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People speculating in real estate are doing so for passive income

You severely underestimate the role of real state in the current economy. Banks, investment funds, pension funds, real estate agencies, insurance … Individuals looking for passive income are just a part of it.

Especially in North America, Europe and China (but true everywhere generally) real estate speculation takes a huge chunk of investment money of both individuals and companies.

you feel that homelessness isn’t included in them

It’s not, except as an afterthought. It’s not me inventing these statistics

Reducing home prices requires destroying an entire branch of economy - real estate investment. Mind you not construction but owning property as an investment. It would noticeably drop the GDP and any other economic statistic as well as leave a bunch of people without jobs.

I guess in the mind of most politicians it’s not an acceptable course of action, even though avoiding it makes things worse in the long term.

I’ll give you a different perspective. I don’t vote in the US elections (given the impact on people in other countries maybe we should) so I won’t focus on the Democrat/Republican thing but on the reasons for selecting a specific candidate.

Step 1 - deal breakers. Determine if the proposed policies cause any immediate regression in what is already achieved. Rolling back existing trans rights, banning abortion, stuff like that.

Step 2 - vibes. This is the critical one. Don’t immediately look at positive policies you want implemented. Look at how a candidate winning would move the Overton Window .

After this election there will be more, and who wins today moves the general vibe of the entire political system. It sets a base for policies of future candidates who might not even know it yet.

Step 3 - narrowing down. Now if you have several candidates that pass step 2 equally, you can look at the specific policies. Generally you can expect any politician to overpromise (khm lie), but usually they try to achieve at least some of the stated goals.

In two-party electoral systems basically you can’t often reach the step 3, but you do have primaries so it can be applied there.

You know what’s most ironic, those executives decisions actually endangered their own lives. Who’s a group of people typically flying quite frequently? Upper management. And it’s more likely than not to be on a Boeing.

Imagine being so focused on shareholder value that you risk your life for it.

I can imagine in a small startup with good interpersonal relationships it hurts less. I was never laid off but I worked in a small company like that and there were risky periods. It might have been an exception among most companies but we all had access to the revenue and expense data. There can be no surprises if everyone knows the financials.

Theist I’d say. Having a defined purpose in life and hope for something beyond it. It does wonders for mental health and “happiness” or at least lack of existental crisis.
Religion often provides a community and sense of belonging (although this varies by religion)

The only problem is that it’s all based on fiction. Once you understand it’s a lie, all the benefits are gone.

Anger, knowing they will get what they deserve more quickly than I initially thought. I’m not thinking about rich celebrities, they are just a few people. There are so many regular people who refused to modify their lifestyle even a little to mitigate the problem. They will suffer alongside me and I find some solace in that.

Just whatever is the default sort. It’s usually mergesort or quicksort depending on the environment. No way I’m implementing my own

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Phew this was a lot. I can’t give you good advice, when I see situations like this I’m just happy not to be straight.

Edit: I meant no disrespect, it’s just that in queer spaces there is so much less drama of this type due to widespread acceptance of fleeting attractions

Made an escalating series of mistakes during a single year in my early 30s, leading to a mental breakdown. That was 5 years ago, I still have trouble letting go of what could have been

Same thing as if everyone stopped paying any type of loans. A shock to the banking system, potentially a collapse if the debt in question is a significant percentage of all debt. Many people would lose their savings.
And no don’t hope that bank owners would absorb the debt, they would just liquidate the bank in a bankruptcy wiping out everyone’s deposits.

Edit: In most countries there’s also a deposit insurance scheme meant to cover cases of bank failure. But it can cover one or two banks failing, not all of them at once.

Crack is one of the drugs I would never try due to the so many bad outcomes. Meth, heroin, fentanyl, and other opiates are also on my NO list.

Is it any similar to cocaine? I did try that and … it’s ok. But I didn’t get that wow feeling that coke fans swear on.

Recommended reading about drugs in general
http://erowid.org/ https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Expanding on your example I believe “honor” implies that the person doesn’t really believe in anything, doesn’t have an independent system of morality.
They only care about perception among their in-group.

From the perspective of a Hindi speaker Latin might as well be a constructed alphabet. It has less similarities to Devanagari than any other Indian writing system. It seems to organically fill the same role that constructed systems were meant for

Obvious troll is obvious

Smoking, alcohol, drugs, etc are known for suppressing the sexual drive. Looks like that whatever you changed restored it to “normal” levels.

As what to do about it. I’d recommend keeping it to fantasies, toys and masturbation until you find a safe way to practice it with other people. People can be weird about sex making up all sorts of rules and procedures about what you’re supposed/allowed to do. The only valid rule is that everyone has to be participating willingly and enthusiastically.

Depends on what you define as a religion. Violently forcing beliefs onto others - yes we would definitely be better off without that. Hierarchical structures of power - also yes.

Trying to explain the universe around us by anthropomorphizing natural phenomena? I’m not so sure. It could be seen as useful in the sense of philosophical exploration.

As inspiration for art - it was immensely useful.

It’s supposed to be a good practice … in theory. In practice nobody knows what exists and who’s in charge of what and there’s exceptions and exceptions to exceptions.

Speaking for software engineering perspective. I see in other comment you’re doing process engineering, I assume the term is used in a similar way

Despite trying to avoid it I end up using Amazon occasionally, for maybe 10% of my non-recurring purchases. Small electronics, accessories, and dietary supplements mostly. The convenience of pick-up lockers is hard to beat, and not all delivery companies offer it.