subignition

The frequency with which people have trouble with newspaper-headline grammar makes me feel old…

They’re just banking on all the parents being transphobic enough that nobody can get help from family friends

You should forget anything you’ve read in this thread and play Outer Wilds ASAP. And you should go into it as blind as possible. Trust me; you only get to experience it for the first time once.

No, Ted Cruz’s pecker started pouring out beans… 😭

A new planet in a distant orbit, you say?
In before the signal is older than the universe itself.

The only gripe I have with this article is that I’m not convinced why the metric of “we want people to query more on Google” should be concerning to me. That just sounds like “we want more people to use our product more”, which is a completely reasonable metric for any business, no?

It’s a search engine, so if it’s taking you more queries than previously to find what you’re looking for, that means the quality of the search results has decreased.

Instead of the search team being able to focus on quality as they had been, they were more or less pushed to sabotage the quality of search in order to increase ad revenue.

That’s my understanding, anyway.

Well that’s an unorthodox way to sanitize your phone.

Probably for the best that they cut themselves off from the Internet.

We’re going to need a lot of them, they’re only worth $10

What is wrong with the title? Genuine question. It seems to represent the content of the article pretty accurately.

What a detailed post, that was a fun read. You clearly live a much more interesting life than some of us

Electric Collage would be a great band name.

A ginormous smidgen. A massive skosh. An anemic plenitude.

1. Nothing you posted actually addressed my question. (“Why do you think it’s reasonable to assume people probably can’t get kicked out of their apartments?”) There is no jurisdiction with a longer notice period than 30 days for nonpayment of rent. Given that this thread is about Americans struggling with debts, your various complaints about “renovictions” and “mom and pops” as you’re calling them are some nice straw men. We’re talking about people being unable to afford rent here, and small-time landlords, while certainly not perfect, are equally if not more likely to display some humanity and actually work with someone who is struggling financially.

2. It’s indirect because you likely knew you’d be ridiculed for praising soulless corporate landlords directly, so you chose to focus on how much worse “mom and pops” are instead and make your (irrelevant) point implicit. Or maybe you had some bad experiences with independent landlords and derailed yourself ranting about that before you could actually address the question?

3. Back to the actual topic, it’s real hilarious that your proposed solution to your own hypothetical is “just file bankruptcy and keep your car/primary residence”, you don’t HAVE a primary residence to keep if you’re a renter. Bankruptcy proceedings also cost time and money that someone who is already struggling with rent probably doesn’t have…

One could be very generous and say that you just don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, but I think you’re just trolling tbh. Or way too high to be posting about serious topics.

This is the weirdest indirect bootlicking of soulless corporate landlord companies I’ve ever seen.

you have an apartment you probably can’t be kicked out of.

Mind expanding on why you think this is a reasonable assumption? There was an eviction moratorium at the height of the pandemic, but that has been over for more than two years now. The required notice period for an eviction varies with jurisdiction, but generally isn’t more than a month or two, and if you try to drag it out a little further by refusing to vacate and forcing them to take you to court, having an eviction on your credit report makes looking for future rental accommodations Super Hell™.

Deformity

For every single-family home a hedge fund owns over a certain limit each year, it would be subject to a tax penalty, the revenues from which would be used for down payment assistance programs for those seeking to buy their first home from a hedge fund.

Sounds like even if this gets passed, whatever penalties get assessed are just going right back to the hedge funds anyway? And it’s a 10-year plan… Kinda sounds like a whole lotta nothing. Disappointing.

If they are partners they should be collaborating to set the standards they find reasonable/comfortable and beyond that it’s nobody else’s business.

Kinda just sounds like the normal panic/fight-or-flight response that you might have if a cop was about to murder you for fun.