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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home sales are down. So why are prices at an all-time high?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Make a new law that a corporation cannot own single family homes and individuals cannot own more than two single family homes, condos, or cabins and the housing issue is solved. People can still have a vacation home, or a single rental property, a few for a married couple, but they don’t get to own 50 homes anymore unless they want to run an apartment complex. I do think there is societal value in rentable single family homes, but it’s gone too far.

  Give them one year to divest, and start charging a tax if they don’t that starts at 25% of the homes assessed value, and raises 25% every year thereafter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please help⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can probably still run doom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Ford does a good job of offering the features and tech, but not making them required. Even their EVs have settings that can mimic a gas driving experience. Be a Luddite trust what you trust. But don’t pigeon hole your acceptable years of manufacture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s popular because it has an insanely low barrier to entry, so that’s what gets taught in schools and boot camps. Then that’s all Jr devs know entering the work force. Companies don’t invest in mentoring juniors and cultivating talent anymore, so as the seniors get poached, retire, or move into later stages of their career, JS is the only skill left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This California community's water will be shut off if it doesn't approve a stunning 300% rate hike by Monday⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  originally the developers subsidized the water bills to entice buyers

  There’s the bullshit right there. It was always stupid expensive to get water there, but the developers made it seem more reasonable and we can be pretty sure buried that detail deep in contracts. Shady sales tactic to obfuscate the eventual costs in order to offload assets that shouldn’t have been built in the first place.

  Sure “buyer beware” and all, but I have more rage for the builder than the people that got duped and are now stretched beyond their budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The powers that be have no fear of ignoring protestors any more. Or education presents civil rights protests as peaceful and effective, that all we need to do is raise awareness and show solidarity and oppressors will relent. Education speaks of the black panthers, but doesn’t go into depth on how they were the armed wing of the movement.

  So now today we’re protesting because we don’t like what’s happening, but what is the consequence to the power hungry? If the protests get anything approaching non peaceful, or even if they just want to, those in charge can escalate to military actions.

  We also don’t have a clearly defined win condition. What is going to make things better? When do we stop? Is the goal just to raise awareness to get people to vote for a change in 1-4 years? Or are we looking for something more immediate?

  Finally how far are we willing to go? If I’m not willing to die for it, or to risk my current comfortable life style, can I ever really push hard enough against current conditions? They’re willing to kill to keep their power, am I willing to kill to pry it from them?

  They don’t fear us because they know we have so much more to lose than they do. We are not yet playing a game with equal stakes.

  I don’t have a solution to this, so I’ll at least keep doing the peaceful thing, because it’s better than doing nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SRP, but they’re pulling the same shit, protecting outdated business models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that person lives where I do, the local power company has stupidly high rates for doing that. The only real way to save is to go completely off grid. There are two plans, one pays you almost nothing for the excess solar produced, the other charges you “high demand” rates if you exceed some arbitrary usage number at your peak even if you produced all the power yourself. It’s so freaking confusing for no reason other than to punish you for trying to offset your power bill with solar energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Press F to pay respects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for welcoming us Lemm.ee refugees.