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by tjr225 5y ago
I know a shitload of people living off grid underneath interstate 5 and yet everyone hates them!
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by tjr225 5y ago
I'm trying to find humor at the irony of rich tech bros moving to where poor people live and driving the poor people further away. Also; many have argued cities are more efficient than the alternative: https://mitpress.mit.e
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by tjr225 5y ago
Right, I typically hate them. But in the context of a fully remote job it is the only opportunity I have to spend time with my colleagues in the flesh. It is also the only opportunity I have to spend time with them _outside of my home_.
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by tjr225 5y ago
I had the same feelings working from home full time prior to the pandemic. The all-company meet ups were the best part about the job(other than the pay I guess). I actually took a job back with my prior employer with the hopes I could retur
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by tjr225 5y ago
Exactly; don’t.
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by tjr225 5y ago
I wish I could, I was 5 :P Edit: Heck yeah. Cheers for Jack and Ardour and being awesome. I work for a certain outdoor retailer based in the area that I'm sure you've been to. I am a musician and a cyclist as well!
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by tjr225 5y ago
Check out the salaries on this blog post: https://avc.com/2006/10/search_by_salar/ Seattle isn’t even on the map.
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by tjr225 5y ago
Bicycles are beautiful because of their simplicity. This is inherent and god help us if your vision of the bicycle becomes the norm. That would be like wanting Vim to come bundled with all of the functionality of Pycharm by default. All of
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by tjr225 5y ago
I think public housing should be provided to those that need it and private housing should be available to those that can afford it. Same with food, same with water, same with healthcare, same with education.
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by tjr225 5y ago
> The landlord didn't assume the risk that they couldn't remove the resident AND the resident wouldn't have to pay. That’s not how risk works. > You also probably don't know who most landlords are, but in way of ex
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by tjr225 5y ago
I think renting is great. I’ve done it many a time. I’ve also been screwed over once or twice. That’s not really the issue. The people who are landlords agree to the risk of owning a property and renting it out to someone. Why should I feel
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by tjr225 5y ago
They(the landlord) has agreed to take on a risk to profit on someone else’s need. I’m not going to _ever_ feel bad if that risk played out unfavorably for them. That’s insane.
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by tjr225 5y ago
I happily pay to buy directly from local sources. Also; people don’t need meat, they do need housing. You’re missing the point of what I am saying entirely though. If you treat housing as an investment and the investment goes sideways for w
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by tjr225 5y ago
This is one of the strangest things I have ever heard anyone say. Landlords buy something, and then charge someone else more than it is worth to use it- because it is necessary. They are essentially home scalpers. Don’t feel bad for them.
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by tjr225 5y ago
Kei class cars are not usually legal for highway use in the USA.
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by tjr225 5y ago
> You shouldn’t drive more than the range of a modern high capacity electric car in one go anyway; it’s simply unsafe. UHhhhhhh what? Have you never done a 10 hour drive split up with your spouse before? Just FYI, its not particularly un
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by tjr225 5y ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/san-francisco-ca...
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by tjr225 5y ago
…and? Why did you create an account 27 minutes ago to post this? Sincerely curious.
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by tjr225 5y ago
I dunno, to be honest. I thought the original post I replied to was setting a low bar- that’s why I replied. There is a ton of free, nearly free, and cheap shit out there that works just fine. It’s not that difficult to use it. I’m not behi
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by tjr225 5y ago
I’m not poor. I make 120-150k a year depending on the year and my wife works, too. Just living below my means for a variety of reasons; anyone can do it. That is the point of my post. It’s really not that hard to consume less if it is impor
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by tjr225 5y ago
> How old is your phone? A few years old. I broke my previous one on accident. > Your computer? I got it for free from a coworker and I really don't know how old it is. I think it is from 2016 or so. > Your car? 1991. > Hav
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by tjr225 5y ago
40 million people live in California. That’s more than any other state by about 10 million. That’s also nearly almost a sixth of our entire country. Everyone everywhere in this country feels like it is getting inundated by Californians. Som
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by tjr225 5y ago
> That's 350k people who can work remotely now. Did you even read the article?
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by tjr225 5y ago
All people deserve to be housed.
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by tjr225 5y ago
I had a similar commute from Olympia to Seattle for about 6 months. Absolutely soul crushing. The amount of people on their phones is mind boggling. My solution was to figure out how to afford to live in the city. I am privileged in that se
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by tjr225 5y ago
I don’t like their discovery, personally. I know I don’t represent the average shopper- but I generally know what I want before I buy it online or I am using a specialty retailer for discovery.
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by tjr225 5y ago
I don’t know when you last used PayPal but it is an incredibly convenient way to pay on vendor websites. I use it 75% of the time I do online shopping. I would almost always prefer to click “pay with PayPal” than start some new account or f
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by tjr225 5y ago
I don’t think we’re in the minority. The HN crowd that is pro WFH has been extremely vocal since even before the pandemic. For what it’s worth I was remote starting a couple years before the pandemic. I can’t wait to go back in at least a c
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by tjr225 5y ago
There is a massive difference between the absurdist reduction you are proposing and what I am saying could be argued: Everyone uses the internet.
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by tjr225 5y ago
I don't really know how I'm going to approach this once my child is old enough to use devices but I think one might be able to argue that it makes sense for them to learn how to interact with the world as it exists, rather than a

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