most Chinese families invest everything plus everything they can borrow, into a home. if property values fall, that will be perceived as a giant loss and could be a widespread freakout. so they try to keep home values growing like forevers. a bubble that is kept growing forever?

so far it seems the u.s. is happy to take advantage of the situation (iran), which isnt a good sign. another aspect is private contractors, which can apparently be deployed with less oversight. 😓

moonfall felt like i was being scammed in real time. not a good movie but if you like talking about the flaws of a film then it is pretty rich

this is a really good point. a lot of toxic socialization relies heavily on ”get in line or else”–a lot of schools, teachers, families, workplaces use this move on individuals without considering the context involved. it is a very good point. they often don’t know any better and probably have a mountain of trama themselves and have decided this is just the way grownup life works. it’s a big chain reaction man

immoral because he threw the chicken away?

people who think overenunciating everything makes them a better class of human

cool idea but i think this gives them too much credit. libs blindly support every war and blindly swallow every hot distraction, while believing they do neither. i think it is too kind to focus on just the coups.

I think his point was that there is a kind of lighter type of NSFW, lighter than porn. NQSFW Not Quite Safe For Work

haters gonna hate lol

it’s amazing how much the web is full of clickbait and fake sites trying to just capture search result traffic. ironically, ChatGPT seems to make it even easier to make sites like that. 😭