No I’m not. 70% of all rentals are owned by Mom and Pop landlords.

You 100% are conflating two entirely different things. Nothing in the article was about people ‘hoarding’ real estate. You literally made up a title that had nothing to do with the article that you posted.

These small towns are primarily occupied by Boomers who greed drove out families from small towns and locals that were actually interested in staying.

That is entirely false. Where are you getting this from? Small towns are dying because the economy is centralizing on cities. Employers want to be close to infrastructure, and close to potential employees. Coal mining is shutting down–which is a good thing–and that’s decimating mining towns, because the mines, and businesses that supported the mines, were the only game in those towns. Farms are getting consolidated, which means fewer services are needed for farmers in farm towns. Mills that used to make fabric, and factories that used to sew garments, have almost entirely moved overseas as corporations cut their costs, so mill towns no longer have job. The big three auto manufacturers have moved large amounts of manufacturing to Mexico, leaving a lot of towns in Michigan, for instance, with very, very few jobs.

Think this through. If you’re going to open, say, a semi-conductor factory, what do you want? Do you want to be close to interstate highways? Do you want to be close to wastewater treatment? Do you want to be close to railyards and airports? Do you want a large potential pool of skilled and educated labor? Or do you want to be in the middle of rural West Virginia? (Look where the recent semi-conductor facilities are being built; they’re all within relatively easy commuting distance of a major metropolitan area. Not rural areas.)

The kids are moving out of these towns because there are no opportunities; if they want jobs, they have to move. That’s not the fault of people ‘hoarding’ property, that’s the fault of corporations pulling out, and the fault of national trade policy that encouraged corporations to move manufacturing out of the country.

No the average person can’t develop real estate.

…Yeah, they def. can. The fact that you think it’s impossibly hard to, I dunno, hire an architect and a contractor is pretty amusing. I’ve had to hire both when I lived in a city, because you need to file plans and get permits to do any necessary repairs to an existing structure. The only added step there is that you’re going to have to coordinate with your mortgage broker as well. But if you think that average people can’t hire an architect and a contractor, then you’re implicitly saying that the average person also can’t buy any property in any city that has code enforcement of any kind.

Large blue cities like Chicago have lower crime rates than many Midwestern red cities and towns.

So, no sources. Cool.

You’re being willfully obtuse.

You’ve created a title that has absolutely nothing to do with the article. You’re acting as though corporations that are buying housing in cities and suburbs are to blame for the deaths of small towns in rural America, and implying that the people that are dying off in rural parts of the country are “hoarding” property. That’s simply false.

THIS IS THE POINT. You’re taking two completely different things, one of which isn’t even covered in the article you posted, and conflating them to act as though they’re the same thing.

And no the average person just can’t buy land. That’s like asking someone to just build their own car. Totally possible, been done before by many people, but not realistic.

…What? What are you talking about? The average person can absolutely just buy land. It’s exactly the same process as buying a house that’s already built, only with a few extra steps, like hiring an architect, and getting a general contractor. You can even use an FHA mortgage–which is the kind of mortgage that most first-time buyers are likely to use–to buy land and get a house built. (You usually can’t built it yourself though, unless you’re also a contractor; the mortgage bank wants to know that you aren’t going to take the money and run, so they want plans, permits, etc.) Most people don’t, because vacant land in cities–which is where most people want to live–is ridiculously expensive.

Oh and BTW crime per capita is much worse in rural red states than big scary blue cities.

I’m going to need to see a citation on that. In Georgia, for 2022 the [overall state crime rate is 20.10/1000 people](file:///C:/Users/GA1/Downloads/2022%20Crime%20Statistics%20Summary.pdf). The five counties that comprise Atlanta - Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Clayton - are 30.5/1000, 40.25/1000, 17.16/1000, 14.54/1000, and 9.85/1000 respectively. Only Bibb (city of Macon) and Crisp (very rural) counties have worse overall crime rates than DeKalb county. Very few counties have worse crime rates than Fulton. (I tried to look up Illinois, but for some reason the IL State PD’s site won’t let me see the report.)

And ALL OF THIS IS IRRELEVANT to your claim that the death of small towns is somehow linked to “real estate hoarders”.

…Which is not what the article you posted–with your title “Real Estate hoarders dying off like flies”–was about in the slightest.

Again: if you want to buy property in a rural area–not a suburb of a city–you can buy it for a tiny fraction of what you would pay for the same amount of property, or the same house, in an urban or suburban setting. Take this, for example; if you wanted a house this size, and on this much land in Chicago, you’d be looking at a few million. Or here; yeah, it’s in the middle of fucking nowhere, but it’s under $100k. I’m pretty sure it’s not “hoarding” if no one wants it because it’s three hours from Des Moines. If you just want land, then here’s 166 acres for $59,000; It’s in Imlay, NV, and about two hours from Reno, but that’s only $360/acre.

You can’t say that people are “hoarding” property when it’s not property that anyone wants to buy. That would be like saying I’m hoarding dust bunnies under my desk because I haven’t vacuumed in a little over a year.

“Real Estate hoarders dying off like flies.”

Where are you even getting this shit? Jesus fucking christ, it’s hardly hoarding, given that you can readily buy property in a rural area for a tiny fraction of what you could in a city.

Create a multi-part archive (…probably about 250 parts…) with a strong password, upload each part to whatever the current equivalent to Megaupload is, and let them download it at their leisure.

With no accounts on either end, should only take about three months for each to be complete.

Alternatively, you could put it on a thumb drive and drive it over if they live fairly close.

It is, yes. They do a ton of really small updates all the fucking time now, sometimes breaking critical shit, sometimes fixing things. (I don’t remember which version it was that ended support for PANTONE; now you have to pay for a subscription to PANTONE also, and the plug-in is trash and buggy as hell.) Since it wants to be always connected to the internet now, it’s more of a pain in the ass to pirate, although it’s likely still possible.

I have to use it for my job, so my company pays for it. But TBH, if you’re an industry professional, there’s really not any viable options on the market. Half the stuff clients send to me are in proprietary formats.

This would be worth upgrading my PC for. I’ve already got a PS5 and PS VR2, so being able to use it on my computer also would be a huge deal.

(The biggest issue with it for PS5 is the distinct lack of games that are fully supported; for a non-VR game, it’s just a really, really big display.)

720p? Pfffft. 240i. Rip them in ‘2014 YouTube over 2G’ quality.

As Carl Sagan said, “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff.”

When I open Tor browser on my desktop–not in Tails–that site doesn’t even load. So either it is fooling it, or it requires javascript to run, which I have turned off by default in Tor.

I’m going to leave it at that.

I do lack an instant pot

An instant pot isn’t useful here. If you cook it in an instant pot, the liquid used to cook the beans won’t thicken up at all. It’s one of those things where the liquid both has to reduce, and the starches etc. in the beans have to be extracted to thicken the remaining liquid. This just takes time. Same with extracting some of the flavors from the sausages, etc.

My personal opinion is to roughly quadruple the amount of the spices/herbs used (except the onion); I find truly authentic recipes to have a little less punch than I prefer.

Requires a log-in. That means that there’s absolutely no way to anonymize your searches. At least if I want to do an anonymous search, I can open my laptop, boot up in Tails, and search DDG on Tor. With a required log-in (and billing that presumably doesn’t include a Monero option), you can’t make that work.

Pass.

Huh. I’ll be damned. I thought it had been longer than that. I remember buying and playing Arena when it first came out. I think that only one that I’ve missed entirely was the MMO and Redguard.

As far as story, I still think that Morrowind was the strongest; I’d like to see them go back to that style of play–with the vastly more complicated leveling and deeper lore–but with an open world and non-shitty graphics.

Tetraethyl lead (TEL) was introduced in the 20s, but was largely eliminated from passenger cars in the US by the end of the 70s, and banned in the 90s. You can still get TEL additives for fuels for certain classic cars that require it, and certain aviation fuels still have TEL because they haven’t found anything else that works in those applications yet.

You can blame Thomas Midgely Jr. for the introduction of both TEL and chrlorofluorocarbons (CFCs used in refrigerants).

Microsoft Edge is actually good, so I sure hope the team building it isn’t about to resort to more tricks to get Chrome users to use it.

No. No it is not.

There are much simpler ways of removing billionaires than spreading rumors that might convince one or two of them to try a new delicacy. And typically those methods of removal cost under 50cpr.

It's super-complicated to figure out how much revenue each stream earns musicians, but unless they're already one of the biggest names in music, it ain't much. Which means that, either way, pirating the music isn't harming them to any significant degree, unless everyone was pirating their music, and no one was attending their live performances.

I you want to talk about how they got to power, well, fascists usually got there by votes, and communists by revolution. It’s rare–but not unheard of–for a communist gov’t to be voted into power.

But the end results end up being remarkable similar; they’re both dictatorial, and both use state-sponsored violence to suppress or eliminate competing political ideology. (I want to be clear that I’m not talking about Marxism specifically; Marx was opposed to the existence of a state. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, et al. were authoritarian.) As long as you are part of the political in group, you’re golden. Once you’re out, you’re an enemy of the state.

…Dude. Do you want to, I dunno, read about the purges of loyal communists by Stalin in the 30s and 40s? Can you explain to me how that’s significantly different from the Night of Long Knives?