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@4sec7 Within a 15 minute walk ..and yes it’s a bad thing

Is the concept of having everything you need within 15 minutes of where you live a bad thing? I’d say no, and actually I’d say it’s a good thing. Where it’s not a good thing is where travel outside your “15 minute city” is measured or restricted. Am I right? What are the negatives behind the *principle* of the so called 15 minute city?

@RivetRoseQuartz @NordicKari @fw_lennox1 bc Gen X men are mostly cucks, like >90% of em Very emotional , very feminine need-set

@NordicKari @fw_lennox1 lol, what is wrong w Boomers? GenX, why'd you put up with them?

My mom just moved into her new 5bedroom house and told me to move in with her. Her exact words: “Spending $1800 on rent is ridiculous. Save your money and move in. I don’t want to be in this big house by myself. Idc what anybody says… I’M MOVING IN At 32, I’ll have my own room + bathroom, a dedicated office to work from, and my own living area upstairs. Having parents that still got your back after your 20s is a real flex.

@MotoMan69147 @FrankBr05713205 How is it supply /demand when the supplier also provides the demand ? In fact muh basic economics says price is detached from value here, making it artificial and a closed loop

@FrankBr05713205 Do us all a favor and move to a communist country to be with your comrades.

Why does less cost more? Here is another example of where we are getting less and paying more money for it. For years our vehicles oil filter was a metal canister with the paper filter and valves inside of it. Many cars today use a cartridge filter and the filter replacement is just the paper insides and an O-ring, but yet the cost of this is twice as much and sometimes more than the original metal one. So why does just the paper insides minus the metal canister and the valves cost us more? Something is wrong here as far as I’m concerned.

@TommyMac501 @ThinkAppraiser ..horizon maybe some improvement in fed policy would arise if the govt data the fed use in decision making at least halfass reflected reality Like you said healthcare (insurance really) eats income up but the CPI gets its data from BLS & it’s all just voodoo metrics

@TommyMac501 @ThinkAppraiser Giving a Lot of benefit of the doubt I think the idea is ~2.5% is better than several quarters of <1% followed by 12 straight quarters at 18% I’m not a fed apologist at all, just right now it’s the system we have & since replacing it w/ another system doesn’t seem to be on the..

The cost of everything has AT LEAST doubled in just the last 10 years Has that ever happened in history?

@TommyMac501 @ThinkAppraiser although this is the other way to say exactly the same thing almost no one says it this way Well except the Fed Who outright state their policies are consider successful if every 20 years the value of the money is halved

@ThinkAppraiser Or, the value of the dollar has at least halved.

@catherineols @NinaPanickssery @AdriGarriga How could you know that it feels nuts though ? You said it’s impossible for you to feel what’s not intuitive to you so if it’s impossible for you to feel something beyond your intuition how did you then feel this non-intuitive position to then claim it feels ‘nuts’ ?

@NinaPanickssery @AdriGarriga Again I say this as someone steeped in the view that all is grounded in physical matter, subject to physical law (without supernatural exception) & discoverable by empirical practices, such that this way of organizing experience is so intuitive to me anything else feels nuts

I just don’t get religion or religious people. I don’t understand why religious belief is treated with respect by atheists. The whole things strikes me as something between a stupid LARP and mass psychosis. And smart otherwise rational people get affected too. Unsettling.

@ZbynekDrab @NinaPanickssery @nabla_theta autistic traits do tend to foster a tendency to treat one’s own beliefs as derived wholly from unassailable facts & by way of ones own immaculate perception while viewing others beliefs as mindless acquirements of no worth or validity & illegitimate on their face

@NinaPanickssery @nabla_theta You may possess slight autistic traits. This is a compliment. They make doublethink of the sort you describe intolerable and impossible

@BeTheChain in 1974 my uncle bought his 1st house: a split level 3/1.5 in a new subdivision In 2003 he said the 2004 Honda odyssey minivan he just bought only cost $5,000 less than he paid for his house

In 1992 my grandfather built his brick farm house for $53,000. In 2024 he got the tin roof replaced. It cost $60,000.

@KCH_76 @BeTheChain @RussellF11506 you asked the ai 😂

@BeTheChain @RussellF11506 The only "metal" roof that costs 25-30 dollars a sq ft... is highly decorative copper.... normal tin roof, or metal roof costs between 12-15 dollar a sqft at most...and can be as low as 5-7 dollar a sqft... for 60k I can get a whole new roof and 40k worth of solar.... today....

@unseen1_unseen I get full service oil change every 21 days Been doin er thirs wehr fhehr yuhrhs Cuhrst ehr hrihittleh hmehrh mhern’ry bhert swhuhrthuuurrt tehrt

You know you really don't have to change your oil every 3000 miles right? That that is just a marketing ploy to get you to change your oil more often than needed. While it might have been true decades ago, it is no longer true for most newer models. If you look in most manuals many car makers today rec 5,000 miles to 10,000 or longer due to synthetic oil and modern engines. Not sure when to change your oil? check out your manufacturer recommendations. With the current shortage of some oil blends its important to know you can probably wait to change your oil until the supply lines are back to normal. Stop panicking.

@affirmativedave @EdgeCrusher14 What was your combined annual income when you bought the house and what was its sale price ? If it were for sale right now in exactly the condition you bought it it would be priced minimum 4x higher than you paid..prob more But some flipper would’ve snatched it well before then

Gen X here, I bought ought my first and one house in my late 20s. It had no heat, it was a known fact that the homeless would break into it to get high and sleep, it was infested with rats, it had no shower, it had knob and tube electrical, the roof was 30 years old, and the foundation was cracked. My husband spent the winter evenings under the house in the mud running pex line for heat. It wasn’t turned on until February. We went without a shower for a year. We have labored over this house for 20 years. Now it’s the nicest house in the neighborhood. People can have their complaints or the results they say they want but they cannot have both. Get to work.

Holy shit, people. The kids are out of control today. I posted the story of the purchase of my first home. They went ape saying you couldn't buy a home for that now. I posted two homes in the same town as my first home, one was less then the inflation adjusted amount, the other a little more. People were literally saying they weren't modern enough...

@redhead_ophelia Sure pal

I can’t believe how any person older than 20 can’t feel climate change through their own experience… Like, summers used to be less unbearably hot, and there was much more snow in the winter where I live when I was a child.

@SamWinchester90 @SpeedyTDT @MyDinnerWAndrei @TruthScarier @SenatorLuma It’s why all these damn ‘juSthT buHyE sHiRTsH stHuMwhEHrE eHLsThE’ fucks are extra pernicious The only thing that’s ever caused companies to immediately reevaluate a recent price hike is stroooonk consumer blowback But thats just not possible anymore bc it’s every company

@SpeedyTDT @OGsimulant @MyDinnerWAndrei @TruthScarier @SenatorLuma I worked for an apparel company where the VP talked openly about wanting to reduce prices after COVID price shocks retreated but due to tariffs and other cost increases they’ve instead increased them at least twice while still losing profitability.

a lot of people are pretending not to understand that what americans want is for price levels to go down. they don’t care about real wage increases or inflation rates, they want nominal price levels to decrease. there is nothing you can do about this.

@SpeedyTDT @MyDinnerWAndrei @TruthScarier @SenatorLuma No Once prices in general have risen they are never lowered in general again, not in the long term at least Interventions sometimes give the appearance of downward price correction but it’s short term & carries punishing downstream effects ..*see housing prices..health insurance

@MyDinnerWAndrei @TruthScarier @SenatorLuma So is there a way we get prices back to pre-COVID levels?

@yishan @falkrak @JamesTrenton451 ..told anyyything like that prior by anyone Always been very popular, very social..no trace of autistic freak Now all the sudden 2 ppl say it And I start noticing more ppl breaking/avoiding eye contact Fucked me up for a long time honestly I still don’t understand it

@yishan @falkrak @JamesTrenton451 the ‘hearing the slowness of other people’s thoughts’ ..man. something happened ~13 years ago where my looking at the person while actively listening to them in conversation was inexplicably interpreted as both Not listening to them and staring into their soul I’d never been...

@Jaamennn @cheesealloverme @cremieuxrecueil @palladiummag You had sheets ? Daaaayum ok, ok must be nice The nostalgic for serfdom crowd weighs months off work w/ thumb firmly on scale Cleaning out the bucket you shit in isn’t usually counted as work

@OGsimulant @cheesealloverme @cremieuxrecueil @palladiummag I thought that was bullshit too. But it was an agrarian society and peasants had to work extremely hard for parts of the year but not much at all for huge parts too like winter. Then again it did take a week to clean sheets.

Sneak peak of a small handful of the evidence from my forthcoming manuscript (summary coming to @palladiummag!) on how there's A LOT of quantitative evidence for the European Dark Ages. There are so many more graphs than these ^^

@GoldStarGuy @Serenitee_Sam Sure pal

@Serenitee_Sam When I managed my own store we closed at 9. I would tell customers, you must be checked out before 9 because the registers lock and we’re only allowed to close at that point, if you are not in the process of checking out at 9 you’ll have to leave the store.

It is genuinely mind-boggling how some people can move through life with zero situational awareness or basic consideration for retail workers. ​There are two kinds of people in this world: those who feel an intense wave of guilt stepping into a store 20 minutes before closing, and those who treat a closing announcement like an invitation to slowly browse every single aisle. ​This Walmart employee breaks down a situation that happens far too often. The store closes at 11:00 PM. The staff gives a 15-minute warning, a 5-minute warning, and even a final notice that registers are shutting down. Instead of wrapping it up, this family decided to play hide-and-seek in the aisles, entirely ignoring the staff just to show up at the front after closing time with a completely full cart. ​The manager ultimately did what every retail worker wishes they could do: refused the service and took the cart back. ​The level of entitlement required to look at a team of people trying to finish their shift and go home to their families, and think, "My late-night shopping spree is more important than your time," is wild. It is the ultimate display of "rules for thee, but not for me." ​If a store closes at 11:00, that means the business is done at 11:00—it does not mean you get to start checking out at 11:05. Retail workers are human beings, not twenty-four-seven conveniences. Respecting closing times shouldn't be a hard concept to grasp.

@davidpattersonx How will AI ‘provide free healthcare’ or ‘end poverty’ ? If ai is capable of doing this at any point why can’t AI do these today ?

Artificial intelligence will solve every problem leftists have claimed they care about. End poverty. Provide welfare for everyone. Provide free healthcare and education. Yet leftists are opposed to it because it “uses water.”