withabeard

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[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Constrained supply

But there are empty properties now. There is supply. House prices are too high for all of the property to be affordable. That is because property as an appreciating investment is valuable. You can only live in one house, to buy multiple properties and have that appreciated investment, you are a landlord.

Low interest rates

allow you to buy a property. They allow people investing in housing to buy many. It results in the above.

Banks pushing bigger mortgages

Sure

Help to buy

Allows affordable housing to become an investment. See my first point.

Rich people were losing to much money

Yep, some of those people were landlords who were finding city prices dropping.

Clearly landlord culture isn't the "only" problem. But fuck me it's a big part of the issue.

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.

Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

In short ... America (and largely europe) no longer makes dies for things. We've even exported the knowledge of the die making process.

"Made in America" "Made in the UK" "Made in France" all mean largely the same thing. Imported materials, imported dies, imported components assembled in ""

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Which flag do we use for English?

I won't allow the stars and stripes

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

cough Vietnam cough

America should really be the country that knows it's massive superpower isn't enough against an unwilling guerilla

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Manure or rock, sure. I get that.

Plywood or sheet rock, standard sizes of sheet rock here in the UK for in a panel van and I have no worries about them getting wet out damaged en route.

Given the length limit of a truck bed, I can get much bigger things in a van then I could a truck.

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Given your opinions are on the reasonable side of truck owners

What advantage does a truck have over a panel van for work use?

Yes I'm European. Yes I actually want a truck for some unknown social reason. But every time I look at trucks I think the beds are either too small or I think my shit is going to get wet back there. An enclosed panel van has a bigger converted storage area.

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 21 points 7 months ago

Excuse me sir, we appear to have a different definition of "winning".

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He's making a lot of noise about Zelensky not going to the polls. So ...

War, he's talking about taking America to war so strongly they can't have an election.

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Well done sir. Well done.

If we ever meet in a pub I owe you a pint

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You've started on a completely false assumption.

TBH some of the best art, music and creativity in games comes from small indie studios and developers. Who put creativity and skill into their project. They make it good by actually making it all. Games with a unique style and fun ideas come from small indie studios who need supporting.

AI is a shortcut to stealing others work by proxy. It creates content that is non-novel by its very design and by the very limitations of the tool.

artists, programmers and musicians that can lovingly hand craft the loot boxes

What are you on about? It's the companies churning out loot box after loot box that are programmatically producing them. You're actively invalidating your own point in your rant.

At this point, reading your comment again. I'm really hoping I just missed some dry sarcasm.

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’m experienced in the field of cyber security

So... go lookup the CVEs. Go have a look at what the actual threats against the old device are. What's the method of attack and do you care.

If you decide you're happy with the device. Then remember to keep going back and seeing if any new attacks against the device exist.

Whatever happens, we're not protected against 0day attacks (by their very nature).

I guess there is some reason to worry about "unknown" attacks against the device. But like 0day's, there's probably unknown attacks against patched devices as well.

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