People need homes.

You buy a pressure washer, and rent it out, thats a good business. Theres no shortage of pressure washers. I can live without one. I can biy my own relatively easy. Choosing to rent or own is a question of how often I expect to want to pressure wash something.

You can only rent a home that you buy. Which means you had to take it off the market. You can also only rent a home (or room) that you aren’t living in. Which means you need somewhere else to live. You’re taking more than you need, to charge someone else who also needs it, to cover your cost of owning it, maintaining it, and presumably profiting from the difference.

When this is done at scale, you have owners skewing the market to make it harder and harder to buy.

They make more money, buy more properties and make it worse. While renters, and young adults get trapped i to renting because they have no options.

That is what makes it so much different.

Which of my statements are false?

Good landlords will only be as good as they need to be, to continue renting. In a housing shortage, that means they will keep getting worse over time, doing little and hearing little from their tenants who have only ever dealt with predatory landlords.

They will almost always charge as much as they can, not doing anything to help the renters.

The exceptions to this will be invisible on the market, because renters will do everything in their power to never move out or change their situation.

Long time renters are trapped, because they are paying nearly as much as a mortgage, and getting no equity from it, unable to save a down payment to get out of it.

Renting to seasonal, temp workers or students is about the only exception where renting is a necessary service, but currently its way over priced, so its not a great value. So still predatory.

I for one believe that everyone is an addict, or anyone can become addicted to whatever. There is no pathology or dna, that’s just the way the human brain works.

Not every brain works the same way. Not every brain responds to chemicals the same way. You can’t just ‘believe’ those realities away.

Alcohol for example. Everybody in the western world drink, it’s even part of our culture and education in some countries. Some might become alcoholic after 2 years of drinking, some after 69 years. This difference is just life.

There are so many factors involved. But washing them all away as ‘just life’ to justify your beliefs is lazy.

Turns out he’s not war criminal-ly enough for the club

Yes, because that is how the administration uses it, knowing the trials would not be fair or just.

Im in Canada and have friends who believed his second term would be mostly as feckless as his first.

They didn’t understand how project 2025 meant he was going to be coming out of the gate with someone else’s agenda with all of the key players, including scotus in his back pocket. It all lined up to mean shit was going to go down fast and hard.

Look where we are one year in. 3 more years to subvert or nullify the next election.

By making the American poor people pay them, they transfer more wealth to the captital class by contracting out jobs to their buddies. Also, it huts sales for the exporters, so its win win for him.

Generates revenue that will almost scratch the surface of what they spent to buy it and finish it.

And will continue to contribute to the climate change that is destroying Canadian towns and cities nearly every year that will need federal funding to help rebuild.

You’re 100% right.

This whole smear thing serves the same purpose as ‘if you don’t want to get shot, just comply with legal orders’. Normalize the messaging and then the assumption is that they were doing things they shouldn’t have been.

We won’t believe it for this one, but after it keeps happening, people start accepting it as inescapable.

It’s gross, but unfortunately it’s effective.

You can’t apply today’s definition of adulthood against the historical texts.

In the 7th century, the concept of “adulthood” was almost universally defined by biological maturity (puberty) rather than a specific chronological age like 18. In most Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures, the onset of menstruation (menarche) was the legal and social signal that a female had transitioned from a “child” to a “woman” and was thus eligible for marriage and its consummation.

The clause 65:4 also talks about wives who do not menstruate (yet), so that doesn’t exclude prepubescent girls.

Your claim against 65:6 is just a meaningless since not all wives give birth and/or breastfeed. A prepubescent girl won’t get pregnant or have to breastfeed. Doesn’t mean she can’t be forced into consummating a marriage.

You can approach it with all the maybe this or maybe that you want, but nothing here debunks the claim like you say it does.

Just remember, anyone, or anything can be posting those ‘truths’. There is no way to verify it’s actually him, or even his intent being represented by them.

Maybe, especially if things don’t change politically anytime soon. But as it stands, all the prestige that kids dream about is in the NHL. Playing with or against your heroes. Being televised on the most watched / streamed services etc.

Hard to break that hold, without the money being there first to buy attention and players.

If you don’t know the answer to the question, than the first statement isn’t a fact.

I guess in the current wave of users abandoning windows, its a new feature that is unexpected, and could cause issues for them.

Maybe when I started playing in linux in the late 90s it was a wierd feature to me. Although, I’m not even sure I had a middle mouse wheel then. But it very quickly became second nature, once I discovered it and I hated when I had to use a windows machine and lost access to it.

Turning off every useful feature that linux has over windows, and making them all opt-in just to make it more windows like seems like a backwards step.

Isn’t it just a setting to disable it?

I really like it, and hate when I need ctrl c or right click for context menu. Especially when in some cases depending on where you right click the highlighting changes and you need to reselect the text.

Moving troops into a foreign country without invitation or UN support ? Yea. Thats exactly what that is. Regardless of who you’re removing or why.

It was never about Maduro. Retconning it to say it was doesn’t make it okay since there was never any courts to explicitly claim he was illegitimate.

Renting in some cases is a valuable service to offer, but its also a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

When a huge portion of the population is renting only because they can’t afford to buy, the few people/businesses that can afford to buy rental properties are essentially just extracting value from renters. Getting paid to do nothing like a parasite.

Makes them get ahead faster than renters, and they buy up more and more properties. Driving up prices for both owners and renters.

My favourite is the ‘carve out’ to just ignore the tanker ban bill.

Its not a carve out if you’re going to do to the exact thing the bill was put in place for.

No, the whole system found a new way to block it, so now Trump could say ‘Release the files!’ without worrying about it actually happening.

This way his thralls can point to him being ‘open and transparent’, and no evidence is ever released.

The grift never ends.

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That makes the name pretty clear and meaningful entirely outside of the existence of a Slim Shady.