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Me when I turn on my VPN and still sign in via google

Do you reckon I’d qualify for a mortgage with my <$30,000/year income and my zero credit history? If you do, I might actually look into it

Could it be that it doesn’t just cost what you pay in rent each month?

Do u reckon every landlord is renting out their houses for a loss??? You get that that’s what you’re implying, right? Like obviously my landlord is better equipped to handle a big expense all at once, but that’s because the cost is amortized across many many months of my rent payments.

Don’t think you’re being a little dramatic? There are many more costs involved in owning a house than the mortgage payment.

Yes, and my rent covers literally all of them. Again, it has to, or else my landlord would be renting this house at a loss. I don’t want the opportunity to pack up and move on short notice. I’ve lived in this city since I was born, and I intend to die here. I should not be forced to pay a premium for a feature I will never use.

If we just built enough housing this problem would go away.

Fun fact: there are more vacant homes than there are homeless. By a factor of 28. We have the homes, we just need to let people own them

So everyone who has enough money to rent, but not enough to own, should be homeless?

The concept of someone having enough money to rent but not enough to own is ghoulish in the first place. If my landlord can pay $<1,200 for this house’s mortgage and upkeep, and I can pay $1,200 a month for the right to sleep in it, then we should simply cut out the middle man and have me pay that $<1,200 a month for mortgage and upkeep directly.

I literally can’t imagine a box that makes things cold being made cooler by having a screen on it

It’s a fucking box that makes things cold. Humanity is cooked if we can’t bring ourselves to look away from a screen for all the time it takes to get a slice of cheese out of the fridge

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Pirat gave me an egg emoji, so I baked some more cupcake emojis. Have one for getting it so close without even using a calculator 🧁

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You got as far as nanoseconds so here’s a cupcake for extra credit too 🧁

The other day I saw someone ask ChatGPT how long it would take to perform 1.5 million instances of a given task, if each instance took one minute. Mfs cannot even divide 1.5 million minutes by 60 to get get 25,000 hours, then by 24 to get 1,041 days. Pretty soon these people will be incapable of writing a full sentence without ChatGPT’s input

Edit to add: divide by 365.25 to get 2.85 years. Anyone who can tell me how many months that is without asking an LLM gets a free cookie emoji

Forests cannot grow faster than trees decay forever. We gotta turn the carbon back into rocks at some point, and we gotta get working on that tech sooner rather than later

I want to be clear, nowhere have I said that we shouldn’t be planting trees. Having a deeper reservoir for the carbon will buy time to develop more efficient and permanent sequestration technologies. It’s just that a lot of people in these comments seem to think that we shouldn’t even pursue sequestration tech because trees exist, despite the fact that they fill different roles in the solution to anthropogenic climate change

The carbon in that wood is only sequestered until it rots or burns. It may be a hundred years, it may be a thousand years, but it has not been removed from the carbon cycle. At best, you’re kicking the can down the road.

There’s no problem, so we don’t need one. We got by just fine without age verification on the internet for decades

Wood rots and wood burns. Felling the trees and piling them up does not remove the carbon from the carbon cycle, at best it’s kicking the can down the road

You sell that cert to a local kid for $50

You generate another cert to sell to a local kid tomorrow

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Profit

Oh yeah just pack up and move! What an easy solution! Why didn’t the Jews think of that back in the 30’s and 40’s? They could have ended the holocaust all on their own by simply leaving!

A long time isn’t forever. Wood burns and wood rots. How many wooden structures from over a thousand years ago are still around?

Entirely different use cases. Planting trees makes a deeper reservoir to store carbon, but it doesn’t take that carbon out of the carbon cycle. There is still more carbon than the carbon cycle evolved to handle. We need to do both, and also stop bringing more carbon from outside the carbon cycle into it.