I’m here and lurking - my heart is out for you

I’m convinced Grimes rented Trafic and watched it while Musk was in a Ketamine stupor and when he “woke up” he decided to make the Altra camper-car.

Everyone should watch Trafic, it’s great.

What a surprise, tedious and insufferable.

DeLillo rocks - still need to finish Underworld, which is very, very, good, but also very, very, long.

Me and my wife noticed you from across the bar…

I lost all faith when they did a “takedown” of Baudrillard which was such a blatant misreading it was gross

Sometimes things are going so bad you just have to say “been better” and endure the following awkward silence.

shramp yesss

Generally just some chuckle-able background noise while getting ready in the morning. Ironically, the most recent episode was one of the worst ones in a long time, so unlucky you lol

Just off the top of my head:

-“House Flipping” culture

-Short-term rentals and AirBnb

-“Professional Landlordism”

-Corporate residential landholding

-Rabid boomer landowners who lose their minds when any rise in property tax gets mentioned, which results in artificially inflated property valuations

-No rent control

Obviously the REAL answer is Capitalism, but the above phenomena create ripple effects across the whole housing market, which is something that the r*dditors always overlook when they quote stats that say “corporate ownership of residential properties only represent a small fraction of the market.” Yeah, maybe they do, but even that small fraction ripples out to housing precarity for millions of people.