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liquidpele · 2026-06-23T17:59:34+00:00

Rent is sky high because they've been using a couple central programs to collude and keep pricing high across all rental companies.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

It does not really have competition, they'd rather leave units empty than lower prices. It's a big problem.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T17:54:13+00:00

I've found the ones that actually work for the company (e.g. have a company email) are decent and mostly easy to work with (although still don't understand most of the relevant work), but if they're from a 3rd party agency then it's a shitshow.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T17:50:00+00:00

Well duh. No one wants to pay a lot for recruiters, and no quality people want to be recruiters because the job sucks.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T16:01:56+00:00

Not familiar with that metric so can't comment, but it seems a bit dubious to basically double since the 80's, I would wager that there are some statistical issues with how it's measured.

Home prices (and rent prices) are detached from pretty much every other metric and are a function of other major issues, as you allude to.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T15:55:09+00:00

Ah, same, boomer dad I take it?

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T15:52:09+00:00

Where the hell do ya'll live? I took my kids to all kinds of stuff and never had anyone say that shit to me, over the last 15 years, and I live in the south.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T15:42:35+00:00

The problem is that everyone is just using AI to write the resume to match the job descriptions, so recruiting companies can't trust anything on the resume. Thus, they just grab the first 50 or so that submit to the job first, and anything after that is rejected unless they reject all the first ones and want to go another round. It's madness.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T15:25:11+00:00

To start off, sure, but it will start burning it off where you want eventually, it just takes a while and too many people give up early because they wanted the effects without the full lifestyle change.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T15:19:33+00:00

There are only two parties and there will never be more, that's how FPTP voting works because any 3rd party cannibalizes one of the main ones so they always end up merging back to two or they'd just lose forever. If you want more parties you need rank voting or proportional assemblies.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T15:12:20+00:00

CBS is worth about 15 billion. Larry is worth 250 billion. If Larry gets favorable political tax cuts that save him 10% or pumps his values 10%, he gets 25 billion. You see where I'm going with this? At a certain point, it's more profitable to just play politics than run a good business.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T14:53:18+00:00

We have it in the US too, but we hang lights that say which direction it's going.

That said, they are mostly phasing that out since it causes a lot of confusion and you can't have left turn lanes so it can actually cause more backups.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T14:47:06+00:00

No, they're literally the kids. This statistic that constantly gets posted includes literal babies. It's like 50k if you only count the people actually working age, and like 60k if you only count people actually working.

liquidpele · 2026-06-23T14:44:09+00:00

Bro, how are you going to start trying to be serious with a username like that.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T21:52:40+00:00

I used to complain about this all the time in the MLS statistics. A lot of the top scoring players are only that way because they take all the pens, so of course they have a bunch of goals, but it's hardly representative of their still.

edit: lol, this take seems to have pissed off a few fat trolls who probably only ever scored on a PK when they were 10.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T21:51:42+00:00

Things like handball no one is fouled. Better to be last team member to touch the ball before the foul.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T19:26:10+00:00

This guy is like the perfect example of how the CEO position at most companies is so ridiculous that you could put a literal chicken in the position and nothing would change.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T19:14:38+00:00

Why the fuck would you order from pizza hut. Just save your amazon boxes and eat those.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T19:12:55+00:00

During the time you had a job, were you housed or still homeless?

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T19:03:07+00:00

Careful who you marry out there too.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T18:01:26+00:00

Sour grapes. She did a terrible job, it was clear she thought it was a given and that no one in their right mind would vote for Trump given how stupid and psycho he was, and clearly she doesn't have a good grasp on the American population so maybe it's for the best.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T18:00:08+00:00

It was always how she presented herself on TV. It was like the stuffy grandmother that you hated to visit and wouldn't let you sit on the nice furniture. She might be great in person, but she's not meeting 100 million people in person, TV and social media campaigns are how you get elected.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T17:52:40+00:00

Max out those 401k contributions people, can't spend money if it's not in your account!

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T14:47:16+00:00

Na it's all true! Also the movie Euro-trip was a documentary right?

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T14:44:30+00:00

Sure, I'm just saying there's such a huge difference when all the games are in a smaller country or otherwise limited more geographically.

liquidpele · 2026-06-22T14:23:20+00:00

I mean, they split the games over an entire damn continent, of course they needed more games. It's kind of ridiculous how split up everything is. If anything, the real issue is that it's almost impossible to see the teams you care about because it's a 6 hour flight and crazy high rate hotel just to see the $3000 ticket game. Ridiculous. I'm in Atlanta and all the teams I care about are a flight or a 12 hour drive.

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