is there any information on the User-Base by nationality?
some of us were wondering on another thread since there are so many communities in different languages, but I can’t find any way to tell the ballpark nationality percentages of the users here.
that’s great to hear, congratulations!
oh right. goodbye, biden’s billionaire tax.
as with their scientific paper mills, China produces quantity, not quality.
https://www.ft.com/content/32440f74-7804-4637-a662-6cdc8f3fba86
cool, thanks for posting.
I’ll definitely check it out.
"The exclusion of anyone who doesn’t unilaterally condemn Israel is an inversion of morality and an obfuscation of reality.”
their solution is for everybody to unilaterally accept Israel as the picture of morality despite concluding the genocide and colonization of Palestine.
you are in company.
“and the list goes on…”
yeah, that checks out
if literally everything goes beyond right with your home purchase, you beat the market price by 100k, low property taxes, no emergency costs, you don’t have any repairs, vs. you choose to rent near the center of the city and everything goes wrong with renting, then a home purchase can begin to match the convenience and more economical choice of renting.
overall and on equal footing, it’s cheaper to rent plus you don’t have to pay any of the necessary maintenance costs, utilities depending on the property or any taxes.
and renting is way less time and trouble.
“Have an asset that likely with appreciate, paid off after 30 years.”
big assumptions with no starting values.
are you paying 500k off? 750k?
are you adding in the cost of home repair?
escrow and finalization fees?
interest from your mortgage?
how about utilities?
property tax?
capital gains tax?
If you take average numbers for the costs of American homes right now (450-500k) plus all the practical costs of owning property, it is still cheaper to rent for 60 years at $1,000 a month rent then to pay for that house over 30 years. Indian
yeah, The US backs down.
they backed down in Vietnam, they backed down in iran, somalia, they backed down investigating the Saudi Arabian terrorists in 9/11(which is almost all of them), and the list goes on.
the US is not often gracious about backing down or wise enough to back down prudently, but they do back down.
True enough inside any sizable cities.
I’m factoring in traveling but didn’t make that clear.
there are still a lot of rentals you can find outside of cities for 10 to 15 bucks a day with monthly specials, or there were a year ago when I was driving across the country last year.
If living 45 minutes outside of the city proper, you can get pretty good rental rates.
did he do any new moves, or was he just a little bit faster?
I’ve been looking forward to someone doing a carpetless rainbow road for a while since they discovered it was possible.
“The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest…”
it’ll add up to a hell of a lot of justified reparations when the US backs down.
also, cost. homeowner ship doesn’t really make sense in a lot of situations anymore in the US If your mortgage costs significantly more than rent.
“Maybe.”
absolutely.
3rd party voters don’t consider…
neither do primary color voters.
3rd party voters are ignoring…
so are primary color voters.
“with the system in place a vote for a third-party candidate is effectively an abstention.”
no.
they are probably not going to win an election, but actively voting is the opposite of abstaining.
“It’s the desire to make a difference and effectively abstaining that seems incongruous.”
they are making a difference by voting for what they believe in, for the policies they consider most impactful on their lives(aka “voting” in most countries).
you see voting as an abstention even though it’s definitively the opposite of an abstention, implicitly based on consideration and values.
they probably see voting differently, maybe as an extension of their political will, or a form of activism, or a civic duty to be performed honestly.
I know I do.
I’m curious, since the federation seems a lot more geographically decentralized then reddit did.