The housing market almost doubled prices during COVID. I don’t think it’s unexpected that prices would settle down and readjust in the years following.

1.7% YOY decrease is a bubble popping?

What good does altering Harris’s position do if she doesn’t win?

To add on to this, a common carbon “offset” is to pay land owners to not cut down trees that they often weren’t planning on cutting down anyway. John Oliver has a segment on Carbon Offsets.

At what point do we ingest enough microplastics to become plastic and stop aging/decomposing? Asking for a friend.

Why are two of the hurricanes backward???

Lots of instances are purging their images to avoid risk of hosting CSAM. It’s not syncs fault, the images are just gone.

It’s a criminal offense now, so if the officer is having a bad day you get to spend the night in jail. Max fine of $500

I’ll see myself out 🤦‍♂️

Thanks for all the hard work btw! Really looking forward to the article summaries.

Neat, thanks!

Think the restriction might be lifted in the future once this CSAM thing is figured out?

Not a huge deal to me, I don’t plan on uploading any NSFW content and my instance has disabled all image uploading (for now) anyway. Really, I’m just curious.

NSFW images can no longer be uploaded via Sync

Why not? How can Sync tell if an image is NSFW?

By $5/yr for a streaming service with nothing of note on it

Signal takes steps to reduce the amount of metadata visible, like sealed sender which makes it so that Signal doesn’t know who sent a message. Even your payment information for donations is separated from your identity so that they know you are a donor, but not how you donated.

It desn’t matter if Signal were hosted on Putin’s personal servers. Its security is in its protocol, it’s not trust based.

Vulnerability is frightening and challenging, but it’s also a crucial part of human connection that can be very liberating. It can be really helpful to acknowledge the need to be vulnerable and to realize the hurdles to it and the benefits of it.

Here is a super popular Ted talk on vulnerability that just about everyone could benefit from watching: The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown

This isn’t the study I was referring to, but it’s more recent and came to the same conclusion: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/09/08/asking-help-hard-people-want-help-realize/

There was a study a few years ago that found that asking someone for help actually strengthens your relationship and makes them like you more. IIRC it was on workplace interactions. The basic idea being that if you ask someone for help, it shows you have trust and confidence in them and they get to feel useful, which people generally enjoy.

Obviously that’s going to depend on the type of help. If I need help moving or with some mental issue, that’s going to be a more appreciated ask than if I ask for money. Not that asking for money is always a bad thing, so long as it’s a legitimate need and doesn’t become a habit I think most people would be happy to help out a friend low on cash. It’s better to get financial help from friends and family than from some predatory payday loan that is designed to keep you in debt for the rest of your life.

Not saying everyone can do it, just that we’re all on the same side. It’s important to remember who your friends are. The doctor that works 12h+ a day and has a few million in the bank is not the same as the billionaire playing God and zipping around to all major world events in their private jet while siphoning profits from thousands of workers.

You pretty much need to be a multimillionaire to retire these days and it’s not that hard to do with a half decent job and basic retirement planning, especially when factoring in a home to your net worth (which is standard). Millionaires are not the enemy. $1m is 1000x closer to $0 than $1B.

I had to block that community