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@LDS_Dems It effectively makes domestic production 15% cheaper than imported EU alternatives. Adding a 15% edge is a benefit to American firms and a detriment to foreign firms. In effect the US built options are now artificially “cheaper” and Uncle Sam gets the vig.

The laws of economics are undefeated. You cannot increase the cost of imports and decrease the cost of consumer goods. That is like adding logs onto the fire to cool off the house.

@the_transit_guy Or it costs the same amount it did before and contractor was able to arbitrarily increase price tag. If taxpayers knowingly got fleeced with $30,000 hammers and toilet seats, I’m sure big ticket items are always kosher 😉

Genuinely, it’s a major crisis that this country cannot build anything.

@LDSMormon This would be easily subverted by trust law, regardless freedom is always the best option. If you want more affordable housing you have to have a surplus of homes. Austin and Tampa are in the midst of large price corrections because they developed more homes than are in demand.

Here’s how to reduce the cost of housing: Make Single Family homes for families only. Not investments. You can only own them if you live in them. You want two? Fine, but you can’t rent the other. No corporation can own homes of any kind. Let’s also get rid of apartments and slums. I know this will anger a lot of people, but this whole “Rich Dad/Poor Dad” philosophy has gotten us into this mess. You want investments? Do Gold or Silver or Pork Bellies, just not family homes. The prices keep rising along with the number of homeless, and someday it’s all going to crash, and then Blackrock will come in and own it all. Unless we change it now, that’s where this is heading. And please spare me the Communist accusations. I’m a capitalist looking for Zion where people can own private property that they are stewards over, as that’s the only system that won’t fail in the coming years.

@innoutburger_ Ya I can taste the extra margin. Don’t try to compare to Five Guys, you lose every time.

In-N-Out doesn't offer bacon, jalapeños, BBQ sauce, hot sauce, grilled mushrooms, avocado, or nearly as many toppings as Whataburger and Fiveguys, but In-N-Out is more profitable than both companies. We are not the same

@GalambMatej @cityaestheticss You’ll eat your pop tarts and you’ll like it. Who doesn’t want inflamed everything all the time?

@TallAmigo @cityaestheticss Czech food is not poison tho, unlike US food..

The GDP of Phoenix, Arizona: $398.1 billion The GDP of the entire nation of Czech Republic: $345 billion Where do you think you’d have a better life?

@david_kipping Drive around Maryland and look at the wasted farmland. I would love it if the focus was on parking lots and rooftops. Every big box retailer in America should receive tax incentives to convert. Beyond that I think people take issue with lithium and cobalt mining practices.

How can anyone hate solar energy??

Driving a car through stop signs is usually aggressive, and it's dangerous to everyone at the intersection. Riding a bicycle through stop signs is usually harmless to everyone. The anti-bike mind can't understand the difference.

@TheMuppetPastor Almost all of the words in the book were not “said”…it’s not a transcription, it’s hundreds of years of clerics continually translating and changing the meaning to meet their view. It is a beautiful and holy book but isn’t anything like a tape recorder.

Where does it say this in the Bible?

@cityaestheticss Brick use to be cheap, but not anymore. Worth the investment. Changes everything. Also need a roofline or facade of a roof trim.

5-over-1s have an authenticity problem. They often sprawl across entire blocks, fake looking materials, and use vertical material shifts to mask their scale. Our brains recognize authentic buildings instantly and that recognition can’t be faked.

@innoutburger_ Mehh, more store growth, not menu items.

Should In-N-Out add a breakfast menu? Eggs potentially?

@Manhattva Going vertical makes sense but it’s never cheaper. There are too few high rise condos in Salt Lake. Lots of ugly mid rise that look like dorms. SLC developers should build 10+ glass residential skyscrapers prior to olympics. Then gentrify Provo and add density.

Utah’s housing shortage is going to become a crisis.

@TimOnPoint This is the land that should be leased for solar. NOT farmland. Load the roofs and parking lots with panels and use the empty retail for municipal storage, shelters, food pantries, thrift shops, and farmers markets.

@dan_hues @CJHandmer Extends growing season from 4 months to 12 months. Not holistic which I’m sure has its drawbacks but for people in cold climates it’s a game changer.

@CJHandmer It’s also hard when the competition gets free power and water. I don’t understand the fascination with indoor farming, unless it’s for space colonization.

This is a cool video but you can see the pain in the engineer's eyes. It's much easier to move the lights to the plants than the plants to the lights. In any kind of capital or labor scarce environment, a different equilibrium will be found.

@SenorVito9 I don’t think it’s the use of a stone. It’s more likely not knowing/learning about divining/treasure digging, Josiah Stowell, Sally Chase, Samuel T Lawrence etc. Primary source materials alter the narrative that people are used to. Discrepancies rattle some and fortify others.

Why would Joseph Smith using a seer stone cause some one to lose their faith? Have you read the Bible? Like actually read it? In simplified terms: Healing Blindness with mud A donkey that speaks Turning water into wine Dividing a massive ocean in half to allow slaves to flee across it-with a stick that shifts into a snake. It's a hat guys, relax.

@MarkW_E01 Listen to Jeff Teague or Stephen Jackson talk about Milwaukee for comparison. They both complained about nightlife. Not team culture, not ownership, not demographics, just lack of night clubs. Meanwhile Milwaukee does nothing but drink booze, but they do it in bars not clubs.

It’s insane how big of a difference the Utah market perception is between NHL players and NBA players. I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that NHL players see this market as a top destination. And NBA players see us as the absolute last market they’d want to play in.

@LargeInStature_ Of all the things to get perturbed about, this is her focus? Jesus turned water into wine, not Dr. Pepper. My guess is that she isn’t very well versed in the theology if her hang up is on w.o.w….doesn’t even make the first 10 pages of peculiar past.

My wife's exmo-ish friend wrote her all in a tizzy because apparently Brigham Young owned a distillery. Sold alcohol. Like 200 years ago. Of all the things to get your panties in a twist over... She's just looking for reasons not to believe at this point. I'm totally fine with the idea of Young being kind of a scoundrel. He was the man the Church needed at the time. He was the man God chose to lead the Saints west. Maybe we needed someone a little rough-and-tumble to get the job done (not saying Brigham Young was a bad person by any means). Why would you let your faith in the Restored Gospel hinge on something so inconsequential? Just read the Book of Mormon. Look into all the amazing "coincedences" surrounding it's translation. Talk to God about it. Then this little stuff won't matter.

@TeeplesCY Sweet tea. Not everyone drinks soda but most southerners put away about 20-40 oz of sweet tea a day. 300-1000 calories extra per day compounded over a persons lifetime is a lot of inflammation and glucose spikes.

The life expectancy of Utah and Idaho suggests that there may be a third variable to this hypothesis.

@bradshep @MidwesternSaint Having been both, I respectfully disagree. Bishopric meetings at 6:30, tithing and misc. clerking after church, conducting sacrament, assigning speakers, maintenance tickets, Saturday cleaning, Wed. activities, but above all, membership councils. Whoof!

@MidwesternSaint Bishopric counselor is a much lighter load than EQ press. Maybe even less than a young men's advisor. Plus you get to know everyone in the ward, and have super cool experiences during the temple recommend and semi-annual youth interviews. Don't hide from huge blessings! : )

So a member of our bishopric is moving in a few weeks. Anyone have any advice on where to hide? Just want to be sure.

@AndrewCapasso_ @SidKhurana3607 Semantics but it’s the Mid-Atlantic. Philly straddles entry to the NE. Culturally the accents change, the food and fashion changes, weather shifts. It’s not the same.

@SidKhurana3607 Dc, md, NoVA, and DE are the NE

This is how the Census Bureau defines the South. Thoughts?