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most Chinese families invest everything plus everything they can borrow, into a home. if property values fall, that will be perceived as a giant loss and could be a widespread freakout. so they try to keep home values growing like forevers. a bubble that is kept growing forever?

it’s amazing how much the web is full of clickbait and fake sites trying to just capture search result traffic. ironically, ChatGPT seems to make it even easier to make sites like that. 😭

i teach rich kids about what america did

moonfall felt like i was being scammed in real time. not a good movie but if you like talking about the flaws of a film then it is pretty rich

oh yes thats what i meant.

why wouldn’t it be worth it? you end up living somewhere far more reasonable

would it be better if votes were private somehow? do we want mods to potentially be reviewing users votes?

I’m not from reddit but I have thoughts nonetheless.

if you get attention to your thread via some ”easy” method like having the most recent reply, this attracts stealth abuse. troublemakers can try to use plausible replies to push up what they want to fill the top, and push down everything else. i want to emphasize that you cannot really notice or be sure when this goes on.

therefore, it’s important that popular clients don’t make anything like that the default. upvotes is much harder to game. recent post (but not replies) is okay because people making too many dumb posts is obvious and they can be blocked (etc.). most replies is fine since it takes lots of different people. even some combination (weighted upvotes, weighted downvotes, weighted total replies) could be nice.

instances could take how their ”front page” / default sort works very seriously because it ends up shaping what users see and interact with the most.

I like Obsidiean. they made new vegas.

I haven’t seen anything annoying yet, but there are a lot of moustaches.