News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by sjg007 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:27PM (#24890593)
Pretty easy solution on November 3rd. Vote Democrat down ticket.
Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by chrismcb on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:30PM (#24890628)
Democrats are part of the problem. The solution isn't to vote democrat or republican, it is to vote for people that care. Term limits would go a long way to solving that problem.
Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by bleepblorp on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:26PM (#24891088)
At worst, the Democratic party will make all the right speeches but ultimately do nothing.

In contrast, the Republican party stole medical supplies from blue states[0] during the acute phase of the pandemic and chose to minimize the federal response to SARS-CoV-2 because the pandemic was only killing Democrats[1]. Depriving your political opponents of medical supplies during a pandemic is arguably a crime against humanity.

Neither of these choices are particularly good, but one choice is far worse than the other.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-admin-seizing-ppe/

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-s...

Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by throw_away on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:33PM (#24890657)
Getting rid of First Past the Post with something like Star Voting (https://www.starvoting.us) would go much further without imposing arbitrary limits.
Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by karmelapple on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:34PM (#24890668)
Do you have a suggestion for who to vote for who “cares”?

And as my sibling comment mentioned, eliminating first past the post would, in my opinion, be a gigantic improvement. If you’re in Massachusetts, please vote Yes on 2 this election so we can have ranked choice voting statewide.

Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by sjg007 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:00PM (#24891758)
Nah.. if you want to get out of a depression or recession hire a Democrat. It’s a fact supported by the data.
Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by jhgorrell on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:45PM (#24891247)
I would agree that "people who care" are a good thing; However, I dont agree term limits achieve that.

Better than term limits would be an informed electorate who would vote for a new person once the old one stopped caring or being effective. I think limits are a poor bandaid.

Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by mcntsh on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:13AM (#24894496)
I wish I could share such a simplistic world view that voting for democrats is the answer which solves everything.