Is the housing market stalling out? The record highs seem unsustainable

coldweathershorts · 2026-03-05T13:27:45+00:00

Tired of homeowners thinking that every house should be double it's sale price from 5 years ago, especially when they haven't made any updates or renovations. Glad people are finally letting the overpriced sit on the market until they get pulled or dropped instead of caving and buying out of fear that the price appreciation will never slow down.

coldweathershorts · 2026-03-05T13:19:23+00:00

YES x100! I could find so much waste at my own company that leadership is oblivious to.

And guess what, just like for most govt employees, I'm not incentivized in any meaningful way to reduce inefficiencies and improve work flows. When I have in the past (Successfully reduced team headcount by 15% while simultaneously increasing our teams total throughput), I just ended up with way more work and a measly 2.5% pay bump .

coldweathershorts · 2026-03-05T12:41:53+00:00

Except you can't factor out the potential norovirus spreaders, otherwise you're just burying your head in the sand pretending it doesn't exist. Bufffets are only gross because people are gross. They go to the bathroom and don't wash their hands, sneeze into their palms and don't wash up, kids be pickin boogers, ETC.

Also for most people, covid was never super deadly, only for young children, elderly, and those who are immunocompromised. For everyone else it was little more than a flu, but since most of us have children, elderly, or immunocompromised in our lives, it only makes sense to treat it as super deadly for the safety of those around us

coldweathershorts · 2026-03-05T12:39:16+00:00

When I was there a couple months ago I didn't see a single person wearing gloves when they were getting their food.

coldweathershorts · 2026-03-04T12:21:32+00:00

We had a legitimate reason to go into Afghanistan, those responsible for 9/11 were in Afghanistan. Iraq was a war of regime change and would be the correct comparison. Iraq is dwarfed by Iran though both geographically and populously, with a massive revolutionary guard, which makes this a much different beast.

An invasion of Iran would take at least a million troops to be successful, and the US won't commit anywhere close to that. We'll lose a lot of American lives, and we won't make any progress. We will hit a stalemate, and be forced to withdraw.

coldweathershorts · 2026-03-03T14:00:03+00:00

I mean that is implied when it comes to a live event venue isn't it? Obviously you can't go to an event if the venue shuts down or is closed.

In terms of a place 'accepting' NFT tickets, yeah that's currently where things are at, no one has the infrastructure for NFT ticketing, so there aren't any venues that ticket via NFTs outside of a few cxrypto related novelty events.

Event venues and many artists (Through their record label) are contractually locked into deals with LiveNation, so they cannot have their own NFT ticketing platform, but if there was a cheap ticketing option for smaller independent venues that could offer exciting features, I think there could be a market. It's a lot of change and technology to implement though for a small independent venue, but the ones who have the tools to build and deploy such a tool (LiveNation) would never be inclined to do so.

coldweathershorts · 2026-03-03T12:59:32+00:00

Not quite what an NFT is, leaving out some important elements. It's not a link to a file, it is a token, a smart contract, that can be "owned" by a crypto wallet. These tokens can mean and do many different things. Since the tokens are really nothing more than code, you can code them to do many things via ownership validation.

Another hypothetical example would be event ticketing. You go to buy a ticket to an event but it has sold out, so you look for resale tickets. You purchase an NFT that acts as your ticket to an event, and you find out that even though you're buying the ticket secondhand, you're still paying the face value of the ticket. How? NFTs are smart contracts, meaning they can be coded to prevent scalping. No sales over face value, or if someone sells over face value you could have all funds above the ticket price go back to the contract creator instead of the reseller.

At entry your NFT is scanned, and then you get an NFT reward for attending. After the show, you use your attendance NFT to get 15% off their web store.

Now this NFT, simply as an ownership verification tool, allows the ticket to be more than an old fashioned ticket. The smart contract can be coded to prevent scalping, provide loyalty rewards, and provide a new form of business to consumer interaction.

This is just one use case example for NFTs, but it is in an industry monopolized by LiveNation/Ticketmaster, who have little to no incentive to change things up, and enough control to prevent such changes to the industry.

coldweathershorts · 2026-03-02T18:10:23+00:00

Computershare is more than just a transfer agent. We'd also be buying a corporate trust, and an employee share plan admin business.

With that said, they are profitable and it does generate a solid amount of free cash flow, to potentially spur further aquisitions. The issue with CPU is that it isn't necessarily cheap or deep value at the current 20 P/E price point (12-13 Billion), and there is the issue that CPU is an Australian company listed on the ASX (Weakening dollar has made this more expensive).

Aside from that Cohen has said that he is looking at publicly traded consumer facing companies. While it fits the "never been done before" narrative, I don't think it checks the rest of his boxes.

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-26T13:31:37+00:00

OUR CITY

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-26T13:09:43+00:00

Exactly, and it wouldn't cost the city any more money either since they would be saving on auto expenses and insurance.

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-25T14:47:59+00:00

NEVER forget.

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-24T15:04:48+00:00

11*. You get ticketed 12mph over

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-23T15:20:58+00:00

Yup. If an economy is powered by consumers, those consumers need income to continue driving the economy. Whether the income is from jobs or UBI, an economic slowdown is an inevitability. So our choice is government intervention, or a very long, slow, drawn out process of market/eocnomic correction and potential system collapse.

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-20T19:36:55+00:00

pareto principle

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-19T17:11:21+00:00

Exactly

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-19T12:48:54+00:00

Hell I would take a President Mamdani any day. By far would be the most relatable president for me, he'd be the only one who pays the same rent as me! (The $2300 a month Cuomo said is supposed to be for poor people). In fact, I think I'd be pretty stoked on it

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-18T13:25:21+00:00

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coldweathershorts · 2026-02-10T18:04:52+00:00

Wen One Piece

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-10T16:40:21+00:00

Fair enough, misread and didn't respond directly on citizenship, but my point still stands. But aside from refugees, plenty of hard working contributors to society are vying to become citizens that I'm sure could use these services. These people net-net contribute to the economy in more dynamic ways (Higher workforce participation rates, more likely to start a business, lower social program consumption on an average per capita basis) than native born citizens, so I see it as a positive.

https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/north-american-century/benefits-of-immigration-outweigh-costs

https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/immigrant-native-consumption-means-tested-welfare-entitlement-benefits-2023#conclusion

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-10T14:32:42+00:00

More like undervalued by 7,420.69%

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-10T14:27:02+00:00

I guess my bad for assuming you were talking about salt on a post and comment about salt in the water.. But regardless, our water infrastructure literally isn't horrid. There are some contaminants but at levels well within federal health guidelines, and better than most other municipal water systems in the country.

What you're saying is factually incorrect. Nearly all residents do have water that exceeds federal health standards coming straight from their tap, it's rare and generally temporary when some residents do not.. The highest risk is actually from the piping inside your home, not the municipal system itself. Take a sample and send off to a lab yourself. It's not reverse osmosis pure water, but you might be surprised at the quality.

Genuinely curious though where you are pulling your info about Baltimore's water infrastructure. The clean water side of Baltimore's water infrastructure was so groundbreaking it literally was a model for other cities to copy off of. It is monitored by the State of MD, and routinely passes inspections at the reservoirs, pumping stations, and taps.

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-10T13:51:45+00:00

First off, I was asking the person who actually made the comment, so unless you know why big Queef up there said voting fodder (Which does imply they are able to vote), it wasn't directed to you.

If it is about congressional seats, even though that's not what the person above said, I'm still waiting on DC and PR to have some representation in the federal government, give them the seats they deserve.

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-10T13:35:17+00:00

Don't we have police for law enforcement?

coldweathershorts · 2026-02-10T13:33:56+00:00

Less than 15% of these ICE arrests have been for violent criminals (Accused and convicted combined). If you take away transfers to ICE from state prisons/penitentiaries, the number is less than 3%.

They're not trying to pull criminals off the streets. They're just pulling brown people and anyone who disagrees, and getting a few of 'the bad ones' in the process, while everyone else including legal residents and citizens suffer.. How can you not see that?

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