most Chinese families invest everything plus everything they can borrow, into a home. if property values fall, that will be perceived as a giant loss and could be a widespread freakout. so they try to keep home values growing like forevers. a bubble that is kept growing forever?

so far it seems the u.s. is happy to take advantage of the situation (iran), which isnt a good sign. another aspect is private contractors, which can apparently be deployed with less oversight. 😓

moonfall felt like i was being scammed in real time. not a good movie but if you like talking about the flaws of a film then it is pretty rich

nations should stop tolerating the laundering of responsibility. a country using individuals or private companies to project its power / do its violence etc. must be held culpable, otherwise it is too easy to get away with stuff

we should stop acting like hiring mercs is a loophole

immoral because he threw the chicken away?

people who think overenunciating everything makes them a better class of human

oh yes thats what i meant.

cool idea but i think this gives them too much credit. libs blindly support every war and blindly swallow every hot distraction, while believing they do neither. i think it is too kind to focus on just the coups.

I think his point was that there is a kind of lighter type of NSFW, lighter than porn. NQSFW Not Quite Safe For Work

thats what libs do. turn on a dime when the signal is sent

haters gonna hate lol

lol who funded this crap

they were the bidens of the era

i thought a paper pairplane was for sharing. the plus sign isnt weird to me

would it be better if votes were private somehow? do we want mods to potentially be reviewing users votes?

I’m not from reddit but I have thoughts nonetheless.

if you get attention to your thread via some ”easy” method like having the most recent reply, this attracts stealth abuse. troublemakers can try to use plausible replies to push up what they want to fill the top, and push down everything else. i want to emphasize that you cannot really notice or be sure when this goes on.

therefore, it’s important that popular clients don’t make anything like that the default. upvotes is much harder to game. recent post (but not replies) is okay because people making too many dumb posts is obvious and they can be blocked (etc.). most replies is fine since it takes lots of different people. even some combination (weighted upvotes, weighted downvotes, weighted total replies) could be nice.

instances could take how their ”front page” / default sort works very seriously because it ends up shaping what users see and interact with the most.

I like Obsidiean. they made new vegas.

first I’ve heard tell of it. I’ll look to the death panel podcast to explain what this is really about. they always nail whats really going on with u.s. complicated disability institutions.

if it is a notable decision like you day i also look forward to hearing it on the 5-4 podcast.

the internet is full of people with problems with language processing 😃

it’s amazing how much the web is full of clickbait and fake sites trying to just capture search result traffic. ironically, ChatGPT seems to make it even easier to make sites like that. 😭