stevehobbes

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[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The supermajority of all voters are white.

The majority of Obama voters were white.

Conservatives in 2008 were almost exclusively white.

Race for sure played a factor, it always does. But it absolutely does not outweigh ideology.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I don’t get diarrhea every 4 weeks. Do you?

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I know no one here will want to hear this. But that’s lazy thinking and revisionist history. He got elected twice. The same folks calling him Muslim and asking for his birth certificate are now chanting Let’s go Brandon and doing other horrible stuff.

I’m sure a percentage of people think he’s extra bad for being black, but they were going to hate him just as much for being liberal.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That isn’t quite right. If you stopped paying the bank would kick you out and sell the apartment to someone else, but if they get less than you owe them for it, they will also send you a bill for the remainder.

And then sue you to get that money.

Interestingly, if they get more than you owe them for it, they will cut you a check for the difference.

But you are actually wrong about how and what the order of operations is.

You are buying the house, the lender (bank) writes the check directly to the seller, and you sign a mortgage agreement for that much with the bank and they put a lien on your house. The bank does not own the house, you do. The bank owns a promissory note from you, backed by your personal wealth and credit and the value of the house (that they have a lien on).

In the case of Twitter, yes, Twitter itself is part of the collateral, but so was Elon musks personal wealth and Tesla shares.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That’s not how debt works, he almost certainly pledged assets and a personal guarantee against it. This is known as collateral.

The banks take the collateral when you stop paying.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell me you don’t understand taxes without telling me you don’t understand taxes.

https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ?si=KcjWj3xXtg2un4h7

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The brutality of the conquistadors is quite well known.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure so much as fled as that’s where FTX was HQd and he owned a ton of shit there that he bought with customer money.

He didn’t even have the balls to flee.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

To be somewhat fair, that represents a very small part of Central Park.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I mean, yes? It’s insane to think that a fingerprint reader is designed, by default, to open from any fingerprint.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to believe that if you put your finger on a lock and it unlocks that you might believe it also programmed itself to use only that fingerprint.

[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well, it’s also annoying for those of us that paid for it to not be able to use the TestFlight version anymore (I bought it in the AppStore version and then went back to TestFlight… and then I can no longer use the pro version).

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