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I am an AirBnB host myself since about 5 years and with 3 units today and there is a rating of your guest at the end, which basically prevents all of this. You can also just allow guest with (good) ratings to book your apartment (at all). So you have quite a good control over this. People are not dumb and will try to get value out of their investment (also guests - their investment is the booking of the accommodation), but I think your anecdote is not representational. Your home might be cheap and in a "bad" neighborhood, where you are forced to rent out to "problematic" people, since only those are interested to stay there. Though initially you probably bought the house cheaply and now -maybe- conveniently ignore this and complain about the problems in the neighborhood.

I am not saying that there are no problems. But it's kind of possible to get them under control and also have a good value proposition as a host. If you don't have this, then switch back to classical long-term renting. If you keep renting (rather short term) via AirBnB, then the value proposition for you (the host) must also be good enough considering all factors. It kind of does not make sense to be an AirBnB host and be unsatisfied - only temporarily.

You could also argue that this was solved "along the way" and also not really clear back then. I am an AirBnB host myself and were also wondering about this recently and there are several factors today which contribute positively: Provided as a (technical) solution by AirBnB (Recommendations, IDs, etc.) but also how the internet/web evolved as a hole - A place that somehow manages that strangers meaningfully/safely interact with each other. This was never clear and also an uncertainty for Wikipedia (earlier) and now for AirBnB in a different and new way: Inviting strangers to your house.

I am really happy that constant medication can help you. Are you on the same dosis or did you have to decrease/increase it over time?

I think globalization is the cause for depression and anxiety, because we are now competing with 8 billion people and not just "in our local circle". Technology is just an enabler, a window into this global world. If you drop that, I won't doubt that you immediately feel better, but I also think, that you just diminished your chances on the global rat race for the top (eg. FAANGM) jobs. Also: It's a "winner takes it all" (global) world and the world is full of (super positive) surviver ship biased stories, which do not match the reality of most people.

It's important to understand the meaning of live in this context: The meaning of live is to preserve itself (and re/pro-create). Depression is a reaction to that this goal might not be reachable: Depression is putting you into an alert-modus, so that you work hard on fixing these/whatever (very tough) things to get back on track.

It's a complex issue and reducing it to a "yes/no" questions doesn't live up to it, is what you mean.

Having said that, just taking a simple poll like this is a great starter, I think. Simplified, but very clear and understandable result and also: Easy to conduct.

> "Not making a political statement with that"

Negating something also 'somewhat' implies the opposite (the not negated version). Also you add a smiley ":)" in the paragraph before, which drops a very clear hint.

I can say with certainty close to 100% that you are a strong Biden supporter and fan.

I am happy for you that politics fixed your depression.

worth > worse !!! (worth even kind of means the opposite)

Regarding all you critique: That is just how your culture is setup. Mostly males live a lonely live with each other, cf. the animal kingdom, where "young males gather in groups until they get older, if surviving and might find (younger) females, then". If you go to mixed classes, like me, then there are a lot of girls, which have zero interest in you (but have some "older" boyfriend) and constantly are turned off by you and look down on you. Later you study computer science and 'again' there are no girls. The situation improves, when you get older, though still you have to put in all the efforts (eg. have a nice hobby, that girls also share) to get a girlfriend eventually.

>it is not well reasoned discussion with a diverse representation of viewpoints that keeps people glued to their devices

This sounds like Hacker News. Every platform has (or: develops) it's target audience and we also can't blame the companies behind, that they are "for profit". Ads are lucrative and relatively fair (even beneficial - e.g. small businesses can make aware of their offerings... others have pointed this out before). Over time things consolidate by themselves: "We" hang out on hacker news and other likely more proper offerings. It's sad to see people "logging into facebook" and dragging down the discussion or just being offensive because of stupidity. But you can't fix that. The discussion itself and about it (discussions about discussions - meta discussions) is important to make sure "things get exposed". Things consolidate with time, e.g. you might look back on your last 10 years, and there are countless communities, where I left a last angry comment and then left. I am sure those communities are just small and irrelevant echo chambers, shrinking, because even their loudest advocates get tired and realize over time, that something is wrong, subconsciously. While others stay, though I have the feeling that there are a lot of big and relevant communities, that I still follow, and which are growing, which gives me hope, that we are heading in the right direction.

Someone writes these things for a target audience, which believes this. His atrocious compensation, all these well-crafted, small, interesting (though: somewhat predictable) turns. The style is called "Belletristic", I'd say. I am not sure what the goal is: To sell the story, itself (add supported to millions, e.g.) or to find very few customers, which actually spend, what is described in the story as a reasonable compensation for "crushing" a funeral and saying a few words and... god forbid... not doing something wrong, even if requested, such as murdering dogs, because we all know... wish: We get the very good money for (just) doing good (and sticking to our principles and virtues, even against our customer/boss)... truth be told: Life can be different and much harder.

Could it be that very dangerous viruses emerge more often, but only when they fall on "(very) fertile ground", that they then spread? The WW1-circumstances (a lot of men together on small space and harsh conditions) have contributed a lot, that the "spanish flu" spread, while others did not spread and so never became known to us ?

Salary at FAANG starts at 120.000USD (when you 'just' graduated from Stanford or Berkeley) and will go up to about 300.000 over time.

I guess that is intentional to throttel down on people applying. It works for me: Except, when I desperately need a job, I don't apply. I primarily only know "this" style of applying - It's all big corp companies, though, I must admit.

Miscarriages are very common and not much talked about and I am sorry she couldn't see her father that day.

Only: Small ones are even worse (see other comments). With big ones you have at least "something": Colleagues and "a lot of money blowing in at the front". HR is not your friend. OP makes a lot of mistakes. Life is hard. Big companies are a good / reasonable choice: The money. With smaller companies there is less money and more problems, usually, EXCEPT they are directly dealing with big corps (e.g.), which puts you back into big-corp-exposure. You have to go where the money is.

China - They consider hardware to be open source. Whoever produces it "en masse" wins. I like it: I have an Honor 10 from Huawei: Really cool: An iPhone with Android :-D for 380$