ilinamorato @ ilinamorato @lemmy.world

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The "I want to buy your house" things are a little bit different, because they're usually not technically scams (though they are definitely predatory). If you work with them, you will probably receive money in exchange for your house. It's just that your sale price is likely to be far, far below what you could've received by listing it yourself on the open market.

They're exclusively targeting people who don't know how much their property is worth. Usually people in transitioning neighborhoods who bought their home 40 years ago for $10k, who don't know that their property alone is worth $200k today and will happily take $80k cash from some rando on the phone because they think the 800% return is a great deal.

I've lived in neighborhoods like that for a while. The phone calls we receive are insane; in our old house, which we knew was worth $300k because we had just had it appraised to put it on the market, the guy on the phone offered us $65k sight unseen. I was like, "if you even took the twelve seconds to look at this property on Street View you'd know why that is a laughable idea."

Definitely true, though Elon paid enough money to Trump that he's probably going to make sure there's a cutout in any tariffs for Tesla's batteries (which are largely made by CATL in China). Besides, cheap power means that even with tariffs raising the prices of batteries, BEVs are still going to be worth driving.

There's too much money in renewables for rich people. The tariffs may or may not happen, but the renewable switch is a runaway train, and almost entirely in the country.

On the electricity futures market, wind producers regularly sell their power for negative prices (paying transmission companies to take their power) because it's so cheap for them to make, with such negligible overhead; since the government subsidies are based on the mWh they produce, they can sell it at a loss and still make money. But even if those subsidies go away, renewables can still easily undercut every other producer on the grid.

That's just one example. The same tipping point is approaching fast all over just about every industry. Obama and Biden got the renewable energy industry over the hump of research and infrastructure outlay, so now Tr*mp gets to take the credit for their work while it all falls into place; and because the rich people are benefiting from it financially, they're going to protect the industry.

Yeah. I mean, I get it. Communities are formed around shared values and beliefs. If they weren't, those communities would fracture and fall apart and they wouldn't be communities anymore; and humans die when they're alone. So changing your belief systems or admitting you're wrong has an actual, measurable impact on you--on a biological level--making you feel like you're going to die alone and your genetic line will end. It feels like an existential threat. It's scary.

But it's worth it; and in this big, diverse world, it's possible to find a new community now, where it hasn't been for most of our species' history. We've grown to the point where we don't have to follow that deep-brain worry anymore.

Some people don't agree.

Yeah, well, losing two console generations in a row will do that.

I'm a parent, and I don't want special treatment. Some consideration would be nice, but honestly I just want every employee to be treated like adults.

In French, it is!

When a populist says, "all X are evil!" and you think, "wait, I know an X, that person's not evil!" you have two options.

Option 1: "...therefore the populist must be wrong!"

Option 2: "...therefore that X I know must just be one of the good ones."

#2 is short-sighted. Seriously? Of every X in this country, you just happen to know one of the good ones?

But #1 would mean that you were wrong for ever listening to that populist in the first place. So obviously #2 is the choice.

Actually, I say "rat," but the article immediately above this one in my feed is a scientific study about how rats are in fact quite altruistic.

I don't begrudge anyone trying to get out of poverty. This is another failure of the system. Mangione struck against that system, and a different arm of the system struck back.

If the worker had been paid reasonably, if wages had not stagnated for the last three decades, if the ruling class didn't demand infinite profit out of a finite system, neither event would've happened.

The real rat here is McDonald's, making the reward money enticing by paying too poorly.

The problem as presented is that the player they want to use pays them less money. Every other platform would pay them no money, or negative money.

So.

Yeah, I get twitchy when I have more than about ten tabs open. My senior regularly has thousands, across multiple browser windows. There are two types of people.

That would be awesome. If elected, she would be the first president younger than me. And since she's undoubtedly smarter than I am, I'm cool with it.

"Run and buy that turkey in the shop window and I'll give you a shilling!"

"For what reason do you want a turkey on your Arch Linux, sir?"

I forgot about that! "Everyone loves us, but maybe for your safety don't tell anyone you work here."

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Honestly I kinda wonder if he's afraid for his own life. He had a lot of people calling for his head last year, and this kind of overreaction seems pretty in line with somebody who is just beside themselves with terror.

It's not your right to (do) work. It's the employer's right to (have) work (provided to them at low cost). So you're absolutely right about the FFPUWW.

It's not your right to (do) work. It's the employer's right to (have) work (provided to them at low cost).