MentalEdge
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- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 8 hours ago:
In my very first reply to you:
If there isn’t an overabundance of food (as you yourself admit, housing is insufficient).
This whole time I’ve been trying to tell you, “no, that is actually a problem” because you started off by minimizing the contribution of corporate interests to the housing problem. I guess I should have made the the implied “as well” more obvious, but it was always there.
You didn’t start off with we need more housing. You started off with “it’s not the companies and they are good actually”.
So no, I wasn’t gonna start off with “yes, and” because what you started with needed actual refuting, first.
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- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 11 hours ago:
Did I at some point say we don’t need more housing?
Protip: switch to “yes, and”.
You won’t get a positive response by continuing with “no, actually”.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 12 hours ago:
Well then, we’re back to some people cutting their costs by doing all the things I said above. You dismissed them all as if reasons why they’re not practical are reasons why they’re impossible.
No. I dismissed them as insufficient to show up in the stats.
All those landlords have the exact same incentives to charge as much as they can get away with, to subdivide properties and to exploit their renters as corporate landlords do.
Duh. But are you really going to claim single property owners competing with every other single property owner, wouldn’t have different results than duopolistic companies carving up sities and throwing their weight around in legislation?
Have you considered that larger companies are also able to act to maintain the low supply?
Real-estate and construction overlap a great deal, and that influence also grows with consolidation.
And thanks for linking to a study that confirms what I’m trying to say? 3-7% of the largest bill most people have is not nothing.
Does that percentage account for wage stagnation?
Everything else is caused by low supply and such.
A few comments ago you were clamining low supply is the only problem.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 13 hours ago:
there is no recent increase in vacancy rates
You’re looking at the wrong stats. When people are forced to spend more on necessities, they don’t cut necessities. They can’t. They’re necessities.
They cut luxuries.
One such relevant stat, would be piracy spiking.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 13 hours ago:
You are bending over backwards to dismiss my points.
Yeah if you literally only 100%, or close to it, of housing in a city, that’s true. But no company does in anywhere I’m aware of.
I’m not even sure what you’re saying here. Did you misunderstand my point that they don’t need to own 100%?
There are cases of massive consolidation but the largest competitor acquires like 17% of housing
That is MASSIVE consolidation! If a huge 10% of homes are unneeded, that means they can set the price for 7% as high as they want!
People can move in with parents
Boomers are selling their homes to these companies, because the payout is ludicrous. They pay so much more than what the home is worth, because the return of renting it back to someone needing a home is literally limitless.
move to a cheaper region unaffected by the attempted market abuse
You know why it’s unaffected? Fewer jobs. The pensioners selling their homes can move out there, sure… But the people who need homes in the area they just sold their old home for millions in? Not so much.
share with more people
Right. Because these companies aren’t chopping big apartments into smaller units so they sell each room individually. Are you suggesting people start sharing studio apartment closets?
some people will not pay the higher rents
Some is not enough. The whole reason this works is that these companies can squeeze people on necessities, because someone always has to buy from them. To fight this, everyone has to have access to a better option, so that these companies have zero customers. Because as long as they can squeeze someone, they can squeeze harder than any luxury industry could ever dream of.
I just don’t think that we have any evidence of the high cost of housing being due to excessive company involvement in housing.
This has literally been studied. It’s not about what you “think”. You are ignoring current economic facts.
We are seeing housing crises across the western world in all sorts of cities and all sorts of distributions of ownership.
No shit. When someone finds a way to make profit, the method gets copied. No to mention that stuff like airBnBs skirt regulation and often literally operate against local law or building rules. My very first point was that companies don’t need to own much to start hiking local prices. Heck, you could be just one wealthy individual who owns two extra houses, and by setting your rents high, contribute to the problem.
There is a thru-line here, but because it’s so pervasive, you’re saying it can’t possibly be it.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 14 hours ago:
For companies to cause problems they have to buy so many homes they can abuse their market share by forcing rents up
Not necessarily. Your option only applies to non-necessities. For a necessity, all you need is to own enough of the industry, that you’re the only option for some people. If there only exists enough housing to just barely house everyone who needs a home, then you could own only 1%, and set the price to whatever you want, because someone will have to live there. Everywhere else is occupied.
which you would see as an increasing vacancy rate
Again, this only applies to non-necessities. If you hike the price of food, people aren’t gonna stop eating.
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New omegamart product line?
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That’s the one.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 day ago:
I also need to work out how to do automatic certificate renewal and if that’s even worth doing
This is what certbot is for. For example, with nginx, you just set up the webserver to be reachable via your domain.
You then install and run certbot, and it will aquire, install and configure, and then auto-renew a certificate. All with just one command.
With Nextcloud specifically I also don’t like the fact that you can’t change the domain after the initial setup
Yes you can?
I’ve done it thrice now.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 1 day ago:
FolderSync pairs nicely if you want some sync features to phone.
On a desktop or laptop I’d just mount it as a drive.
- Comment on [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff 2 days ago:
I mean, it pays off in terms of the plot it sets up.
The world-building is what leaves you begging for more set in it :D
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- Comment on Do I need a NAS ? 2 days ago:
Indeed.
I’m not saying there aren’t NASes that do this. Unfortunately, there absolutely are.
- Comment on Do I need a NAS ? 2 days ago:
No sane NAS should work that way.
Unless you have a giant raid array, where you need all the drives running at the same time on the same system, plugging in a single raid 0 member, for example, via usb to sata adapter, should let access its contents just fine.
Provided you’re on an OS that can read the file system. That can require some extra effort on windows.
- Comment on [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff 2 days ago:
Obligatory mention of !dungeonmeshi@ani.sociam
- Comment on [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff 2 days ago:
I debated mentioning Eureka Seven in my comment…
Just because it’s pretty long and has multiple arcs, each of which have good payoffs.
It’s a good pick tho. It delivers on the level of expectation that it sets up.
- Comment on [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff 2 days ago:
We haven’t seen the second season yet…
But Dungeon Meshi has a fantastic ending. Once the full series is adapated, it will no doubt be an all-time-favorite for many.
Death Parade
Gurren Lagann
KATANAGATARI
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Framework 16?
Definitely something to consider in terms of longevity. User replacable RAM, storage, and battery.
And they’ve now syccesfully done the first mainboard/gpu refresh.
Linyx would not be pre-installed, but it can be purchased without windows.
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I don’t think Trump is familiar with shame. Even as a concept.
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