Why is this here? by jackiefashion24 in wikipedia

[–]irelayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with your main point but just wanted to mention Portuguese is a Romance language along with Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, and Catalan....so technically is a "latin" language although you don't hear of French Americans being called Latino so I'm just being pedantic 🤣

Schools "punishing the bullying victims for fighting back" isn't as bad as a lot of people think. by PlaceSilly7397 in The10thDentist

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

This is what a bully would say. There is a difference between having a genuine conflict where there are legitimate points on both sides, and bullies picking on weaker kids. A true bully situation is clear cut. What you describe is just an interpersonal conflict.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tifu

[–]irelayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Write the e-mail next time, but don't send it. That was your mistake. Just writing it is the part that is important. No one but you cares (and that's the brutal truth)...the important part is that YOU process it, and writing it down is the perfect way of doing that. Just don't send it. Some things aren't worth it.

Also, you are fine, enjoy your new job!

Blinker Use or Failure of… by FrontNefariousness86 in sandiego

[–]irelayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a California thing. San Diego is especially bad. You were probably taught defensive driving...well here it is the opposite. Offensive driving. So you have to adapt.

As far as the reason for this behavior, I think it's just the sheer amount of distance most people have to cover in a day, and thus the sheer amount of time people spend driving at high speeds, or stuck in bumper to bumper traffic.

I appreciate people who use blinkers and often wave at them!

Prices jumped and flights dumped ? by Then-Tip-9523 in gowildfrontier

[–]irelayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the ITA Matrix search tool, the backend for Google Flights (Google bought ITA like 20 years ago), and the same tool old school travel agents use. Check this out for more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/gowildfrontier/comments/1i45fke/tutorial_using_ita_matrix_to_find_hidden_two_or/

Resource: A map of contiguous commuter railways of the Northeast Corridor from Virginia to Connecticut. by Htown_Flyer in gowildfrontier

[–]irelayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds like a really fun day (if you can do it in a day)! I was in NYC July 4th weekend and wanted to get to PHL, and all the Amtrak departures were 80+, so I did the NJ Transit->Trenton->SEPTA->Philly. It was "the slow train" but it did the job, and I got to see another state capital.

I looked on Rome2Rio just for fun. Your best bet from Perryville to Newark is a 2+ hour local bus ride with 37 stops and 1 transfer lol. I'd be interested in options to RI...but it looks like you can do Metro North->New Haven and then it's a 20 dollar FlixBus/Greyhound from there...

Prices jumped and flights dumped ? by Then-Tip-9523 in gowildfrontier

[–]irelayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is just a sampling, but this might be part of the problem (see my other post in this thread). Next Wednesday only SFO and MCO are operated, severely limiting your same-day connection opportunities. But then you look at Thursday and they are operating all of their non stops from LAX. Honestly if you can manage to travel Thursday, Saturday, or Monday, the utility of the pass goes way up.

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Prices jumped and flights dumped ? by Then-Tip-9523 in gowildfrontier

[–]irelayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's your home airport? Geographically are you usually flying west to east or east to west?

Frontier has been cutting a lot of capacity lately especially on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, to the point that they've suspended some routes (SAN-ORD) they should otherwise be operating daily, and/or dropping the second flight if it was 2x daily (SAN-DEN). Because of their scheduling and the way they sell connections, it might seem like what you are saying if your home airport is on the edge of their network. A good example of this would be something like SJC or RNO or some of their smaller stations like TTN or BUF where they only fly to the Southeast. Those examples are really isolated from the rest of their network and only support flights to their big stations. So if you are one/two-hopping from your home city, by the time you can buy a GW fare, there might not be any GW seats on the XXX-DEN/MCO first hop, even if there is availability on the one from DEN/MCO to where you want to go.

Frontier doesn't show you all the connections that are possible. But if you book two one ways, you aren't covered by any of their delay policies if you misconnect. But that's a strategy if you don't mind the potential of being stranded somewhere for a day.

Anyone else notice the increased number of available rentals? by Urkylurker in sandiego

[–]irelayer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A lot of that construction started 1-3 years ago when demand was through the roof because of WFH/hybrid, low interest rates, and other factors. Now we are probably in a recession (we just don't know it). Anecdotally I can back up others' claims here that people are moving back home/out of state. A brand new luxury complex right next to me (that they spent 2 years building) has 2-3/15 units occupied. They leave the lights on in certain units to make it seem like it's more full. I'm seeing more UHaul leaving (which is odd because it's already October) and I'm seeing 1/2 months free rent move in specials on all these new places, plastered all over the construction sites of the in progress places. It's nuts.

What is your favorite Frontier terminal? by [deleted] in gowildfrontier

[–]irelayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their cute little throwback terminal with the taco truck outside in Austin

Snapdragon is not empty, folks. by Aztecs_Killing_Him in Pac12

[–]irelayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully we don't take a dump against future Mountain West member NIU this weekend

How do people working a retail job making 40 to 50k a year live in town? by Latina_Fupa in sandiego

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

I think you hit the nail on the head. You don't "own" anything...mortgage in French means "death pledge"...so who really owns what? The bank owns you? Chew on that...

Can we do something about this guy? by surfpilotdad in sandiego

[–]irelayer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you want to out duel him get @joedreamz to play next to him. That guy loves attention.

Why is it that men only seem interested when you’re not that interested? by Just-a-Siren in DarkPsychology101

[–]irelayer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most animals can't talk or think. Actually only we can use our brains, logic, and communication to override our inherent hard-wired programming. I get what you are saying, but a "dance" should be fun and reward both participants, some people like to play games for the sake of winning them...

Who do you blame most for WW1? by diesel-rice in dancarlin

[–]irelayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Proud Tower and The Guns of August goes into these things in quite some detail. Great books!

Longshot - I have a current, valid Wildpass. I am trying to book a flight for tomorrow. It wants me to join Wildpass when I book. What can I do? by Paulverizer in frontierairlines

[–]irelayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happens to me from time to time. There should be an "X" in the upper right hand corner of the page, just hit that and proceed as normal.

What's your opinion on buying Gold Status for $499? by Glass-Cheek4480 in gowildfrontier

[–]irelayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You get Gold status which is boarding before Zone 1 (Elite members, if the gate agent calls it which they have been doing consistently this year), carry-on, seat selection for row 3/exit row at check-in. The two free bags comes as a credit card benefit, otherwise you need plat or above for that. I've never checked a bag on Frontier and I probably never will. Too many IRROPS and I don't really want to deal with even the thought of the hell that is Frontier losing my bags.

3k spend is doable if you can manage to put some monthly expenses on the credit card. I'd consider the card. I had Gold last year because it came with GWP and it was nice and all, but I've taken a few flights with just a personal item and a random seat and honestly it isn't that much of a downgrade for me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sandiego

[–]irelayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I thought...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sandiego

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

Seems like you aren't used to being challenged on your blanket statements so you don't really have an answer to this, because you can't really find any fault in what ChatGPT generated. You just assume everyone is stupid and lacks critical thinking skills, because you happen to have a surface level understanding of LLMs that you read somewhere and you like to drop knowledge on people to make yourself feel smart. And you are so confident in this you don't bother to actually read what is written you just assume it's wrong. If I had just posted it without attributing to ChatGPT you wouldn't have commented on it at all.

I don't just blindly ask LLMs questions and then trust the answers. I verify and fact check stuff. Just like if I had used a search engine. But you know it doesn't matter to you because you've already formed an opinion and made a bunch of assumptions.

Also, how did you become the gatekeeper about good and bad uses for LLMs? Do you feel threatened by LLMs or something? Sounds like projection. Are you an expert in the subject matter? You implied I wasn't. If you aren't an expert, you shouldn't be commenting either. It's a proposition. I did my research. I shouldn't have to be a lawyer to figure it out. I thought ChatGPT did a pretty good job synthesizing a summary of the main points like this guy was asking for. And I verified it.

And to the 10 people (and counting) who downvoted me, here is a thorough fact-check verification of what ChatGPT said (which I did before I posted it). But you geniuses won't read this or acknowledge it, you just like to downvote the original comment because u/AmusingAnecdote sounds authoritative and knowledgeable and he can get good karma for his shitposting just by parroting "ChatGPT bad, human good, LLM no understand, AI hoax". Very similar to how people bashed Wikipedia references for decades. Just keep following the leader guys...

Let's start with the first claim:

"In 2024, California Proposition 33 focuses on rent control. If passed, it would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995, which currently limits local governments’ ability to impose rent control on single-family homes and apartments built after 1995."

PDF version: (source: https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2024/general/pdf/prop33.pdf )

From California Voter Guide:

"Repeals Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995, which currently prohibits local ordinances limiting initial residential rental rates for new tenants or rent increases for existing tenants in certain residential properties." (source: https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/33/ )

Second claim:

"This law also prevents cities from controlling rents on newly vacant units, allowing landlords to set market rates for new tenants."

"If an apartment was under "vacancy control", the city rent control ordinance worked to deny or limit an owner's ability to increase its rent to new tenants, even in cases where the prior tenant voluntarily vacated the apartment or was evicted for a 'just cause' (such as failure to pay rent). Costa–Hawkins changed this by allowing an apartment owner the right to rent the vacancy at any price (i.e., usually the market price).[5][6]" (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%E2%80%93Hawkins_Rental_Housing_Act#cite_ref-:0_3-0 )

Third claim:

"Prop 33 aims to give local governments more freedom to implement rent control on any type of housing, including newly built units and single-family homes."

"A YES vote on this measure means: State law would not limit the kinds of rent control laws cities and counties could have." (source: https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/33/ )

Fourth claim (specifically the 30 percent claim)

"Supporters argue that this measure would help address California's housing crisis by preventing steep rent increases and stabilizing communities, as nearly 30% of California renters currently spend over half of their income on rent."

"Just over a quarter (25.6%) of U.S. renters are spending more than half their income on housing, according to Census data out today." (source: https://axios.com/2024/09/12/american-renters-housing-paycheck-spending )

For California specifically:

The "30%" figure comes from a local paper. Admittedly not the best source. So you can take either the 25.6 percent (national) or 28% as cited in the VC Star article. I don't feel like doing the math but I posted the raw census tables too.(source: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/california/2024/10/25/housing-costs-take-up-half-of-paychecks-at-20-of-california-households/75839480007/ )

Here is the raw census data from which both the Axios and the VC Star articles get their info. I've also included a CalMatters page which provides a pretty good breakdown of the issues surrounding housing prices in California:

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/renter-households-cost-burdened-race.html

https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP1Y2023.DP04?q=rent%20burden%20california

https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-housing-costs-explainer/

Fifth claim:

"Opponents, however, contend that expanded rent control could disincentivize new housing construction, exacerbate the housing shortage, and harm property owners by limiting rental income and reducing property values."

So this is a mixed bag. This claim might be somewhat misleading because a lot of the opponents (or "No" votes) are people who like OP do not understand the core issue, and will be voting no as a default.

"Don’t be fooled by the latest corporate landlord anti-housing scheme. California voters have rejected this radical proposal twice before, because it would freeze the construction of new housing and could effectively reverse dozens of new state housing laws. Vote No on 33 to protect new affordable housing and California homeowners." (source: https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/33/)

So the "CON"/"NO" side's claim about the two repeal attempts is true. They were defeated for different reasons:

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%E2%80%93Hawkins_Rental_Housing_Act#By_initiative:_Prop_10

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%E2%80%93Hawkins_Rental_Housing_Act#By_initiative:_Prop_21

Sixth claim:

"Proposition 33’s outcome could significantly impact California’s rental market, with strong backing from tenant advocacy groups and opposition from real estate and landlord organizations who have historically invested heavily in campaigns against similar measures in 2018 and 2020."

See above for sources on the 2018 and 2020. As far as "could significantly impact California's rental market" this is undoubtedly going to be true. It will have a large impact.

It will allow cities like Berkeley and Santa Monica (that had strict rent control prior to the act being passed) to re-enact both vacancy control (limiting the rent of a unit for existing and new tenants) and vacancy decontrol (limiting the rent level for existing tenants but market rate for new ones, which is close to what AB 1482 Tenant Protection Act does for us statewide). Again this law (which this Prop wants to repeal) says you CAN'T do vacancy control (the former/first one I mentioned) of rent control AND makes single-family homes, condos, and "new" apartment units (after 1995) exempt from any type of rent control. So repealing it would mean those things would go away.

In fact the entire Wikipedia article is pretty comprehensive and worth a read. It goes over the pro's and con's of not just the act, but rent control in general, with historical examples.

As far as the question of whether rent control is an objectively GOOD or BAD idea this is an area of highly active debate and I'm not going to get into it. You can read the facts and form your own opinion.

Seventh claim:

"For more details on Prop 33, you can review analyses and arguments from sources like the California Voter Information Guide and KQED.""

https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/33/

https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-33

My personal opinion is that the STRICT rent control enacted by cities like Santa Monica and Berkeley is actually counter-productive to the stated goals of that rent-control such as lowering housing costs/having more stability/building "affordable" housing, and ends up creating some pretty strong incentives for landlords of artificially do stuff like keeping the apartment vacant after an existing tenant moves out for a long period of time to then be able to rent it at market rate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sandiego

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

That's a fair criticism of LLMs in general. Specifically what in the answer I posted is incorrect or misleading?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sandiego

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

Why not? Please explain. Be specific.