AlienTree
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The golden years of AirBNB were a temporary arbitrage on depreciation. There was a universe of beautiful well-maintained properties and hosts that had not been worn down by short term guests. And the AirBNB hosts didn’t properly estimate the cost of depreciation to maintain that standard, so costs were irrationally low That era fundamentally cant return, it was a temporary arbitrage opportunity There was once a supply of fairly pristine unused space and now there’s not If a space does manage to hit the 2014 standard, it must charge a lot more to fight depreciation And at that point a hotel is generally better
Bilingual dictionaries are a good place to start when you begin learning but you miss out on so much nuance if you rely on them. Setting them aside and using dictionaries in my target language was easily the best decision I made for my own learning.
This ad from McDonalds Japan has been causing a huge reaction online, because portraying a happy white family enjoying time together is now pretty much an act of hate speech the West. How far we have fallen - and how fast.
Many Gen Z Americans think they should get to go for lunch and dinner at a restaurant *every day*, something no generation in any country has ever done, and if they can't afford it it's politicians' fault for crashing the economy somehow. Social media standards cooked us.
