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kentm • yesterday at 8:01 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Or put another way, NIMBY is used as a slur but not every NIMBY position is unreasonable.

We need landfills but I don’t want to live next to a landfill. Maybe we could come to a compromise where you build the thing in a way that doesn’t negatively impact me.


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mahboi • yesterday at 8:43 PM

There's only one way to handle slurs. I'm a NIMBY with a hard Y.