quicklime @ quicklime @lemm.ee

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I get for vacation areas this is less of an issue but for places like ny city, San Francisco, etc it’s taking homes out of use.

It's every bit as big of an issue for vacation areas / areas where tourism is the primary driver of the economy.

Take Tahoe or Mammoth Lakes for example: until the early 2010s it was still possible to move there without knowing anyone or having any other inside track, get a job (not your favorite or first choice, usually, but something to work from while you get established) and find your crappy first apartment or half-a-cabin or rundown shack or basement or ADU to rent.

That scenario is almost completely gone now and has been for ten years, plus or minus -- depending on where each person sees the line that divides difficult from impossible. People making far less than a living wage now commute to both of those areas from an hour or more away. The sense of how "connected" or privileged one has to be to make it or even just scrape by in areas such as these has relentlessly risen to a level that has had an enormous impact on mental and emotional health and life outcomes in these areas too.

All of these factors were already big in the negative column balancing the very real positives of living so close to nature and preferred sporting activities, before the rise of the short term rental blight. But nowadays those negatives are practically off the meter.

holy shit. everybody should read this.

At that time he was just barely young enough to still be trying tricks like that to hide the gut.

They only care about making sure their kids will have yachts.

pass the LMAOnade

maybe more like 'recycled' --

Meanwhile, what they serve at Chipotle is not worth even half of what they charge for it.

This was clearly photoshopped to make his tiny hands look normal sized.

It seems like there have been a lot of hints that he's scheming to win in spite of the popular vote, through electoral vote and certification shenanigans, maybe an attempt to just make the situation muddy enough in enough different ways that it goes to his stacked Supreme Court in a manner partially reminiscent of the bullshit that installed GW Bush in 2000.

I was imagining her giving him a combination makeover and tune-up 😆

tbh as far as I can tell their base is still eating it up and coming back for seconds. it's hard to fathom.

Reportedly Kelly is out at this point and it's down to Walz and Shapiro. Source: AP, CBS within the past hour.

It's a projection, naturally.

Also weird that just one of their archbishops can be described as an ally of sex abuse victims, instead of all of them.

That's still basically a complaint about how he doesn't get to.

"Where would we be without this great country of ours?" -- Ronald Reagan

"No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet."

I get a funny feeling that the decarbonization plans of the other 75%+ are worthless or nearly worthless in terms of actually helping humanity in any significant way with the polycrisis at hand. The very existence of a worldwide brand of anything is nowhere near sustainable.

Concrete production is one of the big culprits in climate change. But maybe this could be done with rammed earth, sustainably harvested timber, and dry-stone masonry.