silverbax @ silverbax @lemmy.world

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This is exactly why I donate to the ACLU.

Yeah, I don't know why people keep posting that on Reddit and Lemmy. Having been a former landlord, eviction is not difficult, it's just that some inexperienced landlords are not aware of the laws. You own the property, If someone moves in without an agreement from you, you evict them, or more accurately, you have them charged with breaking and entering, plus trespassing.

I once rented to a couple where the boyfriend became verbally abusive and would throw things at his girlfriend during arguments. The thing is, he wasn't on the rental agreement, she was. He refused to leave, I laughed and had his ass out within 3 hours.

This bullshit about cutting Social Security benefits to 'keep it solvent' needs to be stopped. The Republicans have been trying to do this since Reagan, and in the 80s they were telling Gen X that Social Security would 'run out of money' by the time they were 30. That age is decades in the past, and they are still peddling that lie.

I saved for years before I bought my second house (was living in my 'starter home' for wayyy longer than expected) and I didn't think I'd be able to afford a much better house than I already had - prices were exploding, houses didn't stay on the market for more than a few days at the most, and I just couldn't see paying so much more than I could reasonably afford for a house that wasn't much better than I already owned.

Then 2008 happened, and suddenly I was the only buyer and I watched homes prices plumment in their listings. I bought a house that I'd seen listed at $360,000 just six months prior for $219,000 and scooped it up.

It's one of the few times in my life I actually was able to take advantage of 'the dip', but it took 10 years of saving while living in a house that was way too small for my family.

I work with a lot of tech directly related to the mortgage industry, and it's kind of crazy to look at the data. Mortgage originations plummeted as interest rates rose (less people buying houses) but new construction - especially on lots that had been cleared but had been sitting undeveloped for several years - exploded in a rush, and it's not clear why.

I've been through previous mortgage corrections and this one is pretty tame by comparison to some others - the hard part about buying a house is that prices will rise for years upon years and waiting for a correction seems risky when you see prices rising out of your affordability. But in the past, it has always been true that the market will level out over time.

I had a mortgage in 1998 with 7.5%.

I do make quite a bit more now but I am not sure I would be able to buy my current house at today's prices (I refinanced when interest rates were low).

On one hand, I don't like when I read about 'astronomical interest rates' when I know the rates in the 70s, 80s and 90s were the same or higher than what we've had in the last 15 years. I'd prefer people understand that it's the wages not rising along with price inflation that's the issue.

'All-time high' sounds more impactful in a headline than: 'Microsoft up 1.6% in one day on OpenAI news, but lose all of that gain that one day later'

But sure, let's put a biased message right in the headline, ignore relevant context and call it 'journalism'.

Well, it's official, the CEO of Twitter doesn't know how Twitter works.

Yes, because discrimination based on age is one of the literal definitions of bigotry, but I assume you were being sarcastic, as opposed to being stupid.

I hope you thanked Obama for that, since that was his doing.

It's astounding how many people will rail against discrimination, then turn around and immediately discriminate against someone strictly based on age.

Newsom's not focused on November 2024. He's focused on November 2028.

Hey Amazon, most tech workers know you have to jump to another company to get legitimate raises. Promotions rarely provide that.

Consider yourself warned.

So what? The market decides what is needed or not. Business need to stop whining, stop with the silly 'return to office' mandates that are killing their productivity and reducing their quality of talent, and adapt.

It's business. Adapt or die.

Yeah, it's not televised, Don Jr always sounds like the most confident idiot since, well, his own father, and this will not impact the decision of the judge in any way.

Jr is just wasting everyone's time, though, so no wonder the AG left. Who needs to sit though listening to that idiot blather on when it doesn't matter in the slightest?

It's pretty much the same playbook from the USSR/Russia. They backed Castro into overthrowing Batista, who was backed by the U.S., and they want to use Trump to do the same today, on a larger scale. Putin is more than familiar with this old Cold War tactic.

Even the propaganda - Castro was able to build popular support over time with Cuban citizens. His attempts to overthrow Batista were not popular when he launched the attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953.

Russia is using social media and fabricated articles to attempt to build popular support for Trump, hoping he can get popular enough to overthrow the U.S. for good, even though he is an idiot when compared to Fidel Castro and has no idea what he's involved in on a geopolitical war.

FTA:

Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in the nation’s capital, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Awesome that they were trying to break into a car, and it turned out to be an unmarked Secret Service vehicle.

Can confirm. I read all of these stories back in the comics, saw most of the movies, but never watched Wandavision. I had no understanding of why she was suddenly the villain.