fentanyl isn't particularly chemically complex so when they ban or restrict one precursor the sellers just switch to something else.
@ACA aren't you a chemist? rdrama themed line of fentanyl when
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Bait idea: develop an internal locus of control instead of blaming Mexicans for everything.
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rightoids have perfected the art of what I call "performative common sense" in which they understand most people have at best of a surface leveling understanding of a problem and frame policy positions around that. For example - drugs are coming over the border, we should build a wall. This completely ignores how they're coming over the border, but let's the median voter feel like something is being done. They don't actually produce real solutions to problems, they produce solutions seemingly tailor made to let people feel good, and kick the can down the road.
It's a lot easier to screech about mexico than genuinely respond to this issue.
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This is also what progressives do, but leftist-ly.
Newly constructed housing is expensive? Let's ban new construction!
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Wouldn't "NIMBY"s mostly be homeowners?
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It's at least somewhat rational to be a NIMBY as an owner. Here in San Francisco, though, it's the socialists and homeowners in an unholy alliance (insofar as they aren't the same people in the first place). You see, not only is the brand-new housing expensive (nevermind the price effects on existing stock), but there's a risk that someone profits when the new building goes up -- and that's a no-no.
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Is the argument for new, more expensive housing that it encourages current home owners to "upgrade" and therefore add their house to the market as well?
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No, it's that any supply is a positive. Basically there exist people with enough money to afford luxury homes but if those homes don't exist they'll slide down market. This pushes all prices higher in a cascading effect.
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Do you think we'll ever seen 2% rates again?
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Absolutely, and The future is very long
I doubt it'll be anytime soon, though. Almost certainly at least a decade out. Perhaps longer. The issue is that we haven't even begun to correct our current issues because nobody wants to acknowledge them. We should be subsidizing shit like home building but instead we're spending government funds on programs that keep the current system inflating. For example, spending money on welfare so people can afford higher rents rather than on builders to build more homes to reduce market rates. Some federal programs to help bolster our production of building materials (especially lumber) as well as getting more people into trades would also be a great help - but instead a bunch of people want to spend that money on stuff like student loan forgiveness which has little benefit.
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I think the bigger issue with the border is the Mexicans coming across it
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The big booty latin women can stay. The fat ones and the men can go back home.
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That's racist.
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Mexicans are fine, it's the BIPOC central americans ans carribbeans crossing the border more than even mexicans are that are the problem.
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