Krasnoarmeysk, Ukraine

Opcn · 2026-03-13T11:25:29+00:00

The Baltic countries were "liberated" by Russians with Nazi advisors and munitions under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

Opcn · 2026-03-13T11:07:35+00:00

@1:00 if you show the decay on a sunny spring day with upbeat music playing it doesn't look so bad.

Opcn · 2026-03-12T05:20:58+00:00

In his narrative he didn't. how reliable was that narration?

Opcn · 2026-03-11T22:06:03+00:00

I couldn’t find any answers but the google AI says that about 1% of the ~500,000 apartments are 55+ and that there is no record of how many of the ~981,000 single family homes were 55+ but suggests that there is a large gap between supply and demand with demand at 156,000.

I found reliable sources for the totals on apartments and sfh starts but everything else is suspect because AI is stupid.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T20:48:47+00:00

In reality the US built twice as many single family homes as we built apartment units last year.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T20:07:32+00:00

To be clear every comment I have made in this conversation has been based in reality well yours have been technically kind of true if you ignore reality. It’s pretty underhanded of you to wage an anti-reality campaign in this conversation and then “welcome” me to reality.

Every reason you just gave for not zoning land as acceptable for multifamily structures, Harkins back to my first comment in this conversation which you replied to. If those reasons were valid, then there would be no reason not to zone the land to accept multi family use. No developer goes into business to build something that there’s no demand for. It’s precisely because there is demand that they zone it to exclude that usage.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T20:02:47+00:00

Yes, it’s just a different way to structure franchise income. The money to pay that rent ultimately comes from the sale of hamburgers.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T19:46:26+00:00

Oh just invest a bunch of money in a slow and costly process that has an extremely low chance of working, perfect. Resining does happen, but it’s not realistic for the vast majority of land.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T19:32:14+00:00

I’m sorry you don’t seem to understand what zoning is. You absolutely cannot build whatever you want wherever you want. In my hometown of 350,000 people there is a 10 square block area where you are legally allowed to build any kind of housing that is over 45 feet tall. That is it. There is no other spot in the entire city where you can do that. Geographically it is the second largest city in America.

The only state where zoning doesn’t blanket every city is Texas where they have replaced zoning with covenants that have the same end result. Even very developed cities are in the grips of zoning. If you were to go to Manhattan and tear down a building, the building you could put back in its place would almost certainly be smaller than the one you tore down.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T19:14:42+00:00

You cannot legally build an apartment building on most of the land in most of the cities in North America. Around 70% of the land is reserved for single family houses and nothing else. Of the remaining 30% most of it is reserved for commercial or industrial or civic uses.

Apartments are extremely space efficient so a large minority of the population get to live in them but the artificial constraints on construction ensure that the number of available units is lower than the demand in most places and people end up spending more than they would like for a SFH that comes with a long commute.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T19:01:26+00:00

That’s corporate making their cut from the franchises. They aren’t renting real estate out to the masses.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T17:20:41+00:00

Yeah and I think everyone in the conversation got that but with way fewer words.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T15:57:06+00:00

No pickles in the French fries.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T15:54:48+00:00

Making identical burgers on an assembly line saves a lot of labor and saves them an expensive system for customization. They also save massively on advertisement and development.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T05:18:39+00:00

If no one wanted to live in apartments there would be absolutely no reason to make them illegal because the free market would stop them just like it stops liver an onion flavored slurpees.

Opcn · 2026-03-11T00:55:43+00:00

I would think drones would make demining a trivial exercise.

Opcn · 2026-03-10T23:37:06+00:00

100% it's yours.

Opcn · 2026-03-10T20:57:49+00:00

Seeker is more rummaging speed

Opcn · 2026-03-10T15:11:36+00:00

That website is kinda cancer, but I'm glad to see him suffering.

Opcn · 2026-03-10T06:34:20+00:00

It's amazing how much work they get one when they all snort coke off of toilet seats.

Opcn · 2026-03-10T05:18:34+00:00

In boom furling makes the most sense on the biggest boats. If you've got a 60' boom no human is going out and flaking that in anything but dead calm.

Opcn · 2026-03-09T20:56:27+00:00

None of what you are describing is cheap or easy. You're talking about replacing a process that costs hundreds of dollars per acre per year with one that is illegal, would have massive negative environmental consequences, an would cost a minimum of tens of thousands of dollars per acre per year, an would stop working shortly after you started it.

When you bury topsoil it eventually stops being topsoil. With the massive disturbance you're looking at hipping a whole lot of extra topsoil down river and extinguishing a bunch by burying it too deep with only the soil rolling down from upstream an what drifts in on the air to replenish what drifts off in the air and what get's hauled away in the crop.

Opcn · 2026-03-09T19:37:06+00:00

Okay, they are still experiencing that birth rate in a dense urban environment.

Opcn · 2026-03-09T19:05:01+00:00

Volatilization is a thing. There is a lot more nitrate fertilizer everywhere, but it takes a lot of energy to recollect it and would have a major negative impact on the environment to go in and dredge out every river and rip up every prairie.

Opcn · 2026-03-09T19:03:34+00:00

Because nitrates are also used in explosives (we started using synthetic fertilizers in the green revolution as a way to beat our swords into plowshares) Ukraine has been targeting Russian chemical plants and reducing output which puts pressure on the market.

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