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ParticipantBaby foot Perl? Does that mean that it’s a programming language created by 10,000 newborns banging on typewriters?
ParticipantIsn’t this just a TIC (common in San Francisco).
April 12, 2021 at 11:46 AM in reply to: Lifestyles of the Rich and (Entitled) Tenant Prospects #821061Participant(Basically, 90+% of the time, it’s a housing agency that will rent out your house pretending to be a USCD parent, but then end up subletting each of yourbedrooms to incoming UCSD students from overseas for $1800/month per room, without telling you….every single time..)
If that’s the case, shouldn’t you just undercut the agency and lease bedrooms directly at $1500/mo? I’d imagine that there are online forums where there’s a market for such things.
ParticipantYou NEED to spend at least 183 days per year in FLA to claim residency and document it with plane tickets and credit card charges proving you were there
At $30 million net worth, you can hire someone to drive cross-country twice a year for you and put $1000/mo on your credit card 🙂 I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of “Florida (wo)men” do so.
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Sure, but if I moved to Utah or Nevada, I’d look for a few acres out in the desert where I could do whatever the hell I wanted. Weld and build stuff at midnight, test motorcycle engines at 3 am, raise chickens, put up solar panels, hang laundry in the yard, etc. Isn’t that the charm of living in a sparsely-populated state?
Also, HOAs make sense in structures where units share walls. They’re overkill in single-home communities. Why would I need someone to tell me what color my door should be painted or what age my car is allowed to be? I can decide that myself.
ParticipantYou ran all the way to Utah to live in a “planned community” with an HOA who’ll want to control how to live?
ParticipantThey seem to be extremely abundant on the market, but not (yet) particularly cheap compared to even 5-6 years ago:
https://www.sdlookup.com/Browse/All/92101
Also, isn’t everyone operating (and buying) under the assumption that most vulnerable people will be vaccinated in 1-2 months and nightlife/offices will reopen? I imagine that if hospitalizations for COVID plummet, this summer will be a redux of the Roaring 20s with more booze.
ParticipantCOVID is likely not going away, just like OC43 (likely jumped species around 1890, aka the “Russian flu”) didn’t go away. Our bodies (those that survived) just learned to live with it. At this point, kids are exposed to OC43 early on, get a cold, and develop an immunity that protects them as more vulnerable adults. We can’t socially distance forever and imprison people behind screens forever. We’re not psychologically designed to “socially distance” — we’re social animals.
And guess what? Such mutations can happen with ANY virus. Even common-cold viruses can mutate to be lethal. The best we can do is vaccinate the vulnerable, get back to normal, and hope for the best:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mutant-form-of-cold-virus-can-kill/
What’s the alternative. Alter our entire society to interact in person less and subject people to psychological trauma and suffering due to loneliness and skin hunger?
ParticipantWouldn’t a shorter healthy –> very sick –> dead time actually reduce the time that a person is able to spread the disease? The problem with COVID is that people can be walking around for a week with mild flulike symptoms, spreading the virus.
As far as a vaccine … even if mutations partially escape the vaccine, the vaccine may not prevent spread, but it should still reduce the severity of illness. If you can keep the 20% most vulnerable from landing in hospital, that’s 90% of the battle right there.
ParticipantCOVID has probably killed 600,000 people in the US.
Spanish Flu killed about 675,000. With population in 1918 being 1/3 of what it is today, this would be equivalent to 2 million.
This being said, say half of those people could have been saved using modern healthcare and antibiotics — maybe Spanish Flu would have only killed a million people with modern medicine.
Also, people were MORE crowded in 1918. Cities were actually more densely populated … Manhattan had a population 1.5x that of its present population, even though there were fewer housing units (many apartment buildings were built in the 20s and 30s!). We were coming off a war, so soldiers were coming home packed into troop ships. There wasn’t as much ability to “work from home.”
So despite lack of social distancing and lack of modern medicine, Spanish Flu only killed 3x the number of people as COVID did today. And COVID is far from done with us. If COVID had emerged in 1918, I suspect it would have been as bad (or worse) than the Spanish Flu.
ParticipantThen it’s an unpaid internship, since gas and parking will likely cost more than $8 per day.
ParticipantIsn’t Leavenworth also a military prison?
ParticipantFine. Don’t set a min wage, but socialize benefits … everyone should have access to healthcare, UBI, etc. Finance it at the back end by taxing corporate profits. No minimum wage, but companies won’t be able to attract competent staff by paying $1 per hour.
ParticipantMarketWatch and similar are geared towards people who want low taxes over good healthcare, don’t care about “culture”, and want a hot climate. Not everyone (not even white people) want those things.
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