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HootTheOwl posted:None for the kids? Kids have better immune systems.
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The photoshop job on that is terrible. Why couldn't they just take a real picture of Smiling Traditional White American Family wearing their helmets? 
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Mar 5, 2022 13:35
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HootTheOwl posted:None for the kids? It's more important to protect the parents. Lose a kid? The parents can just make a newer, better kid, no problem!
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Mar 5, 2022 13:43
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The kids are the ones doing the shooting.
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this is how mister house stayed winning https://twitter.com/RobinWigg/status/1500059906568826882
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Lmao when russia changes their regime it should oust the professional tweeters first
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Mr Beef Head posted:Got caught by surprise by a commercial on tv last night. bulletproofhelmetusa. Kind of amazing seeing combat helmets for everyday use is a thing. It felt like a Robocop ad so i had to check it out. Paydirt. Masks: MY FREEDOM
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Professor Shark posted:The photoshop job on that is terrible. Why couldn't they just take a real picture of Smiling Traditional White American Family wearing their helmets? stock photography + getting the UI person to do some basic photoshop = way cheaper than actually having a product and hiring models and a photographer and getting a location and and and (the biggest part is probably the "actually having a product" and that seems questionable)
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Flesh Forge posted:this is how mister house stayed winning Lmao "From a purely financial perspective, you should ignore existential risk." Way ahead of you buddy.
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Also I know they pulled it out of their rear end but I really really want to hear them explain how they "calculated" that "10% chance of global thermonuclear war" number in more detail
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I'm not a gun person nor a doctor, but I'm pretty sure a real bulletproof helmet would just liquify your brains on impact instead of having them blown out
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tokin opposition posted:I'm not a gun person nor a doctor, but I'm pretty sure a real bulletproof helmet would just liquify your brains on impact instead of having them blown out the military would issue non-functional equipment? why, I never…
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tokin opposition posted:I'm not a gun person nor a doctor, but I'm pretty sure a real bulletproof helmet would just liquify your brains on impact instead of having them blown out I think the idea is it turns glancing blows that would otherwise tear the top or sides of your skull off into merely a severe concussion, traumatic brain injury and probably a cracked skull, direct hits are still gonna scramble your eggs yeah
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tokin opposition posted:I'm not a gun person nor a doctor, but I'm pretty sure a real bulletproof helmet would just liquify your brains on impact instead of having them blown out depends on the round and remaining energy. this video shows a current US combat helmet that stopped a rifle round https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xVuRb_kGhY note that helmets are usually called bullet resistant, I’m guessing this round went through something else first but the helmet absolutely still saved that soldier’s life.
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Shame Boy posted:I think the idea is it turns glancing blows that would otherwise tear the top or sides of your skull off into merely a severe concussion, traumatic brain injury and probably a cracked skull, direct hits are still gonna scramble your eggs yeah Military helmets in my day were specifically for shrapnel/debris. We were told any shooting at them would completely destroy them and you instantly.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Pssh 20 floors? That's your standard 65 storey suburban condo, more like 45 floors of plebs (who themselves are spending $1,000+ per square foot). It's crazy, the population of the city of vancouver is less than 700,000. This document shows that there were about 309,000 dwellings, in 2016: https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/housing-characteristics-fact-sheet.pdf Which means that it would be around 335k about a year ago: https://openhousing.ca/2020/12/30/vancouver-empty-homes-crossed-30000-mark-this-year/ There's about 1 unit for every 2 people in vancouver, but yimbys are still saying the problem is housing stock. https://www.nsnews.com/highlights/b...medium=referral quote:It wasn't always this way, says Bergmann. When asked on Twitter to compare the rate of new housing completions from the 1970s to the last decade, the data expert found a significant gap. If we built kept building at the same rate as the 70s, we'd have more houses than people right now. Really makes u think. The thing about 9% empty is it's easy to say that's just, you know, liquidity. You gotta have some empties to let people buy and sell! But obviously it's enough that you can be more or less willing to sell those 9% and make prices go up or down. The assumption is that home prices are always a function of population and housing stock, but that's obviously not the case: 
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Just had the realisation how many of my friends left here because there's a lack of houses, to go work building apartments in Canada. International Labour being directed to building homes for oligarchs to hide their money while the laborers cannot even buy a home in their own country. The most efficient economic system.
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Marenghi posted:Just had the realisation how many of my friends left here because there's a lack of houses, to go work building apartments in Canada. For some reason the metaphor that popped into my head was when worker ants get trapped in a death spiral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEKwQxO4EZU
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Shame Boy posted:Also I know they pulled it out of their rear end but I really really want to hear them explain how they "calculated" that "10% chance of global thermonuclear war" number in more detail chief champ
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DACK FAYDEN posted:It says "assign" not "calculate" for a reason buddy Oh I noticed, I just want them to make up more bullshit about it to justify their thought process because it'd be funny
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tokin opposition posted:I'm not a gun person nor a doctor, but I'm pretty sure a real bulletproof helmet would just liquify your brains on impact instead of having them blown out your brains have the consistency of custard. i don’t mean that as an insult towards you personally even though you’re very stupid, but living brain tissue has the consistency of custard.just something to think about
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ive eaten 6 species' brains altho not human. closest analogue is well-cooked thymus or 5-hours steamed lung w more fat
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Food is excellent, I'll give it that. Strongly disagree on the other points. I lived most of my life in central Florida just so you know what I'm comparing Vancouver metro area to. Sometimes you have to live somewhere super lovely to appreciate other places.
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Leroy Diplowski posted:I lived most of my life in central Florida just so you know what I'm comparing Vancouver metro area to. Sometimes you have to live somewhere super lovely to appreciate other places. I thought you lived in north Florida, which is the one part of Florida that central Florida can feel slightly superior to 
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Mr Beef Head posted:Got caught by surprise by a commercial on tv last night. bulletproofhelmetusa. Kind of amazing seeing combat helmets for everyday use is a thing. It felt like a Robocop ad so i had to check it out. Paydirt. that photoshop is ghastly
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Shame Boy posted:I thought you lived in north Florida, which is the one part of Florida that central Florida can feel slightly superior to Most of the candy years were spent in north Florida but I became a man working food service in the theme park crucible. When I get depressed I pull up the NOAA sea level rise map, crank it to max and cackle at strip mall hell sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic. It Makes everything feel somehow better.
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Shame Boy posted:Lmao we just got a very sincere HAPPY EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION DAY!!! email from management where they didn't even bother to spell "appreciation" correctly. I am feeling very apreciate, thanks we used to have an employee appreciation picnic in the spring where at least we all got free food but we didnt have one in 2020 and 2021 so i guess we're no longer appreciated. haven't heard yet about 2022 yet
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COVID is going to sweep so many things like that under the rug lol
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Yeah, like imagine if every suburb in your town had its own cluster of high rise towers rather than just downtown and maaaybe one other area. I say this as an admirer of big poo poo rather than economist of any sort: the Vancouver skyline is just gorgeous. My understanding is they recently passed some legislation, effectively saying that you can't just have these empty apartment buildings sitting there and that they have to actually be used. Because of that my friend was able to rent a fancy loving high rise apartment for dirt cheap and he just works retail for a living.
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Beartaco posted:I say this as an admirer of big poo poo rather than economist of any sort: the Vancouver skyline is just gorgeous. My understanding is they recently passed some legislation, effectively saying that you can't just have these empty apartment buildings sitting there and that they have to actually be used. Because of that my friend was able to rent a fancy loving high rise apartment for dirt cheap and he just works retail for a living. What was the incentive for allowing them to sit empty anyway? They'd still appreciate in value plus you'd get a little passive income from rent. Is it just a case of the rich being stupid or is their actually a good reason for it
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Milo and POTUS posted:What was the incentive for allowing them to sit empty anyway? They'd still appreciate in value plus you'd get a little passive income from rent. Is it just a case of the rich being stupid or is their actually a good reason for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
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Milo and POTUS posted:What was the incentive for allowing them to sit empty anyway? They'd still appreciate in value plus you'd get a little passive income from rent. Is it just a case of the rich being stupid or is their actually a good reason for it In general if you have no vacancy, you can't pick up higher paid renters when they become available. So you keep rents high, and occupancy somewhere around 90% if you're a "professional landlord" If you're clearly below that 90% you consider lowering rent for new renters(not the ones you've already got mind you). If you're above 90% even a little you jack rates until you're at 90. This isn't speculation. This is on paper playbook.
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Milo and POTUS posted:What was the incentive for allowing them to sit empty anyway? They'd still appreciate in value plus you'd get a little passive income from rent. Is it just a case of the rich being stupid or is their actually a good reason for it 1) For the insanely rich individuals, it means you can use the unit a couple weekends a year with no notice. 2) For management companies, they probably are willing to rent it out, but at a price people aren't willing to pay. If you can rent it out at your desired price within 12-18 months they may consider it better to let it stay vacant, since you're not signing paperwork with someone agreeing to rent it out for less for some period of time. Additionally, if most empty units are owned by a (relatively) small number of developers to the extent that you can kind of guess what the others are going to do, you can drive prices to your desired price point just by refusing to rent for less than that. There's, I imagine, not a massive supply of perennially empty units, just a lot of units that stay empty for longer than you'd expect because of their high price. If prices are continually rising, there's a strong incentive to hold out for your desired price, and if there's a lot of people holding out for their desired prices, then prices will keep rising.
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Most of the candy years were spent in north Florida but I became a man working food service in the theme park crucible. Ahh okay. Really miss that candy by the way 
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bob dobbs is dead posted:ive eaten 6 species' brains altho not human. closest analogue is well-cooked thymus or 5-hours steamed lung w more fat cooked brain reminds me more of a soft tofu, but creamy and rich
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ikanreed posted:In general if you have no vacancy, you can't pick up higher paid renters when they become available. So you keep rents high, and occupancy somewhere around 90% if you're a "professional landlord" sometimes you will see the landlord offering free rent for x months when signing a 12 month contract, this is so the on paper monthly rent doesn't drop below the threshold demanded by their mortgage duz has issued a correction as of 16:57 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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For sale: Children's bullet proof helmet. Used.
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It's hard to believe war reporting could get worse than Iraq but here we are
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evilpicard posted:It's hard to believe war reporting could get worse than Iraq but here we are This isn't worse than Iraq.
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