joonazan

@joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it is different elsewhere but according to my calculations, renting property is not very profitable. Investing in stocks is better if you only want to make money and do not care about the apartment otherwise.

  You can’t easily get your money out of the property and if loan rates go up, you pay more and the property value goes down.

  The real parasite is the bank who takes a cut but has little risk as the money it lends out is created from thin air.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Startups on the other hand have people pursuing ideas that have been proven to not work. The better starups mostly just sell old innovations that do work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get the door! BREACH BREACH BREACH⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it is relatively easy to understand conflicts happening near you. People take very strong stances on faraway conflicts even though it is hard to know what is actually going on, especially in issues that there is a lot of propaganda or polarized opinions about. You’d have to do a few days’ research to have a chance to understand some complex faraway problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe this is better for everyone⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is funny to make this an ethics discussion when there is plenty of evidence that bacon and sausage cause digestive tract cancers. Meat is also pretty expensive unless heavily subsidized.

  I think the main focus should be on educating people that a healthy diet contains a very small amount of meat even though the meat industry has managed to make people think it should be in every meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan anon complains about Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about minimizing the annoyance for the majority of users who will misspell some popular thing.

  Also, I believe that showing actually interesting content is bad for the businesses because it might make the user stop to think and pursue something meaningful instead of continuing to use the product.