@GiffLasta I guess that only works if the boys know they'll win. Sometimes you have to put yourselves on the line though. Cowboy up.
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David Duncan
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David Duncan
@WrathofLouKahn
Architectural Ecologist. We shape our buildings and then they shape us. Presbyterian, husband, father of 3. For His glory.
Midwest Katılım Temmuz 2023
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@GiffLasta The can play, but only if the terms are winners buy the losers ice cream or something.
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Her son had girls challenge his team to a girls vs guys softball game.
She thinks it's a no-win scenario.
Is she right?
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🚨 OMG. Deranged Democrat Florida House member STORMS THE AISLE with a BULLHORN while the chamber passes Gov. Ron DeSantis' 2026 Congressional map, which stands to add +4 red seats
She's MELTING DOWN as Republicans STEAMROLL the map through! 😂
Rep. Angie Nixon goes berserk: "This is a violation of the Constitution! It iiiis!!!" 😭
The meltdowns prove this is a good map!
"83 YEAs, 28 NAYs, Mr. Speaker."
"The bill passes!"
*Psycho lowers her bullhorn*
📽️ @FBSaunders
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The trick to medical bills is this: Don't pay them.
Riley Gaines@Riley_Gaines_
It's been 7 months since we had our baby and we're still receiving unexplained hospital bills in the mail. Hardly ever an adequate description of services. Just a QR code to pay online. It feels intentionally confusing and difficult to get answers. We want price transparency.
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I’d press red. I have four kids.
If your reading of the scenario is “we are offering the hypothetical only in English and to 3 day old babies who can’t even push buttons” you’re an idiot. Tye scenario necessarily implies the choosers are limited to people *who can understand the choice*.
Udi Wertheimer@udiWertheimer
almost nobody who has children would press red unless they know for an absolute fact that their kids pressed red if you think there’s even a 5% chance your kids pressed blue, you will risk your life to improve their odds even by a tiny bit to take this a step further most women are probably hard-wired to press blue as a motherly instinct anyway, even if they have no children. so at minimum you have a 25% baseline for blue right there, which completely tips the odds so i think blue actually wins by a landslide if this was the real world and not a social media app for incels in other words humanity always had the biological programming to ensure blue wins
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@megbasham @man_of_renown @waitbutwhy I've got a 1yo, 3yo, and 5yo. I'll do what I can to save them.
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Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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If you could stop using petrol to mean gasoline.
Petroleum is oil, an unrefined substance pumped out of the ground.
Gasoline is one specific type of refined fuel, like kerosene or tar. We win on this one.
Dave Jones@eevblog
Americans, if you could stop using the word gas to mean petrol, that would be great, thanks.
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@texasrunnerDFW Totally false. People can do it, they just don't want to.
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Dave Ramsey is king of good financial advice that is NOT POSSIBLE FOR 90% OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Like, yes, if you happen to have a six figure downpayment laying around and earn $400,000 a year, you can do this
Median earners won’t find ANY homes that can meet this criteria
Adam Koffler@AdamKoffler
Here’s Dave Ramsey’s advice on buying a house in the year 2026: - Have 20% for a down payment to avoid private mortgage insurance (PMI) - Do a 15-year fixed rate loan - Make sure your monthly payment isn’t more than 1/4th of your take home pay Let’s put that math to the test 👇🏼
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@SomaKazima2 I can respect the 2-door. But the 4-door is definitely feminine.
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Here’s Dave Ramsey’s advice on buying a house in the year 2026:
- Have 20% for a down payment to avoid private mortgage insurance (PMI)
- Do a 15-year fixed rate loan
- Make sure your monthly payment isn’t more than 1/4th of your take home pay
Let’s put that math to the test 👇🏼
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Disembarking my flight this morning I notice, the first class luggage compartments are just as filthy as the main cabin compartments. That's it. That's the post.
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@uncledoomer Opposed to glue, but not plastic foam. Make it make sense.
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this is why, if you build for someone else, use the cheapest framing lumber they have at depot, cover with plywood, cash the check, and run. but if youre building a house for you to live in long term, i would accept nothing but heavy timber framing and structural insulated panels
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
This is the construction quality of new luxury homes in St. George, Utah It appears to be almost completely constructed out of plywood. But it’s not, it’s actually cheaper than plywood New luxury homes in St. George go anywhere from $2 million all the way up to $12 million dollars The home structure wrapped in OSB sheathing OSB is an engineered wood product made from compressed wood strands/flakes glued together. It’s cheaper and faster to install than traditional plywood Imagine paying $2-$12 million for plywood
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@1WorldExplained @kl_klpoa @Chris_arnade Exactly! Still a good explanation of HOW it's all about money though.
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@kl_klpoa @Chris_arnade lol this guy starts a long thread saying it’s not all about money and I gave up 20-something posts later where it has indeed turned out that it’s all about money.
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Why do all new apartment buildings look the same an inside look from someone who used to design them
@Chris_arnade recently posted these two photos and asked why all apartment buildings look the same. I used to work on projects similar to this, so I have some thoughts...
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@kl_klpoa This is dead-on, but all you did was explain how "everyone is cheap" is the correct answer. Doesn't mean they're evil, greedy, monsters. But when you need lenders, you need to make it cheap.
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There are alternative, small-scale development models that make smart, beautiful, design choices pay off - incentivizing good design and attractive materials rather than "lowest-common-denominator" selections.
The question is, what are they and how do we encourage them.
Thank you for coming to my Ted-Talk.
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@JulieChangRE @bobbyfijan There's also condition. But yeah, really. Can you show 3k vs 7k in same neighborhood with the same size, condition, and amenities? If so, are there equal numbers of them, or would there be much greater demand for the 3's?
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Really? Everything is just box and same same? Then why isn’t every apartment of the same size on similar streets the same price? there’s apts in the same neighborhood / nearby streets and 1 charges 7k in rent and another 5k and another is 3k. it’s of similar size. Housing is not a commodity
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Because most apartment buildings are financed with short term money
Those facade materials are cheap … and the people who BUILD apartments do not OWN buildings long term
Buildings are designed as financial products: to maximize rents at stabilization
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
Why does all of new development in America cities look exactly like this? Not complaining as much as must be something regulatory— as if it is lowest cost blueprint to threading bureaucratic regulatory maze
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@Chris_arnade Mostly because we figured out how. Depth requires material, material costs money and takes up SF that you can't list as rentable. And as a culture our esthetic values are extremely low.
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Why does all of new development in America cities look exactly like this? Not complaining as much as must be something regulatory— as if it is lowest cost blueprint to threading bureaucratic regulatory maze
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@JulieChangRE @bobbyfijan I'm extremely doubtful about this, certainly at scale. Most people are looking at size, location, and price. They'll also look at amenities and rarely use them.
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@bobbyfijan My argument is you can command higher rents for beautiful and high design which leads to higher return. To reject this is to believe that the entire consumeristic and luxury and experiential world doesn’t make money
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@LadyNimby Quiche, breakfast casseroles, croissants, grits, cornbread
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I am simply out of breakfast ideas for the girls. Oatmeal, bacon, toast, French toast, eggs, pancakes, waffles, sausage, hash browns…all done this week. Please somebody help
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@N8RealEstate Lowe's seems oriented to what i need as a homeowner. The Home Depot seems overly corporate, like they're more interested in selling than serving.
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