[-] Skeith@discuss.online 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Homes as wealth-creators.

Americans take it as received wisdom that homes are meant to generate income through higher valuations over time. We just assume home prices go up over time and if it's not actively increasing in value, the home was a failure.

Many other countries don't treat homes this way. They are dwellings, invest what you want to your liking, but it's not a retirement account.

This focus on wealth generation creates lots of perverse incentives, such as exclusionary zoning, building on lots that are overly large, and suburban sprawl. These don't reflect people's actual, desired form of housing but rather maximize wealth for homeowners at the expense of everyone else.

We have a completely warped view of housing that causes us to be preyed upon by real estate agents, landlords, HOAs and the like.

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agree. I want to ban TikTok('s algorithms) too, but on grounds of algorithm addiction and national security issues it causes. That also means Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 27 points 1 year ago

This is good shit

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surely they were misquo-

Nope that's what they said. Yikes.

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 4 points 1 year ago

I now know even which way the Dnipro flows when describing the battlelines (left bank = east, right bank = west). I barely knew the Dnipro existed two years ago.

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basque Republic (most is submerged)

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 14 points 1 year ago

This is good shit lmao

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago

My favorite bit is "Better to be a slave than dead, no?" Ummm... actually, yes, death may be preferable

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

"Following Sunday prayers, Sheikh Ron al Dee'santiz issued a fatwah against the Barbie Movie, decrying it as 'against the law of Abraham' and 'promoting deviant Western concepts around women, homosexuality and the place of Yahweh in our lives.'"

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 16 points 1 year ago

We've really come full circle back to ad-supported cable

[-] Skeith@discuss.online 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To the modern right, Jesus was a beta cuck socialist. Healing the sick?? Loving thy neighbor?? Sounds like some LIBERAL BULLSHIT 😤 (my wife left me)

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