Lol I thought the first thing. Tien is my boy but he ain’t got it like that unfortunately.

Dang so it sounds like new Zealand has had a bit of a time with housing for a while then huh? I’ve heard a lot about it recently but just assumed it was a relatively new probably (post 2000-ish)

Fyi $650 in 1976 is about $3600-3700 adjusted for inflation.

I used to live in a town that did something very similar to this. It sorta worked but mostly did not. But as another commenter pointed out you need more than just homes. Obviously they help a ton but a lot of people need more help than just a roof over their head. Financially, medically, mentally, employment… It’s a bigger, more complicated problem.

But it goes without saying that this is a step in the right direction and absolutely better than collectively shrugging our shoulders and walking away.

I choose to believe these are just very very small people

Anybody that doesn’t already realize this absolutely will not give a shit what this says anyways lol.

Yeah I’m pretty much in the same boat. I just go online now for all my shoes. In the before times when I had to go in person it sucked, they’d have my size in like one or two shoes, there was no picking at all. But online there’s a waaaay bigger selection obviously. Sucks that you can’t try stuff on but once you get familiar with brands they all kinda for similar enough

That’s so sad but 16 years is a hell of a run! Lots of memories in there for sure.

They are among the stupidest movies ever created without a doubt. And I absolutely adore them 😄

That’s not correct. They care a lot. They are almost violently in support of this.

FINALLY. I cannot tell you how annoying it is to know the weather ahead of time and have smart people study weather and climate. Everyone knows weather is controlled by the LORD JESUS CHRIST. I also cannot stand that my weather feed is a service provided by the government. I have said for many years I want to pay for this and I want micro transactions implemented to get the absolute best out of the experience. From now on I want to pay by the day for each forecast which is just a Bible verse hand picked by a Trump level weather scientists. Which means he is a christian minister that doesn’t believe in science and used to be on Fox news, as all good scientists should.

While I believe this is absolutely true, there is also a very real point we have seen in virtually all of our studies where we’re fucked pretty much no matter what. It’s just a matter of how fucked at a certain point. But I guess that’s the sentiment being expressed here, just much more gently.

Look we’re wasting our hard earned tax payer money on crazy fraudulent things like science, education, weather, feeding children, helping the poor, medicine… Dumb things like that. And you’re gonna tell me that changing the name of a body of water to include the greatest God damn country in America is a waste? Next thing you know you’re gonna stand there and tell me that poor people should be able to afford a hospital visit.

The top 20 hottest years ever are from the last 22 years. Can you believe that? What a crazy coincidence. I bet those crazy scientists will try to say that means something but it snowed this winter where I live so.

The age of social media dying is tight!

This is exactly what will happen. Same thing with Albertsons and Kroger too.

Lol if I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard about the next CoD killer

I work in this space. There’s a wide variety of reasons, a company being dumb and greedy is definitely among them but typically just a tiny part of the equation. The biggest thing is certified vendors. The military/government is incredibly strict with who they’ll contract with. Which means the supply is incredibly limited on many things, which in turn means that companies will ratchet up prices a crazy amount in part to deal with the goofy standards that the government requires on their goods but also because they know the demand far outweighs the supply.

There is also the burden of time. The US government drags their feet an INSANE amount on projects. It scales with size as well. The larger the project the slower things move almost every time. It very frequently gets to a point where they need stuff done right now because they waited too long and will pay pretty much any price to do it.

There is also the fact that the military is operating with a budget chalk full of “fuck you money.” In short, money is immaterial. Half the time they don’t even look at the price, whatever it costs doesn’t matter, just get it done and get it done right.

My company marks up shit an insane amount and I know for a fact pretty much every other certified vendor is as well. I dunno about 8k% (lol) markup but honestly that doesn’t shock me. The prices I’ve seen are jaw dropping. And they pretty much never get negotiated or rejected.

This makes no logical sense lol. OP says he’s going to commit suicide, his comment gets upvotes, therefore his comment is sarcasm?? Right or wrong this is just an awful way to decide. How others react to something isn’t indicative of that thing’s original intent… That should be pretty obvious.

It truly does just boggle the mind. Worst part is he’s got way more than a chance. He’s trying his absolute best to fuck things up six ways to Sunday and it just doesn’t seem to do absolutely anything. It’s kinda wild.