Numberone

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[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago

Best and brightest..

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago

OP is a troll for saying go vegan on an animal cruelty thread huh?...ok...

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on this? I've always thought that housing is an absolutely terrible "store of value". Given the fact that appreciation at a population level, by definition means housing will be less affordable for the next generation. How is value for one generation balanced against subsequent ones. Also, it's an incredibly inefficient way to build a nest egg or whatever. If you pay a mortgage like most people do, over 15-30 yrs, you're paying something on the level of 150%-200% of its value over time. It seems to me a more rational way to build value is to keep housing costs low, allowing people to invest that difference (mortgage interest) into either investments or savings, rather than paying it to a bank.

I get that the US doesn't really have a culture of saving, but I feel like this is rationalized by the "my house will be more valuable when I retire" crowd. It's so easy to save now, with efficient investment products broadly available to individuals. Maybe it's time to let the house as the bulk of your wealth go, and make housing affordable again.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 12 points 6 months ago

First TNG watch throughl, she was And impediment to s02 crusher. But as I've watched repeatedly, she was a great character who made her presence known. She wasn't perfect, but she was interesting and she changed as the season went on wrt Data. I still think she was a eagerly underrated character.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago

So hot, equally baffled.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Signal no longer requires a phone number. You can now create an account. Not sure if that helps your outlook on it, but yeah. It was a fairly recent update that this was rolled out.

Edit: being told we still do need numbers to register. I haven't gotten a new phone since well before the change was made, so I haven't actually created an account and gone through the process. It looks like I misinterpreted what was going on when I read the changelog.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

Ha...guess I'm the asshole. But I still hate teams alright!

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've had to repeatedly switcho "new teams". The selection isn't sticky for some reason. It seems like it shouldn't be that hard to develope a messaging app that does file transfers and meetings but apparently this bloated pile of horseshit proves reason wrong. A second long delay when changing threads? "You'll use it because corporate says you will...and you'll LOVE IT".

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

At least in the case of Gaza the US are literally funding it to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. Unless there's some mystical magical procedure I'm not aware of, Biden could veto anything that supports Israel that comes out of Congress. A literal unused one person choke point that keeps passing weapons to Israel. The frustrating thing about Gaza is how simple it would be to stop it. Stop the flow of weapons. The US has threatened it before, and gotten results.

Please stop pretending the US can't wield power that isn't an invasion force.

Yeah, this article is also about funding...sooooo....

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

You do you, but I suspect you're on the wrong side of history. If not...we deserve what we'll get.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Majority ru...oh, never mind

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