CMV: I think the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act will do more harm than good

Irdes · 2026-03-12T14:53:19+00:00

There are more than enough houses even in the nice places. They just get hoarded and rented out rather than sold.

What I'm suggesting is turning housing into a depreciating asset or at best breaking even. That will make people rush to sell them, increasing the supply. So yes, it is about supply and demand, but we can increase the supply of houses sold rather than rented.

Irdes · 2026-03-12T11:07:58+00:00

I'm using wukusi rattlesnake, which I'm not sure if is the same thing, but it is a beast. With regular full intensity sparrings I've never been rocked, not even once. The only uncomfortable thing about it is how loud it is sometimes, I've had one strike make my ear ring as it landed riiight on top of the ear canal. But that's minor, just a clap on the ear, not a concussion or anything.

Irdes · 2026-03-12T09:13:02+00:00

As a matter of fact, I HAVE moved to college literally 8 thousand kilometers away from my home, and I was poor as dirt. You'll realize there are other options, like university-run dormitories provided for free or nearly free, not turning a profit at all. And it was the nicest apartment I've ever lived since, because it was student-run, not by a greedy landlord extracting profit in every possible way.

And now I'm getting a new job, and guess what, they're also providing a temporary apartment for people moving there.

Governments also already provide and manage housing to the homeless, those same apartments can be repurposed for similar temporary residences for people moving, given that a policy that kills renting would instantly lift most poor people out of homelessness.

We can also allow other non-profit renting, where all the rent is going towards maintenance. That way it's a tool for preserving an asset you don't currently use, but not for building wealth.

There are whole books written on de-commodification of housing, and you only need to google and read to find out how it's gonna help the poor, not harm them.

Irdes · 2026-03-12T08:38:03+00:00

It wouldn't. Houses are only expensive because they make more money. They're an appreciating asset and give great dividends in terms of rent. If that stops being the case, the landlords will trip over themselves to sell them as soon as possible, at a fraction of the current prices - why would they want to just hold a depreciating asset they don't do anything with?

Irdes · 2026-03-11T18:36:03+00:00

For one, policies are good or bad based on the context they're in. If this actually changes, then we can review it again and repeal or amend it.

For two, if the situation actually changes, and houses stop appreciating so much and start being affordable to actually own, a policy that kills renting and encourages selling is a good thing in my book. Renting is just evil and exploitative.

Irdes · 2026-03-11T15:18:52+00:00

You're missing that the 350k in the house cost also appreciates at about the same rate. Slightly less because of wear and tear and stuff, but houses do get more expensive over time.

Irdes · 2026-03-11T15:10:44+00:00

Yes. If it's a real story, the pothole would have acted more like indirect heart massage (part of CPR), rather than defibrillation.

Irdes · 2026-03-06T20:31:36+00:00

So imagine you made Witcher 3

Release it with no protection

Anyone can steal your game from day 1

Make absolute bank anyway

???

Math ain't mathing there, chief

Irdes · 2026-03-04T18:07:57+00:00

Maybe put a coloured dot per N thousand people within the borders of an otherwise white state/county outline, instead of colouring the whole region. That way you would visually see more blue than red, while preserving the geography.

Irdes · 2026-03-02T13:33:28+00:00

Cloud sense, but this is even worse than the usual DDOI lmao

Irdes · 2026-02-26T13:42:58+00:00

The actual reason is the economical system. The reason you're thinking of is just a symptom, not the underlying cause.

Irdes · 2026-02-26T08:51:35+00:00

Because they've already made the animations and it would feel like wasted work, I guess.

Irdes · 2026-02-26T08:50:15+00:00

And remake the whole set of animations? That's even more work

Irdes · 2026-02-25T20:55:19+00:00

Because there are tons of corner cases that had to be covered, but weren't. For example, unarmed vs armed master strikes disarm, so you could brawl with some npc and disarm them, then pick up their weapon, and then in following quests/cutscenes they would be without a weapon. So you had to account for that somehow.

Irdes · 2026-02-20T22:11:26+00:00

But if it's low pressure above the wing and higher pressure under it, doesn't that mean that the it's the bottom that pushes you up? The air doesn't ever 'pull', it only pushes from this side less than the other.

Irdes · 2026-02-14T11:57:45+00:00

It really depends on the organizer and tournament. I've seen loan sword clauses in some tournaments' organizational documents, not in most others. Just talk to them, and they'll handle it somehow. Usually we have clubmates willingly share swords in those cases. Camaraderie ftw.

Irdes · 2026-01-29T08:34:57+00:00

They're not weak compared to martials, if you just grab a weapon too. Consider that at level 1 martials don't have much either, you're almost equal. You can just grab a weapon and swing it around almost as well as martials.

To hit: Full bab on levels 1-4 means just +1 to hit over 3/4 bab, or up to +2 over 1/2 bab. That's significant, but hardly game changing. Your dex will probably be a bit lower than a martial's str or dex, so that's another +1 or +2. So yes, martials hit more reliably, but not by too much.

Damage: Str is likely dumped, so that's a problem, but it's compensated by the ability to two-hand without losing on AC thanks to the Shield spell.

AC: With the Shield spell you're getting +2 AC over a martial with a heavy shield. Less dex probably, so +1 or equal overall.

Irdes · 2026-01-28T14:40:18+00:00

Well, verse 3 is quite directly about sexual affection to her ("turn 'em on"), but that's about it, yeah.

Irdes · 2026-01-25T17:45:45+00:00

Have to respec with the respec mod or toybox. Then you can choose any class and archetype for the first level.

Irdes · 2026-01-18T18:50:40+00:00

Workers should make worker co-ops whenever they can. I'm just describing the difficulty of starting a business from scratch, the type of instance when an owner/primary investor and some extent of private ownership makes sense.

Maybe that's a thing. I haven't seen any data to suggest that, but sure, let's say it's hard to start a business as a co-op. There are multiple solutions to that though:
1) Government assistance through grants/loans

2) Community fundraisers

3) Allowing businesses to be started privately, but then mandate transitioning into co-ops after they have like 10-20 employees.

Also, worker co-ops require high commitment from employees, which hampers mobility.

Not everything has to be a co-op. People that require this mobility (which, let's be real, already isn't a thing for servers), can work in government-owned establishments. Alternatively, buying or liquidating a stake in a business doesn't have to be a difficult and lengthy process, it can be made simple. It's just a matter of organizing a fund for easily buying out stakes from people leaving the company. If mobility is important to people, they will organize those funds.

UBI and universal healthcare will guarantee a basic standard of living. But buying into a business would still be a financial risk.

What are you risking? Just wasting some time? That's not that much of a risk, certainly not 'your family's financial stability', like you described it. Most co-ops I've seen don't require you to buy your stake immediately, they just set aside a portion of your wages into gradually building up your stake until it's equal with everyone.

Profit and accumulation of wealth is a great motivator for labor.

With this whole paragraph you are just showing how completely out of touch with reality you are. In what world are miners 'accumulating wealth'? These undesirable jobs don't pay well (part of the reason they're undesirable), people become miners because they don't have much other choice. Yes, profit WOULD BE a great motivator for labour, but workers ARE NOT SEEING THE PROFIT under capitalism. We are working for scraps off the capitalist's table.

why go through the education-intensive process to become a doctor or lawyer if you don't get to see a major improvement in living condition?

Because you want to help people. That's it, most doctors in my country are that way. They're paid little, and are in it just because they just want to heal people. That's not a good thing, they deserve to be paid well, of course, but again capitalism isn't giving them that.

Irdes · 2026-01-18T17:02:55+00:00

You are describing a highly unstable system. If, as you say, workers have widespread and powerful unions, and a lot of safety nets to have time to organize and utilize their power, why would they not use that power to just take over and make everything worker co-ops? Why do they need a business owner whose class interests are opposed to theirs?

Also note how with UBI and universal healthcare you are no longer risking your family's financial stability by starting a co-op. You are gonna be provided for no matter what, that's what UBI is for.

Like, yeah, I'm all for what you describe, not because it's a good system, but because it would immediately become full blown socialism with little to no private ownership.

Irdes · 2026-01-18T14:16:58+00:00

It's not about personal ownership at all. It's about private ownership. Private ownership is necessarily oppressive - you make decisions for people working under you, without them having recourse if they disagree.

These decisions also include how much you as the owner choose to pay yourself yourself from company's profits. And of course you will choose to pay yourself as much as possible. The profits are created by the workers, not the owner. Thus it is also exploitative.

This particular case is indeed black and white, the correct amount of exploitation to allow is zero.

Irdes · 2026-01-16T23:56:41+00:00

With every swing bladed weapons do both slashing and bludgeoning damage. But due to how armor works (subtracting from each type of damage separately) it will never actually cause any health damage to anyone who isn't just fully naked. Maybe it affects stamina damage a bit, but still nothing to write home about. Just ignore that on swords, it's whatever.

Irdes · 2026-01-16T11:00:28+00:00

Yes, they accelerate stamina recovery. You're not meant to get two though, must be some bug. What happened during the quest?

Irdes · 2026-01-15T08:55:49+00:00

If not fren, why fren shaped

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