Knightfox

17 does not equal droves

Hey Dude, I doubt anyone is going to have any hard feelings about this and maybe it will prompt Jonah to bring some others on board. Either way I feel like this sort of post (at least at our size) needs some sort of validation and response. Good luck to you and hope to see you around.

This has been my guess from the beginning, the only logical final objective solution was annexation. If you're gonna drive everyone living there out and level the landscape it's obvious you don't intend for the original people to come back. I said this back in the beginning of November, come 2025 Gaza will just be a normal annexed portion of Israel.

A big part of it is reporting requirements, despite what some people think different portions of the government have different requirements. The reason a person gets inquiries about Venmo payments is because the IRS requires corporations to report that information to them and it's a mainly automated process.

Regulatory reporting requirements of Corporations to the IRS can't be copy pasted onto Pentagon spending reconciliation.

A better comparison, that is still not accurate, would be a cash business that has to report income to the IRS and has trouble getting granular details organized.

Complaints about transparency and accountability on the Pentagon budget are a valid complaint, but this is a poor example.

I don't know about abandoned, but I joined it during the migration and mainly just for a home for my account. I rarely see much content on this instance, but that's also kind of okay.

Yeah and I saw a recent post saying that roughly 66% of Millennials would like to buy if it were affordable for them.

Rental experiences all come down to the details, how expensive is it, what extra costs (can you have pets) and benefits (do you have laundry in the rental or is it a shared space), is public transportation more accessible, etc.

Back when I rented my washing machine broke and the rental company had a new one installed the same day, the bus route went right up to my building, and the Greenway trail was adjacent to the complex. They decided to increase rent by $100 so I looked at buying a house and found a condo I could afford. The condo was $300 cheaper (including the HOA fee) than the new rent, but the bus didn't come to where my condo was, the Greenway trail was 10 min road biking away, and when the HOA decided we had to install new lights and doors I had to pay for that (luckily I was able to do the labor myself, but a lot of people couldn't). Before I sold and moved the HOA was about to replace the roof on my building and we would have all had to pay out of pocket our portion (which equated to approximately 3.75x what I paid for the mortgage and HOA fee, so an extra 3.75 months worth of payments).

Also, a lot of places have more or less protections for renters which can impact things.

You are absolutely correct, but it still requires making calls, coordinating with a handyman, being available when they come by, etc. It's the same logic for why some landlords hire property managers. If being a landlord is so easy you'd think they wouldn't need to hire someone to specifically manage their properties.

While it's true that it would be better for them in the long term, it's also true that some people prefer convenience.

I have a coworker that pays the power company extra each month so that if her water heater dies they'll replace it for her. Why the fuck does the power company offer this service and by the time she needs one she will have more than paid for one.

Lots of people don't change their own oil in their cars, it's easy and cheaper, but people don't want to do it.

Coffee.... that's all I'm gonna say on that topic.

Renting is a service some people want, just like some people want to live in an HOA.

More people would probably buy a house if they could just pay the mortgage, similar to a rent to own setup, but that's not an option available to most people.

Until I joined Lemmy I would have agreed with you.

EDIT: Unless you are talking about the litterbox thing, I have heard this brought up as legitimate discussion before. I quickly squashed that conversation, but there are (stupid) people out there that believe it.

It's as real as Kids requesting litter boxes in school because they identify as a furry, it's just meme BS that a specific political group has latched on to and bitch about. It's definitely not real.

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It's the same as the Shopping Cart theory. There are a few analogous theories, but they're all the same. If you don't return your grocery cart, pick up your pet's poop, or hold your trash till you find a disposal then you're an asshole.

I think you're understating the difference between cheap Cheddar and authentic Parma.

It's like when the recipe calls for a glass of dry white wine, but the person exchanges it for Colt 45 malt liquor and thinks the recipe was the problem.