Airbnb’s and similar rentals are more of an effect of housing price growth than a cause. There aren’t SO MANY airbnb’s that they’re the major driver of demand, but in hot markets rich fucks sitting on 5 houses turn them into airbnb’s. The list is also organized in an interesting way, sorting by percent drop. Are most airbnb markets dropping in revenue? If 2/3 of markets are stable or growing then a decrease in mostly southern markets where the weather is getting unbearable for tourists won’t cause a full collapse. Also, are other airbnb-esque services like vrbo losing revenue in these areas? This table is just missing a lot of information. When I look at this it looks like people didn’t want to travel to the south last summer. Even if airbnb did collapse, blackstone or local capitalists would just buy all the houses and turn them into rentals or let them sit empty.

Cats do have a habit of just going off somewhere to die

This worries me a little bit because he’s been crawling under the blankets on my bed. He basically lives on my bed because it’s so hard for him to walk, but he doesn’t want to go anywhere else. The only movement he really does is going under the covers so I’m worried that he’s planning to die down there. My first indoor cat started exploring little hiding areas in the house when he got ill and basically picked a death place the way mother cats make a secluded breeding area. I just hope my cat doesn’t crawl under my sheets and die there before Tuesday. That would be the most horrible surprise imaginable.

She sounds like she’s in distress. Was there a bus sponsored sniper nearby ready to take her out if she said the wifi was shit?

Well there’s this really good album called The Wall, and my idea is related to that.

I saw a local news story that someone from the town had been an extra in the netflix adaptation of White Noise and much of it was filmed around Akron and Cleveland.

Just read the sanctions that this suspends (link) and from what I can tell the only things that these specific sanctions block are payment processing, foreign investment and purchasing property in Syria. They also include trading in Syrian petroleum products but the exemption doesn’t allow that. The only useful thing the exemption allows is payment processing but that’s already technically allowed in these specific sanctions, and this exemption only applies to the 2014 sanctions, not the more brutal Caesar Sanctions.

The book “When McKinsey Comes to Town” has a section on Purdue. It’s a great book for making you mad.

McKinsey consulted for both Purdue Pharma and the FDA at the same time without disclosing their conflict of interest, and deliberately pushed the FDA to make changes beneficial to Purdue.

Catch 22 is a great read. Very funny, very engaging, all around great time.

I didn’t notice until you said it but now it won’t go away