My grandmother has a house in Detroit, so that's the only third-world shithole I'd ever have to go to

stayed there for a month in 2006 and it actually wasn't too bad

never been to detroit

Since everyone in the state gets dividend money from the state’s oil company.

Or something like that

which will diminish over time @Christopher

it would

then they will have to find alternatives

and they certainly wont be giving dividends that time, I bet

lol

The Alaska state constitution stipulates that all natural resources are state porperty, and any extraction of it has to be compensated.

so if you catch rainwater on your property, since it's a natural resource, it's not yours and you have to pay the government for it?

No, because there's no desert in Alaska

or if you have solar panels on your house?

Pretty sure that’s not allowed. The federal law is that your private property extends to the center of the Earth and infinitely upward.

Negative

You might not own the mineral rights

So no sale of property in Alaska is fee-simple?

I have trouble believing that.

Alaska sounds fucked

But if it’s true, FUCK THAT

Mineral rights are very complicated, even in your state

some laws have it seperated from land use

Anyways, all of this is overly complicated wordiness. It's essentially a corporate tax on oil and timber sales

They aren’t too complicated, though. You can sell the mineral rights to your property but keep the land itself and stuff like that, but in Cali, at least we have fee-simple property, meaning we have absolute right to it to the center of the Earth and infinitely upward.

ya

What's more fucked are the Native Corporations.

What’s a Native Corporation?

Instead of a tribe with a reservation of land, there are 13 corporations formed from the tribal membership/geneology, and the people are 'employees' who take advangtage of the affirmative action laws on US military and gov't contracts

What the fuck

I can see why they have to pay people to live there

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

There's a fire in my neighborhood

That’s bad, but Cali isn’t too better with its privileging of certain racial and ethnic groups. If you don’t know, Hispanics are the largest ethnic group in Cali, outnumbering whites. At my university, they outnumber whites 2:1, yet they are officially considered “protected minorities” and get first dibs on campus jobs and housing. They still get special scholarships and considerations for fucking everything under the sun even though they outnumber whites 2:1 and are the largest racial group on my campus.

Oh shit, stay safe bro

wow

it is sad

it'

firecracker?

it's also because hispanics are probably the most nationalistic, if not outright racist people imaginable