• gedaliyah
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    1 day ago

    Some unexpected wins for New Jersey lately, huh?

    • David_Eight
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      1 day ago

      What do you mean, you make it sound like NJ is Alabama or something lol? Its a lovely place to live.

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        9 hours ago

        … If you enjoy being treated like a child at gas stations or left turns, at least.

        /s…I appreciate the fact that Jersey is, seemingly, making solid moves lately… But the left turn and gas station BS is just plain insanity.

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          8 hours ago

          OK, enjoy freezing your ass off pumping gas in January lol.

          What’s this left turn thing though?

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            2 hours ago

            A jughandle is a type of ramp or slip road that changes the way traffic turns left at an at-grade intersection (in a country where traffic drives on the right). Instead of a standard left turn being made from the left lane, left-turning traffic uses a ramp on the right side of the road. In a standard forward jughandle or near-side jughandle, the ramp leaves before the intersection, and left-turning traffic turns left off of it rather than the through road; right turns are also made using the jughandle. In a reverse jughandle or far-side jughandle, the ramp leaves after the intersection, and left-turning traffic loops around to the right and merges with the crossroad before the intersection.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle

      • gedaliyah
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        1 day ago

        Yes, just not a long line of great governance.

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    1 day ago

    This is an antedote to a bad policy, not a good policy.

    A good policy would be “Rent Freeze, until we can figure out what’s going on” followed by “Rent Control as statewide policy, since you fuckers want a cartel so badly”

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
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      24 hours ago

      Given how the “market rate” is not a market but a Cartel rate, rents should be force-reset lower and free market discovery proceeds from there.