vonbaronhans @ vonbaronhans @midwest.social

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On the housing thing - there's been a major intrusion of private equity firms into the regular house market. A report came out recently claiming as much as 40% of all single family homes sold in 2023 went to private equity firms to turn into rental properties (iirc). On mobile, otherwise would try to actually give you the source.

I can't speak to the food price increases. My only thought is that most people are creatures of habit and always have been, so I doubt that individual shoppers 'not putting pressure on the stores' would explain a historic rise in costs. That said, if we did find evidence that shoppers are less savvy or willing to change habits, my first guess as to why would be people overall being more overworked and stressed. But until the data comes in, who knows.

I feel like I'd feel similarly if I had a foldable, but the one guy I know who has one swears he'll never buy one again. Granted, he got a gen 1 Galaxy Fold, so it's got some major growing pains.

It does make it different by virtue of sheer scale and efficiency.

A single human artist, no matter how good and fast they are, could ever singlehandedly damage the livelihoods of millions of other human artists. But a machine can. That's a meaningful distinction.

Granted, your point is valid in its purest sense. If we lived in a world where everyone could benefit from AI art without the real-world downsides, I'd agree with you, full stop. But we do, and those ramifications matter.

That explains why my DDG searches have been less than helpful... it's just as unhelpful as Bing. I usually find myself trying other search engines, but run back to Google when I can't find anything relevant to the problem I'm trying to solve (most of my googling is tech help stuff).

Would that work in the case of photographers? I would only think to use Maps for business that are likely to have or must have by necessity some building or office.

I'm all for higher wages, but $400k for every job? But hey, if you could make it work, I'm all in lol.

Okay, Joe Biden voted for that bill in 05, gotcha. Seems like the vote was "I promise to vote for this R bill that is likely to pass anyway, so long as they include my amendments to soften it," although Elizabeth Warren seems to think even that was capitulating too much to the Rs.

Like a lot of other policies, current Biden seems to be working to undo some of his past voting record. Not a bad trend, at least.

Uh. Pretty sure that student loan legislation far predates Biden's presidency. Unless you're referring to his time as senator and have a particular bill in mind?

Unfortunately student loans are one of the few types of loans you cannot default on or get relief through bankruptcy. From what I understand, anyway.

"rule 34 of Linux desktop configuration"

You... want to fuck Linux desktop configs?

Curious, but was there ever a time when critical thinking was taught in US public schools above and beyond what is being taught in public schools now?

US public schools are getting underfunded, of course, but curricula themselves have probably improved over time?

I honestly don't really even know how to begin researching this particular line of inquiry, and I have a background in social science research.

Neat. Looks like I have a little more research to do on how this whole thing works.

Question: what does defederating from threads.net do for a Lemmy instance? I know it's all ActivityPub, but does Lemmy have any fundamental interoperability with Mastodon-like services like Threads?

Vermintide 2 didn't hook me. But I've already got over a hundred hours in Darktide.

Good stuff.

True.

But the point is the lock-in is similar from a social perspective, just hardened even further by tying the messaging platform to specific hardware.

"Hey let's use XYZ instead of iMessage" and "hey let's use XYZ instead of WhatsApp" will be met with the same typical resistance to any sort of change. But in the case of iMessage, there's added elitism and othering due to Apple's using iMessage as a lock-in to their hardware.

I think the big difference in the US is that iMessage was leagues ahead of SMS well before there were any good, popular 3rd party mobile messaging apps. iPhones also dominated here, and still do, largely due to that early market dominance.

I've also felt like YouTube Premium was a pretty good deal, given the sheer amount of YouTube content I consume and how much I detest ads.

That said, I also feel like most of what I really value from YouTube is on Nebula, to which I am also subscribed. I constantly wonder if it would be worth it to drop YouTube altogether, to save some money but also a huge amount of time.

The only other thing really keeping me on YouTube Premium is the included YouTube music. Not like Spotify is much cheaper, and I'm not much into manually managing libraries of my own music files like I did in the days of my 2nd Gen iPod (it had a touch wheel!).

I thought the Dixie Chicks got in hot water for speaking out against GWB? Or is it some other artist/group that I'm thinking of?

Millennial - definitely use it.

But I'm basically a boomer at heart, so there's that.

Because teachers are picking up the slack at the expense of their own financial and mental health.

I suppose community building, detached from geography, is bound to be done primarily by highly motivated advocates.

Maybe that's pessimistic, I dunno.