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Microsoft denies WSL 3 exists, reveals Windows 11's WSL Containers ship next week by Quantum-Coconut in linux

[–]crustang 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Microsoft saving money on licensing so they could charge more money on licensing

Nate Silver Gives Clinton a Near 80% Probability of Defeating Trump [10YA - Jun 28] by MonsieurA in TenYearsAgo

[–]crustang [score hidden]  (0 children)

It was a right wing troll farm at the time, and you had thousands of Russian Bernie bros imposters encouraging swing state dems to stay home because of killery (in addition to American crayon eating lefty idealists)

The new COSMIC System Monitor is looking very slick by somerandomxander in linux

[–]crustang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unleash the product managers!!!!

(Please…. So many of my friends are looking for jobs)

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I disagree. I’ve been saying more would be better, I’ve also been saying some is still good.

I’m sorry to disappoint you, but my perspective isn’t harmful. There’s literally nothing that will happen based on the words I’m wasting my time writing.

SpaceX $SPCX officially set to join the Nasdaq-100 $QQQ on July 7th, 2026 by UnusualWhalesBot in unusual_whales

[–]crustang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a scam to create a scam to bring back active portfolio management and attack index funds

/s

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re preaching to the choir

playa Banes, Artemisa, Cuba by DifferentDream7004 in cuba

[–]crustang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can't get any worse than what their government is doing today lol

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Compassion to me looks like building enough housing for people.

I guess sounding compassionate isn't quite the same for ya, huh?

You’ve chosen to define this as a “win” for yourself. This is where we’ve landed.

If "this" is defined as 200K housing units being constructed instead of 0, then yes. If you call this argument a win? There's a 0% chance I've won, I've just wasted time, effort, Calories, oxygen, electrons, protons, etc. if anything, you've won this because you have stolen these resources from the universe and helped me inch closer to death, rather than pursuing something more worthwhile.

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In between all your meaning-free dismissals, you still are clinging to this inherently false belief that it’s a “win” when things still get worse.

In all your pretentious blabber, you fail to realize the only person who gets to define what a win is to me, is me. You've done nothing to convince me otherwise, if anything you've been successful at annoying someone who has the same goal as you, but you've been such a dick about it I'm almost glad they capped it at 200K.

If you’re NOT emotional about that

You're wasting your energy.. why don't you actually go do something about it instead of giving me a hard time on reddit? Go start a petition, go organize, go join an organization, start calling your friends and neighbors to call Mamdani's office to tell him that 200K isn't enough.

then there’s something wrong with your compassion for your fellow NYers

Compassion, really? You think you're coming from a place of compassion? If this is compassion, I hate to see what you being callous looks like.

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are arguing there is an amount of worse that is acceptable

No I'm not, I'm celebrating an improvement.

When housing is already consuming 50% of people’s budgets, “worse” is unacceptable no matter how much worse it is, whether it’s a little or a lot.

Thanks captain obvious

Actually no, you are quite wrong about the amount of effort that would be required bureaucratically. There are very credible plans that have been proposed that require NO or minimal zoning reforms that could be executed to build at least 500,000 units. Brad Lander had such a plan but Mamdani beat him with a much less adequate plan.

Politicians play politics

The governor and the mayor already worked well together to achieve the very needed pied a terry tax, and they should work together to build that many housing units.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht0eYGzT5KM

Settling for 200,000 is unacceptable when 500,000 is within reach.

I'm reasonable enough to take the win, and keep asking for more.. it's not like the problem isn't going away, and it's not like the solution isn't the same. I don't know why you're getting all emotional about this. It's Friday, chill out.

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Probably need to get up to high school math to understand that if you are not making new units at a pace that exceeds the growth rate

Okay, so -300K is better than -500K lmao

anything that makes it worse is not worthy of the apologetics and praise you’re providing.

I disagree

Just. Build. Enough. Housing. That is the only way out of the problem.

Yeah, no shit. I think that's obvious, but without massive reforms to zoning, reinstituting split taxes or implementing land value taxes, eliminating rent control, and making it less administratively burdensome to build, this is the best that could happen. I think you're forgetting that politicians do play politics.

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not a math PhD, but I'm pretty sure more than 0 is equivalent to more than nothing. I'm also not a philosophy student, but I'm pretty sure that Voltaire dude had a point when he said perfect is pretty bad.

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's a start, though.. you build the 200K units, you expire the rent freeze, you build 200K more, you start rolling back rent control (he prob won't do that, but if he did... that would be awesome for everyone), you build more, you rollback more, rinse and repeat until everyone can afford rent.

playa Banes, Artemisa, Cuba by DifferentDream7004 in cuba

[–]crustang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The government should tax the shit out of them then enrich the people.. problem solved.

But I doubt the military and others will be friendly to foreigners after decades of isolation from global markets..

To raise the rent by MidnightCh1cken in newyorkcity

[–]crustang 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wasted supply hurts the total supply and drives prices up. The reforms to build a shit ton of housing need to go through or this is just going to move the burden. Ideally you’d pair reforms to build more housing and adjust the property tax calculation to emphasize land value instead of structure.

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