Buying a family-sized home with three or more bedrooms used to be manageable for young people with children. But with home prices climbing faster than wages, mortgage rates still close to 23-year highs and a shortage of homes nationwide, many Millennials with kids can’t afford it. And Gen Z adults with kids? Even harder....
Not sure how common this is nationally, but around here it’s also common for the older generation to maintain two properties a “home” in the city/metro area near their kids or grandkids and a “cabin” which is literally a second home somewhere else.
I think it’d be great to give up the home in the metro and downsize to a condo or apartment, but that’s just me.
Tl;Dr Spotify turned shuffle on after I closed the app then later resumed my listening leaving me wildly confused and possibly with some major spoilers. Check before you resume listening....
My wife and I watched through The Sopranos recently. One episode per week, the way it was “meant to be viewed.” We were both incredibly frustrated with exactly what you describe here: single-episode manufactured drama to keep viewers coming back for the next week. Entirely too often the writers would conjure some conflict at the beginning of an episode only to resolve it at the end with nothing changed. When this happens in any other television we call it “filler” and it is fine to be skipped. I thought Seinfeld was supposed to be the show about nothing, but my god the Sopranos spent an awful lot of time not developing the characters at all.
Also, how many fucking times did they get away with using a dream sequence to reveal something to the lead character?? It’s lazy writing.
3/10 show. James Gandolfini gave a great performance, Tony Soprano was a boring character.
“We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.
400 iq play is getting to the red pill multiple times and then taking the blue pill once you’re satisfied with your path. Catch me on NG+10 taking the blue pill
Absolutely body language first. It is well established that children can learn and use sign language to communicate long before they can speak. If that doesn’t count as “body language” then I don’t know what does 😉
I need to vent. Mods, if this kind of thing isn’t welcome in this community anymore…oh well. It helped me feel better at least typing my thoughts into the void....
Dave Wallace wrote a pretty popular essay called “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” which covers his unfortunate experiences on a paid-for cruise. Could be worth a read if you want some humor and commiseration.
I found a copy on Scribd, you might be able to find it elsewhere if you poke around.
Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday....
Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
I wish Summoning Salt would do some more recent or different games, but he really seems to love the NES/SNES era. Just saw he released his second multiple-hours-long video about Mike Tyson’s Punch Out and I am just not the audience for that I guess.
He could do good things with Hollow Knight or Halo 2 for example, but maybe that’s just not his passion.
Starbucks really should be louder about their cal counts…
They’re dumping literal sugar syrup into most of their “specialty” drinks, adding several hundred calories. I would love to see the calorie counts right there on the menu in-store and online in large, bold text.
The again, studies have shown time and again that people are awful at understanding how many calories are in their meal, so I’d wager there would still be plenty of people still thinking “oh, only 480 calories. Good thing I’m having a salad for lunch!”
I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
In 2014, Ubisoft released 'The Crew,' a racing game that aimed to revolutionise the genre by offering a sprawling map mirroring the entire United States. While the game wasn't a complete disappointment, it failed to achieve the monumental success its ambitious premise had envisioned.
Semmelweis was also kind of an asshole and would camp out by hospital sinks and yell at staffers for not washing their hands. He had the right idea, but he also had a shit personality which definitely contributed to the “everyone hated him” thing.
A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain...
Hey, German here. What the f*** are Americans doing at the other side of the Atlantic? Some of you already know this monstrosity. I did’nt. This is a Ford F650 Truck and when I stepped out of my Youtube Bubble I realized, it was marketed as the “biggest, baddest Truck on the road” for the everyday American. Are you guys...
Boomers won’t part with their homes, and that’s a problem for young families (www.cnn.com)
Buying a family-sized home with three or more bedrooms used to be manageable for young people with children. But with home prices climbing faster than wages, mortgage rates still close to 23-year highs and a shortage of homes nationwide, many Millennials with kids can’t afford it. And Gen Z adults with kids? Even harder....
Caution when using Spotify for audiobooks
Tl;Dr Spotify turned shuffle on after I closed the app then later resumed my listening leaving me wildly confused and possibly with some major spoilers. Check before you resume listening....
Era of complex and ambitious TV is over, says Sopranos creator (www.theguardian.com)
David Chase says 25-year golden period was a ‘blip’ and he is being told to ‘dumb down’ productions.
X's fresh temporary ban of several prominent journalists raises alarm (www.nbcnews.com)
“We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.
Anon is completely sane (lemmy.world)
Which pill do you choose? (i.imgur.com)
Do you first develop the abillity to read body language, or do you first learn how to speak?
As a child I mean.
The four houses dads belong to. (lemmy.world)
I'm not picky... (sh.itjust.works)
My parents paid for my vacation aboard a cruise ship, and I hate it.
I need to vent. Mods, if this kind of thing isn’t welcome in this community anymore…oh well. It helped me feel better at least typing my thoughts into the void....
Have you recieved any books as presents for Christmas - or any other reason just lately? If so, tell us about them.
Anti-Caking Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
THIS IS AN ANTI-CAKING AGENT HATE ACCOUNT. MY CHEESE WON’T MELT PROPERLY >:{...
Young voters right now overwhelmingly prefer Biden: The Economist/YouGov poll (thehill.com)
Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday....
Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
Quebec to raise university fees and mandate French for out-of-province students (www.bbc.com)
US adults found to eat a meal's worth of calories in snacks each day (medicalxpress.com)
Snacks constitute almost a quarter of a day’s calories in U.S. adults and account for about one-third of daily added sugar, a new study suggests....
What are your"too lazy to cook" recipe ?
I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
Ubisoft has permanently taken The Crew offline (www.gamingarcade.co.uk)
In 2014, Ubisoft released 'The Crew,' a racing game that aimed to revolutionise the genre by offering a sprawling map mirroring the entire United States. While the game wasn't a complete disappointment, it failed to achieve the monumental success its ambitious premise had envisioned.
What do *you mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? (lemmy.ca)
Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 (www.newscientist.com)
A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain...
America has lost its f*****g mind. (feddit.de)
Hey, German here. What the f*** are Americans doing at the other side of the Atlantic? Some of you already know this monstrosity. I did’nt. This is a Ford F650 Truck and when I stepped out of my Youtube Bubble I realized, it was marketed as the “biggest, baddest Truck on the road” for the everyday American. Are you guys...
For real though. Tough to get through. (lemmy.world)
Apparently this reminder is needed....