crashfrog

joined 11 months ago
[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Well, no; if medical personnel are taking affirmative, supportive actions for one of the combatants - as its been proved many medical staff are doing on behalf of Hamas - but are doing so under the false guise of neutrality, then they're spies under the Geneva Conventions and can be shot when captured.

"We had to work with Hamas in order to have access to their civilians" isn't a sufficient defense to that. There are already rules about access to civilians that Hamas can be demanded to follow; you don't actually have to join Hamas in order to access Gazan civilians.

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But it only moves the problem.

Yes, it moves the problem until after you're dead, and it moves the problem into the future when the value of your securities will have substantially grown, thereby reducing the real cost of your house. Both of those things are good!

If I borrow against the securities, I get cash. I use that cash. I now have zero cash (again).

You have zero cash plus a property asset. The value of that asset will grow as well. Both the asset and your securities are, in fact, growing in value at an interest rate that's greater than the interest you're paying on the loan.

So you're getting free money. It doesn't come from nowhere, of course; it comes from the future people who buy your securities. They essentially paid you in the past to buy a house, and they'll be paid to have done so by people who need to enter the securities market later on (by buying securities.)

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, this took a turn for the stupid

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You mean, lying to yourself?

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Technically "burger" is short for "Hamburg-style ground beef sandwich"

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Who will pay the debt when I die?

Your estate, via the value of the securities at sale, whose value will have increased in the intervening time. What do you think is the downside, here?

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Did you reply to the wrong comment? Or something?

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

If you're only going to live another 10 or 20 years but you have $1M stashed... do you take the $1M now and buy a fancy house? Or do you keep that $1M going for the... checks math ... few tens of thousands of dollars it'll earn in yearly dividends?

Borrow against the value of the securities, obviously, like people with actual money do.

Sometimes it's so obvious that only poors use the internet.

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee -5 points 11 months ago

The American consumer is the worst-behaved, most deranged, most thievery-prone they've ever been in history. "The customer is always right" thinking is endemic. Roving bands of Karens are straight-up assaulting workers. People want everything for free and figure "gratis" means "loot an entire two-armed carry." Not to even get started on the fucking shoplifting!

When people abuse a privilege, you take the privilege away, from everyone. It's pretty simple. If you want a retail experience where you feel privileged and taken care of then you need to be going to places that have some kind of mechanism to keep the hoi polloi away. A membership fee, an unusual location, some kind of barrier to entry.

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This evidence should give you a strong prior that it's not just a job.

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

If trains are so great why is everyone smoking crack on them

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Spies on the side of the guys who rape 13-year-old girls with knives aren't the "good guys" in any fucking universe.

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