And cayenne

Damn, yeah I get it. I left the military because I saw another trump term on the way, but they had employed me outside my degree field for a decade and didn’t provide enough certifications for anything related to what I actually did, so I have zero credibility in anything.

I’m about 400+ applications in and I’ve only been contacted by companies preying on young people, AI training companies, or scams. None of them have moved me past the first stage.

Terrifying that recruiters are getting so many applications. Good luck out there

I’ve been putting out 20-50 applications a week since September. So far I get a handful of rejections every day and I’ve gotten a grand total of 3 first round interviews

Probably the doctor

Fry making Walter Koenig say it as Chekov

I watch it through one or two times a year

I am not learning a new gradient and curl

Edit: divergence. It’s been a while

Virgeon

Oh damn, you’re right

Sera?

I had a TA for my quantum class tell us, “Look, I know you’re all working together or sharing homework. But I’ll see who knows the material when I grade your exams.”

Spokey Dokey by the SEATBELTS

And

It’s Never Too Late by Tommy Emmanuel

Also

Lazy Place by Caravan Palace

And honestly anything by Stone Rebel

Edit to add: OVERWERK does EDM-ish mixes/covers of classical music. Toccata is really good

It’s a shocked frowny face

Your therapist would like a word

I’ve been doing the wrong rain dance

I disagree here. Rent is a siphon for your money to go to the wealthy landowners, just like these rising housing prices siphon more of your money to banks.

Unless you’re saying that renters have more political leverage? Which I’m also not sure I agree with. It’s easier to evict a renter than an owner. I think we need more affordable housing, which depends on building accessible homes, controlling outrageous rent, and addressing zoning laws, but all of this depends on a strong economy for those goods and a surplus of jobs that pay enough. Systemic reform of zoning laws and lobbying is where change is

So it sounds like a rock and a hard place. Homeowners don’t want to lose money (and for many doing so would destroy their financial well-being), but they’re also incentivized by banks and realtors to ask higher and higher prices. This also affects voting patterns (i.e. “I bought at an astronomical cost and if it loses value I’m fucked”). But it all sounds like the homeowner is caught between market forces that propel prices higher. The relatively recent introduction of blackrock to corporate homeownership has an outsized impact, like your example, where they spend a ridiculous amount for a property they intend to never sell which will also inflate the property value in a region. I’d be curious to see how that difference could be quantified and understood. Honestly it all feels like 2008 again

This is just anecdotal experience, but when I bought my house I was the only bidder who needed a place to live. The seller and the people I bid against were all looking for rental properties. I honestly only got the place through a fluke

If I were to guess it serves two purposes:

1. To dampen the reaction when absolutely wailing on some piece of shit steel that warped
2. Accidentally getting welded to things

Edit: I looked it up! Number 1 is correct! Also, they’re used to remove slag

Slowly? I have a full on Deutsch conversion

Can you explain how? I fail to see how families owning a single home to live in is more extractive than megacorps and banks leveraging leviathan assets to create an artificial shortage and rent market