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by conductr 10mo ago
Poverty breeds but globally fertility rates are declining. Economics isn't the only thing driving it but parasitic puppies isn't even in the debate :) https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues
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by conductr 10mo ago
I've heard this before. I think better term than parasite is an addictive drug since we created these types of pet dogs and indulge on them. I feel strongly the trend of dog ownership overtaking people having children, while real, is m
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by conductr 10mo ago
Dogs get bred for specific personality traits and to develop physical traits. My border collie was a maniac that just wanted to work all day every day. That herding part of his personality was extremely prevalent. Even if I tossed a treat o
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by conductr 10mo ago
This seems normal to me. I've never done it or even seen it - but it seems everyone exercises a slightly personalized disregard for the very society they are a part of these days
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by conductr 10mo ago
On a long enough timeline it’s possible that cat-people and dog-people evolve separately into different species
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by conductr 10mo ago
Similar to AI PC's right now, very few consumers cared in late 90s. Majority weren't power users creating/editing videos/audio/graphics. Majority of consumers were just consuming and they never had a need to seek ou
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by conductr 10mo ago
I said it in the comment you replied to asking for evidence
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by conductr 10mo ago
You don’t have to agree with anything I said but I’m not here to be your research assistant, I gave you my thoughts and some paths to references. It’s evident by this debate nobody is certain on anything and were hypothesizing. If you want
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by conductr 10mo ago
Mortgage rates were below inflation. That’s same as free money and why so many investors bought as much as they could leverage
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by conductr 10mo ago
As I said, there’s no data on this. Unaccepted offers don’t get tracked anywhere and don’t show up in anyone’s financial records. However, have you ever participated in a “multiple offer, best and final” type RE market? There’s plenty of op
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by conductr 10mo ago
No, making an offer is a bid. It’s cost nothing to make an offer. Multiple offer situations were the norm for a few years in much of the US. Many listing agents will post on the listing “multiple offers, best and final due by X date”. Nobod
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by conductr 10mo ago
Anything is possible. But wouldn’t that kind of also mean those traits are necessary for talent? For recognition? For art that is appreciated? I don’t know if I buy it myself as being a big contributing factor. The lifestyles of famous peop
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by conductr 10mo ago
That’s probably a factor in some way but my intuition is it’s the lifestyle itself that’s the dominant risk. The control point is comparing to less famous musicians. I’d assume many of which have similar personality traits and desire for fa
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by conductr 10mo ago
They don’t have to buy to fuck up the market. They just have to bid. If there’s low inventory, people that actually need to buy a home are forced to beat/match the bidding. They can also target just specific areas of specific major met
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by conductr 10mo ago
I’m speaking mostly from memory of it when it occurred in the US , was Covid era housing market 2020-2021 is when prices surged the most and was when they had a marked increase in their activity. Again, it seems small overall but they were
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by conductr 10mo ago
I think your case on this debate is more sound however > To do that, you have to be able to generate scarcity, which is exactly what corporate investors aren't doing. But they did. When inventory was low and then zero percent rates
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by conductr 10mo ago
Going back to the the article, you have to find a picture of your exact car online somewhere, then use GeoSpy to tell you it was stolen in the US and was photographed in Columbia, then you go to that place in Columbia to find it's not
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by conductr 10mo ago
> often Really? Not that anyone has any data on any of this but since you're measuring it as "often" I'm going to disagree and say this is a very tiny percentage of stolen vehicles that are being used this way. If the
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by conductr 10mo ago
> You do not have to meet the seller to check the VIN of a vehicle sitting on the street. You're assuming the vehicle remains where the photo was taken. > Well yeah, because you only filtered on 2 of the dozen or so attributes th
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by conductr 10mo ago
Right, see that is the example they went in depth on. I thought it was helping identify the chopshops and hideouts more directly as they indicated in the bullets. This part still is the sticking point; > When browsing Craigslist, I came
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by conductr 10mo ago
I may have misunderstood, admittedly I just scanned it, but if you or law enforcement have to scan the universe of apps/internet to find a picture before this is useful… it’s not useful. Your starting point is a needle in a haystack. I
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by conductr 10mo ago
Started much earlier than 9/11. Probably the drug “war” that had things going towards the police state thing. Police departments buying military grade weapons and equipment to arm their swat teams. Then compounded by the fact US citize
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by conductr 10mo ago
I have no photos of my vehicles to initiate a search this way. Am I an outlier and it’s normal for people to keep vehicle pictures handy?
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by conductr 10mo ago
Like it or not it is the reality of the United States. It would be a huge shock to the system but I don’t disagree with you entirely that it wouldn’t help close the wealth gap. I just don’t trust our politicians here to implement a change
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by conductr 10mo ago
> What? No. Explain to me how after putting 10% down, I was able to get out of PMI because I had 20% equity after the first 18 months of my mortgage? After all, at 18 months at 3.5% I've only paid down 2.1% of the principal. That&#x
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by conductr 10mo ago
This list gets long pretty quick once you start it though. I'm sure you could say the same for healthcare & education. In doing so, according to a cursory google search, you just removed profit from ~40% of GDP. That's going t
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by conductr 10mo ago
> I love how this conveniently ignores the equity you acquired in this year and almost certainly the appreciation. I love how I addressed both those things in my comment and you chose to ignore it or just didn't read Appreciation is
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by conductr 10mo ago
There's nothing mutually exclusive, I'm addressing the thing that's being discussed not the entire universe of possible solutions
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by conductr 10mo ago
You just explained why you shouldn’t be here and aren’t contributing positively to the discussion. You’re being a troll.
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by conductr 10mo ago
Most people here are pro capitalism. It has flaws but you’re also being blind to its benefits. If 20 people need homes to live in and can’t afford to build them, suddenly landlords/investors have a place because they built housing inve

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