RL things I love

GreenFlashlight

@misadventure settles in with some popcorn

GreenFlashlight

@misadventure Thanks so much for that. I can't tell if you listed them in order of least to most funny or if these videos have a cumulative effect, but I was shrieking laughter by the third one.

Aria

@greenflashlight said in RL things I love:

@misadventure Thanks so much for that. I can't tell if you listed them in order of least to most funny or if these videos have a cumulative effect, but I was shrieking laughter by the third one.

Celebrities just being confused by thirst tweets is legit one of my favorite things.

But. But.

Being confronted with awkward fanfic on the Graham Norton show is even better.

Macha

Okay. Radcliffe's made me cringe, but I still see him as like.. a kid.

Cavill's was fucking delightful.

But Stan and Mackie are hilarious, with Seb blushing, and Mackie just playing it up.

Derp

@aria said in RL things I love:

@greenflashlight said in RL things I love:

@misadventure Thanks so much for that. I can't tell if you listed them in order of least to most funny or if these videos have a cumulative effect, but I was shrieking laughter by the third one.

Celebrities just being confused by thirst tweets is legit one of my favorite things.

But. But.

Being confronted with awkward fanfic on the Graham Norton show is even better.

This absolutely made my morning. Thank you for sharing

BetterNow

No thirst tweet reading is better than Jeff Goldblum's https://youtu.be/3EAesv-PzpI

sahin

I would indeed like to wear the blood of my enemies as a warning.

So I will.

Aria

@sahin said in RL things I love:

I would indeed like to wear the blood of my enemies as a warning.

So I will.

I will never forget the time a dude told me I wore too much eye makeup for
-- and I quote -- nice guys like him.

Or the look on his face when my answer was, ".....Yeah, that's the point."

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Aria

If there is one thing I actually enjoy about business school, it's using all of my newfound knowledge to convince my classmates that even if they don't believe the speculative investments of "property developers" to be morally repugnant, many of them are just bad business.

I dunno, bro. If you can't make a buck without breaking basic accounting and investment principles, maybe you're just shit at this?

Ganymede

@aria said in RL things I love:

I dunno, bro. If you can't make a buck without breaking basic accounting and investment principles, maybe you're just shit at this?

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Or maybe accounting and investment principles aren't the only way to make money.

sahin

Stoicism is being a duck in the rain.

Herja

@ganymede Except by breaking those basic principles, they are creating an artificial bubble in the price of property that is already starting to have a chain effect on the economy, exacerbated by Covid. If this continues, the 2008 housing bubble burst is going to look like a joke as compared to what we are potentially looking at when this bubble pops because it will. They always do. The principles are there for a reason and it isn't just to make money, it is to protect the economy and investors from those who act unscrupulously or just out of basic greed and stupidity.

Ganymede

@herja

You think that accounting principles match economic ones? Because they really don’t.

I mean, we’re talking about real property. Unlike other kinds of property, including labor, it behaves very differently.

We can talk all night about this topic, as it was part of my thesis for my graduate degree and an integral part of my law practice. But maybe we should take it to DMs.

But it is an RL thing I love, so —

Derp

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

We can talk all night about this topic, as it was part of my thesis for my graduate degree and an integral part of my law practice.

I would, no lie, actually be interested in reading that because I'm a great big nerd that loves reading stuff like that.

Ganymede

@derp

Cool. First, read Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine. Then, read Adam Smith’s writing on the value and taxation of real property; it is in The Wealth of Nations.

Bottom line: the value of real property is entirely speculative, and therefore should be the basis of all taxes.

Solstice

I'm moving in less than a week - while I can't move in to a house this year like I'd hoped because of the aforementioned absurdity bubble that's even more absurd in my neck of the woods, I was able to land a decently sized upgrade to the current apartment.

I cannot overstate how excited I am to be moving from a 1B/1BR to a 2B/2BR plus a loft. This means I no longer have to have my setup in a literal laundry room. Not sure if I'm going to post up in the loft or the second bedroom for my office, but either way, it is decidedly not the fucking laundry room.

And I'm thrilled with that.

Ganymede

@solstice

That is super awesome. Go get it. We’re (me, royally) are behind you!

Tinuviel

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

First, read [...] Thomas Paine.

This should be the beginning of every conversation.

silverfox

@tinuviel

Talk about a paine-ful beginning to a conversation.

Herja

@ganymede I am a real property auditor and this is what I do everyday in my real life. Comparing economic principles to accounting principles is inaccurate as they aren’t the same things or even really in the same category of study. One is the framework for how financial information is recorded. The other is theory based on how people behave with money. I am not disputing that people in general seek to maximize gain and minimize loss with very little future consequence thinking involved. Accounting concepts seek to determine what guidelines keep short term greed from doing long term economic damage. See WorldCom, see Exxon.

ETA: The issue isn’t that real estate speculation is increasing the price of real estate. The problem is what is going on in the accounting to make that happen. Take a look at Zillow’s most recent 10-K. It is enlightening and I expect the SEC is going to step in eventually.