FauxPseudo
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Some good dip. 1 week ago:
This is the reason I came to the comments
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
It probably didn’t help that I was a 17-year-old that looked like I was in my late twenties.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
I had the job shelving books. I’d show up in a button-up shirt and slacks and I could shove all day with no problem at all. No one would bother me. I’d show up in ripped jeans, a Metallica t-shirt, and 4 years since my last haircut and people would ask me for help every moment of the day. Libraries are weird.
- Comment on I love family camping, staring into the fire. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on shitposting on company time 2 weeks ago:
I believe you have my red floppy.
- Comment on Valid 2 weeks ago:
You are from the internet. You are here to help.
- Comment on business is business 2 weeks ago:
To me, the difference between a person who takes pictures and a photographer is that Ansel Adams might spend a week waiting for exactly the right lighting conditions before taking a single picture of a setting. There’s a whole lot of planning we don’t see.
- Comment on "feminine" 3 weeks ago:
Replace the white closet frame and doors with natural wood. Get rid of that skull. Replace it with a taxidermy black bear. Hang a sword above the closet doors. A really goofy looking one from the mall. Unmake the bed. Throw some Cheetos on the floor.
- Comment on Good stuff 3 weeks ago:
Flock cameras also create crime. The company will say things like they have measures to prevent abuse but they don’t. For handling a abuse after it happens. And abuse is a euphemism for crime like stalking.
- Comment on Shhhh! it's sleeping. 3 weeks ago:
The Amish will be there shortly to raise it.
- Comment on I am the arm and I sound like this 3 weeks ago:
I think the average height was something like 6"2’. Even the short people were tall.
- Comment on I am the arm and I sound like this 3 weeks ago:
My thing was that his clothing being a dead match for the color of Kyra’s uniform. And unless she is standing next to Quark, Nog, early Jake or someone like that she is relatively tiny compared to just about anyone else in the show.
I thought he was regular sized and the other guy was a giant. Just like when Kyra stands next to Worf.
- Comment on I see you 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I am the arm and I sound like this 3 weeks ago:
Why does the guy on the left look like Dollar Tree stunt double for Star Trek DS9s Kira Nerys?
- Comment on Housing prices 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry you happened to your cause.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
I can read. But I prefer good faith conversations and you obviously don’t. I apologize for making Lemmy length comments and not offering footnotes and references explaining everything and having vit publication ready.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
It’s been my experience that saying out loud. The things that everyone says they know keeps everyone realistic and makes it so they can’t live in denial.
If you suggest a solution and the solution has a problem, the problem needs to be stated. Otherwise, people fixate on that solution and ignore the problem and things get worse instead of better.
If you want some solutions then I recommend a few. Corporate ownership of residential units needs to be banned or strongly limited to the number of units they can own . Square footage requirements need to be lowered. People with enough property should be able to build rental units in the back.
Parking requirements need to be reduced in urban areas.
Mass transit needs to become a thing everywhere. I literally live in a city with no public transportation.
I would definitely tax secondary+ homes at a higher rate, but I don’t know how to solve the problem of rich people keeping poor people out other than mandating low-cost housing in those same exact neighborhoods. Which causes other problems like people deciding not to build at all. Which worsens the problem.Some of that was subtext in my previous comments like the square footage thing.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
Now imagine that house burned down. How much would it cost to replace it under current code compliance and construction costs? How much is it insured for? For example, my house is currently valued at about $200,000. I could not rebuild this house for $200,000. I’d be lucky to be able to rebuild it for $260,000.
Anyway, let’s get back to the main point. There’s more than inflation going on here. There are multiple factors, not just one.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
It happens.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
I’m trying to find realistic solutions. And if we don’t red team premortem then we are building to fail.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
It’s important that we use inflation adjusted numbers here. 13,000 from 1965 would be $137,000 now.
You only bought it as a house, but people around you bought as an investment.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
Catch 22. As a politician you gotta please the people with money. The people buying homes taxed 200% have the money. Until we reach Star Trek levels of selfless post scarcity society that’s not going to happen and by that point it won’t be necessary.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
That’s trickier than it sounds. The places where people buy third homes are the same places where NIMBYs can stop development of poor people housing. Even though those rich people need servants and servants need quarters.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
If you think building a city from scratch is expensive you should see what it takes to make an apple pie from scratch. You must first invent the universe.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
Materials require labor. Labor requires inspections. The more material the more everything else. And those materials cost more because they are to much tighter specifications than they were in the 70s. The lumber might be cheap but a fire suppression system in a 4000 square foot house costs a lot more than no suppression system in a 1200 one.
But as you point out it’s not really about materials though. It’s about square footage. You don’t get a bulk discount for buying a 5000 square foot house instead of a 1200. You pay even more. And zoning won’t let you build a 1200 anymore because they tax based on square footage so they jacked up the smallest house size they will approve.
There is no single cause for houses being more expensive. It’s a whole host of them and that’s why prices climbed faster than inflation.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
Housing became an investment so people bought more than one.
Houses are twice the size they used to be. So they cost twice as much for that.
Houses have a lot more regulations and codes they must comply with. Your 1970s wiring is out of code and the new stuff is more expensive. 1970s plumbing is out of code and more expensive. Your 1970s insulation is woefully insufficient and cost more money. Your 1970s house didn’t come with an AC unit. Your 1970s house did not have built-in fire suppression.
We build less houses now than we did in the 1970s.
Any one of these four factors would have caused house prices to move up faster than inflation. All three of them together created a perfect storm.
- Comment on I'm Different 4 weeks ago:
This is why I came to the comments
- Comment on Send that probe deep y'all 4 weeks ago:
Is there an age where Uranus jokes aren’t funny anymore? I’m over 50 and I still find them hilarious.
- Comment on Wheely Tired 4 weeks ago:
I immediately sent this to my wife who has had chronic issues with wanting to be alive her whole life.
