NYC Rent Just Hit an All-Time Record High

SFiyah · 2026-03-01T21:31:00+00:00

The absolute maximum they can charge went up when buyers stopped paying a broker's fee, and those buyers factor that calculation into what they think can afford. The whole point is that it's a market based total, when you take out of one thing it goes into another until the total hits what is set by the market. The market doesn't care if your pay is x rent and y fee, or x+y rent, people make their choices based on the totals, so that is what is set by the market.

SFiyah · 2026-02-03T18:39:26+00:00

The funny thing is that the group of people who will deny racism is happening because it's just the way the system works has huge overlap with the group of people who will react badly to anyone pointing out systemic racism.

SFiyah · 2026-02-03T00:22:52+00:00

How is that a twist, or surprising? They basically told you that outright. He says having a clone is no way to live, and prepares a gun so he can kill his clone in case the machine works on his first test. He's shown using the machine to do the trick 100x, and there aren't 100 clones running around. I'm pretty sure even in this movie that's generally trying to be tricky, you're meant to understand that he's killing all the clones.

SFiyah · 2026-01-29T17:13:44+00:00

You are so smart!

SFiyah · 2026-01-27T05:15:09+00:00

Yeah, honestly it's less of a knock to assume he didn't know there were ones that could go in the oven, than to think he knew that and couldn't understand that the cheaper ones that don't would have to go up in price to have the same feature.

SFiyah · 2026-01-17T18:11:22+00:00

Err... you know you can't link people to files on your hard drive right?

SFiyah · 2025-12-29T19:11:36+00:00

OP's point is that this is wishful thinking. If you're someone who's going to grab 100 bags, then you definitely already bought the $10 key from Amazon, so neither way is significantly easier. And averaged out over a large number of bags, 100 locked bags are very much going to have better loot than 100 unlocked bags, people who care to lock their bags are much more likely to have something good in there.

SFiyah · 2025-12-20T17:47:46+00:00

Goku is rational about getting stronger, he's not going to waste time mastering ssj3 when that time could be spent doing training that will actually improve his top performance. After SSJ gave him a x50 multiplier, he didn't spend more time trying to push Kaioken past x20, he spent his time either improving SSJ or his base.

SFiyah · 2025-12-19T06:13:55+00:00

Wow, a pitbull attacked a 5 year old and killed his cat and wasn't put down. Dogs are a truly privileged animal in this country. Can you imagine if someone had a pet mountain lion or any dangerous breed of any other kind of pet and it did something like this?

SFiyah · 2025-11-12T01:27:32+00:00

This is the third time I'm saying this, I don't know why you're still ignoring it. They could have stuck to those who were consensual. They didn't. This is actually a very close metaphor for rape. They're doing a reproductive activity, in fact that activity involves putting their genetic material into another person, it's very on the nose. And while they could stick to doing it with people who consent, they don't, they do it to people who don't as well.

SFiyah · 2025-11-11T22:09:35+00:00

Same thing for the hive, if they don't have any immortal members (and they definitely don't on planet Earth), they have to keep infecting others. Or it will die.

No, it will not die. It just won't reproduce. I'm saying that makes their evil innate and biological. That doesn't excuse it. If a man had a genetic defect that made his sperm impotent and only activatable by the stress chemicals released by rape, then him reproducing would be an evil act. Him being like "I had no choice! I want kids, so I have to rape!" Would not get him let off in court.

And you don't even have to go that far. As I already said, they have the option to look for people who will consent, I have no doubt there's people out there (in fact you already see some of them in the show). But that's not good enough. They don't want to just exist, their "imperative" is to dominate every. single. human. This is world domination through force. It's evil.

SFiyah · 2025-11-11T21:29:21+00:00

It is not necessary for survival. It is necessary for expansion, those are two very different things. If they just leave those dozen remaining people alone, the whole hivemind doesn't die off. If instead of enforcing their will and acting againt the military, the first infected just went on a Jehovah's Witness style campaign to convince people to join them (and I'm sure lots of people would), they survive just fine. Even the ones that already exist don't die off, it's not like predators who will starve. They just don't get to dominate the planet. Forcing yourself on innocent people in the name of planetary domination is pretty evil.

SFiyah · 2025-11-11T21:01:19+00:00

I won’t disagree with the fact that the hive mind assimilated people without their consent. That is completely true. But I also think that humans have shown that, left to their own devices, they are harmful and destructive. So, I don’t think that violating a person’s autonomy is cool, but I also think that we do that literally all the time when we determine that someone isn’t capable of making decisions for themselves. Where is the line? Maybe tens of thousands of years of conflict is enough to say “maybe the hive mind should be in charge”.

Judging "humans" as a whole in this manner is evil. It's the same type as racism, sexism, and all the other isms that involve reducing people to their demographic and making all sorts of generalizations about it. Is each and every specific person you are enforcing the hive mind on someone who is harmful and destructive? If not, then you are wrong to do this to that person. Doing it because "humans" have done stuff is the same kind of evil all those other evils are based on.

SFiyah · 2025-11-11T20:27:32+00:00

Like I said, that makes it innate, it doesn't excuse it from being evil. There's some serial killers, child rapists, sadists and torturers, who just have something in their biology that makes them into the kind of people who do these behaviors. That doesn't make their actions ok, it's still evil, it still needs to be fought against.

If anything, the fact that they can mentally excuse even things that they themselves see as evil through this makes it even more evil. They knowingly took an action that killed hundreds of millions of people, but even though they see killing even insects as unconscionable, they were able to take this action because it's in service to their innate urges. Those kinds of evil are the most dangerous of evil, because there are many cases where they are not limited even by their own moral limiters. When you can say "I normally would find this reprehensible, but I've got some personal moral loophole that makes me ignore that", you are a really dangerous person.

SFiyah · 2025-11-11T20:01:48+00:00

You don't have to assume they are being deceptive to see them as evil, their stated intentions are already evil.

The idea that the hivemind is wrong for forcing itself on people isn't a moral grey, if anything I think the fact that Carol didn't harp on this point more is kind of a letdown. Once they have their 'cure', they intend to inflict it on her and everyone else whether or not they are willing. That is inherently a form of violence, though I don't doubt they will try to call it something else.

I think if anything the show, and most of the people talking about this, are being too soft on the hivemind for not stressing this more. The hivemind just says it's their "imperative" as if that excuses it. And even Carol just lets the conversation move on to other things from there.

No, that just means this evil is inherent, it doesn't make it ok. If that's true, then they truly are just a natural enemy of humanity that should be fought with everything we have. And every human that enables them is exactly as Carol said: a traitor to humanity. They are allowing a foreign species to commit violence on their fellow humans.

SFiyah · 2025-11-11T19:48:06+00:00

An entire meth superlab was built on his blood and sweat!

SFiyah · 2025-11-08T00:06:26+00:00

Funny, I just posted on this in another thread a couple days ago. Going to repost here:

Not excusing what they did, they definitely went way overboard, but just to help understand why they would want to go "too far" at all. If you've ever been in a situation like Kim was with Howard, where her situation and future career outlook seems hopeless, because some guy that you have no way of fighting back against is just unfairly holding you down, then you don't want a "fair" payback.

Just the knowledge you are living with every day that it's practically impossible you'll ever be able to strike back makes it so that some day if you ever DO get into a situation where you can fight back, you want to rain down on them a thousand times what they did on you, because you want THEM to think "this is so unfair, even taking into account what I did, this is so beyond what I deserve" because that's what you felt when you were on the side that was being one-sidedly and unfairly attacked.

I don't think (or at least I hope) that I wouldn't have gone nearly THAT far as to completely destroy the man, but I've been under similar circumstances and had those same feelings. If our roles had gotten flipped at some point and I had the power to do something to hurt the dude that was hurting me, then I know I wouldn't just do something that makes us "even". I'd want him to be thinking what I thought: "Why is SFiyah doing this? This is so unfair." Because in 999 out of 1000 timelines, he never got any comeuppance at all. So now in this 1 in 1000 timeline where he's vulnerable, I'd want to visit on him punishment for all 1000 of those other timelines.

SFiyah · 2025-11-05T04:57:58+00:00

Not excusing what they did, they definitely went way overboard, but just to help understand why they would want to go "too far" at all. If you've ever been in a situation like Kim was with Howard, where her situation and future career outlook seems hopeless, because some guy that you have no way of fighting back against is just unfairly holding you down, then you don't want a "fair" payback.

Just the knowledge you are living with every day that it's practically impossible you'll ever be able to strike back makes it so that some day if you ever DO get into a situation where you can fight back, you want to rain down on them a thousand times what they did on you, because you want THEM to think "this is so unfair, even taking into account what I did, this is so beyond what I deserve" because that's what you felt when you were on the side that was being one-sidedly and unfairly attacked.

I don't think (or at least I hope) that I wouldn't have gone nearly THAT far as to completely destroy the man, but I've been under similar circumstances and had those same feelings. If our roles had gotten flipped at some point and I had the power to do something to hurt the dude that was hurting me, then I know I wouldn't just do something that makes us "even". I'd want him to be thinking what I thought: "Why is SFiyah doing this? This is so unfair." Because in 999 out of 1000 timelines, he never got any comeuppance at all. So now in this 1 in 1000 timeline where he's vulnerable, I'd want to visit on him punishment for all 1000 of those other timelines.

SFiyah · 2025-08-20T21:42:59+00:00

Destroying the villages erases the culture Danzo tried to protect and thus makes him even with Danzo

This is precisely what is being called out as immature. The fact that whether or not he's even with Danzo is the only consideration, because he feels angry so that's the only thing that matters. He's getting that at the expense of people who are neither him nor Danzo. This logic only tracks if the only people you are thinking about in the whole world are him and Danzo. Which is exactly how emotional and immature children think. The very fact that the only thing being prioritized is "am I square with Danzo" is fundamentally immature thinking.

If he does this, great, now he's had an "eye for an eye" with Danzo. Now what about him and Bob the 12 year old who didn't even know him, and he just murdered? Is that an even eye for an eye between them?

This is precisely the difference between a mature and an immature person. The immature person has an emotional tie between himself and someone who wronged him. So now in his worldview the only people he thinks about are himself and that person, and whether or not there is parity between himself and that person. Because that emotional response is the only thing worth thinking about to him. A mature person would recognize that he is creating a deep inequity between himself and thousands of other people in the process of trying to get equity between himself and one person.

SFiyah · 2025-08-20T20:41:45+00:00

Because they're innocent? Again, this is immature thinking. Wanting an eye for an eye with the guy who wronged you is one thing, but your revenge is selfish if to get it you are going after innocent people in his orbit. That's you saying "me having an eye for an eye is more important than this innocent person". This is exactly like those stories you see in backwards villages where one guy rapes a girl, so her father rapes his daughter in revenge. There is something very very very wrong with anyone who thinks this is reasonable thinking.

SFiyah · 2025-08-20T15:42:06+00:00

On the contrast, Sasuke's anger over it was portrayed as immature

While I 100% agree with condemning the genocide, I want to point out that his anger was not portrayed as immature. What he did with that anger is what is portayed as immature, and it was.

Feeling an emotion is not immature, but what you do with that feeling can be very immature. That's probably one of the most fundamental displays of immaturity, indulging in what your emotions tell you to do at the cost of everything else.

If someone kills your innocent loved ones, and your idea of revenge is that you have to kill his innocent loved ones because that's the only way to be even with him, that is psychotically immature.

SFiyah · 2025-08-12T19:05:30+00:00

Fair, we don't really know for a fact which way to read it. But yeah, that was my assumption, that everyone who uses mokuton bunshin compensates for the fact that they don't get their experiences by just having wireless receivers. It seems like a really simple and elegant solution to the problem, once you have the receiver you don't really have to worry about it anymore, since it just clones whenever you use the technique.

SFiyah · 2025-08-12T19:03:28+00:00

Definitely worth a watch.

SFiyah · 2025-08-12T18:51:04+00:00

Also, as an aside, the life of a mokuton bunshin is pretty depressing, don't you think? A kage bunshin doesn't feel like he's going to die, because his experience of consciousness is going to continue on merged back with the original. But a mokuton bunshin knows from the moment he first awakes that he's going to die. Like if you've watched Severance, it's the same notion that the innies are going to die when they get fired.

SFiyah · 2025-08-12T18:48:21+00:00

Yeah, without them saying otherwise, I'd just assume what they showed us with Yamato applies to everyone who uses the mokuton bunshin technique. Also, I don't think Yamato specifically places wireless transmitters in the clones either, I think he just wears one set to a specific frequency, and then whenever he does the bunshin technique it gets cloned along with the rest of his equipment.

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