spaghettiwestern @ spaghettiwestern @sh.itjust.works

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In the process of doing the same.

Maga and Trump will no doubt try to convince the rest of us that shorter life spans are good for everyone, even the dead.

Maybe the fact that the Cybertruck looks like a preadolescence's (or Musk's) idea and like something they would draw explains their initial admiration. When 10-year-old boys start buying vehicles Tesla won't be able to build them fast enough.

"It doesn't scale", meaning the company might have to (shudder) hire people if our business doubles.

I've actually owned a condo that was not on a corner and stretched along a single exterior wall. It did not extend very far into the building and had windows extending all along the side. There were no windows at the ends of the unit. This place had no issue at all with natural light, nor did it feel like a bowling alley. Problem solved.

You can’t have anything but windows at the end when you have a unit between two corners.

Architects solve this by extending units that aren't at the corners along the outside wall, and strategically placing decks so more windows can be added around the deck. This allows windows in nearly every room and that's what's done with the majority of buildings, both old and new, no matter how many staircases are required. Since everything is about money, I have no doubt that it's slightly cheaper to build homes with long, narrow living spaces and fewer windows.

What the builders didn't seem to anticipate is those kinds of units fetch significantly lower prices and are harder to sell. I know I won't buy one at any price.

Perhaps, but it has become so prevalent that there is no way of knowing for sure from most listings what the actual living space of a place is. I think nearly half of the listings I've looked at on the web in the past few months are overstating the square footage by 15% or more.

Here's a link to one particularly obvious example where the realtor says the place is 2400 square feet. It's nowhere near that and they are including an 800 square foot ground level patio as living space. Even without that patio space there's no way the place is 1600 square feet.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/27373060/114-225-belleville-st-victoria-james-bay

Looking in BC and many of the places are built like bowling alleys with windows only at one end. What were these builders thinking?

To make matters worse, many (scummy) realtors are now including patio and decks space in the square footage. No, a 800 sq ft place with a 700 sq ft patio is not 1500 sq ft of living space.

History doesn’t repeat itself in every detail, but it rhymes.

I think we're well past rhyming at this point. 1930's Germany could sue for plagiarism.

It's odd that despite having been on Lemmy for a year you've never made a single news or politics post. The very best way to make sure posts are from sources you approve of is to make posts from sources you approve of.

No. If people stopped posting from every source someone found objectionable there would be zero content on Lemmy.

Someone I knew was hard-core conservative and thought forcing (other people's) kids to work was a fucking great idea. When asked about the dangers of working in a industrial kitchen or a meat packing plant he said he wasn't worried about that at all. Insurance companies would never allow it.

He spouted all kinds of other right wing BS that was almost as disturbing. That kind of nutcase is exactly who the fuck thought this would be a good idea.

Carney must have absolutely stroked Trump's ego, just what is needed when dealing with a malignant narcissist. Smart man.

The fallout isn't even beginning to be felt yet. I know multiple Canadian snowbirds who left weeks earlier than planned and don't intend to come back as long as Trump is in office, or maybe ever.

I was in the process of replacing a very old, inefficient heat pump system in January.

The DOE efficiency rebate page and all information about it was gone from the website days after Trump took office and replaced with positively Orwellian propaganda: "Restoring Energy Dominance. Trump's Day One Actions will return the Department to Regular Order."

Downvote me if you must, but idiots like this won’t internalise the lesson until their parents, partners, sons, and daughters die in ICE custody.

You're a bit optimistic. IMO most of them won't ever internalize the lesson. Anti-vaxxers interviewed after their child has died have consistently said that they still wouldn't allow their children to be vaccinated because they, "don't trust what is put in the vaccines."

I see interview after interview with Maga voters who are being destroyed by Trump's policies and tariffs. Every one of them has said they still love Trump and would vote for him again, but they don't understand how he could hurt them when he's supposed to be hurting other people.

Verdi and Rey voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, saying they supported his pledge to bring order to the southern border and crack down on immigrants without legal status.

“But he didn’t say he was going to do this, that he was going to go after people who have been here for a long time,” Rey said. “He said he was going to go after all the criminals who came illegally."

Typical Maga BS - "We voted to hurt other people, but Trump's not supposed to hurt us." Enjoy all your winning.

https://archive.ph/Mbmcm

The company used to have it set up so in order to trigger an audio alert using "Find My Device" so you could actually, you know, find your device, you had to have that device in your hand and respond to a security prompt.

It is my firm belief that Google employees never use their own products.