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by clipsy 3y ago
"The rentier class" would be a more accurate description, yes.
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by clipsy 3y ago
> Thanks for calling me a bigot, you're definitely elevating the discussion /s If you start a conversation by encouraging people to view my basic civil liberties as a "trick," there is no hope of elevating it. I won&#
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by clipsy 3y ago
Again, though, I think you are imagining a hard-and-fast distinction where there is none. Fundamentally, if I'm considering buying a house, I have to ask myself what the projected financial outcome is if I buy a house versus if I inves
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by clipsy 3y ago
In one iteration, 42% are converted to rentals and 45% were "sold back" -- but to whom were they sold back? If they were sold to other investors, they go through another 42% reduction. And so on, for however many iterations ther
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by clipsy 3y ago
And despite all that, home prices did, in fact, go down during the 2008 recession. And while the government does -- as you point out -- establish policy that biases the market in favor of home prices increasing, the government does not pro
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by clipsy 3y ago
Having been the target of the right's culture wars, I can assure you it certainly does not feel like a "trick" to me and the idea that writing me off as a lost cause will magically fix all of America's problems is frankl
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by clipsy 3y ago
And yet homeowners got fucked and Wall Street got bailed out. Where was the mythical homeowners' political power when prices were plummeting (in my neck of the woods by 30-50%) and they were threatened with the possibility of foreclosu
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by clipsy 3y ago
I don't want to speak for anyone else, but from my view making housing a bad investment while keeping it a sound financial decision for potential homebuyers is -- at the very least -- a difficult needle to thread. Being a "good&qu
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by clipsy 3y ago
Land is not fungible ("location, location, location," as real estate agents often say) and good land is often constrained by zoning and other local regulations. Being able to buy a lot in the middle of nowhere with no access to jo
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by clipsy 3y ago
I think this argument ignores Wall Street's outsized influence on government policy; look at the 2008 recession, in which Wall Street's bad bet on a real estate bubble got bailed out while the actual home owners were thrown out on
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by clipsy 3y ago
An empty and self-congratulatory comment is all you need to convince yourself that the UK (and/or Sunak in particular) is friendly to tech? He's an outspoken supporter[0] of the Online Safety Bill, which would effectively outlaw e
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by clipsy 3y ago
We're literally in a thread about rural America being unable to keep basic necessities like hospitals open, but if someone poops on the sidewalk it's a failed state? Very cool, reasonable definition.
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by clipsy 3y ago
Paywalled links are allowed; complaining about paywalled links is discouraged[0] and (although the FAQ does not specify) I think it's reasonable to infer that flagging links solely because they are paywalled is a misuse of flag. [0]:
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by clipsy 3y ago
If the only things we expect students to do are algorithmic we might as well train them to do nothing.
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by clipsy 3y ago
It's also wrong[0], incidentally. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia#/media/File:Bolivia_Pr... edit: So I guess that book did a great job predicting how AI would work!
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by clipsy 3y ago
For what it’s worth, I encountered this yesterday and immediately pasted the headline into ChatGPT (out of idle curiosity), and the output started by immediately explaining that SQL and CSS fundamentally serve different purposes and shouldn
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by clipsy 3y ago
And how McDonald's isn't considered haute cuisine.
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by clipsy 3y ago
Duh? Neither party is interested in reining in spending when in charge, the debt ceiling is only ever threatened to try to extract concessions from the party that holds the White House. The very same Republicans screaming about the national
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by clipsy 3y ago
Jesus, I'd hate to see the lowlights.
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by clipsy 3y ago
Fair enough, that sounds unpleasant! I've worked at companies that routinely get accused of being "woke" and Pride rarely entails more than maybe getting some rainbow-washed swag; if your company's dragging you into the
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by clipsy 3y ago
I hope this doesn't constitute "jump[ing] down your throat," but: try going to an actual pride parade and enjoying yourself rather than judging it by the HR-approved G-rated "celebration" in your workplace.
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by clipsy 3y ago
What is supposed to be analogous to the "500 independent recordings of him comitting[sic] a crime"?
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by clipsy 3y ago
> Meanwhile in the US, thousands of minors have undergone surgical castration [citation needed]
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by clipsy 3y ago
That's impossible. I read the Wikipedia article on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, so I know everything there is to know about it.
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by clipsy 3y ago
The estimate was the time to try all possible combinations, per Apple: > “This means it would take more than 5 ½ years to try all combinations of a six-character alphanumeric passcode with lowercase letters and numbers,” Surely you under
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by clipsy 3y ago
You know what would make me more likely to form meaningful relationships with coworkers? A belief that none of us will be laid off on a whim to fund stock buybacks or outsized executive bonuses at a profitable company.
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by clipsy 3y ago
In this case it is right wing censors like you who wish to decide "what books kids should read."
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by clipsy 3y ago
For those who are curious: they provide absolutely nothing in the way of actual data.
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by clipsy 3y ago
I think it's a natural pushback against the weird personality cult Musk has built around himself in which he receives 100% of the credit when things go well and 0% of the blame when they don't.
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by clipsy 3y ago
So if I set up an aggregator that includes only positive stories about Democrats and only negative stories about Republicans, would you say it's odd to rate that?

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