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  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.detoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldWhat is hexbear?
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    23 hours ago

    Here’s my take…

    They’re more cohesive and insular than most groups you’ll find on social media.

    They’ve brewed their own strongly held culture and ideology.

    Many are also used to being ostracised by other communities due to sexual preferences or other personal attributes.

    The result is, if you naively post in a thread in which they are active your opinion will get stomped on if it does not directly align with theirs.








  • The houses are worth a whole lot less money given the risks of extreme weather and fire.

    This was entirely predictable. It’s been well publicised for decades.

    Bailing out companies is obviously not the same as bailing out people.

    I’m not really sure it’s as easy as “building to a new standard”. For suburbs prone to inundation it may be that there’s little that can be done on the residential property itself.

    I think the core of this issue is money. It’s going to cost a lot of it for people to live in these risky areas.

    In my view, living in those places should not be subsidised by everyone else. That means everyone else’s insurance premiums should bear the cost of those heightened risks. If someone wants to build a house to a higher building standard in order to have it insured then so be it.





  • This comment chain is not specifically about non-eu residents.

    Letters do not confirm where someone lives. It would be trivial to work around that.

    This might shock you, but if you announced a law whereby everyone has to go to the police station once a year to confirm where they live there would absolutely be blood in the streets. It’s a ridiculous over reach and a gross invasion of privacy.

    In tax legislation the goal is to be broad based, which means easy to administrate and difficult to avoid.

    The solution to this problem which people have been talking about since the 1940s is land tax. Tax the fuck out of all land, but allow people to apply for an exemption for 1 property. It will never become law because the powerful people that make law own property and do not wish to pay tax.