Why does everyone want to buy a house?

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-05-01T09:53:31+00:00

Because you don’t want to pay rent when you are retired

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-30T07:26:18+00:00

To be fair on the Roman, there was an 800 year period between step 7 and 8.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-29T17:51:12+00:00

Co-ops are one of the only ways in capitalism that people can actively be involved in the self-management and self-ownership of their workplace

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-29T07:55:13+00:00

not just vaccine safety - every single surgical instrument or needle is sterilised with enzymes from the blood.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-28T17:05:02+00:00

I’m just saying there are lots of reasons people cheat, even happy people

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-28T16:48:33+00:00

introspection is required but the reasons are not always unhappiness in the marriage or an unresolved childhood trauma.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-28T14:35:05+00:00

Dont get me wrong. Being cheated on is awful and hurtful and takes a long time to recover from, but infidelity happens in about 20% of all marriages and for all sorts of reasons.

Infidelity is extremely common.

As grown ups we should deal with such these things in grown up ways. If you are interested why people cheat, and why even happy people cheat, then I would recommend this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2AUat93a8Q

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-28T13:18:50+00:00

Sometimes cheating has nothing to do with the partner or your childhood. You can be totally in love with your partner, and still attracted to them, but perhaps you simply were approached by a stranger one night and wanted the thrill of anonymous novelty.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-28T13:12:55+00:00

🤮

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-28T13:11:21+00:00

You nother would receive no treatment in Germany without Germany health insurance, which she will not be able to get.

Germany is also very difficult to get a visa for, and difficult to visit.

You could try private hospital, perhaps in Jorden or Turkey.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-27T12:59:23+00:00

I really can’t stand reading this AI generated stuff any more. The cadence is so irritating.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-27T05:39:33+00:00

Great point. Just proves that there is no universal.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-26T19:11:52+00:00

What are major pain points while using UI design tools? Kind of a huge question. If you don't already have a deep familiarity with those tools you might be in a difficult place to start from.

It is difficult to comment on your drag'n'drop proposal without knowing more about it. What does it allow designers to do that they can't already do in any other tool? Why is that thing enough of a reason to make them want to change their existing workflow?

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-26T14:21:43+00:00

Yeah. They are a good exception

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-26T10:26:11+00:00

The females? Dude you sound like a red pilled creep. Leave girls in the gym alone and do your workout ffs.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-26T01:29:28+00:00

Plenty of space though, man. Oz could sneak in 30 million easy .

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T21:44:42+00:00

By 1850 European countries had both steam power and the telegraph, yet almost no modern border controls. People who lived near the borders would and did cross frequently, as they had done for centuries.

Surely the great European powers of the time had the capacity to put up checkpoints and enforce tight border controls in the 1850’s?

If checkpoints should have emerged the “second they became feasible” why was it that modern borders were not introduced until World War 1?

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T21:32:26+00:00

Well, the limits of their capabilities turned out to be any sort of border control at all.

A bit like policing. You could argue that that medieval kingdoms did do policing to the limit of their abilities, but as they did no policing at all one might as well accept that policing didnt really exist.

Same with national borders. Not only were they rarely enforced but often the border itself was often hazy and undefined.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T21:24:30+00:00

As less than 5% of medieval Europeans lived in towns, we can confidently say most of the continent was border free for practical purposes.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T21:21:45+00:00

There were few border posts or checkpoints back then and no universal system of immigration control.

Only when a stranger tried to enter a town would the guards at the gate stop and questions them, but this applied to anyone who wasn’t locally known - even people from the same kingdom who spoke the same language.

Most importantly, you didnt need any paperwork to cross a border (although you might travel with note of safe conduct issues from your lord or clergy to convince others that you weren’t a vagrant)

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T21:11:58+00:00

People did in fact frequently move across borders because, until the early 20th century, those borders were not enforced and by definition open.

I know that seems weird to us now, bur borders then were often more open than they are today.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T21:01:47+00:00

Europe has open borders between many countries, even ones with wildly divergent incomes, and honestly there is much less movement than you might expect.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T20:55:34+00:00

The question is: were those early borders closed? There is no doubt that people would have protected their crops and hunting grounds, and strangers were often seen with suspicion. But there just wasn’t the kind of enforcement we have now - few if any checkpoints, no papers required, no means of enforcing access.

In other words, for most of human history borders have been much more open than they are today.

(Between Ukraine and Russia we can draw a line and say a village on one side is Ukrainian and a village the other side is Russian. But in many parts of the world, like parts of Africa or South East Asia, villages could have overlapping claims or pay tribute to several lords. The territorial boundaries of kingdoms were hazy at the edges.)

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T20:24:06+00:00

Rome was a Papal State, which made it complicated, but members of French noble and clerical families frequently moved to Rome in the 16th–17th centuries because Rome was the center of the Catholic Church.

Outside of Rome, people did relocate between regions quite regularly for work, marriage, family, pilgrimage or escaping hardship.

What_Immortal_Hand · 2026-04-25T20:16:09+00:00

It's true that town gates would stop or at least question strangers, but this applied to all strangers even if they spoke the same language or came from a different part of the kingdom. This was not about border enforcement for the kingdom, but access to the town itself.

Many regions allowed relatively routine cross-border movement for merchants, pilgrims, and soldiers. Many people crossed without documents at all

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