SoleInvictus @ SoleInvictus @lemmy.world

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I see what you did there. Bravo.

Cops in my area get paid about 70-100K USD yearly, but it's a high cost of living area. Sergeants and above, though, make bank. We're taking $120K and above. They're just as shitty as cops in the sticks. It's anecdotal, but I wonder if fixing income alone has little effect.

Same, my parents forked out $85 for Final Fantasy 6. That's nearly $180 US now when adjusting for inflation.

Comparing median house price to median income is an instant "doesn't know how housing economy works" flag.

I included median income because it's interesting and at no point make or even vaguely suggested it has any significance. It's funny how you just make shit up to counter points that aren't being made.

I made this post to definitively test a theory: that you're shockingly, blatantly intellectually dishonest, someone who doesn't care about an honest conversation but who simply wants to be right at all costs, up to and including just lying. Like you did here, repeatedly.

My point was median valued homes aren't McMansions, homes that are defined by their size, ostentation, and luxury, which are none of these homes. But you don't care, you just want to be right, so you lie and use your own personal definition of a McMansion, which is apparently "big and/or nice house maybe with boat", like watercraft ownership has any bearing on the type of home. I live in a 1300 square foot home and own a $95k 5th wheel. I guess I live in a McMansion too! You even move my goalposts for me by pretending my comment was about something it was not, that I was somehow claiming a median valued home was a "starter home". It's easy to refute evidence when you pretend the thesis is something that it's not, but it makes you a liar.

So now we have, for all to see, clear evidence that talking with you is an absolute waste of time. Thank you for that. Easiest block I've made all year. Feel free to have the last word.

Good imagery!

Oh yeah, I suspect they just want their biases confirmed. Anyone who shows evidence that the premises upon which their biases are based are flawed gets ignored. It seems those that scream "it's just facts and math, you can't argue with math" the loudest tend to have arguments largely based in neither.

A median is a value at the midpoint of a frequency distribution, such that the probability of a value being above or below it is equal. A median value is going to be highly dependent on the area - cities with a boom in the building of luxury homes will have a higher median value that may not be indicative of the existence of more affordable housing but, in a larger market with an even vaguely normal distribution of home prices, it should be an indicator of a fairly average (in the non-statistical sense) home. But why take my word when we can test your hypothesis!

For example, the median home value in Portland, OR is $515K with a median household income of $78K, yielding a median home price to household income ratio of 6.60. So lets hop on realtor.com and look at the first three homes listed at that price, +/- 2%. Look at these McMansions!

$510K for 2500 square feet on 7000 sq.ft. lot built in 1910

$515K for 2,234 sqft on 6,098 sqft lot built in 1992

$525K for a 1542 sqft condo with admittedly nice views of the river

Such luxury! Oh wait, they're just average homes. The largest home in that price range is 2,624 sqft. The smallest is this guy which, while nice, isn't a McMansion. It's a very nice but not luxurious 1200 sqft apartment.

Maybe Portland is a shitty example? How about Gillette, WY? Gillette has a median home value of $390K and a median household income of $72k, yielding a median home value to household income ratio of 5.42. Let's see what's in store!

$390K 2,880sqft 7,200sqft lot built in 2010

$410k 3,002sqft 6,199sqft lot built in 2011

$410k 3,944sqft 6,522sqft lot built in 1975.

The largest in that range is actually my third result, with the smallest coming in at 2706 square feet on 0.31 acres. Check that one out, it looks like they built two houses on top of each other. It's weird looking!

Note: only the first house was close to the median. I had to bump the upper price limit to 5% above median to get more than two results.

You'll get a lot more space for your dollar in Gillette, but a McMansion? They're still lacking the ostentatiousness and cut rate luxury characteristic of the McMansion, so not really. Certainly not the best a man can get.

Today in Lemmy News: poor writer with ambiguous thesis is adamant it's everyone else's fault their point isn't getting across. Writer suggests their difficulties in communicating with others somehow translate to others having difficulties in everyday life. The smugness coupled with a complete lack of self awareness is palpable, folks!

Now back to Chuck in the Weather Wagon!

They really shouldn't be. The US is seriously fucked up.

It charges it so much, you'll never need to charge it again.

I thought the US was already working on that?

A microwave oven? According to some YouTube videos, Apple had this tech in their phones years ago.

OP is Italian. The u in the Italian word for university, universitá, is said with a vowel 'ooh' sound instead of a consonant 'you' sound. I'd wager they remember their English 'a vs an' rule phonetically and, with the words being so similar between languages, mixed the pronunciation up. I'm a native English speaker and that's 100% how I fuck up my Italian.

Your life will forever be divided into a time before you had one, and a time after you had one.

You nailed it, this is exactly how I describe my bidet experience. My father-in-law is a convert and spontaneously began presenting it the same way.

How did I live before?! Gross!

I had to verify the current situation in the United States is what you stated because it's intuitively so wrong. I can't believe an employer can set terms for compensation and, through no fault of the employee, legally prevent that employee from completing those terms.

Land of the free!

Without piracy, many things would be lost. I'm not going to pretend piracy is purely altruistic, but it certainly has benefits for society.

Agreed. I'll never understand why people who don't actually want children have children.

This, friends, is a great demonstration of why math and science courses are so important. Science teaches critical thinking skills. A lack of critical thinking skills often leads people to make things up to explain phenomena instead of questioning their assumptions and seeking factual information.

Mathematics, especially statistics, provides a framework by which people can critically evaluate the validity and significance of numerical values as well as generate realistic, informed estimates. A lack of basic math skills causes many people to be unable to evaluate relative proportions and effect sizes of event drivers.

Testicular torsion. As a teenager, I woke up early in the morning with the worst back and stomach pain I had ever felt in my life. I remember thinking I might be sick, vomiting, then passing out from the pain. My parents found me later that morning because I was delirious and moaning. They took me to the hospital and it was fixed.

Just kidding! My parents are shit bags so they told me I just had the flu and I was being dramatic. After my testicle swelled up to over double the size later that day, they called our family doctor who said I probably had a hydrocele and he'd look at it when he got back from vacation. For the record, mine was textbook testicular torsion, my doctor was as idiotically negligent as my parents.

The pain again became excruciating that evening and I was exhausted from lack of sleep, so I started yelling and demanding my parents take me to the hospital, which they did the next morning. There was TV to be watched, they couldn't bother with taking care of their children. The ER determined my testicle was quite dead. Surgery was scheduled for that evening and I've had one testicle since. Get fucked, mom and dad.