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I mean, the coasts aren't really that densely populated. If we build nicer cities there would be plenty of potential space.

Instead we build shitty suburbs and sprawl, which will always lead to awful, expensive cities

They may not have much money left over after downsizing, however. In markets like California the value is almost entirely from the land. The comparative value of the house (even a 5 bed) is comparatively negligible. So a 5 bed on a small plot would cost almost the same as a 1 bed on the same plot. In Silicon Valley it's really common to just buy a house and knock it down and rebuild, since the cost of building a new house is much less than the cost of the land.

It's a genuine issue that the liquidity of the real estate market is impacted by this.

Which has the downside that it locks people into their current home because moving would mean losing their favorable rates.

Rising prices are bad for everyone.

The best way to make money is to already have money invested. You take the proceeds from your earlier investments and invest in MORE assets.

In this case it's real estate.

I don't think the US is particularly good at doing 'fun weird'. We tend to take ourselves too seriously.

Eurovision would never happen in the US for instance.

KDE: traditional desktop environment with focus on lots of customization, options, and features. Often aimed more towards enthusiasts or everyday users who want the latest features.

GNOME: non-traditional desktop focusing on simplicity. Designed to be used a very specific way to maximize productivity. Often aimed more towards corporate or professional users.

Mint uses their own desktop environment (cinnamon) which is somewhere between the two.

All of these are nice in their own way, you just need to find which one you like best!

Yup, this is just a replay of early 20th century. Inequality exploded and eventually you had revolutions virtually everywhere (in europe and the west, ar least).

Some were extreme-left (communism)

Some were extreme-right (facism)

Some were far-left for the time (social-democratic, or "new deal" as it's known in the US)

Some were violent, some were relatively peaceful.

But they were basically all inevitable, the people were frustrated and willing to support whatever platform promised something 'different'.

We're at that point currently, but only the far-right is offering anything different, so even though it's a terrible option, people will gravitate towards it. The solution is to offer genuine vision of change from the left.

It's the perfect mix of low skill for and outrageously high skill ceiling

Yeah the reality is that Biden was 95% going to lose to Trump. Picking a new person is usially a huge risk, but in this case there wasn't much to lose.

As things stand right now, Trumps chances of winning just went down a bit. Worst case, they pick someone terrible with similar (non-)chances to Biden. Best case, they pick someone who wins.

In most European countries governments are elected for 3-6 years (though they may end up happening more frequently since, most places, it's possible to call early elections). The campaigning only really happens for 1-2 months before the election.

The fact that the US essentially spends 1.5-2 years campaigning for a 4 year position is insanity to me!

Yeah to be honest, the biggest takeaway for me is that many of these are crazy low relative to the power they have...

If you underpay public servants, you either end up with terrible public servants, those who are good at finding 'other' sources of income, or both.

There was one place where i was living where you could get one for 2.90€ as recently as 2018. It wasn't the best, but it was great value.

I moved around then, so I have no idea what it costs now.