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I can see the entire covid bubble blowing off just as fast as it blew up. Not a lot of people bought during covid but they will probably be screwed. For everyone else they just made less money than they would have liked to. On a long enough
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Treasury bonds pay 4.5% right now, so you would at least need to make 6% on your housing investment. There aren’t a lot of properties that you can buy that would yield 6% (of purchase price) rent a year.
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Don’t forget tax liability. By living in a house you own you get to keep the money you would have paid for rent and you get to avoid paying for that rent in post tax money. It’s kind of a complicated thing to wrap your mind around but ownin
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Yeah that can be an issue since you basically only have 2-3 years left to have kids if you want them and are a woman. Also 90k ain’t what it used to be. It’s probably equivalent to 60k 3-4 years ago.
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They won’t be Able to make it to a career in science. Since you need a PHD or at least a masters to do it you need to go through some top tier universities and invest some serious $$ into it. Science is for love is only a marginally better
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Absolutely if you do just slightly better you will look like a rock start. If you are surrounded by rock stars you will just be another band member.
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I mean what is he going to say? That they are over run by racist, quanon and trolls? I’m assuming he still wants to keep getting paid
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Man home priced are going to get hit double hard if rents go down the rent/own Math will really go against ownership. But also in the current environment I don’t see building new units to be possible
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Why would you want to get kids into science? It don’t pay for shit and career/life prospects are grim. Grind out a phd for 80k starting salary? Hard pass
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I mean Uber and air b&b are already that. This just adds a second middle man
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They aren’t? I Thought it was pretty well established that they randomly turn on and send data to a 3rd world transcription service.
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How could that be everyone is using 14 character passwords that change every 90. Totally bulletproof security…
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4y ago
lol this is a fantastic summary
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4y ago
The people that can fix it are busy auditing twitter
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4y ago
Can you actually buy a profitable bitcoin rig at 20k a coin?
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4y ago
lol I love me a good dumpster fire. Gather round folks is warm and fun to watch, just don’t hang out down wind
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4y ago
Yeah but that could be part of be normal. Moderation team
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4y ago
Yeah but how does that need a separated team? Nobody wants to advertise Coca-Cola next to pictures of human right abuse anyway
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Twitter does not need a human rights team. Just saying it’s not a branch of the UN and it’s not trying to project soft power on Americans enemies
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4y ago
Only 30%. No way like 90%
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Agreed , the experts showed us that a minor lifestyle change can significantly reduce covid transmission. Instead we as a country did all the wrong things and blamed experts when government officials failed by instituting random non evidenc
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There were still some newspapers left in 2006. By 2022 they are all basically dead. Also standards of journalism integrity were bad then but they are abysmal now. Very few journalists actually investigate stories, most just re print press r
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I don’t think that’s true. Twitter is/was the only remaining news medium where experts had a voice. During the pandemic doctors and infectious diseases experts were using it to call or government blow hards. Now that’s going to die as
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It’s 5k for a family for 3-4 days if you stay at a resort
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True you don’t want to advertise on anti China stuff (even if true)
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I mean remember when the wuhan lab thing was a total conspiracy theory. Or when masks were supposedly (not airborne) not needed and you just had to wash your hands more. All sorts of fringe stuff sometimes turns out to be true. But you k
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People stealing car batteries at 7-12k a pop
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It’s not murder if it’s legal. Just like killing in war isn’t murder. The guy stealing your catalytic converters defiantly deserves it more than the random dude in Iraq.
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Nobody wants windows 11. Everyone will wait till 12
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4y ago
Slave collars for everyone
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