Saying you want real estate to not be treated like an investment is a pipe dream. It is the most expensive purchase most people will ever make - looking at it without a financial lense is a terrible idea!

Fortunately, what you want has a straightforward solution, and requires few if any economics phds. Because an economist already solved the problem a long time ago. Henry George noted that landlords provided a valuable service to people by building and maintaining housing - but that the value of the land that their building was built on (which made up the bulk of the reason people were willing to pay their rent) was made by the community. A 300 sqft studio in Boston rents for more than a 2000sqft house in bumfuck Nebraska because it is in Boston. The public infrastructure, the businesses, the other peoples homes, the parks, the universities - all these things contribute to the value of that studio in a way the landlord had nothing to do with.

The land itself has value depending on where it is, and we should not let landlords capture this value. Instead, it should be returned to the community, which is the source of the value in the first place. Hence, George proposed issueing a tax on land values, such that landlords would be unable to profit on the value of land itself. Instead, they would be required to earn value from the land by building and maintaining something of worth on it. And when something of worth is built, this improves the community further!

I highly recommend looking into Georgism.

This video explains a fair bit of the nuance.

This article explains more.

Kind of a big statement to make based entirely on vibes.

Um… okay. Well today I woke up, drank coffee+protein shake, did some chores, lifted weights, then joined my friend at the climbing gym, came home and ate some tacos that I’d meal prepped, then did some more chores in the back yard, and now I’m feeling sleepy, so I’ll shower and go to bed soon.

I feel like I’m hitting all the marks.

I mean, we should really be asking why they didnt just take latin as one of their classes

Counting calories is inherently inaccurate

I mean, you arent wrong. But at the same time, you can get a rough estimate and adjust up or down to suit your needs. We don’t need six sigma accuracy to figure out that we shouldnt eat 12 donuts.

If calorie counting isn’t working, and there is a rebound

There are a few ways our bodies might adapt and rebound even with calorie restriction. But I was referring to the most common reason why calorie counting fails - which is that it sucks to do, so you stop doing it, and return to your previous eating habits.

rural village scenario

I’m not saying this is a realistic, or even desireable, solution for most people. Just illustrating how we all already intrinsically know that living a wholistically healthy life would lead to a healthy bodyweight (for most people, assuming no significant medical conditions). And so in the lives that we are living, we should aim to live wholistically healthy lives if we want to maintain a healthy bodyweight.

You guys are all conspiracy theorists.

What actually happened: someone who knew someone at Grindr said “man, anti-zionism is really gaining ground on Grindr, huh?” The Grindr employee said “Huh?” “Oh yeah, its like on every other profile.” “Huh…”

Then a few employees chat about it, until someone mentions it to their ad exec, who says “HWAT???” The ad exec knows that the Israeli government is committing war crimes - but they also know that as soon as the right wing media picks up on this, Grindr will become the “the secret deviant app for jew-hating gay nazis”, and they DO NOT want to spend their weekend handling that shit storm.

Hence the rule.

You can still say “Pro Palestine” in your bio.

Wait, what?

My experience is that the healthiest people arent super in the weeds about nutrition. They instead look at their health wholistically. They exercise, sleep well, have fun, and eat real food that they mostly cook themselves. They arent measuring out teaspoons of chia seeds.

They’ll die

It’s an established villiage with other existing inhabitants who have been caring for themselves self sufficiently and without trouble for an indefinite period of time, for the sake of this analogy. Also assume they are given additional supplies in lean times when needed.

But there’s no reason we need to live at the edge of civilization

I was making an analogy to illustrate my point about how bodyweight management is a product of a wholisticly healthy lifestyle, rather than a function of a specific diet. I’m not suggesting that everyone actually live in subsistance farming villiages.

This is HUGE!!! Pretty much all commercial areas in Denver metro, Boulder, and Foco now have no parking requirements.

Here’s the map!

Hell yeah! Go Colorado! I love my state!

This is a weird article, because it feels like something that was 5 years out of date 5 years ago.

“You can’t outrun a donut” has been a truism for decades, and it didnt take this study to figure it out. It is literally true that if you eat a donut, you would have to run for an unreasonable amount of time before you became calorie-neutral again.

However, we still all know those people who talk about how they eat organic vegan toast every morning (or whatever) and are still grossly overweight. Most of us have tried counting calories at some point, only to fail to meet our goal and rebound to the same weight - if not heavier. And at the same time - if exercise doesnt make you skinny, then how come all the skinny people I know exercise?

The answer is this. While various factors influence individuals differently, on the whole, obesity is driven by overall poor physical and mental health.

Bodyfat exists for a reason - to keep us fed during hard times. Modern people eat lots of processed foods which are bad for their overall health. They drink alcohol. They smoke. They dont sleep enough. They don’t exercise enough. They dont spend much time outside in sunshine, or enjoying nature. They dont spend much time with friends, and dont have many strong relationships. They often find their lives lack meaning, and are stressed out by work, bills, family obligations, commuting, social media, politics, and all the rest.

All this signals to the body that hard times are coming, so it should pack away as many calories in reserve as possible. So it increases feeling of hunger, increases cravings for calorie-dense foods, and decreased involuntary energy expenditure.

Take an obese person from the city. Put them in a nice villiage in the middle of a forest. Villiage has no electricity - so no electronics, and no lights other than candles after dark. Villiage had no food delivery - all food is hunted or foraged in the forest, or grown as crops or livestock. The villiage gets one newspaper per month about the goings-on of the world, which is delivered via bicycle. The villiagers spend their time ensuring they have enough food, building or repairing their homes, and talking to each other. Once per season, the brewer opens a few barrels of beer for the villiage festival, but otherwise everyone is pretty sober. That obese person will soon be of normal bodyweight. And I think we all intuitively know that.

An “exploratory urge” led to the discovery of one of the largest cave systems found in Britain in a decade

I see your mom finally got a new boyfriend

I’m just asking because I know literally nothing about you and I’m not interesting enough to come up with an original question.

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Gotta say, thats pretty weird. Especially considering Arlington, Va, according to the wikipedia article I read… isnt even a city. I think most people would just lump it in with DC.

Which is the real bias in this list - what the left hand list is saying in many cases is “here are the cities where we have most effectively excluded poor people from census data”. SF is full of rich tech bros. But the greater Bay Area has a lot more poorer people who will be in poor health.

Hence, PSI

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Greatest show on earth, bby!

It is very common for women to enjoy and enthusiastically participate in sex. It is less common for them to take the lead and give instructions, especially with a new partner.

I would recommend that first you just find someone who wants to have sex with you, and spend some time exploring each other, figuring out what the other likes and doesnt like.

Then, try to find someone who is also into your particular kink.

You know that was a joke, right?