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BigB0ss13 posted...

Blame landlords for charging rent as if those businesses make million of dollars of profit per month. Not sure what their end game is

This is about half the reason my downtown is so dead. They never reduced rent, they just write off vacancies on their taxes instead. Our skyways are completely devoid of foot traffic or locked down, and the property owners are still charging insane rent.

There needs to be a vacancy tax, full stop. Apartments AND storefronts.

Yes, the little breakfast burritos are so good

rare that I'm out of the house early enough to get them on the weekend though, maybe once every few months

STEROLIZER posted...

My city really needs to concentrate on getting the stores to renew their leases first. Its a damn ghost town out here

is it actually? curious to hear it from someone who actually lives there, vs news and Twitter posts from people who aren't actually there.

i lived downtown in my city until late 2020, it's pretty much unrecognizable now despite the people who claim everything is great

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Knowledge gained by the game existing for like 13 years now

ClayGuida posted...

Whitmer is out there.

Forgot about her. I'd vote for Whitmer over any other candidate, her ability to deal with the absolute insanity that is Michigan these days is probably exactly what we need. Not actually very big on Newsome, but I'd vote for anyone under 80 that isn't a hawk tbh.

I see Abbott or Haley, for repubs, Newsome for Dems.

It feels like Dems don't have very many really popular candidates at the moment, I feel like everyone in 2016 for the Dem caucus has pretty good pull.

NeonOPPAl posted...

The lack of traffic during the lockdown was so fucking amazing. I even got hazard pay bonus for a few weeks which was like 25% of my regular check I think. Otherwise it was business as usual during lockdown >_>

The lack of traffic was amazing, I agree. Riding my motorcycle full tilt during what would have been peak rush hour was something I'll probably never get to experience again.

thronedfire2 posted...

My job paid everyone 15-25% extra for all of 2020 and most of 2021 until the PPP money ran out

Damn, I wish my company did that.

Mistere_Man posted...

Like travel back in time 20 years, or I suddenly have a younger body?

This

UnsteadyOwl posted...

People whose labor is literally necessary to keep society functioning on a day-to-day basis don't deserve to get paid a decent wage. I don't understand how anyone finds that a perfectly acceptable way for society to function.

It isn't, and unfortunately it wasn't the catalyst for change, either.

FinalBraveNUT posted...

What is "woke" ?

And to the guy saying he was salty to work thru covid. Yes! Exactly. I was pissed but had to pay the bills somehow?

I'm not annoyed that people had to work from home, just annoyed by the people that complained about working from home while others were risking their health without any choice. I know people who were playing Overwatch for like, half their workday WFH and still complaining about how much it sucked. Rubs me the wrong way.

My office would cater lunches throughout the entire pandemic for the staff that worked on-site, as an apology for having to put themselves at risk. Once the WFH people found out about it, they would come to the office on the days we had catering, grab lunch, and go home. It was getting so bad that the people who worked IN-OFFICE couldn't get the food that was ordered for them, since they were running out of food by the time you could take your lunch break.

Little things like that still have me a bit salty.

FinalBraveNUT posted...

What is "woke" ?

And to the guy saying he was salty to work thru covid. Yes! Exactly.

If anything, I hope that the Covid shitshow will be the groundwork for responding more quickly and effectively to future pandemics, but in reality I think the government just figured out how many people they can throw into the meat grinder and the limits of what people will put up with.

Number090684 posted...

It was mainly false flattery to trick service workers to keep working.

It didn't even work, either. Service workers aren't stupid, they saw through that immediately.

I personally get extremely annoyed when people complain about having to work from home during covid, since all my work is done in a lab on-site. I would have killed to work from home.

There's going to be a shift where people simply stop buying it, I assume. I've already stopped buying fast food, it's simply not worth the cost anymore.

I think McDonald's specifically was intentionally seeing what the market would bear.

Dudebusters posted...

Sorry bro, I just see you always rush to Trump's defense in topics so I naturally assumed

Show me one time

StealThisSheen posted...

By all means, please post examples of them actually carrying out violent enforcement.

When people like you say things like "Under the current government, we must be scared of X," I hope you can support that argument.

EDIT: And I really do hope you can support said argument, instead of disappearing from the topic like the coward you usually are.

That it exists is all I was stating. I don't have any issues with IRS enforcement agents, and I think the rich should pay their taxes. I'm not arguing anything.

Dudebusters posted...

Why do you lot appear to think Trump has it in the bag? You seem so confident, I'd love to hear why, specifically.

People like @pretzelcoatl for example seem very confident in a Trump victory. Can you explain why? With the way some of you speak, it seems like people would be silly to expect otherwise, so I'd love to know the logic behind these claims. Tickle my knowledge bone please!

I'm not a trump voter or supporter and I don't think I've ever interacted with you. Why are you mentioning me?

This seems like you're deliberately trolling or provoking.

StealThisSheen posted...

Which accountants carry guns, exactly? Please explain?

There's an enforcement branch of the IRS...how on earth are you not aware of this?

Thank god

Turbam posted...

Mario Odyssey is the best I've played

Mario Odyssey is king

It's not collapsing, im sure they're seeing how much they can squeeze out of AI. Also, the average consumer has less and less money to spend on microtransactions, which is probably causing a revenue dip.

The cycle of aquire beloved studio, force beloved studio to churn out live service mtx dogshit, lay off/dissolve studio when players don't want to play dogshit is taking a heavy toll as well.

tip sirloin was on sale, made my wife and i steaks with mushroom, asparagus and some mashed potatoes

Moon gravity/full special bar in Tony Hawk games.

1337toothbrush posted...

The whales can dump on the peasants using a shit exchange.

It was 3 exchanges. Robinhood, Coinbase, Kraken all stopped processing orders right near the peak, at the same time. Sketchy shit.

pezzicle posted...

looks like this exact thing happened

It was obvious that it would, but I'm curious to see what it looks like in a week. My guess is this rally isn't over. Part of it is a volume dip, I know RH transactions started not going through right near the peak, seeing a lot of posts about orders pending and not filling on Twitter.

I'm not really that good at video games, I just enjoy them. I think I'm one of the better Survival Hunters in WoW (based on logs) and certainly the top-2nd from the top dps in my guild, but not a pro gamer.

I'd be willing to bet this likely hinges on method of intake (smoking or vaping) vs oral ingestion. We know smoking is bad for you, we've known that for decades. It's likely not the marijuana itself, but that obviously needs to be studied.

That being said, I feel like people should be free to make their own choices. Treat it like cigarettes, limit it in public places and inside of buildings, and let people make their own decisions.

EndOfDiscOne posted...

This is just comical now. If it actually hits a new ATH, this will be the craziest run Ive seen in my 5 years buying

I think there are some waiting to dump near 65k to break even from the last run

SilvosForever posted...

I think we are witnessing the pump before the dump. If you're up a lot, I'd consider cashing out soon.

I think it's a combination of bitcoin etfs and the upcoming halving, but pump and dump could be real

SilvosForever posted...

Just buy a S&P 500 total index fund like VOO a bit every week and don't check on it for 20 years - boom you're a secret millionaire congrats. Hands off, easy, as consistent as anything else.

I already do this between SPYG and QQQ, alongside some dividend etfs. Rarely do I buy single stocks.

jediknight0056 posted...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency is dead

I think you're wrong, but agree to disagree

Board_hunter567 posted...

Whales laundering their NVDA gains.

Safe to say that NVDA isn't going to stay as high as it is, to be fair

archizzy posted...

Financially Im set. I make good money in a low cost of living area. My house is completely paid off, my vehicle is paid off and my only monthly bills are required monthly bills. I live pretty damn cheap. Im just stockpiling cash into investments month after month. Money isnt going to keep me working, insurance coverage will.

If something were to ever change and insurance was taken care of, Id retire much earlier. I have excellent retirement through my work. They contribute 200% of what I put in monthly. My retirement fund is quite nice at this stage.

200???? What is the % limit?? What the hell do you do for work, man?

Had a guild member come out of early retirement to stock up on more bitcoin about three months ago, he pretty much told everyone to buy as much as they could.

Now that I'm looking at the price, I kind of regret not doing it (even though I don't really mess with crypto)

Ratchetrockon posted...

I was top 30 in one of the minigames in ragdoll kung fu. The one where you have to shake tf out of the controller and aim ur character at targets.
Wanna say I was at 19th place or something close to it

but I doubt many ppl took that game serious enough to go for high ranks tho. My placement could have easily been beaten by any1 that tried. Since it was just something I attempted for a few days as a kid

I miss basketfish

how tall are you?

lydiaquayle posted...

This part I disagree with. Only because you'll find that almost all of our military investment in other countries results in a net-positive to our economy (except for the War in Afghanistan). Our involvement in the Middle East gets us cheap-ish oil without ruining our own environment.

Preventing Russia from trying to re-establish the Eastern European bloc is mutually beneficial. We get to keep tabs on our allies, and in exchange, they let us build military bases to prevent our known enemies from getting too powerful.

ALL of our military aid to Ukraine is in the form contracts where US military companies get to hire US workers and pay taxes on profits. Giving aid to Ukraine does not prevent us from trying to fix homelessness or poverty in this country.

So you can't argue that military aid make us poor. In fact, I contend that America's economic strength is predicated on its imperial strength as a military and diplomatic power.

Fair enough, I'll chew on this.

Zikten posted...

So you want us to just watch Ukrainians get murdered? Plus, after they conquer Ukraine, they plan to invade Poland

Nobody's asking India to step in and stop what's going on in Ukraine, they're a global superpower too.

If they attacked Poland, every single NATO country would be obligated to attack Russia

i think I was like....4 years old.

i don't think the US should be getting involved in any foreign wars or distributing billions of dollars in foreign aid for any reason until we can fix our poverty and homelessness in our own country, period. we're not the world police and we should get involved anytime something happens in another country. but that's just my onion.

How did you know something was wrong?

Mecha_Sonic posted...

I've seen a hundred IPOs like Reddit before. The trajectory is always down.

yeah. tumblr just announced they're doing the same thing reddit is doing with selling user data for AI training, so it's not like they're even offering a unique product

MrDrMan posted...

I think the user data will end up being extremely valuable. At that point it just becomes a discussion of how ethical it is.

You have users going to dedicated communities. From a business and marketing standpoint thats about as easy as it gets. You already know the customers interest and what is valuable to them. The hard part is done. Thats huge.

I may be completely wrong though.

Facebook has similar things going for it though, alongside that account being tied to basically every person they know irl. I question the value of that data, especially when there's probably a big overlap between FB and reddit in being able to tie those preferences to specific user bases (fb community groups for example).

MrDrMan posted...

I think the user data will end up being extremely valuable. At that point it just becomes a discussion of how ethical it is.

You have users going to dedicated communities. From a business and marketing standpoint thats about as easy as it gets. You already know the customers interest and what is valuable to them. The hard part is done. Thats huge.

I may be completely wrong though.

I look at how site content moderation changes when going public or when money gets involved, and i look at a lot of the site traffic being niche nfsw communities, political communities, etc. I don't see those facets of the site being unaffected, and the reddit base in particular is very outspoken about perceived censorship.

I see the user base shrinking as a result of moderation policies changing to make reddit "palatable" and "profitable", and I'm personally skeptical of investing money in it at this point in time. But that's just my onion.

I'm not touching it personally. I don't really think they have much to offer outside of using user submissions for AI (which apparently they are going to be doing soon?) What do they have to sell outside of ads and user data, something that every other social media platform also has?

It seems like every social media site is desperately seeking other avenues of revenue as ad payouts continue to collapse. Doesn't really make me want to invest. But you can make your own decisions.

Takis of any flavor are dogshit, give me the money. 10,000 please.

Lala supremacy, you're wrong and you should feel bad

I would hate to get slashed

Tyranthraxus posted...

Skip the first one and go straight to TR2, then when you're done, play TR2 again instead of 3.

Wrong. Nothing cooler than Atlantis in TR1.

trivialbeing posted...

would a man who was buried alive still have juices thousands of years later?

that part always bugged me about The Mummy (1999)

I would still have my juices