bstix
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- Comment on You know who you are 🫶🏻 1 day ago:
Garden gnomes?
- Comment on Valid point 1 day ago:
Some of us live in places that have free cards.
- Comment on Give the People What They Want 4 days ago:
I want to mutilate the genitalia of elderly people. Is that okay with you?
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 5 days ago:
I think I do. I’ve been managing properties for some 20 years. Mostly commercial.
What I’m saying is that in order to understand why the landlord doesn’t just cash in on 50 years of rent, you first need to understand the difference between the profit/loss and assets/liabilities sections in a financial statement.
The tenants (income) are not paying for the building (asset). They only need to cover the interest (cost) from the loan (liability) in order for the the landlord to make money (profit).
The only time it makes sense to compare the rental income to the value of the asset is for the annual asset evaluation.
If the landlord waves the evaluation and rent around like OP says, it just shows that the landlord doesn’t understand it either and is just throwing numbers into the air to impress people.
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 6 days ago:
I know what they meant.
Renting out properties is not about making tenants pay the same amount as the property is worth over any period of time.
It’s about having someone else cover the cost of borrowing the money while the property increases in value by itself until they decide to cash in.
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 6 days ago:
It’s because your landlord never paid for it. The bank did. You’re paying the interest on his loan.
- Comment on Getting to know each other 6 days ago:
Those pepper sauces will make it a memorable experience for both.
- Comment on Don't have kids 1 week ago:
It’s a little weird to skip the lights and wheels.
Maybe they intended to drive it like this for some reason.
- Comment on Good for him. 1 week ago:
If the universe is infinite and homogeneous then that would infer all finite permutations of energy occur, not once but infinitely many times.
That’s a big if.
Something can be infinite without having any 1:1 repetition of all or any finite parts. Depends on how homogenous it really is and at what scale. If there are infinite permutations within a finite area, then it won’t necessarily repeat ever. There’s currently no proof of whether the universe is discreet or continuous.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re supposed to have a plastic handle for it.
- Comment on Burger King. 1 week ago:
Does the other place call the police snitches or are they snitches for calling the police?
So many questions.
- Comment on As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’ 1 week ago:
That’s the thing. Even if you don’t give your money to rich people, you will still become poor because the rich assholes keep writing more zeros to their imaginary investments so that your actual money becomes worth less
- Comment on It’s just apophenia 1 week ago:
They’re not. It makes sense.
- Comment on Rate my grandma's setup 1 week ago:
Offline backup.
- Comment on Taking a spin around the pond in my boat 1 week ago:
I think the right hand side of the picture has a hill in the foreground. The lake continues behind the hill.
- Comment on That original batch sounds tasty 1 week ago:
Maybe the acrobat pants were dyed with fruit color.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 1 week ago:
ASK ME
APE OUT
SEXUALISM - Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 1 week ago:
That’s how tough guy points work, yes.
Do stupid shit, get tough guy points.
- Comment on Mayonnaise included 2 weeks ago:
It’s an early draft of for the tablets of ten commandments. We know this because it only shows 7.
- Comment on 🤯🤯🤯 2 weeks ago:
Only in English.
- Comment on How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media 2 weeks ago:
Keep in mind that the algorithms will push the most engaging content to you, so you’ll see stuff that pisses people off the most. It’s literally upvoting troll accounts automatically.
Anyway, whenever you encounter an actual account who is posting stupid false narratives, the best way isn’t to start arguing or throw links to true explanations and such.
Instead, simply ask them “why do you believe that stupid shit?” and leave them to either investigate the matter themselves, thereby hopefully teaching them something, or let them back out with the typical non-answer like “do your own research” which itself undermines whatever they just said.
- Comment on Horror story 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, those don’t work well with Outlook. I get an e-mail from Microsoft telling me to login to the web version only to see that someone put a 👍 on my e-mail. It completely defies the purpose.
Microsoft really knows how to keep office workers occupied doing nothing at all.
- Comment on Horror story 2 weeks ago:
Probably missed calls. It’ll keep showing a notification bubble in both activity and calls until you bother clicking the missed call as if that makes any difference or sense to anyone or anything but the notification counter.
- Comment on growing up 2 weeks ago:
But then think of this again - but with drugs.
- Comment on Keep off the sofa 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, his age is showing. They did a rehearsed countdown 3-2-1 for him to sit down with aid from the guy next to him.
Now I’m not going to blame an old guy for needing help to sit down. But I am going to blame his voters for electing an elderly person into a position he can obviously not fulfill. What the hell. This is discraceful.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Survivorship bias. The map only shows those that haven’t disappeared, doh.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 2 weeks ago:
The best system I’ve tried works by an app. You scan the items with your phone as you pick them up and put them in your bag while still in the app store. Pay in the app and then just leave. They can check your bag if they want to, and there’s camera surveillance.
The self-check out systems don’t really do anything better than that anyway. It a waste of time in my opinion and only encourages people to cheat. They still need to do random checks and camera surveillance.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 2 weeks ago:
They also saves us from hearing the privileged “can you open a line more” idiots and playing the game where old people pretend that they never learned how to queue.
If I want human interaction, I will go to a human, not a grocery store.
I’d actually be happy if they can remove the cashier job completely, so nobody has to waste their life ringing up other people 's shit, while getting abused by same people. Hardly anyone takes pride in doing that job anyway.
Despite machines and AI we don’t really see increasing unemployment. People simply do more interesting things.
I’m all for protecting workers, but we don’t do that by keeping them in dead end jobs.
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 3 weeks ago:
Most Windows users don’t know Windows exist.
- Comment on Imagine How embarrassing that would be 3 weeks ago:
You forgot the whole mercenaries thing in the beginning. It was pretty funny when they turned around to attack the hand that didn’t feed them.
