All we have to do is normalize a debt to income ratio of 75% and homes are affordable

I get it. If real estate wasn’t an investment vehicle, we wouldn’t have this ever increasing pressure to make more money or starve.

It’s completely bizarre that a 40 year old house appreciates 33% in 5 years with absolutely no renovations or other added features. It’s arguably worse off, as it’s less efficient than newer properties and items like roofs and HVAC systems have finite lifespans.

I kind of wish home prices stayed somewhat stagnant. If you rent for 10 years, you have no equity. If you own for 10 years, you have (hundreds of?) thousands. That alone is enough to create wealth gaps in otherwise identical groups of people

I moved for work in a job that requires frequent moves. This is from a typically high COL to a mid-high COL. These are the changes I see from about 5 years prior:

Mortgage costs are around $1000 more a month at 7% than 3%. A $275k ish house is now going for at least $400k. The price and rate increase absolutely blow housing costs up. Rent for these properties rose from maybe $1500 a month to around $2500 a month. Landlords are sitting on around $1k extra each month if they refinanced around 3%

Groceries cost me around $100-150 extra a month.

Childcare prices rose around $200 a month.

All that adds up to around a $15k premium a year to live the same way I have been for the past few years. This is ignoring niceties like entertainment and activities.

I want to live in a house or townhome because I have a family with kids and pets but everything is becoming more expensive and is outpacing raises.

Boeing has a press release already prepped sending thoughts and prayers to the family.

I’m assuming they wanted the literal length of the string

I can’t imagine that’s any fun to deal with.

“You should have known what the intent of the question was. Management won’t know or care about the internals of your code as long as it meets requirements. You have failed this test.”

Or

“You should know that you’re calling a function with invalid parameters. Where did you get your CS degree from again?”

Poor question more likely

Ah, must be broken on my phone. I have a giant ad on the top, three sentences of content, black space, and a combination of links and ads.

Am I missing something? This article is 3 sentences long

Same as any other energy cost. Modern societies rely on some type of energy to exist. Maybe the poor people will suffer because they can’t afford to fill up their vehicles with the cheaper dirty fuel and miss out on work opportunities. Maybe everybody suffers because the cheaper dirty fuel catalyzes harmful pollutants into the air which everybody breathes.

I guess it’s easy to say don’t buy cheap fuel because it’s bad for you, but if the alternative means not having a job or something to people with little to lose, that’s a call that’s harder to sell.

The article is 8 sentences. Doesn’t seem like a great source

There’s no world police, so unless other countries dispute China’s claims and back them up with some sort of weight, the region is theirs by default.

That’s already happening.

Any interest in having a discussion on alternative methods to address dissent?

It’s kind of shitty for the only solution to be to walk away. That can leave apathetic or otherwise undesirable people left in positions that are still important for society.

Anybody know if there’s some sort of conscientious objector clause for the State Department?

On one hand, anybody working for the DoS is acting in an official government capacity. That is to say it’s not about an individual’s thoughts or feelings - anybody in the job is supposed to be acting in the interests of the United States. It doesn’t really matter if you don’t like what you do. It might matter if you’re morally opposed to your tasking, but the solution to that is usually to bring it up and have somebody else to the work.

On the other hand, the United States government, and DoS by extension, is supposed to work for the people. Here, the DoS should be taking a stance that works in the best interests of the country and its citizens. If popular opinion says that there’s a misalignment, then we need a way to fix the issues so that the organization can run in a manner consistent with the people chartering it. I’m not sure individual employees are the right people to take on this role, as there’s no consistent way to act across an organization like this.

I’m not an expert here, but I can see reasonable arguments on both sides of this

In the same vein that FPS games use WASD movement with mouse aiming instead of arrow keys or… other early control schemes, sure.

We’ve moved on to more ergonomic controls with custom keybinds for those who prefer something different. We get no choice with Katamari.

If we collectively decide that developers know best and that no changes to controls are reasonable or desired, then I’ll happily withdraw my request for an accessible Katamari game.

The users (specifically me) are just playing it wrong I guess.

Hard disagree on this. The controls could be 1000% improved.

I know, because I’ve purchased the same 3 or so Katamari games each time they’re rereleased and am moderately disappointed each time that they control like blind elephants.

When the cost of a home was roughly somebody’s average yearly salary, high interest rates were palatable

When the cost of a home is more like 5+ times the average yearly salary, high interest rates are suffocating

I want to have a title like “commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation”

What’s the irony?

Are we assuming that since this person purchases smoked salmon that they’re immune to, ignorant of, or in favor of lower purchasing power? Are we assuming this is a luxury purchase, so they are not entitled to slumming it up with the rest of us?

Let this person just enjoy their fish, whatever little amount they’re getting for $10.

This article is trash and does a terrible job of articulating it’s point.

What I think it’s trying to say: “Maduro demands that the US-operated company Citgo be relinquished in full to the Venezuelan Government, to include $4B in lost profits over the years.”

What it actually says: “We demand the return of Citgo from the Venezuelan PFVDA to the US Government.