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@realEstateTrent We moved countries recently and we have 142 boxes worth of apparently deeply sentimental stuff in storage.

Did some super quick research so please correct me if these numbers are wrong: Most U.S. consumers who rent self-storage units spend about $1,200 to $1,800 per year. Meanwhile, the average value of the items they store is under $2,000. Make it make sense.

@Budgetdog_ If it will help them regain it, I will happily send you info for where they can transfer that money.

Just got off the phone with someone that sold their business for $50,000,000. Lost his sense of purpose. I can’t tell you how often I hear this same story.

@Noahpinion This post is ridiculous, both for the blatant lack of understanding of Europe, and the comments this shit illicits. Europe is not on it's way to anything other than what it's always been. Go back to writing smart shit, Noah. The stupid click bait is annoying.

I do think Europe's immigration strategy has been generally bad, and they should probably fix it. But unlike JD Vance, I don't get up every morning and obsess over it. The UK and Sweden and the Netherlands are not my countries; they're someone else's countries.

@mattyglesias I thought that DL Hughley already had that job.

@Noahpinion That can be true and also ineffective. We can decide that things are unfair at the testing stage, and adjust them there, or we can make sure that things are fair from the start. Most countries do the latter. The US never seems to.

@Noahpinion I think you are aiming at the wrong people. This is a very common belief among the dark intellectual bunch. Second, any progressive who thinks that the tests are unfair would point to cultural bias - they would say these are tests of conformity, not intelligence.

Yes. Some progressives quietly believe Black and Latino kids are simply naturally ineducable, and so we shouldn't even try. They are wrong. And their wrong belief is doing a lot of damage to our education system.

That swamp is getting drained, alright.

Interesting and potentially accurate. Certainly reflective of the moves seen in both the UK and USA.

@jchal The reason for rent control is so that people with diverse careers and backgrounds who work in the same area can live in that area. It's not about who deserves what, it's about communities.

Rent control is theft. No one “deserves” to live in Manhattan at an insane loss to the landlord.

@BrankoMilan Who will speak for the Russians in all this!???!!!?!!?!

Were any Russians released?

@stijnnoorman Nope! Anxiety is fearing something bad, and confidence is knowing you can deal with it.

Anxiety is expecting something bad. Confidence is expecting something good.

@Budgetdog_ You could have posted this every decade from 1981 onward.

The next decade will create the largest wealth divide in human history.

@dagorenouf I would say that we are paying them to train the models.

Nobody’s taking about the fact that coding was free for 50 years and now we have to pay for it. Soon it will be only for rich people?

@Noahpinion All the apologists for incel terrorism and the rise of Trump were more than happy to point to reasons. First off, these people are obviously a mess. But we can also ask ourselves some good 'why' questions. What's behind the rise in 2023?

The right has the nazis, but the left has actually managed to change the experience of life in America for Jews

@Noahpinion This group was never representative of the free palestine movement. They are small to the point of meaninglessness. Are there shitheads that support Palestine? Yes. Does supporting Palestine make you a shithead? No.

This is what the Palestine movement always was. Hopefully now more people on the left will realize what it is, and back away from it.

@ramit I had all of these things. Then I got married.

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@wwwojtekk Inconvenience is often better for us than convenience.

Amazon. I'm happy with just having restaurants, bodegas, yoga studios, gyms, entertainment - things that you actually need to do in person

@dagorenouf Nobody thinks being a man is bad. Being aimlessly angry is objectively bad. Anger is for when you are threatened. If you are not actively being threatened you don't need to be angry. Anger is like fear. If you don't have an immediate reason for it, it's an issue.

I don't know what to do with all this anger. I think problem in current society is male anger has no good outlet. Because being a man is considered bad, so it's hard to embrace our raw energy so we can then use it for good.

Yes. All of those desperately poor people that take all the low paying jobs and also drive up the cost of housing. The rise in housing prices is caused by speculation in an artificially scarce market with low interest rates. Also real estate agents don't help.

@levelsio This isn't really accurate - at least, not at the state/province and federal levels. At the local level everyone is beholden to local boards and housing authorities, and whenever they hold meetings it's only angry NIMBYs that show up. YIMBYs have to represent.

US gov owns 28% of land, similar rest of world: Canada: 89% Australia: 90% UK: 17% Netherlands: 25% Germany: 20% Do you really still think there's a shortage of land to build on? It's governments blocking it Of course sometimes for good reason, like preserve nature Often it's more to preserve house prices though 🤓