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within Minneapolis city limits Se unió Ekim 2021
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@RnDTaxGuy @lst156 Was the house on fire or flooded when you bought it?
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@lst156 Homeownership means random $5k repairs every few months. $10k is not a lot for a property that has been lived in by a tenant who probably doesn’t even know when something isn’t working like it should.
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If a single apartment needs $10,000 in work, a landlord has been neglecting that property for a very, very long time
Carl@HistoryBoomer
If it costs $10,000 to fix an apartment's problems, but the rent is $1000, and $900 of that covers costs and taxes, that only leaves $100 a month to cover the $10,000. It'll take 100 months, or 8 years. And that's assuming no new expenses pop up. You want landlords to go broke.
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@barbarismcrit @Adriana19Flower "everything is looking great"?! She's not bragging here, she's expressing her fear of financial insecurity
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Imagine you're married, you have a decent family. Then your wife decides she doesn't want to be with you.Then she posts videos about how she's newly single, everything is looking great, and she’s taking half of your things.
Do women not realize just how enraging this is to men?
Pop Feed@wildfreakouts
Man ends wife’s life after she posted this video
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@poe_collector I mean, sexual excitement stimulates the whole pelvic area including the urethra, so it sometimes makes you aware that you do need to pee
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we’re taking a piss so we’re not sloshing around during sex and sometimes we’re even washing our pussy lips in the sink.. to keep things fresh. extremely hilarious virgin guess though
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this is the craziest fanfiction about sex that I’ve ever read
randomrealist@Onzrz_
She’s either trying to flush out the last guy’s load or quickly texting her man to cover her tracks while she’s “busy”. Either way, the vibe is off and you’re setting yourself up. Your peace and self-respect are worth way more than risking it for one nut. If she was really locked in and ready, she wouldn’t need that detour. Abort mission immediately kings, stay safe out here 💯
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@nicholaswu12 WTF. Their project 2029 should be about prosecuting the crimes from this admin, bringing back the economy, restoring freedoms, getting rid of surveillance state shit, restoring the White House, fixing healthcare, taxing billionaires, restoring order...
Not this garbage.
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@Chinchillazllla Yes, this is awful. FB effectively bans open discussion of some important social topics. And it is ironic that fentanyl has"solved" the H problem by being cheaper and deadlier, just as H "solved" the M problem long ago. Every new opioid turns out to be worse than the older ones
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The appeals were clearly also AI and were denied. it's not like I didn't ever say stuff I could get banned for there, but "promoting drug use" is specifically not something I was ever doing, lol.
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I had got a couple warnings for mentioning drugs in normal contexts (like, someone asked why you don't hear about a specific older drug anymore and I said I thought fentanyl was just cheaper. boom, warned). then I typed the word cocaine and got instantly permabanned by an AI mod.
i bless the rains down in castamere@Chinchillazllla
I got permabanned from Facebook because Mark Zuckerberg hates fun, but it seems like Train Dog is doing numbers over there too.
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@SundayTan2419 The data (admittedly deficient) on cannabis smoking doesn't indicate that it's anywhere near as harmful as cigarette smoke. Nonetheless, vaping is the clear answer to this problem
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I have a serious question. For context I’m sober and haven’t smoked weed in 28 years. If you live in a state like California where weed is legal, why would you smoke and not take edibles. With edibles, you know the dose, the strain, the high, etc. So why are you still polluting your lungs and the environment.
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For the millionth time there is no “fracture” over Israel and Iran among Democrats. Among Dem voters support for economic and military aid to Israel is at 20% (74% oppose) and support for war on Iran is 6%. The only fracture is between Dem voters and AIPAC-funded party leadership
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Rather backwards. Trump won twice because the Democrats moved to the right and campaigned as the more pro-war party. Of course Trump's claims of being anti-war were lies but Democrats should never have run such pro-war and pro-genocide candidates.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I get this as a troll, but "Trump won twice because the establishment got too left-wing so we should get even more left-wing" does not make any logical sense and I'm constantly confused if the people saying it actually mean it or are *just* doing the troll.
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@Smith_WessonInc Carry permits should be free, but you should have to pass a firearms competency exam to get one. You could prepare for the test by taking a safety course, which should also be free.
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what's your most unpopular firearms opinion?
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This is unfair. Some of us old progressives also hate young moderate Democrats.
Drew Savicki@DrewSav
There's this weird hatred young progressives have for young moderate Democrats.
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WHY HYPERFOCUS ON GAZA?
Heres why: There's immense suffering and injustice around the world. All of it matters. But when children are being deliberately mass murdered, NOTHING is more important. Especially when so-called "civilized" nations are arming and funding the killers.
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@ratxgurl Get boyfriends who are more curious/less neurotypical ;-)
That would cause a minor medical emergency, similar to if someone's ovaries switched places
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@omgsidewalks And generally the end goal is that you get to live off the labor of others: buy an apartment building or own a business, both ventures that frequently fail because they are undercapitalized. We imagine that capital will allow us to escape if we save enough. It won't
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.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Exactly. And they cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the “millions” they falsely claim have died. Not a single name!
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@pemilo123 I was "read the encyclopedia for fun while listening to the same song on a loop until I die at the same time" neurodivergent
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@RachelAzzara @YungxJayy That is a deeply stupid response. Biden had the off switch to that genocide within easy reach of his hand the entire time he was in office. That means he had moral responsibility.
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@YungxJayy This is a purely absurd statement. Biden was not the architect of the genocide in Gaza.
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I already know the inevitable “He's not president anymore, go protest Trump” is coming, but let’s not act like this man isn’t the architect of the genocide in Gaza. He doesn’t deserve to go anywhere for the rest of his life without being reminded of his crimes.
Acyn@Acyn
Joe Biden interrupted during speech.
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@BillAckman Oh, the poor little rich people. How will they survive? All they have is money
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Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side. The family financed the purchase with a mortgage from a bank based on the premise that rents and cash flow would at least keep pace with inflation so you could pay interest and principal on the mortgage and hopefully have some cash flow left as a return on your investment.
While you had rent stabilized tenants, you were led to believe that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board would be required to adjudicate rental increases each year by taking a measure of the inflation of costs to own and operate a building and setting rental increases appropriately.
You believed the RGB would do its job as the board is comprised of two representatives each for landlords and tenants and five independent representatives that represent the general public.
Now, a new mayor @NYCMayor Mamdani is elected on the promise of freezing rents. There are about two million rent stabilized renters that benefit if rents are frozen so by promising frozen rents the new candidate for mayor buys votes and wins the election.
The new mayor achieves his objective by stacking the RGB with directors who do not follow their obligations and simply vote for a rent freeze as a preordained conclusion as evidenced by the statements of an RGB director who resigned in protest for this very reason.
Meanwhile, inflation in NYC is rampant in utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, etc. and now your rents are frozen. Real estate is a high operating leverage business which means that frozen rents and inflating expenses will cause property cash flows to plummet and your after debt service cash flow to go negative.
I expect therefore there will be hundreds if not thousands of small NYC property owners who are now or will shortly be underwater on their mortgages, and without any cash flow to maintain their assets.
If you remember the images of the South Bronx burning in the mid 1970s, you can viscerally understand what is happening to small NYC real estate owners.
While the rent freeze appears to be short-term good news (long term it will lead to poorly maintained apartments) for 2 million NYC renters, it is bad news for the 2 million or more renters in the 1 million market rate apartments in the City because a landlord-hostile market is not likely to add meaningfully more supply and market rents will likely continue to escalate at a high rate.
All of this seems quite unfair and wrong unless I missing something?
Why am I wrong?
For disclosure: I do not own any NYC rental apartments.
Paula Pant@AffordAnything
There's no freeze on property tax. There's no freeze on the wages paid to landscapers, plumbers, electricians, drywallers, flooring installers. There's no freeze on the cost of lumber, copper, baseboard, quarter rounds, flashing, siding, window treatments. There's no freeze on the wages paid to janitors or porters. There's no freeze on utilities -- on electric, gas, water, sewer (building-paid utilities in hallways, lobbies, maintenance corridors; most buildings pay water and sewer for tenants). There are currently 57,421 units sitting vacant in NYC because it's more cost-effective to leave them empty than it is to rent them out. If you're wondering: "How that could be possible? Wouldn't making anything be better than making nothing?" -- the answer is no, because of the 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act. The HSTPA mandated a certain level of renovation for a vacant unit, but did not allow landlords to raise the rent enough to be able to recoup those costs. If a long-term tenant moves out after decades, the apartment often requires $50,000 to $100,000 in lead abatement, new wiring, plumbing, and structural renovations. Because the law heavily restricts how much of that cost can be passed to the next tenant. The HSPTA eliminated the "vacancy bonus" (which allowed automatic 20% rent increases when a tenant left) and heavily capped Individual Apartment Improvements (IAIs). This means landlords who want a renovation loan would be rejected by a bank, because the landlord would not be able to show that they could repay that loan. Landlords who pay out-of-pocket would end up losing money, underperforming even what they could get by putting their money in a U.S. Treasury or gov't bond. Therefore, it's more cost-effective to just leave the unit vacant. That's why we have 57,421 vacant units across New York right now. That number is about to get much worse.
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