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Like where? I know towns that will offer you a plot of land for $1, so long as you promise to develop on it.

You do get high housing costs in places where populations are rising faster than housing development can keep up, or where development makes no sense (would you build an apartment block in a shrinking town?)

But like...I can point you to a bunch of cities in the US where housing prices are still quite cheap. You probably won't want to live in those cities. That's why they're cheap. Supply and demand in action.

You have to be a complete moron if you think the problem isn't enough supply.

The population of the US is growing. And the percentage of people living in cities is rising. That's lots of people looking for housing in cities. At the same time, single-family zoning (which account for around ~80% of land in US cities--before accounting for industrial and commercial) prevents the development of more housing. Old neighborhoods are effectively full, mostly owned by the same families that bought them in the 70s through 00s. New development is waaaay out on the fringes of the city, and expensive as hell because it's in such high demand.

There isn't enough new housing being developed to satisfy the growing demand for housing, so prices rise. It's that simple! The problem is exacerbated, because the rising prices attract investors (corporate and private) and AirB&B etc. But the fundamental problem is that most of our cities are seas of already-occupied single-family homes, and at the same time populations are rising. This is obvious.

But politicians love to blame foreigners, immigration, corporations, AirB&B. You know why? Because the root of the problem is middle-aged surburban majority-white families that don't want more people (with associated traffic, noise, whatever) in their neighborhood. And that's their core voting base. Old white people vote like clockwork, young renters reliably don't. If politicians go on a crusade against the single-family-dwelling suburbs, they know they'll get voted out. So they throw you these stupid bones: "it's the Chinese who are making housing expensive, by buying 1% of units (and mostly living in them)! It's AirB&B, with a few thousand units for rent in a city of 6 million people! It's the corporations, doing...things nobody can quite explain, that somehow involve buying housing and then just letting it sit there unoccupied? Or something?"

You're a sucker, believing that bullshit. It's the voters (the ones who actually vote) who are the problem.

Zoning laws: yes, strong agree, but the bad guy there isn't corporations, it's NIMBYs. People with houses don't want any development of any kind near them, and being residents they're the ones who get to vote on it. They almost always vote no.

Foreign people buying land as assets is a thing. You know how you defeat that? Build more housing. If the value of the assets fails to rise, or even falls, then people won't hold them as assets--and by dumping them on the market, they'll further decrease the price.

Companies buying up houses to sell (usually after developing or refurbishing them) or rent is ECON101 in action.

If you can solve problem #1, the rest falls into place. But corner apartments overlooking the water in nice cities are still going to be expensive relative to other housing.

what good does maximum privacy when you don't do anything with it?

Soo, if I understand you correctly, the next logical step is to become a dark market drug dealer?

Yeah, if there's a -r (sometimes -R) in the command line, be careful: it means 'recursive', and it's gonna do it to all the files.

Likewise with *. It's a wildcard meaning "match everything". I think that's widely understood?

On that note, backup your stuff - set it to do it automatically daily.

Mainly /home/. As long as you have a backup of that, you can usually recover almost everything if something goes wrong by just installing all the same software. Configs, documents, downloads, saves, and so on are almost always stored in /home.

IOW you've turned it into a thought-terminating cliche.

Leaving it ambiguous activated the reader's imagination and elevated a TIL into a shitpost.

Yeah, let it grow organically. Like other open-source projects, it's unlikely to shrink, and it'll gain profile and draw users from Reddit etc over time--faster when Reddit drops the ball, which it'll do more often as it scrambles to extract more profit from a shrinking user base.

There's no reason to rush it. That'll just cause growing pains and give Lemmy a bad reputation.

Ahh, it's no big deal. I know it sounds magical, but there's probably some humdrum explanation...you're probably just popping in and out of different universe in the multiverse whenever you observe a particle, or something mundane like that.

Trans is something we made up.

Gender non-conformity is a real thing and happens across all cultures. Our approach to understanding it is culturally specific, and kinda fucked up.