This. So much of this.

I see the same with any federated platform. People are excited to explain how complicated and clever and different services and integrations and… Shut the fuck up.

App, sign-up, post, like, subscribe. Done.

People will learn the rest if it is important enough to them to master

Constrained supply

But there are empty properties now. There is supply. House prices are too high for all of the property to be affordable. That is because property as an appreciating investment is valuable. You can only live in one house, to buy multiple properties and have that appreciated investment, you are a landlord.

Low interest rates

allow you to buy a property. They allow people investing in housing to buy many. It results in the above.

Banks pushing bigger mortgages

Sure

Help to buy

Allows affordable housing to become an investment. See my first point.

Rich people were losing to much money

Yep, some of those people were landlords who were finding city prices dropping.

Clearly landlord culture isn’t the “only” problem. But fuck me it’s a big part of the issue.

Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.

Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.

I make nearly incomprehensible screeches … is that a word

No (or at least it depends on your definition of a word). For being added to the Cambridge dictionary, it is not in general or widespread usage. Your random screech is not historically or socially worthy of being documented. It likely has no suitable examples for coinage. You screech has no linguistic staying power, it wont be used by you and others in a few years time.

English does not have an academy. It does not have a rulebook that defines exactly what it is. Unlike languages like French (as an example … with all of the social linguistics that comes with that). The dictionary is a record of how the language is being used by a notable proportion of the population.

Skibidi is one of 6000 words being added, this year alone.

tradwife is a shortform, it’s not a word

There are lots of shortform, abbreviations and colloquialisms in the dictionary. If they are individually used/cited as words on their own basis then they can be listed in the dictionary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

In short … America (and largely europe) no longer makes dies for things. We’ve even exported the knowledge of the die making process.

“Made in America” “Made in the UK” “Made in France” all mean largely the same thing. Imported materials, imported dies, imported components assembled in “<x>”

Which flag do we use for English?

I won’t allow the stars and stripes

cough Vietnam cough

America should really be the country that knows it’s massive superpower isn’t enough against an unwilling guerilla

Manure or rock, sure. I get that.

Plywood or sheet rock, standard sizes of sheet rock here in the UK for in a panel van and I have no worries about them getting wet out damaged en route.

Given the length limit of a truck bed, I can get much bigger things in a van then I could a truck.

Given your opinions are on the reasonable side of truck owners

What advantage does a truck have over a panel van for work use?

Yes I’m European. Yes I actually want a truck for some unknown social reason. But every time I look at trucks I think the beds are either too small or I think my shit is going to get wet back there. An enclosed panel van has a bigger converted storage area.

Excuse me sir, we appear to have a different definition of “winning”.

I know trump doesn’t know world history.

But helping Russia and asking Lithuania for help are mutually exclusive options.

Needs v wants

Needs: healthcare, utilities, public transport, even a minimal but quality food source. Even to the point of utilitarian but working phones/devices. State ownership where profits are minimal but go back into the state. The services aren’t necessarily free, but are run without massive shareholder payouts.

Wants: upgrades and luxuries. iPhones, treat foods, nice cars, silk bedding and those ridiculous marshmallow shoes everyone loves. Regulated but free market.

Now all your basic needs are covered by the community together. You could probably live a simple life with very little income. If you want luxury or fancy, feel free to work too get it.

I’m not saying we should…

But negative tariffs on eggs coming out of the USA and ridiculous tariffs on eggs going into the USA would tickle my funny bone

I’m not particularly surprised.

I’ve had a hp laptop provided by work before. There were DVI ports on the laptop and fucking station. I’m Windows, the ports on the laptop were disabled when plugged into the docking station. I presumed they were hard wired over to the dock

On Linux, all the ports worked just fine and I could hook up every port on the laptop and dock just fine