lol it was obvious when a random Chinese company purchased what was going to happen.

As soon as Opera was acquired by the Chinese company, I told everybody to dump it ASAP.

Reddit said I was ignorant and racist because I had “no proof” that the new company was doing something wrong

Interesting. Apple you just hold volume up and lock and it disables biometrics. It’s like that by default

That’s why devices need something like Apple does that disables biometrics with specific button clicks

But I thought grass is bad

Weed and grass killer, yes, otherwise you have patches growing up.

Like who? Best Buy does St Jude’s. Most grocery stores are doing it through Feeding America.

And that means that you wouldn’t be able to use the donations as tax deductible on taxes.

No they don’t. You are the one making the donation, according to tax code, you are the one who gets to claim the donation.

I’m the same, the typical answer I get told is to move lol

What do you mean we’re not building homes? I have plenty of homes and apartments being built in my city that cater to lots of strata of incomes.

Tired of being nice. I do it all the time and it’s never returned in kind.

Lemmy users act like this is a different place, that it’s a more wholesome internet, what a joke. It’s as bad as anywhere else.

Well there’s considerable difference between an apartment complex in a suburb not designed for heavy traffic and less developed areas where there’s room for expansion for infrastructure.

We can’t expand roads in my area, either for an extra lane (which I know is a sin) or for buses because it would be right up on houses at that point.

However, just a few miles down the road on the main drag, there’s undeveloped land that would be perfect. Build it there.

When I say “backyard” I mean literally in your backyard. Instead of name calling and downvoting, have a fucking conversation and ask in a respectful manner what somebody means. Stop being a douche because you automatically assume somebody who thinks slightly differently than you is wrong.

I think it’s more so that people don’t want an apartment complex built in their backyard, not that they are opposed to them being built in an area where there is proper infrastructure

Who is “many”? Do you have surveys and data to support this?

I don’t think anybody thinks that.

So click the X

A few thousand dollars of decrease doesn’t offset the doubling of prices that happened during Covid. You should consider asking for specifics instead of trying to do a witty insult.

Rates weren’t effectively zero prior to Covid. They were too low, yes, and should have been higher, but the bottom fell out during Covid.

Man, I’m a loan officer at a bank. I know a lot more about this than what you do. Interest rate increases are squeezing all levels to decrease spending across the board. Banks are beginning to cut back lending to businesses.

And demand for housing ebbs and flows. Things skyrocketed during Covid because of a lack of supply. There’s actually been decreases in pricing at this point.

Yes, it turns out that high demand for real estate in certain areas leads to higher prices because of a finite supply.

You might have to look at different areas and consider the differences. I’d love to live in a penthouse downtown, but I’ll settle for my 1600 sq foot home in the suburbs.

Mortgage rates have returned to an average range. Still lower than they were in the 90s.

Your payment isn’t doubled because of rates, it’s because of high demand areas.