Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?
This is the biggest issue right here. Houses weren’t always investments and making them investments was a terrible idea that’s now difficult to fix.
Real estate has become a huge part of stock market and GDP figures. People’s retirement funds have become other people’s mortgage and rent payments. Affordable houses for some would mean economic decline for others, and no political party wants to create economic decline.
Former President Donald Trump’s supporters say they hold him as a source of true information over their family, friends, and religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll out on Sunday.
They’re banning plastic straws. Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? Yeah the government man went down to the factory where they’re made and told them to stop. He said “that’s the last straw”.
Funny but English as a Lingua Franca is a thing. English has become a widely understood international language so its not just used to talk to native English speakers but also as a common language between non-native speakers.
I just got a CO2 meter and checked the levels in my house and went down a rabbit hole trying to address the issue. Apparently it would take 249 areca palms to offset the carbon RESPIRATION of one adult....
As others have pointed out, individuals are not the problem nor are they the solution. How we produce energy and manufacture goods are the issue. The corporations producing energy and manufacturing goods don’t want to change to sustainable alternatives because it will cost them money. So they’ve invented the idea of a carbon footprint to make it seem like it’s your desire for electricity that is the problem and not how they generate it.
A member of the Proud Boys has disappeared ahead of his sentencing on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to an arrest warrant unsealed on Friday....
The NWT government and city of Yellowknife are describing in tweets, Instagram messages etc. how to search key evacuation information on CPAC and CBC. The broadcast carriers have a duty to carry emergency information, but Meta and X are blocking links....
Can the Canadian government please just have an official platform for sharing this kind of information? Why are evacuation notices going on Facebook???
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
There’s a neat phenomenon where people born before a life changing technology will never see it as being life changing.
Anyone who grew up before the internet only sees it a some place to chat with friends and not the de facto way international business is now conducted. Anyone who grew up before planes only see them as some way to get to a holiday destination quicker and not as the way a huge amount of cargo shipping is done today.
To these people, going back in time seems simple. They could certainly live without the internet or planes or any other new fangled devices! They might, but society wouldn’t be able to. I can see AI being the new thing that changes society that we all think of as being some silly little toy.
A woman who mailed then-President Trump a threatening letter that contained ricin weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced to 262 months in prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced.
Mason City Iowa's school district is scrambling to ensure its library collection is ideologically pure enough for the state's new content restrictions ahead of the new school year and has turned to AI for help..
The government is encouraging Canadians to switch to EVs and heat pumps to fight climate change. But many CBC News readers have asked: won’t electrifying everything break the grid and drive up energy costs? Here’s what electricity operators and those researching the transition say.
I always wonder what the point of these articles are. If we’re going through the effort of electrifying hundreds of thousands of homes we’re obviously going to upgrade our power grids as well. A switch to renewable energy is going to require almost all of our infrastructure to be replaced.
That comes at a huge cost but the alternative is societal collapse once non-renewable energy runs out. Everyone agrees the switch will need to happen eventually, but lots of people seem to want to pass that responsibility on to the next generation. How long can we do that for?
Last week, a person with the Twitter handle @arizonasunblock from Tampa, Florida, noticed that Bradley, who has been on the high court since 2015, appeared to make major changes to her Wikipedia biography earlier this year.
One time in school the teacher actually told us to go on Wikipedia to look something up for a report. I edited the page to change the information to something incorrect. I of course put the correct info on my report. I taught everyone a lesson that day.
As children across the U.S. head back to classes and practices for fall sports, four more states are expecting their K-12 schools to keep transgender girls off their girls teams....
Are there professional high school teams I don’t know about? Or are these laws specifically to keep kids from having fun playing sports with zero stakes?
the millions of girls who would be impacted by the decision.
I honestly don’t think there are that many trans people. Most of these states likely don’t even have a single trans highschool student in the entire state. Trans people are a minority of a minority. I feel like it should almost be a case by case basis.
Yes economics is the study of how people determine what is valuable and how valuable things are divided. People are complex and irrational so it’s difficult to come up with a simple explanation of economic trends.
I’m struggling to find the charts but yes, frequency of illnesses caused by bacteria and viruses is high in children and seniors and low in adults (unless the adult is often around a child or senior). It’s because the immune system is strongest in adults and weakest in the very young and very old.
If you don’t hang around kids or seniors, you’ll rarely ever get sick.
The wedding photographer we used still uses our shots in promotional materials. I’m flattered! But the marriage ended just months after those pictures were taken because I found out she was having an affair.
Yes, as far as I’m aware that’s pretty standard practice. We signed a contract essentially saying the photographer owned all rights to the photos and could use them however they wanted forever. We were simply going to be given a copy which we couldn’t use for anything other than personal reasons.
Yes. The terms used by political parties and in common discourse rarely match their actual definitions.
Progressive means the person is open to changing rules.
Conservative means the person isn’t open to changing rules.
Liberal means the person’s main concern is providing rights/liberties to everyone.
Reactionary is rarely used but should be. It means someone who wants to go backwards because they believe recent changes have caused a bad outcome. I’d say most people calling themselves conservative today are actually reactionary. They don’t want status quo, they believe things were better back in the day and want rules to go back to that time.
What is the best community where people just want to see the world burn and collapse? For people who don’t believe in “progress” and “good” and “evil”?
A lack of cultural nostalgia attached to the toy and wariness of the film's feminist messaging may have kept the Korean audience away from the Hollywood mega-hit: "There is no real fan base for 'Barbie' in Korea.”
There is a huge debate in South Korea over feminism. I’m not Korean, but I’ve read a lot that Korean men do get special treatment from the government, colleges, and workplaces, but mostly for their mandatory military service. The argument seems to be that if women want the same treatment, they’re free to sign up for military service.
Check yourself Jay (lemmy.world)
Cowboy takes down turd with gun (files.catbox.moe)
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The legend (lemmy.world)
Why is this not checkmate? (lemmy.world)
Do you think we will ever have affordable housing again in our lifetime?
Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?
Trump Voters Trust Ex-President More Than Their Family and Friends: Poll (www.newsweek.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s supporters say they hold him as a source of true information over their family, friends, and religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll out on Sunday.
Starfield's Start Screen Criticism Gets a Response (www.gamescensor.com)
Bethesda's Head of Publishing, Pete Hines, stepped up to address the controversy with a hearty dose of industry perspective. He claimed Starfield's s
Trump does a Seinfeld (The Paper Straw Routine) (www.youtube.com)
Do they also know C++ or Python? (lemmus.org)
Can someonr explain thr math of how someone is supposed to be able to be even close to net zero carbon footprint?
I just got a CO2 meter and checked the levels in my house and went down a rabbit hole trying to address the issue. Apparently it would take 249 areca palms to offset the carbon RESPIRATION of one adult....
Fill in the blank: I cannot complete the task(s) of __________ without listening to music.
For me, it’s sorting through clean laundry. It takes forever so music keeps me focused.
Canada game plans for U.S. "authoritarian shift"
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Proud Boy disappears ahead of sentencing in Capitol riot case (thehill.com)
A member of the Proud Boys has disappeared ahead of his sentencing on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to an arrest warrant unsealed on Friday....
domination rule (media.discordapp.net)
Do media aggregators have a duty to provide links to public news sources in emergencies? (www.cbc.ca)
The NWT government and city of Yellowknife are describing in tweets, Instagram messages etc. how to search key evacuation information on CPAC and CBC. The broadcast carriers have a duty to carry emergency information, but Meta and X are blocking links....
Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? (dmv.pub)
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
Woman sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for trying to mail Trump ricin (www.axios.com)
A woman who mailed then-President Trump a threatening letter that contained ricin weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced to 262 months in prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced.
Cats rule (i.imgur.com)
I fall for this every time like Lucille falls for Gene Parmesan (i.imgur.com)
An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Mason City Iowa's school district is scrambling to ensure its library collection is ideologically pure enough for the state's new content restrictions ahead of the new school year and has turned to AI for help..
Will electrifying cars and home heating break Canada's grid? (www.cbc.ca)
The government is encouraging Canadians to switch to EVs and heat pumps to fight climate change. But many CBC News readers have asked: won’t electrifying everything break the grid and drive up energy costs? Here’s what electricity operators and those researching the transition say.
50% of Americans Have Tried Cannabis, highest in a quarter century (news.gallup.com)
Is saying "Don't need to know hebrew to know the Holocaust was bad" antisemetic?
A tankie told me that, and Im still trying to figure how on earth it is....
(Wisconsin) Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has been quietly editing her own Wikipedia page (www.jsonline.com)
Last week, a person with the Twitter handle @arizonasunblock from Tampa, Florida, noticed that Bradley, who has been on the high court since 2015, appeared to make major changes to her Wikipedia biography earlier this year.
german rule (media.discordapp.net)
North Korea punishes women for wearing shorts, declaring them ‘capitalist fashion’ (www.rfa.org)
Face Swaps to haunt your dreams (lemmy.world)
R rated movie (exploding-heads.com)
Don't be a bigot let me in the chicken coop. (exploding-heads.com)
More states expect schools to keep trans girls off girls teams as K-12 classes resume (apnews.com)
As children across the U.S. head back to classes and practices for fall sports, four more states are expecting their K-12 schools to keep transgender girls off their girls teams....
Finish her (infosec.pub)
Why *is* everything going to shit?
Was just trying to explain to someone why everything is going to shit, specifically companies, and realized, I don’t fully get it either....
They're not worth it! (lemmy.world)
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The Chad English Gammon: (lemmy.world)
Wedding photographers, what was the sign that 'this' marriage is going to fail?
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Can someone who just wants to keep the rights gained over the last decades really be called progressive? And is it really conservative if someone wants to radically change society?
Do the terms “progressive” and “conservative” still make any sense?...
What is the best community for immoralists/nihilists/accelerationists etc.
What is the best community where people just want to see the world burn and collapse? For people who don’t believe in “progress” and “good” and “evil”?
Imposterule (lemmy.world)
Cya
If you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share?
Whomever named lisp was extremely cruel because those who have it can't pronounce it.
Whomever named this was extremely cruel because those who have it can’t pronounce it.
Good morning. (lemmy.world)
Why Did ‘Barbie’ Bomb in South Korea? (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
A lack of cultural nostalgia attached to the toy and wariness of the film's feminist messaging may have kept the Korean audience away from the Hollywood mega-hit: "There is no real fan base for 'Barbie' in Korea.”