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Personally, I like the asset diversification that investing 40% of my income allows. Buying a house at this point in my life would mean a very significant portion of my net worth would be concentrated in one asset, and I'd have less cash flow every month to boot.

I don't feel my rental situation in either insecure or unstable. I recently moved (my choice) but previously I lived in the same rental complex for almost a decade. I took advantage of COVID to move to a larger apartment there for cheaper rent, which was a massive advantage I had over friends who owned homes at the time.

he is richer than any of us, but he doesn't strike me as someone who is even remotely content.

Those two things are not the same thing.

Cockroaches make me uncomfortable, but I would not say I fear them. As a kid I was the designated person in the family to deal with all manner of bugs and just whatever.

Except for whatever reason, I am absolutely terrified of moths and butterflies. I don't want to be touched by either of those ever and I don't want them inside my house. I can appreciate butterflies are pretty and colourful and all that but I still don't want them to be near me.

this is bizarre. I lived in my last apartment for almost 9 years and it was great for the first 7.5 of those.

Things did start going downhill when it went from being owned by a local, private family business to a publicly traded American corporation, but I don't blame that on time. And my apartment _itself_ was fine, it was the common areas that were degrading.

I live in Canada (many dark months) and am a woman who knows many women and I've never known anyone to wear a vest with a light on them. I do own a hat with a light that I use when I'm walking to the gym in the dark so that drivers will see me, but so do many of my friends and it doesn't seem to be gendered.

I also fail to see how facial recognition would be analogous to lights in terms of safety or frankly anything else.

_Careless People_ should be required reading for anyone buying this crap.

maybe we just work at very different companies but I've never interacted with HR beyond onboarding and asking questions about benefits. I can't say I felt dehumanized by either of those things.

the casual dehumanization of people you don't like is bizarre

I'm 39 and the post resonates with me too. I think it's more a temperamental or values thing than an age one, but I might be wrong.

They were polled, on election day. Most Americans want this, or didn't care enough to stop it. Potato, potahto.

I've been to 45 countries and agree with the person you're talking to.

I'm Canadian and I can tell you this was always part of Project 2025, which was extremely obviously the plan all along.

So I don't know. Assuming the American voter can read and and access to the internet, it's kind of pathetic to imply they couldn't have known

though there isn't really any serious dispute about it factually

citation sorely needed

This is an interesting comment for me because if someone said that to me I'd lose all respect for them I think.

I use kagi outside the USA.

twice is not enough, apparently.

what is this a reference to?

I live in Southwestern Ontario and I think cars are crazy.

imagine using that rocket ship analogy in a world where OceanGate happened. You don't get on a moving ship without asking questions.

Google has been going downhill for a decade now.

I've been paying for Kagi for like four years. I like it but also resent that it's something I pay for now when I remember how good Google was 20 years ago.

you can really tell the people building these tools spend a lot of time alone. I work from a home office 90% of the time and I wouldn't want this to be my workflow. I don't want to talk to my computer, I want to listen to music while I work, and I want to not sound deranged and disturb everyone around me when I am working from a coffeeshop or the open-plan office or the airport or the train or whatever.

and that's aside from the obvious privacy problems.

This is a pretty gross privacy violation but it's also just... So depressing.

I learned that either my phone's gyroscope is broken or my browser obfuscates it.

Still interesting, even if not surprising.

I too am surprised anyone uses Chrome, but I will admit to feeling similarly surprised by how many people use Brave. The company seems so sketchy to me, and I wonder why people who presumably care about web standards are so willing to use Chromium-based anything too.

I consider myself upper middle class and I ride the bus. I'd rather ride my bike but sometimes I ride the bus.

sounds like something you'd say if you don't believe in anything

I'm aware.

I think you mean heresy. But maybe I don't get the reference you're making when you say hearsay

sure, except if you're Canadian like the man in question you can't do that for US law. Easier to use local-first software than influence the laws of every country where a service provider you could potentially one day use be based.

you work there. there is at least one thing you could do about it.

I had a (non-Palantir) job with a description similar to an FDE a decade and a half ago and we were just called "field engineers". It was a job done mostly by people in their early to mid 20s. The business function was there long before AI.

Everything old is new again, basically.