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tokin opposition posted:It's bank term bullshit, right? Paging nerds to explain this to me stat. yep. iirc the property value is partly based on the nominal rent, so if they reduce the rent in order to actually rent it out, the property becomes less valuable as collateral/goes underwater/etc.
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Zodium posted:yep. iirc the property value is partly based on the nominal rent, so if they reduce the rent in order to actually rent it out, the property becomes less valuable as collateral/goes underwater/etc. Which in turn impacts the variable interest rate they pay, which is the important step because that’s where it really starts to incentivize 80% occupancy at 2.5k/mo over 95% occupancy at 2.3k/mo
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/GalenMetzger1/status/1680120688793866244?t=8nLfHxGtEwH2-CgQ_xHC5g&s=19 It's weird realizing that this sort of thing would send me on a rant if you made the mistake of saying it to me in person. But I'm a huge nerd and that's par for the course.
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Zeroisanumber posted:It's weird realizing that this sort of thing would send me on a rant if you made the mistake of saying it to me in person. But I'm a huge nerd and that's par for the course. Yeah WWI was inevitable, the particular flashpoint we got is interesting for the drama and because it gives it a tidy narrative, but if Gav hadn’t domed Franz it would have been something else. The clash of empires was inevitable Same with WWII
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On the other hand, the amount of insane coincidences involved in the archduke shooting (archduke's driver getting lost after canceling security details for hospital trip, gavrilo deciding to detour for snacks way off the escape route, the driver making a five point turn before this exact cafe, etc etc) does strongly imply that fate/god/materialism god really really wanted this specific event and was willing to thumb the scale super hard
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Yeah WWI was inevitable, the particular flashpoint we got is interesting for the drama and because it gives it a tidy narrative, but if Gav hadn’t domed Franz it would have been something else. The clash of empires was inevitable it's a really interesting history thing because nothing in history is inevitable but it was extremely likely. War didn't break out over Bosnia in 1909 or Morocco in 1911 but it easily could have, and then we'd just think of that as the inevitable spark for WWI instead. Conversely, if Franz Ferdinand hadn't been assassinated or if that crisis had been resolved diplomatically, there probably would have been another crisis a few years later and a few years after that until war did start. But then there are also events that seem inevitable but each time there's a potential spark they manage to back down, like the series of superpower confrontations during the Cold War, so you can imagine a hypothetical history where they manage to keep resolving crises diplomatically until something changes to make the extremely likely war less likely
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projecthalaxy posted:On the other hand, the amount of insane coincidences involved in the archduke shooting (archduke's driver getting lost after canceling security details for hospital trip, gavrilo deciding to detour for snacks way off the escape route, the driver making a five point turn before this exact cafe, etc etc) does strongly imply that fate/god/materialism god really really wanted this specific event and was willing to thumb the scale super hard The main upshot of the assassination was that it removed the most moderate member of the government and supercharged the reactionary forces. And it's hard to really convey how god drat stupid and arrogant the people running the Austrian government were. Just historic dolts. Not only did they need Germany to bail them out in Serbia but they managed only a bloody stalemate against the Italians when the Italian Army was being led by another historic dolt Luigi Cardona. Cardona was a man so ferociously bloody-minded that he actually decimated, literally decimated, a unit after they failed to carry out one of his idiotic assaults during the Battles of Isonzo.
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Historical materialism requires believing that systems matter more than individuals, and if history has proven one thing it's that we'll invent increasingly complex reasons why actually individual actors DO matter and in fact matter more than systems
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vyelkin posted:it's a really interesting history thing because nothing in history is inevitable but it was extremely likely. War didn't break out over Bosnia in 1909 or Morocco in 1911 but it easily could have, and then we'd just think of that as the inevitable spark for WWI instead. Conversely, if Franz Ferdinand hadn't been assassinated or if that crisis had been resolved diplomatically, there probably would have been another crisis a few years later and a few years after that until war did start. But then there are also events that seem inevitable but each time there's a potential spark they manage to back down, like the series of superpower confrontations during the Cold War, so you can imagine a hypothetical history where they manage to keep resolving crises diplomatically until something changes to make the extremely likely war less likely Yeah that’s a good point and inevitable was too strong a word by a little, although not much imo The main point though is that the great man theory is bunk because great men are as much slaves to their times and places and circumstances as anyone else. They’re interesting to focus on for the narrative but they’re as driven by the great tides of history as anyone else
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Yeah that’s a good point and inevitable was too strong a word by a little, although not much imo yep, absolutely. Great man history is fun but it doesn't have much analytical value
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Great man history but only ranked by coal shovelled and millet reaped
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FFT posted:They keep the rental rates higher that way. Yeah, they could rent the empties out at lower rates, but overall they'd make less profit because it's basically a cartel system and having higher average rent benefits them. Yeah it's just basic business sense to price your goods to get maximum profit, which doesn't have to be the price that sells out your entire inventory. If you own 10 units and can rent them all out for $1000 each, or you can raise the price to $2000 each and still rent 9 out while the 10th guy who can't afford it ends up homeless on the street, you make more money doing the second thing even though you're taking a loss on the empty unit the other 9 more than make up for it. Same reason grocery stores destroy unsold food rather than cutting the price as much as it takes to sell everything. They'd rather sell 90% of their apples at a dollar each than sell 100% of their apples at 10 cents each. It's funny how businesspeople pretend not to understand really fundamental business principles.
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projecthalaxy posted:On the other hand, the amount of insane coincidences involved in the archduke shooting (archduke's driver getting lost after canceling security details for hospital trip, gavrilo deciding to detour for snacks way off the escape route, the driver making a five point turn before this exact cafe, etc etc) does strongly imply that fate/god/materialism god really really wanted this specific event and was willing to thumb the scale super hard quote:The archduke's chamberlain, Baron Rumerskirch, proposed that the couple remain at the Town Hall until troops could be brought into the city to line the streets. Governor-General Oskar Potiorek vetoed this suggestion[82] on the grounds that soldiers coming straight from maneuvers would not have the dress uniforms appropriate for such duties. "Do you think that Sarajevo is full of assassins?" he concluded.[82]
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projecthalaxy posted:On the other hand, the amount of insane coincidences involved in the archduke shooting (archduke's driver getting lost after canceling security details for hospital trip, gavrilo deciding to detour for snacks way off the escape route, the driver making a five point turn before this exact cafe, etc etc) does strongly imply that fate/god/materialism god really really wanted this specific event and was willing to thumb the scale super hard But the story of the assassin coincidentally seeing him is a myth. The assassination was well-planned. Gavrilo Princip was waiting outside that deli because the conspirators had calculated several of the most likely escape routes, and knew that the Archduke's car would have to turn sharply on that street if that was the route he took. The story that he went to the deli for a sandwich came from a 2001 comedic Brazilian novel, then it was reported as fact by a documentary and entered pop history.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:What are you gonna do, shoot Franz Ferdinand? The materialism angels really knew what they were about that day.
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great man history except it means you assume that the tallest dude involved was the most important in any particular historic event
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Cerebral Bore posted:great man history except it means you assume that the tallest dude involved was the most important in any particular historic event
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Chamale posted:But the story of the assassin coincidentally seeing him is a myth. The assassination was well-planned. Gavrilo Princip was waiting outside that deli because the conspirators had calculated several of the most likely escape routes, and knew that the Archduke's car would have to turn sharply on that street if that was the route he took. The story that he went to the deli for a sandwich came from a 2001 comedic Brazilian novel, then it was reported as fact by a documentary and entered pop history. hm. nope.
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Cerebral Bore posted:great man history except it means you assume that the tallest dude involved was the most important in any particular historic event Luc Longley was the most important man on the 96 bulls roster prove me wrong
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Yeah that’s a good point and inevitable was too strong a word by a little, although not much imo quote:Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Luc Longley was the most important man on the 96 bulls roster prove me wrong nominative determinism strikes again
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DACK FAYDEN posted:What are you gonna do, shoot Franz Ferdinand? lol the "Do you think that Sarajevo is full of assassins?" line came after someone bombed the Archduke's motorcade
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vyelkin posted:it's a really interesting history thing because nothing in history is inevitable but it was extremely likely. War didn't break out over Bosnia in 1909 or Morocco in 1911 but it easily could have, and then we'd just think of that as the inevitable spark for WWI instead. Conversely, if Franz Ferdinand hadn't been assassinated or if that crisis had been resolved diplomatically, there probably would have been another crisis a few years later and a few years after that until war did start. But then there are also events that seem inevitable but each time there's a potential spark they manage to back down, like the series of superpower confrontations during the Cold War, so you can imagine a hypothetical history where they manage to keep resolving crises diplomatically until something changes to make the extremely likely war less likely
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A Buttery Pastry posted:What, aside from the threat of nuclear war, would be able to forestall the war indefinitely? And would nukes have been invented without a war convincing scientists to go through with inventing a doomsday weapon? I kinda have a hard time imagining no WW1 - but I suppose it might get delayed a generation, ending with nukes a reality and an alternate Cold War setting in rather than setting up WW2. I would imagine something like the same thing that ended the Cold War, a national collapse in one of the leading rivals. Like idk, if Austria-Hungary somehow managed to collapse into its constituent parts because of an internal revolution or a failed reform program or something, that changes the material balance of powers enough that a war like WWI would look very different if it happened at all.
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God chose that moment for WW1 to start because it was when His chosen, the H1N1 strain of influenza virus, was prepared to embrace the moment The notion that mankind could delay or otherwise foil this plan is the height of vanity
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projecthalaxy posted:On the other hand, the amount of insane coincidences involved in the archduke shooting (archduke's driver getting lost after canceling security details for hospital trip, gavrilo deciding to detour for snacks way off the escape route, the driver making a five point turn before this exact cafe, etc etc) does strongly imply that fate/god/materialism god really really wanted this specific event and was willing to thumb the scale super hard IMO that's the work of a lazy writer who has a conclusion they want to get to but can't figure out how to get there organically. two stars
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VitalSigns posted:lol the "Do you think that Sarajevo is full of assassins?" line came after someone bombed the Archduke's motorcade
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Before World War II, the Great Powers were standing right up next to their chalk lines, leaning over the boundary, daring each other to hang just one hair over the chalk.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:yeah it was literally "what are the odds someone throws another bomb" (okay it was a gun the second time but work with me) "what are you gonna do, assassinate me?" - quote from man assassinated
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vyelkin posted:I would imagine something like the same thing that ended the Cold War, a national collapse in one of the leading rivals. Like idk, if Austria-Hungary somehow managed to collapse into its constituent parts because of an internal revolution or a failed reform program or something, that changes the material balance of powers enough that a war like WWI would look very different if it happened at all.
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"well, you can't say sarajevo doesnt love you mr archduke"
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You could just pursue your racist dating preferences without saying anything. Nobody is going to vet you, and just publicly declaring you'll only date white people makes you look like a loving idiot.
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