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- Comment on Not promoting violence or anything. But stupid quest since Iran has an 80 million bounty on Trumps head. If someone would follow thru do they just go to Iran and be like pay up? Why or why not? 1 week ago:
And they will have to file an insurance claim due to the lost sales revenue once he’s gone.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 5 weeks ago:
Crazy, they’re basically saying, ‘we know this is impossible so just do your best, as long as you remit everything you collect then it doesn’t really matter what/how you collect’.
This is very unfair to the small business because inevitably there will be some customers who will be pissed off when the store doesn’t collect properly, and small business won’t even come close to doing it correctly.
Making temporary short term massive changes to taxation is a very dumb idea. Canada must be drinking uncle Sam’s koolaid to be acting this foolish.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 5 weeks ago:
It would cost thousands in labor to set up temporary tax rates based on alcohol content. Most systems have tax rates which apply to product categories, not alcohol content. Liquor store pos systems in the US, at least in my state, typically don’t even store the abv in the price book, which would make this taxation virtually impossible to comply with.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 5 weeks ago:
Someone had their Chomsky-o’s for breakfast this morning.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 5 weeks ago:
Hippie 1: Right now we’re proving we don’t need corporations. We don’t need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.
Hippie 2: Yeah, we’ll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for other people’s safety.
Kyle: You mean like a baker and a cop?
Hippie 1: No no, can’t you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?
Kyle: Yeah, it’s called a town.
Hippie 1: You kids just haven’t been to college yet. But just you wait, this thing is about to get HUGE.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 5 weeks ago:
Rent for single family properties is higher than the mortgage of that same property. In theory. So ideally no single family property should be rented as its purely a parasite relationship. Again, in theory.
The problem with this theory is that it’s wrong across the board.
Take a look at houses on realtor dot com or the like… they show estimated mortgage and also estimated rental value. Single family homes typically rent for far less than a new mortgage on the same property, partly because housing prices are so inflated and partly because as you pointed out, someone who got a mortgage on a property 10 years ago who is renting it out now may be renting it out based on the cost of ownership 10 years ago.
Secondly, your conclusion doesn’t follow even if your premise was correct.
Let’s pretend sfh rental prices were higher than the cost of a new mortgage on the same property. How would that then translate to ‘people who can only afford to rent shouldn’t be allowed the dignity of living in a sfh and instead should have no other option but to live in a shared housing environment… how does that follow? How could you possibly think the answer is an increased limitation on what people can rent?
The real solution is getting rid of corporate ownership of more than say maybe 20 properties at a time.
I would certainly prefer having hundreds of thousands of small time landlords with 5 or 10 properties, as opposed to dozens of billionaire corporation who each own tens of thousands of properties… be they sfh or condos or whatever is irrelevant.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 5 weeks ago:
There are people who do want to rent, and people whoneed to rent, but that should happen in priperly dense apartment building designed specifically for that.
Who are you to say what people should or shouldn’t rent. Should all renters be piled on top of each other in over packed buildings with 600 square feet to themselves? Why can’t I rent a 2000 square foot town home for my family so that they are safe while I save up to buy my own home?
And say I rent a townhome for 10 years, then buy my own townhome, then 10 years later I rent it out to someone else while I buy something bigger? What’s wrong with that.
I think what we all have a problem with is housing affordability and a lack of systematic focus by the government on eliminating poverty.
The issue isn’t some small time landlord with 5 condos, it’s the investment groups with 5000 condos which artificially juice the rents year after year.
It’s insulting to say that all of the poor people who cannot afford to buy a home should have to live in densely packed buildings.
- Comment on don't be a coward 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 1 month ago:
To quote something I made up and say all the time, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.”
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 1 month ago:
This was super funny, this person has a great career ahead of her. Very Tim and Eric style obscure indie comedy, I loved it.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 1 month ago:
Greeting high and playing video games?
- Comment on I hate that that happens 2 months ago:
Because your example sentence uses the word ‘went’ rather than ‘was’, you need a comma because those are two separate I dependent clauses.
You and Dave were together and then Dave leaves you and goes driving by himself… me and Dave, then Dave went.
If you used ‘was’ then those would not be independent clauses and therefore a comma would not be used. It was me and Dave and Dave was driving.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 2 months ago:
I don’t believe that’s accurate.
There are only two things in the list, pig & whistle.
They want more space between pig and &.
They also want more space between & and whistle.
If we were listing three areas where they want additional space we would need at least one comma, and I would argue for the Oxford comma as well, however we are only listing two areas where we want more space and so no comma is needed.
Sure it’s nearly unreadable, but I think it’s grammatically correct.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 2 months ago:
They refer to the same and twice.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 2 months ago:
Hate to be a shill, but were they of the Bic brand or were they shitty knock offs?
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 2 months ago:
Lighters last a super long time and they don’t contain batteries which is the real concern.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 2 months ago:
That depends on who the fuck Vivian Williams is.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
That’s a long and boring response.
The evidence that no one can live past 123 is that no one has ever lived past 123. We have a sample size of billions on that statistic.
Some low quality science journal says that ‘maybe we could live forever, or like, 150 or something’ and I say ‘cool story bro’.
I can imagine that it might be true, but that does not make it possible.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
People like you are why Iemmy is almost as bad as Reddit… talking in circles, saying nothing.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
Please forgive me if I have misunderstood you.
I am not sure what relevance ‘pop-science’ has unless pop science means non science.
I get that you are saying ‘maybe, possibly, not completely ridiculous to think’, etc., however until it has been demonstrated to be a possibility, the idea that a human might live until 150 is just about as preposterous as the articles’ postulation of the potential for physical immortality.
Something which is evidenced to be not possible does not suddenly become ‘possible’ just because one can imagine it.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
That article is bunk clickbait.
Here is an article from a better source saying the opposite.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 3 months ago:
No
- Comment on Ok boomer 3 months ago:
What’s the scam?
- Comment on Channel 5: Tel Aviv Protests (Israel) 3 months ago:
Nice, glad to see they have moved on, will definitely check this out
- Comment on Channel 5: Tel Aviv Protests (Israel) 3 months ago:
Not able to watch right now… is Andrew back or does Channel 5 have a new host?
- Comment on The mark 3 months ago:
If you are a 90s kid you have this freckle on your
armboobs - Comment on I hate people like this 4 months ago:
The worst part of retail/food service is the inescapable feeling of dread when you stare down the endless abyss of being stuck in that job day in and day out, forever, until you die. Only by resigning yourself to that fate does one gain the perspective needed to truly sympathize with the working class.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 4 months ago:
Because something has not yet been proven to be impossible does not make that thing possible.
Speculation alone does not make a thing possible. You cannot claim that something is possible until you have demonstrated that it is indeed possible.
All things that have not been proven to be possible have a default state of being impossible until their possibility can be demonstrated.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 4 months ago:
Gibberish, absolute gibberish.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 4 months ago:
You are talking funny friend… we can NOT recreate the human brain. Maybe someday, but so far it has not been demonstrated to be possible.
You say that we can recreate the human brain because we know the human brain can exist.
The sun can exist, can we recreate the sun?
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 4 months ago:
Just because intelligence exists does not mean it is possible to artificially create general intelligence… we would need some evidence that AGI is possible other than ‘makes sense to me’
