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And yet people love it and want to call it home, and are willing to make sacrifices to do so. I know I have here in the Seattle area. Mind ya own business!

Most of the time it’s because you get to live in a city and then also get to drive an hour and go hiking/skiing in the mountains or go to the beach. It isn’t very complicated.

Ultimate Online was a weird thing for me. I never played it, or EverQuest. I never had a good rig. Back then I had this dilapidated compaq presario with windows 93 that I would play shareware cdrom games on- we lived in a swamp in rural Michigan. Internet was only a thing if you were lucky. I would get pc gamer from the local grocery store and I would fantasize about playing these games on the internet. Print was my only portal to the world of the internet. Eventually I made friends with people who had it though.

I don’t even like video games anymore but back then it seemed like a whole new world. Now it seems like the butt end of a joke. However, I am no longer a teenager.

We’re all sort of complicit in building a network of networks that only really “succeeds”(driving clicks, generating ad revenue) by getting as much attention from you as possible. The best way to do that is to scare you and make you as worried as possible.

Putting our lives on the internet will either bring some crazy socio-economic change that makes everything better or it will go down in history as one of the dumbest things we’ve ever done.

Do your best to take back the short time you have on this planet away from this weird worry network we have all built and spend time with people, do things that make you happy and healthy, ignore the ad revenue machine and it can’t fuck with you.

Was this comment generated by GPT-3?

Except it’s not a funeral at all, they likely still make well over median income.

This was the general sentiment here 8 years ago and I’ve always trusted it. As such my various equities have always been treated as “funny money.” If it works out, great- but I don’t count on them.

If that sentiment has somehow reversed… well, you picked a bad time to do so!

This is why I am a Mac devotee. They are the Toyota of the computer world. Sure there’s a premium, but it’s worth it for peace of mind.

If someone calls your idiom of choice stupid and this makes you feel any type of way at all it might be time for a breather.

Well if you honestly find the pointless complicated code you write for whatever stupid pointless startup more interesting than cars I guess maybe I just think you’re a moron? Wasn’t that the point of my original post???

I bike and walk more than you do by the way. Actually come to think of it my van has appreciated! LOL!

Hah! My car is even older than that. But it is still far more interesting than useless saas apps. Nice try though.

This is the situation I’m in. I’m in the Seattle metro and the mortgage on my 3 bedroom ranch is less than a 1 bedroom apartment in Seattle. I can commute if I need to but why would I ever give this up? I have 0 other debts which makes it extra compelling.

Property is intrinsically limited. Property in desirably places is especially intrinsically limited. You’re basically lucky if you own any property at all at this point.

Just take a gander and how much property in Hong Kong or Amsterdam costs and you’ll start to think it is cheap in the US. It’s only going to get worse. Do you think that people are going to desire living in Santa Monica or Queen Anne less over the next few hundred years?

Our planet is getting smaller relative to the amount of people that live on it and relative to the habitable places that exist.

Well thanks for being appalled. I’m sure posting about it will help.

It requires about the same amount of effort I have put forward to not read the link, make some sort of weird braggy- unrelated- post so I can’t figure why you’ve taken the time to reply to me. To be honest typing this is the extent of how much I care. Farewell.

I am anxiously awaiting any word from them because I want the bike pretty bad

I take my child to day care every day with an e-bike. We both love it.

I have a second, more cargo oriented, e-bike on back order. If anyone from rad powered bikes is reading this I think your decision to use proprietary tire sizes for your cargo bikes was insanely stupid.

Yawn.

NASDAQ is UP 20 or so % from just before the pandemic. That’s how inflated things got in the last two years. The person you’re responding to is right on the money.

It is a completely absurd conundrum. You can’t on one hand be a libertarian turd living in the fire interface demanding independence from taxation and government and on the same hand demand support from the government when you have to deal with the realities of the situation you created for yourself.

I have sympathy for anyone who has lived through a disaster because I have as well.

The only feeling I had after my disaster was that I wish my government was better funded and more well run because the haphazard mess we have now is wildly dysfunctional. That and a little anxiety but it gets better.

Don’t live in the west in the mountains if you aren’t prepared for wildfires. It’s beautiful, sure, but it is wildly unsustainable. You are more or less on your own.

And yet if you talk to any older person they’ll tell you winter used to be worse/more snow/etc, so perhaps the heavy reporting is the real culprit.

I ran out of time!

This was a fun Time of humor: https://youtu.be/ZAtzN_ScKXY

I don’t care.

Dude you’d have to be at the very minimum obtuse to not see why this is a bad thing. At the maximum, malicious.

The coastal left, especially those that are wealthy, do not care whatsoever what these “conservatives” think about them.

For what it’s worth I’m not buying or selling anything at the moment and I hold very little in the stock market. I have a modest home in a cheap place and that’s about it.

You’re just another stark raving lunatic on a forum. Why are you even making this comment if you aren’t?

Use your best judgment. I know I will.

Homelessness persists for reasons outside of local attitudes. The weather can kill you in Dallas. Political opinion does not care.

Don’t trust anything you read on the internet.