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The San Francisco, California, Board of Supervisors is expected to adopt an 18-month moratorium on new package delivery facilities. The measure is aimed at slowing Amazon's expansion in the city. City planning officials will use the pause to develop new requirements for locating last-mile warehouses in the city. The law is backed by the Teamsters, which is trying to unionize Amazon warehouse employees. Activists say the land Amazon would build warehouses on could be better used as greenspace or for affordable housing.

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[IceTrey]

Yes because it's Amazon's fault SF doesn't have enough affordable housing. ????????‍♂️

[Brandybuck]

They would rather build more green spaces than houses. They talk about low income housing, but when have they ever allowed a new low income housing project to go through?

[Jima]

"green space" is just a euphemism for homeless camps, so it solves two problems!

[MatthewSlyfield]

If Amazon paid their workers enough....

/sarcasm.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That "last mile" is going to be stretched so far out that next pandemic the San Frannies are going to be waiting an extra day for their lockdown supplies for avocado toast.

[Kristian H.]

How to make housing cheaper? Reduce it's desirability, and thus price, by making it harder to get served. Lower price is affordable right? Affordable has nothing to do with quality of life, right?

[Inigo Montoya]

You do it with roaches, rats, and round the clock construction noise. Pacific Heights is a 1990 movie that gives a practical demonstration of just how to do it—and it’s even set in San Francisco. Michael Keaton majorly lowers a home’s value and takes it over for himself. It’s a good thriller.

[mad.casual]

Well, we know jobs don't make houses more affordable, that's for sure.

[SQRLSY One]

So on the left, San Francisco's troubles will be solved by bowing down low to "activists" who will dictate what can be done with property, NOT by BUYING it, but by being "activists". Nice property ya got there... Be a shame if somebody rioted all over it, or homeless hobos like Sevo shit all over it!

On the right, meanwhile, we're building up the communal outrage at all of the vote-stealing Demon-Craps and other WITCHES! When the outrage meter hits the red zone, THEN we can BURN them all! THEN we can take over their property... And then, the oral sex!

Is there some OTHER choice, OTHER than hyper-partisan power-grabbers and liars of the left and right?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

True luddite thinking, just another dimension of modern woke progressives. Paradise is a collection of empathetic artisans, living in mud huts, sharing stunted vegetables and power crystals, while chanting about equity and diversity.

[Don't look at me!]

What color is everyone’s skin?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

If like most modern movies and TV, skin colors range from mocha to dark chocolate, with maybe a token white-ish woman. Except for the bad guys, who are all white.

[Bubba Jones]

Warehouses reduce traffic and increase local jobs.

But whatevs

[mad.casual]

The law is backed by the Teamsters, which is trying to unionize Amazon warehouse employees. Activists say the land Amazon would build warehouses on could be better used as greenspace

Are activists and the Teamsters one and the same? If not, have the Activists told the Teamsters that they think bare ground would be better than a warehouse full of employees?

[jimc5499]

But they won't be Union Employees. That's why the Teamsters, one of the most corrupt unions ever, are butthurt.

[Brandybuck]

California is, among its extremely few virtues, a right to work state. But cities can still require them for city stuff. Thus the teamsters are still big in a port city.

[DRM]

California is, among its extremely few virtues, a right to work state.

No, it isn't. No state with a Pacific coast is right-to-work; every state with a Gulf coast is.

[Joe Brandon]

why do you lie?

[mad.casual]

I'm no Teamster but I assume it would be easier to unionize a group of employees than it would be to unionize an empty field. Even if you're only able unionized the group of guys bulldozing and building the warehouse on an empty field, that beats an empty field.

[Brandybuck]

Just build outside the city. Need to pick up a package, leave the city you NIMBY bastard and go pick it up in San Mateo.

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It's amazing how such a simple thing as prices can solve so many dilemmas. One number, encapsulating costs of resources, time, desires, innovation, so much ...

It's amazing how much politicians have to strain to ignore prices.

It's amazing how willfully blind voters are.

[CE]

"Progressives" may need to consider rebranding, since they seem to be opposed to any kind of progress or improvement in living conditions.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Dude, material wealth is by definition evil. "Progress" means less evil, thus less material wealth.

[perlhaqr]

"Fucktarded Assholes" seems on point.

[mad.casual]

You might as well just don your hood and get out your hangin' rope using that definition of 'progressive'.

[Art Stone]

Amazon is using a concept called delivery service partners (DSP) for the last mile delivery. They are independent businesses, something like franchises, that get paid for completing the delivery. They do it very much integrated with Amazon's own internal processes and systems - however since the people are not technically Amazon employees, that is a huge impediment to unionizing them.

Laws that say something like "an employer with 100 or more employees..." do not apply, since no DSP would have that many employees. If you lowered the number, they would just split the work among more DSPs.

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[SQRLSY One]

"NAZI" as defined by orange dick-suckers anywhere and everywhere:

"One who does NOT abide quite properly with the Proper Dogmas and Rituals of The Cult of Der TrumpfenFuhrer and His Dicktatorshit".