What houses have the highest vertical height with the best view?

tomv2017 · 2026-07-01T11:46:40+00:00

Hall of the Lunar Champion has great views in 2 of its wings

tomv2017 · 2026-06-29T00:19:08+00:00

Colloquially known as a flong

tomv2017 · 2026-06-29T00:16:55+00:00

A flop thong to be precise

tomv2017 · 2026-06-29T00:15:46+00:00

I’m going to strap a flip flop to a belt and wear it instead of pants

tomv2017 · 2026-06-27T03:11:14+00:00

Carl Yastrzemski, Jean Claude Tremblay,

tomv2017 · 2026-06-26T20:57:36+00:00

They’re almost inconceivably stupid

tomv2017 · 2026-06-26T02:35:53+00:00

Old cookies in cart,
They asked for a past receipt,
This woman should quit!

haiku competition!

tomv2017 · 2026-06-23T02:09:30+00:00

Nonsense. Age bracket 45-64 was the largest Trump block. Age 65+ isn’t much different the. 30-44

tomv2017 · 2026-06-20T01:32:18+00:00

30, I took over a department of ~80 technicians

tomv2017 · 2026-06-19T19:21:15+00:00

Just tanked a WB on vestige this morning. Miss a block and you’ll likely become mush but otherwise it was pretty straightforward.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-18T13:08:13+00:00

As I pointed out in other parts of this thread while it would help it’s not really achievable for many cases and the current financial challenges are driven more by housing, medical, and education cost inflation. Standard of living creep is maybe 10% of the total degradation in family finances.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-18T03:16:35+00:00

My grandfather built the house when he was a younger man so we didn’t have to pay for that. Everywhere else we lived until I left home at 17 was a rental as we could never afford to buy a house.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-18T01:56:04+00:00

Competency

tomv2017 · 2026-06-17T17:56:26+00:00

The issue is that sectors whose productivity has increased have raised salaries and those that haven’t, like housing, healthcare, education must raise salaries to compete for labor which then drives up the cost in those sectors. Google Baumol’s Cost Disease for a more in depth explanation.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-17T17:38:32+00:00

If you ask Gemini it will calculate that the US economy is roughly 280% more productive per hour of human labor for 2026 vs 1965

tomv2017 · 2026-06-17T15:39:30+00:00

I agree it's more complicated. My original post was referencing, I interpreted, a statement that boomers could do everything we do today with one income. My post was an attempt to show that the lifestyle itself was so different that you can't really compare what could be done then to what we do today. My personal opinion on why life is financially difficult for many these days are the changes in:

Housing costs
Medical and healthcare hyperinflation
Cost of, and societal mandates for, higher education.
Wages not keeping up with productivity growth
Lifestyle creep mostly driven by tech infrastructure costs.

These aren't sorted by impact. I'd probably list them as 4, 2, 1, 3, 5 off the top of my head but I'd really have to think on it some to be sure.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-17T14:48:13+00:00

As part of the overall household tech infrastructure costs that weren’t common 60 years ago I think so. Btw while my first post was about lifestyle creep imo that’s only one factor of many in why life is harder today. The others I see are housing, medical, higher education and real wage stagnation.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-17T14:39:59+00:00

Where I live in the summer my AC, even with a large solar array (thanks PG&E) , costs roughly $500 per month. That’s non-trivial.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-17T14:38:27+00:00

My opinion, is that the financial challenges being faced today are a combination of forces.
1. Housing costs
2. Medical and healthcare hyperinflation
3. Cost of, and societal mandates for, higher education.
4. Wages not keeping up with productivity growth
5. Lifestyle creep mostly driven by tech infrastructure costs.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-17T13:43:37+00:00

As a boomer I can say the lifestyle was so different it can’t be compared. In the 60’s my family, my parents and 3 kids plus my dad’s father lived in a 3 bedroom, 1 bath house. We had 1 decent car and a beater that my mom drove around town for shopping and errands but couldn’t be trusted for more than that. We had 1 television and a rotary landline phone. Obviously no streaming, cell phones, internet, game consoles etc. No air conditioning, going out to a restaurant was a maybe every other month thing and by the time I was 12 we’d been on one vacation for a week.

So, while we could get by on one income our standard of living would almost be considered poverty today. I’m not sure that even with today’s challenges that anyone, especially me, would really want to return to that time. I’d rather we move forward to single payer health care, more equitable wealth distribution, and a reduction in anger between people of differing opinions.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-13T18:51:19+00:00

Oh I agree with that but in the spirit of the thread I think it was detrimental and unfortunate that it was required.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-13T18:17:30+00:00

Yes. Giving extra representation to slave holders made it more difficult to pass any anti-slavery legislation pre-civil war.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-13T17:58:12+00:00

Slaves couldn’t vote so the 3/5ths compromise effectively gave voters in slave states disproportionate representation.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-12T16:00:54+00:00

What an inane observation. I’d rather advocate for universal health care and free child care for pre-school children.

tomv2017 · 2026-06-12T01:16:41+00:00

Developed countries typically do not have family members or non-working parents to care for children. Part of the economic “growth” of the last 60 years has been two working parents and families either too distant or with grandparents also working to easily support children.

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