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[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

well they were entirely made up of account executives, insurance salesmen, and management consultants so I think it's still fair to call them "ape-descended"

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's one near me that only advertises the price with car wash. So the sign shows what you pay per gallon if you also decide to spend an extra $15 on a shitty automatic car wash. WTF??

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And don't words that end in -ix get pluralized with -ices? So you'd have Aviatrices, Dominatrices and Gladiatrices. I need some of these I can use in real life, dammit!

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I haven't heard that before, do you have a source where I could read more? I know fish at least is high in omega-3s... What is it about cooking the fat that makes it bad, and does that mean raw or rendered fats are fine?

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This article is cherry picking numbers from a Redfin study. It says 28% empty-nest Boomers vs 14% Millennials with kids. Together those two subsets own 42% of large homes (3+ bedrooms). So that doesn't account for elder GenZ, Millennials without kids, all of GenX, and any boomers that don't count as "empty-nest" for whatever reason. It's not half corps like everyone keeps saying.

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you click through to the Business Insider article you can see that it's a misquote. Private investors accounted for 44% of the flips in 2023, not 44% of all single family home purchases total. That's still a problem, but it's a huuuuuge difference. Flips are a small minority of home sales.

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I prefer sabotage that doesn't have the potential to ignite thousands of acres of adjacent woodland. Somewhat counterproductive at that point.

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

yeah, I thought we killed satire years ago!

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I like the quadpod

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you switch that last Fed graph to show the percentage of total wealth instead (which accounts for inflation), the under 40 category is actually at it's highest level since 2013. It looks like it hit all-time low around 2010 at 4.8% and has steadily increased since, at the expense of the 40-54 demo.

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Even worse are the ones I see flying in West Virginia – you know, the state that only exists because its inhabitants didn't want to secede along with the rest of Virginia.

[–] wowbagger_@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Wait, what did Hyperloop kill in MD? It looks like the proposed route was from DC to Baltimore underneath MD 295 – we already have Amtrak and MARC serving that corridor.

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