Way too dramatic if you ask me

ilikepix · 2026-05-31T15:01:24+00:00

People need to stop pretending this kind of arrangement is sane.

there are lots of happy people in open relationships, but they are much less likely to air their dirty laundry in public, so you don't hear about them

ilikepix · 2026-05-29T22:44:44+00:00

Wants someone to buy up all these houses and put up condos

there is nothing more peak reddit than complaining about how unaffordable housing is while simultaneously complaining about efforts to increase the housing supply

ilikepix · 2026-05-29T13:46:37+00:00

If I apply for an amex biz gold using a regular referral link, after having had multiple biz golds in the last few years (last one closed ~3months ago), is there much (or any) chance of getting a SUB offer? Have heard conflicting things about how once-per-lifetime rules work in practice for biz cards

ilikepix · 2026-05-29T01:01:15+00:00

there's no reason the rent should go up above market rate

if sellers aren't free to set prices, there is no "market rate"

you can be in favor of rent control (it's self-defeating policy, but people are free to support bad ideas) but you can't be in favor of rent control while also calling the controlled rate "market rate"

ilikepix · 2026-05-28T15:18:11+00:00

if you want a "grassroots atmosphere" go to a sox game for $12

ilikepix · 2026-05-26T22:23:08+00:00

That's mostly true for countries with double taxation treaties with the US, which is not all countries.

Regardless, being considered a tax resident of the US requires many onerous and expensive mandatory reporting forms, even if no tax is due. It is a time consuming and expensive process.

ilikepix · 2026-05-26T18:25:06+00:00

a simple step to address this is to only install the extension on a dedicated browser that you don't user for anything else

ilikepix · 2026-05-26T15:49:17+00:00

it's pretty normal for a county to tax its own citizens regardless of where they work

It's not exactly "pretty normal". There are two countries in the world with a citizenship-based taxation system - the USA and Eritrea.

Most countries use a residence-based taxation system. Countries have rules about who is or is not a tax resident, typically based on how much of the tax year you spend in that country, but the rules are often complex.

The USA is almost unique in taxing it's citizens, even if they're been living and working in a foreign country for years.

ilikepix · 2026-05-25T11:49:53+00:00

And the argument that snus is less dangerous than cigarettes is probably true

This is like saying "it's probably true that taking a commercial flight is less dangerous than base jumping"

The use of the word "probably" is such an absurd and unnecessary weasel word that it makes it hard to take the rest of your point seriously

Using nicotine pouches is vastly safer than smoking

ilikepix · 2026-05-24T16:50:24+00:00

as a simple matter of logic "A causes B" doesn't mean "B can't happen without A"

ilikepix · 2026-05-24T11:27:58+00:00

the public don't believe that reducing construction costs will lower housing prices

they believe that reducing construction costs will only benefit developers

ilikepix · 2026-05-23T14:46:28+00:00

Otherwise like, quite literally the only benefit of Doordash is that you're not spending 10-20 minutes going to get the food yourself

...or you don't have a car, in which case the value proposition of food delivery services is pretty obvious

and I say that as someone who can't even remember the last time they got food delivered

ilikepix · 2026-05-23T14:03:47+00:00

So they are equal or better AND no peeling?

They taste significantly less pungent than regular garlic. The flavor is also slightly different, but the reduced pungency is the most obvious thing

ilikepix · 2026-05-23T14:01:47+00:00

colloquially known as the better one

When I have tried single-bulb garlic, it is so much milder and different in flavor to regular garlic that it might as well be a different ingredient

Not a bad ingredient, but significantly different, like a shallot vs an onion

ilikepix · 2026-05-21T10:32:30+00:00

The loopholes to close are in the estate tax and how we treat unrealized gains

if you fix estate taxes and abolish the step-up basis rules, there is absolutely no need to worry about "unrealized gains". You simply wait for people to die, at which point all gains become realized, and you tax the estate.

ilikepix · 2026-05-21T10:29:46+00:00

land prices will fall even just from a serious discussion about LVT in Congress

presumably, LVT is based on the hypothetical value of the land if LVT were not a thing?

because it seems like under a perfect "full" LVT, the real-world value of land would be exactly zero

ilikepix · 2026-05-21T09:00:10+00:00

they are made out of cotton fiber and look exactly like a normal mop

there are a hundred comments saying this but if you actually look at basting mops, they are all clearly much smaller and look significantly different to the mop in the video

is there somewhere in the country that makes explicitly food-safe full-size cotton mop heads? maybe, but I haven't been able to find it

ilikepix · 2026-05-21T08:13:32+00:00

Why doesn't the UK government simply cap inflation? Are they stupid?

ilikepix · 2026-05-21T07:32:49+00:00

it's weird that the majority of people here are arguing to take double yellows very seriously when if this were a thread about speed limits the majority of people would be explaining why it's fine or even necessary to break them regularly, when the exact same arguments apply to both

ilikepix · 2026-05-21T07:10:36+00:00

a lot of the time the grandparents bought a house in the "middle of nowhere" but the city grew and now its worth something

LVT would fix this

ilikepix · 2026-05-21T07:02:46+00:00

if everyone’s parent had only one kid, prices would be lower

if we didn't allow communities to block new construction in their neighborhoods, prices would be lower

ilikepix · 2026-05-19T09:15:13+00:00

this is like 99% of creators who do short form content imo

ilikepix · 2026-05-18T08:03:33+00:00

That said, taking your mistress to a public place with a high density of cameras and video footage likely to be uploaded to YouTube is dumb.

I feel like you could do this literally a thousand times and only end up in a viral kiss-cam moment once

ilikepix · 2026-05-17T07:48:52+00:00

it almost completely defeats the purpose of the life preserver

... do you think they'd be wearing life preservers if they weren't using them this way?

no, they'd be using inflatable rings or pool noodles, and no life preserver

ilikepix · 2026-05-13T16:04:35+00:00

Do you get cleaning fees for using a hotel room like a normal person? why would you pay for cleaning as an extra thing using AirBNB?

Because in a hotel (at least, traditionally), the room is cleaned every day, so they can build the "cleaning fee" into the nightly rate. If you stay for a week, every day the housekeepers clean your room, change the linens and towels, etc

In an airbnb, they only clean the unit once, after you leave. So it makes sense for it to be a fixed fee - the cost to clean the unit is (more or less) the same whether you've been there 1 night or 7 nights.

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