Even if it was Europe it would be a train from nowhere to nowhere.

So would this be a good alternative to Synology photos?

And this is why you have a qa team.

I wasnt at the time but twenty minutes later, sure

Eight grams off? That seems rather significant. I mean we use to buy 20 grams of weed we’d know if it was almost half shy.

I was hoping for the same thing

That still seems like an insane amount of power for one transaction.

I had some friends in town and we went to a place that made us use the qr code for the menu and had to order directly from the app and pay (and tip).

They should really explain what it is for those of us that don’t know

Yeah housing gains do nothing for you if you want to stay in the same area.

Theoretically you’ll have more equity so you can take out loans, but with high interest rates you’ll likely avoid that… and your property taxes will eventually go up since your home value has gone up.

Hate the fact that my house has gained so much.

The Ford method is a good one. I think?

This book gets a lot of shit, probably deservedly so, but I enjoyed the story, but skip over the monologue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/podcasts/breaking-bard-who-owns-your-face-gamer-news.html?

it’s the second story in about 19~ ish minutes in if you don’t want to listen to the whole thing.

I listened to an episode of hardfork and the interviewee was trying to figure more about a ai company that had a db of faces, and Everytime she had her face run, the company apparently was notified and pulled access of the end user almost immediately

Shits fucking scary

Given your online demeanor I feel like you probably fit in well, and I’m guessing the locals love you.

Enjoy being part of the problem but not realizing it.

I mean in my neck of the woods the issue is less landlords driving up the price as it is influx of California s selling 1000 sqft homes in California for 1 million and being able to pay cash for any affordable house here because we don’t have a supply… again see my other reason for not having supply

Yes. That’s why record number of people are moving to Idaho/Montana and Texas… because they are so undesirable.

You do realize it’s possible that it’s more than one thing that is contributing to the cost of housing, right? … and not just landlords, despite what lemmy keeps telling everyone.

I’m not saying slums… but look around the United States and see what states are monumentally cheaper to build in. Hint. It’s not blue states.

And I say that as a progressive in minnesota.

Are you kidding me? No area benefits from deregulation?

Regulation in a lot of areas is put in as a protection to businesses already in the space to help alleviate competition. Is Charter/Comcast is out there pushing for deregulation so that small cities and communities can come in and setup their own cheaper broadband services, or are they fighting it tooth and nail?

Does my barber actually need a license to cut hair? Sure you could argue that the barber is technically more hygienic, but that isn’t always the case… it’s just another way to make it harder for me to open up a competing barbershop.

I’ll agree that is A problem, but not the only problem.

• Nimbyism
• Building laws
• licensing laws
• zoning

Those things also add to the exorbitant cost of housing. It’s not investors who are causing houses to cost 300 a square foot in my city, it’s lack of buildable land, contractor availability, licensing, residential zoning laws. All those things equal cost… some of those things could be fixed with less regulation.