You listening, Grassley?

He’s gotten away with a lot and supposedly has a lot of money, but to be honest I really don’t envy him. He seems miserable inside.

This sounds like the work of a developer. If you want to take a plot of land and sell it for $2x/m², it’s entirely possible… But it may take $3x/m² worth of improvements if you’re not careful.

Frankly, if you have to ask these kinds of questions Lemmy is not the place to get the answers. You can get a college degree in this kind of thing, and it seems like you’d need to start at the very basic level.

That’s a basic economics thing that doesn’t have an easy answer. But basically, at lower prices, people generally demand a higher quantity of something. Raise the price, and people start to think twice and consider other options. Supply is the opposite: at a higher price, more of a product will be produced (or in the case of pre-owned land, landowners are more likely to cash out). At lower prices, people won’t bother.

So in the case of land, price is affected by what people want, but also what’s available. If there is a lot of open space and that’s what everyone wants, groovy! But if people want limited amounts of tree land, prices are going to skyrocket for that and people will look at open land as an alternative.

You’re putting your priority of beauty on others, who seem to prioritize function if they do hobby farming (in which case, trees could get in the way of whatever they’re trying to do with the land)

Neither preference is wrong. In theory prices should reflect supply and demand.

normies

bragging with Windows supremacy

I don’t think that’s as common as you think it is. Most Windows users see Windows as part of the computer, a tool to get the job done. As a DIY’er (basically a tool normie) I don’t brag about the supremacy of my Kobalt tools, I just drill the damn hole

I’m not sure the cost to make vs value is really the best measurement, within reason. At the end of the day society gets a tool to measure a unit of wealth to easily transfer, and there is value in having that.

That said! Yeah. The US had a half-penny until 1857. I can look at an inflation calculator that only goes back to 1913, and half a penny then was worth 16¢ today. We don’t need the penny anymore.

My wife had a hysterectomy a few weeks ago. Even though she already had her tubes removed and the hysterectomy was for other reasons, she said this felt like a good “eff you” to Trump

Very similar time frame for me… I always thought that preps were more of an upper-class group. Maybe there’s a little overlap between those two groups though.

Well, admittedly I imagined that developing game night when everyone has already tuned in, but you’re right that that’s not necessarily the case. Still, the parties at home are already planned and at that point you might as well have the game on anyway because those who really care about football will want their last fix anyway

You’re right, that isn’t going to happen 😉

Also, keep in mind that every position has at least one backup

From my perspective, that’s “our” second civil war 😐

2 weeks down, 206 to go

Apparently that was 100% Joe Biden 🙄

He also said he’d lower the price of eggs. Unfortunately people care about that more and believed him

In theory, that could be the goal. Cripple the government by choking revenue.

In practice, this is not what most people use to file taxes, particularly those who pay substantial amounts. More importantly, those taxes are mostly paid through paycheck withholdings. Most people get tax refunds by filing, or if they came up short through the year they only pay a small amount through this system.

Every other Nintendo console shakes things up pretty massively, the next one is mostly a horsepower upgrade with no major innovation

NES / SNES (home console gaming in general)

N64 / GameCube (viable 3D graphics)

Wii / Wii U (much different control. I have to admit I never really touched the Wii U but it follows the pattern of missing the major hype)

Switch / Switch 2 (mixing an honest console with honest portability)

Nobody said the courts are good (at least not 100% of the time where it matters most)

For me it’s some kind of cartoon with the caption “Best comic funny 🤣” and sometimes “funny short film” (even though it’s a picture)

Like, Meta has to know this is happening. Do they really think this is what will keep their userbase? And nobody would think it’s just a little weird?

Off the top of my head

/calibration/filamenttype/stuff.gcode /wife/project/stuff.gcode /otherprojects/stuff.gcode

Not great, but looking at the other comments I’m pretty proud of myself