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alphawhisky

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    Comment #49196201

    Gross. Thinking about the disparity between the consumers "and creators" of this service vs. any working class family makes me sick. Nasty business for dirty, disgusting people.

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    Comment #48991865

    I think that single family homes as a speculative asset needs to be done away with. If all this energy and investment went to purchasing, say, agricultural land, then more "little"…

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    Comment #48947225

    Yes, they aim to improve their income to expense ratio with a high paying job, I.E. they have more spending power.

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    Comment #48939255

    Civil Engineer/City Planner here. The bottleneck is legislative. NIMBY's are all over in US politics right now, local and larger. These folks put together legislation that makes it…

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    Comment #48939145

    That only covers a portion of the population. Don't forget the middle of nowhere towns that refuse to tax their citizens (but eat grant money like pigs) and refuse to allow new hou…

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    Comment #48939063

    >all generations after are the minions to serve them Serve their kids. The money is only incidental to the power structure (nepotism, classism, xenophobia) that they intend to pass…

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    Comment #48938927

    I think that the vast majority of people who are "relying" on their parents for finances actually belong to the upper class. Family Feudalism has bred two consecutive generations o…

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    Comment #48938680

    Slavery and massive wealth disparity was also the norm for most of human history, but just like generational wealth transfer, that doesn't mean it's equitable (or sustainable). Per…

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    Comment #48920266

    Rare and needed reminder in the big '26

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    Comment #48898423

    You misspelled "self-corruption"

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    Comment #48898399

    This was my thought on the issue as well. How does moving it to private companies benefit anyone except the companies (who can now legally price gouge)? This is a centralized servi…

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    Comment #48733228

    Don't forget that beyond exposing your right to privacy from the government, this info is basically a sitting duck for bad actors outside of government, too. I wonder if these comp…

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    Comment #48691740

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48686146

    He was a savant, It's not suprising that he was hyper-intelligent.

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    Comment #48585381

    $1,550 a month for what? A three bedroom, 1.5 bath duplex with a garage maybe. For a flat though? Shoot me.

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    Comment #48561627

    Speak with your money as much as you can.

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    Comment #48561580

    Well, it is an El Nino year...

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    Comment #48450508

    They're probably not looking on the first page of Google, for a start. We're at the sunset of the Information Age, that means that companies have bought all the info and are now ma…

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    Comment #48386861

    Nah I just wanna ragebait you. You have to respect someone to debate them.

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    Comment #48386761

    Bernard, this may not be the best time. This market is gonna go nuclear...

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    Comment #48315761

    Forgot the holy spirit, doofus. The God in you and me. The reason Jesus told us to love one another. You will never be righteous with such a shallow and disconnected interpretation…

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    Comment #48315725

    Autoinvest diversely and don't sell. Minimize transactions. Never invest based on the news.

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    Comment #48308887

    I think most people would argue that's just being a moral person. Jesus was a humanist, after all. I find that these days, the folks looking for community won't really build for ot…

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    Comment #48122378

    Yeah, but what about Dr. Doofenschmirtz? He has a teenage daughter and manages to push the envelope in multiple fields of science.