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@moseskagan @spencerpratt "Would you like to wait around for 4 hours for a cop to write a few notes and then effectively throw them away?" No thanks. I'll call a glass shop and move on with my life instead.

@moseskagan @spencerpratt This was always an issue with reported car break-ins in SF. I've never met a person who hasn't had their car broken into and I've never met a person who reported it.

Crime isn't down. Angelenos like my friend Harvey Levin have simply stopped reporting crimes because they've resigned to the fact that under Karen Bass, the inmates run the asylum, and nobody will enforce the law. This is why LA is voting for me.

@reset_by_peer I remember Hugo Chavez’s rapid fire accomplishments in Venezuela.

Watching all of Sheinbaum’s rapid fire accomplishments in Mexico and Mamdani’s similar run in NYC makes me think that, despite all of his flaws, a Bernie Sanders presidency would have been deeply transformative for America.

@Upstate_Life @Nithya_Shrii Yes, it was totally stupid of me to ask moronic conspiracy theorists for evidence. Good point.

@griddr @Nithya_Shrii And now you double down on your stupidity.

If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder. They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.

@pissvortex Is the data saying that we don't have an opioid epidemic?

At what point into every subsequent year being a record high year of homelessness in america are you people willing to admit you’re reading the fucking metrics wrong

@Upstate_Life @Nithya_Shrii Can you please provide a shred of evidence that any CEO in America today is being allowed to pour 10,000 gallons of poison into drinking water?

@griddr @Nithya_Shrii Your stupidity is noted.

@cha0ticm8ss_ @Nithya_Shrii Good news. That doesn’t prevent you from publishing evidence and giving it to journalists and prosecutors. Get to work.

@griddr @Nithya_Shrii You forget, the US voted in a pedo who lives in the pockets of big companies

@cha0ticm8ss_ @Nithya_Shrii So put together the evidence and prosecute or publicize it. That’s illegal.

@griddr @Nithya_Shrii Except it happens. Companies dump poison into our water every single day

@beerandtokens Housing was less affordable in 1980 because interest rates were way higher.

My brother in Christ. In 1980 the home price to income ratio was 3.6x, now it’s 5x In 1980 a degree cost 15% of the average annual income, today it’s 58% In 1980 child care cost 7% of the median household income, now it’s 19% In 1980 health care cost 10% the median household income, now it’s 21% In 1980 the average car payment for a new car was 6% of the median household income, now it’s 13% These are national averages, and not some anecdotal personal experience. Idk why it’s so hard for people to do a little good faith research and just admit that life’s necessities are exponentially more expensive now than when they were young adults. It’s a crazy level of pride, arrogance and denial.

@Jacob_Naviaux @indexnforgetit You’re effectively lying to some naive person in the hope of getting one over on them. I would call that unethical.

There’s nothing unethical about retrading. A buyer offering a price with a DD period makes zero promises that they’ll close at that price. If they wake up one morning deciding they no longer want the deal or want it for cheaper, that’s 100% their right to do and if it’s not granted, they can then choose to move forward or get a refund of their EM.

Fixer upper gets listed for $250k. I offer $180k with 3% commission — I’m a licensed agent and my company is the buyer. Plan is to wholesale it for $190k. Needs $75k in work and will be worth $320k after repairs. Listing agent says too low. 4 weeks later our CRM notifies me the list price dropped to $225k. I follow up. Agent still says $180k is too low. Another month goes by. CRM notifies me again — price drops to $210k. I follow up. Agent says they think it’ll work. I draft the offer, send it over, and it gets accepted. We price the deal at $190k and sell it — signed contract and EMD in hand. While we’re still in DD, I tell the agent my buyer needs a $20k price reduction to move forward, but they’re ready to wire EM and waive the rest of DD. Seller meets us halfway. Price drops to $170k. We make $25k. That’s the exact play we run wholesaling MLS properties.

@jo64yr @mattyglesias @kausmickey That's illegal so, if you're not totally making that up, maybe you guys should put together evidence and prosecute those employers?

@mattyglesias @kausmickey Can an H1B have your job then? Its ok just train them for six weeks and then we'll let you have your severance. We gotta cut some costs and we like having the help on a short leash. This has happened to tens of thousands of educated Americans. There's no positive sum here.

For whom?

@xwanyex And, idk if they "go" anywhere and create those companies, but we're in a race with China and this massively slows us down.

@xwanyex I don't think that's how it works. If you take away a bunch of talent, it's not like other people just backfill their intelligence and work ethic and create major companies. You end up with less stuff and a smaller economy instead.

@MaxWithNanos @Claudius3600 @bscholl There have been quite a few studies on the effect of immigration on home prices and they all conclude that it lowers home prices since so much of the construction industry are immigrants.

@Claudius3600 @bscholl thats about all they've built here in the last decade or two so no thats complete nonsense

A little after covid I had one of his recruiters call asking for an engineer with experience designing landing gear for supersonic passenger aircraft something we haven't done since the 70s, salary $75k in Denver

@TheLaurenChen We all agree that we shouldn't let in low skill workers to take in-demand jobs in this MAGA loser's hometown. That's not really a thing that happens though.

My hot take is that it's OK for Americans to not want to compete against the entire world for a job in their hometown.

@Lifeinvestmoney Directionally good but windows just let in light that causes sun damage. Board them up. And demo the whole front to put down one giant concrete pad. It's lower maintenance.

Contractor just finished my rehab What do you think? Before After

@zeta_globin Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is the gold standard.

does anyone have any non-fiction audiobook or podcast recommendations! to listen to while speed cleaning my place for visitors this weekend

@ForWhatItsWor12 @NolteNC And an $80k for a truck to transport them to the park to cook. That's a smart way to save money over buying a house though!

@griddr @NolteNC Go to Home Depot & get a $100 grill, a $35 tank & a $40 grilling tools set.

Y'all are paying $9.00 fpor a Five Guys burger. I buy a sleeve of burgers for $12, grill them myself.

@IsItRainingSF @abustamante @ramit It doesn't matter to rental prices. Rental prices are not determined by what the owner pays. An identical unit bought in 1980 and 2025 will rent for the same price. If anything, rental prices influence housing prices, not the other way around.

@griddr @abustamante @ramit In california with prop 13 it matters extremely much when the landlord bought!

Excellent question. How can you rent a house/apartment for less than HALF of what it would cost to own? Who can identify why this might be possible? (This is common in VHCOL places like Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Manhattan)