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@faith_vtch @RandomizedToxin I can't sleep with fan noise at night. Now North American (and Scandinavian) homes, being made of wood, have natural cracks that let air circulate. It's not like French or German homes that are made of thick concrete and are pretty much airtight, requiring lüften.

@RandomizedToxin I have my furnace fans on 24/7 even if AC and heat is off. I vacuum the intake vents weekly and I feel the air circulation is not enough at all.

I grew up with a German parent, so imagine my surprise when I moved out and realized people do not open their windows. My roommates were SHOCKED when I would air the house out in the morning 😭 what do u mean youve never heard of air being stale

@ucryptofrnd @financedystop Easy. You skip one of ten vacations and just Netflix and chill for a no-spend month to compensate for inflation.

@financedystop What about inflation and changing interest rates?

Most people with a $10M+ nest egg don’t actually spend it. They live off the dividends and interest while leaving the principal untouched

@cha0s10g1c @SpaceWalkerReal And if we did resign ourselves to live in tents or under bridges, the Boomers would be the first to call bylaw to get us forcibly removed. It's like how dare we are allowed to exist without them getting a cut.

@SpaceWalkerReal Young people are entitled wanting to live in houses. Past generations used to live in tents or under bridges, and they never complained about it 😆

The tiny ass house I live in with my family is almost a MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS. The cost of a house has vastly outpaced our pay cheques, I don't know how old people are this out of touch.

@davidOcho243 Mais la taxe est incluse et pas besoin de laisser de tip en Europe! Sûr que c'est platte avec l'Euro à 1,59$, mais si la hausse du pétrole se poursuit ça pourrait revenir à 1,30$ comme en 2022 (effectivement la parité quand on regarde le prix au resto).

Le dollars canadien vaut tellement rien en Europe

@eeeeeeeeblzo @hispanicnomad Yes, I know Madrid where prices are relatively stable. I was talking about Buenos Aires where Argentina has suffered through severe inflation.

@FGLev @hispanicnomad yes, a menu in Madrid is $17 and it includes a first, second dish, dessert, coffee and a cup of wine + water

Now that I'm visiting Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 again I keep having the same thought This is Madrid 🇪🇸 on the other side of the world ✅ Same wide boulevards ✅ Same complete refusal to eat before 9pm ✅ Same culture of sitting at a table for three hours because leaving would be rude to the conversation ✅ The architecture in Recoleta could be dropped into Salamanca and nobody would notice for a week Both genuinely, no-asterisk world class But they got there differently and that difference you feel the moment you land - Madrid is polished and reliable. The metro runs, the streets are clean, the institutions work roughly as advertised. This is a city that knows exactly what it is, with fantastic night life, one of the best food scenes in the world, safe and walkable - Buenos Aires has been through nine debt defaults and inflation that would make any Spaniard's eyes water. And the terraces are still full at midnight, the food is world class, and the cultural scene rivals any European capital. This is a city that has survived things that should have broken it, and came out the other side with more personality I've spent real time in both and I love them equally Which one is your favorite?

@annafoat @CT9397 @washingtonpost So what CAN they do then (if not chemical or physical restraint)? Let them run amok like in the New York subway?

@CT9397 @washingtonpost The choice IS NOT chemical vs physical restraint. We wouldn’t ever do this to dogs. This is to reduce staffing. At night. To create a quiet ward. Been here. Have the shirt. Also, my experience was they did BOTH to my incontinent MIL who couldn’t walk.

U.S. nursing homes are fabricating schizophrenia diagnoses to hide their use of dangerous antipsychotic drugs to subdue dementia patients, a government watchdog report found. The drugs increase risk of falls, strokes and death. wapo.st/4tfSUsr

@Trump_Fact_News Finalement elle était parfaitement autonome d'après es images et semble avoir été placée prématurément en maison de "retraite". Laissez les places à ceux qui en ont réellement besoin (mobilité réduite, démence/incontinence).

🚨🇺🇸DERNIÈRE MINUTE: Une femme de 92 ans a escaladé une grille de 2 m pour s’échapper d’une maison de retraite. (F)

@amberwb @leighbeadon They gotta think of the fact that they may lose their ability to drive soon, so middle of nowhere outside the radius of grocery delivery services and having to cough up $183 each way for a taxi to their medical appointment will far outweigh the savings. Hence smart ones stay put.

@FGLev @leighbeadon They’re also not bound by staying in commuting distance of their jobs or kids’ school districts, which makes shopping around much easier. You can just move out to the middle-of-nowhere desert retirement community where everything is within walking/golf-carting distance.

If you trap a boomer in a one-on-one argument for an entire afternoon you can eventually get them to acknowledge how crazy the cost of housing is now. However the effects only last for ~12 hours and the next morning they will text you "why don't you just find a cheap apartment?"

@tvanouvelles Voilà ce qui arrive quand on donne l'indépendance aux colonies qui deviennent des nouvelles républiques de bananes. Les territoires Français, Britanniques, Néerlandais, ou Américains sont beaucoup plus sécuritaires.

Vols annulés, valises saccagées, matériel volé, homme battu: semaine de rêve à Punta Cana qui tourne au cauchemar pour ces Québécois tvanouvelles.ca/2026/03/19/vol…

@DudeWhoInvests Looks like a whole bunch of people need to convert their gold to cash at the same time to make their mortgage or car payment (denominated in dollars) to avoid losing it all. "Cash is trash" until "I need it by Friday or I lose the house."

Makes LITERALLY ZERO sense. GOLD the hedge for geopolitical instability is crashing in the face of geopolitical instability. Can’t make this up.

@WallStreetApes Is there no chain with $8.99 national pricing (in-app carryout promo)?

Las Vegas is an absolute scam American shows what it costs to order a pizza at the MGM Grand Just a basic cheese pizza is over $47 dollars and the pieces go up from there This is theft

@ylli95 On peut s'acheter une bouteille de vin au complet au supermarché en Italie au même prix qu'une bouteille d'eau au resto. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi pas plus de gens n'achètent leur bouffe pour emporter pour la consommer dans le parc - la vraie dolce vita!

Le cote pictural, prétendu authentique de ne manger que des tomates coeur de boeuf, sur une assiette en plastique, profiter de l’air marin en bord de plage sur-romantisé alors que l’experience touristique moyenne en italie c’est payer tes couverts et ta bouteille d’eau au restau

Le branding touristique autour de l’Italie sur cet esprit de simplicité « dolce far niente » c’est en réalité le train de vie de la bourgeoisie héritière, rentière et immobilière parasite italienne

@JonFraserTF @CTVNews The out-of-pocket amount she's on the hook for in Canada is probably still lower than just the co-pay amount she'd have to cough up WITH insurance in US.

Why is this a news story @CTVNews? The woman didn't bother to get travel insurance before coming to Canada, so of course she is going to have to pay to use our healthcare system. ctvnews.ca/toronto/consum…

@jm_mcgrath What "retreat" are you talking about? The growth has stopped. Doesn't mean the millions who flooded in over the past decade have all gone home. It's like a reduction in the inflation rate. Prices haven't dropped. Just stopped increasing as fast. People want deflation.

Misanthropes have insisted for years that there's no housing shortage, just too-rapid population growth, so now we've got literally unprecedented demographic retreat and houses still cost $1M for a rotting bungalow but on the other hand the misanthropes still aren't happy, so,

@INVESTMENTSHULK That scene after Nixon puts him up at the Watergate hotel and Forest ends up being the one who calls authorities after witnessing the break-in... 🤣 "Deys must be looking for a fuse box or something..."

FOREST GUMP MAKES NO SENSE TO KIDS TODAY BECAUSE THEY HAVE ZERO CONCEPTION OF TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY.

@ariadotwav @notpaulfrancis Ottawa built before cars?? Downtown is a grid like any other car-centric city, and head out to St. Laurent Blvd and it looks just like this picture. And because they cheaped out with outdoor LRT that gets stuck in snow, cars will remain essential for a century. 🥶

@notpaulfrancis ottawa and quebec are exempt from this criticism since they were built before cars. its more about montreal, toronto, edmonton and their suburbs

I had a conversation with my parents the other day in the car about how unwalkable Canada is. My parents straight up said "It's like this in Europe too, we're so lucky to have a beautiful country" and the roads looked like this

@shagbark_hick If you've ever lived in an apartment with bad soundproofing, even a trailer park will seem like a luxury.

How is owning a home different than living in a trailer park? Trailer park lot rent around here ranges from $250/mo to $450/mo. Property taxes around here range from $175 - $450+/mo. If you don’t pay the rent at the trailer park, they evict you and keep your trailer. If you don’t pay the property tax, they evict you and auction your house. If you violate trailer park rules, you may be fined or even evicted. If you violate local zoning laws or building codes, you may be fined or even evicted. Both have equity that can be sold off later, both (at least in theory) receive services for the rent they pay, both are subject to the whims of administrators who are generally removed from the consequences of their decisions. So which person is better off? I’d halfway have to think the trailer park fellow is doing better because at least he can tow his house away and bring it with him when the rent goes crazy. The homeowner is a sitting duck when it comes to bad government — he’s completely at the mercy of the local town board, tax collector, zoning board, and codes inspectors. But he pays “lot rent” all the same… At this point, I’m starting to wonder if trailer parks ain’t so bad after all…

@Leo_Traydes If we're still in the working/accumulation phase in life that's fine. I actually DON'T want stocks to increase too fast because then the shares/units I buy next year will be overpriced. 20-25 years from now is when the boom needs to be. 🤑

This is why people say index fund investing is boring In 6 months $VOO has barely moved