You can’t just buy a house and sell it for a higher price. You are either flipping it to raise its value which is a lot of work or sitting and holding the house and waiting for it to appreciate. Product scalpers don’t have to-do either, nor do they have to pay interest on the loan like they would a mortgage.

Product scalpers rely on sudden bulk purchase of a limited supply batch of products. Unless you’re a mega millionaire you can’t do that with housing. So I don’t think you should consider it unethical to buy a second home and rent out. It is a valid source of income.

You have to explore all her albums in order to really form that opinion. People who like that kind of music will do so, and likely decide that she is phenomenal.

But then folks like you and me will not want to take time to ingest all that music that doesn’t appeal to us, so we have to speculate based off what we get exposed to which is generally her pop songs on the radio and such. But we aren’t really getting the full Taylor Swift. So it’s like we’re judging a sample of her stuff (which sounds like a lot of other pop cuz all pop sounds basically the same) and oversimplify what she offers to music.

I’m completely speculating… Like I said we’d have to dive into all those albums and listen to really form a meaningful opinion.

My brother is a swiftie and seems to think that her talent is above and beyond a standard artists talent. One thing that is praised is how much range she has covered across her albums.

I’m personally not a fan, and to me she seems overrated, but I also have to recognize the mass following and legitimate consistency in the music quality. She’s not like a Katy Perry recycling the same tune.

So I think she’s like a really nice pizza, appealing but always good quality, always fresh.

“person” is the only safe one afaik. Just go from specific to general and you’re good. You also get to sound like a robot.

Boo

Oh brother

It’s a BioShock reference with the “slave obeys” statement and the golf club right?

Potential spoilers but I guess we can leave it at that for our fellow lemmyists who haven’t played BioShock.

Not to mention the creator of GIF prefers the JIF pronunciation.

It doesn’t really matter, but I find the hard g folks have a stick up their ass about it.

But I’ve already played planet zoo

If “promoting war in Ukraine” extends to justifying Ukraine defending itself then fuck that rule and community.

Doesn’t explain why there is a meme feud about which spelling is preferred

What about maybe trafficking?

Can someone explain why these kinds of images are used and what goes into selecting one? I kinda want to do that but I feel whatever screen grab I pick would be dumb. Maybe it is just dumb and I have unnecessary fomo.

I say “that’s fire”. But I also say “that’s sex”, which I don’t hear from anyone else. Idk why I just feel like when something is really awesome I like to liken it to sex.

Jesus

I like this approach cuz it plays ball and can be reused for a number of products. Could have an “appliances” network and make a reusable fake “appliances” identity for any device that wants to IoT.

SIGN ME UP

Reassignment isn’t the same as mutation. But mutation depends on the type of value. If gender was a string like “female” it wouldn’t be mutable cuz strings are immutable in JS.

I feel like half of xkcd is just knowledge-one ups on the reader. No fucking clue what ea-nasir is. Google says it’s some ancient merchant from Mesopotamia. Not sure how that’s humorous but I’m sure there’s a niche reason the author is very smart for observing.

Ok I agree but there’s a caveat. If you’ve got a gaming setup or other situation where you want your chair to lean back (usually a knob an office chair has), then the lumbar pillow is great for gaming/theater mode