Random Rants 79: [Impassionating Intensifies]

[Valka D'Ur]

The fire alarm went off at 10 pm last night. For some reason my neighbors brought an aluminum foil-wrapped baking dish. Most people just bring their kids and cats.

 

[H4run]

After climbing to Master rank, I keep losing in this auto chess game and always get double or seven card that important to the series I build (which I adapt the way I build according to the opening) The game seems tricking me, I feel like playing the stupid zynga poker where they keep giving you the good outset and give you the series that you need at the turn card, however your flush get rolled with full house, what I meant is I thought the game card is not draw randomly, but it is pre determined like Zynga. Because I read it will be very exhausting and effort consuming for the game developer to having properly randomised the live game for thousands or more player..

Well I'm quite annoyed and ready to leave the game

 

[Snerk]

The fire alarm went off at 10 pm last night. For some reason my neighbors brought an aluminum foil-wrapped baking dish. Most people just bring their kids and cats.

Mix things up. Fire alarm goes off? Make an evening out it! Why not bring your bongo drums, or a magician?

 

[Cutlass]

Turns off.



What she said:

There's a limited numbers of chargers available and they recently took away half the chargers to install stupid short term rental cars. When someone sees my car plugged in and they think it's done charging and I've just left it there for hours, they get understandably mad. Unfortunately, this leads to them acting out.

The chargers are permanently installed in the building. It's not my charger, it's a charger for public use that costs money.

Cover the green light with something so that it can't be seen.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

@hobbsyoyo Then your sign needs to read: If you see a green light, my car is still charging.

Cover the green light with something so that it can't be seen.

I did exactly what @Birdjaguar suggested.

 

[Tristan_C]

imagine using a half gasoline, half coal-fired car

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've actually seen a coal-fired car once. Rolls Royce experimented with a turbine engine for cars that could be run on coal dust; they keep it in the museum/lobby of their Indianapolis plant.

 

[Tristan_C]

I've actually seen a coal-fired car once. Rolls Royce experimented with a turbine engine for cars that could be run on coal dust; they keep it in the museum/lobby of their Indianapolis plant.

Interesting, I guess it was worth a try. I bet it is too hard for a system as small as a car to duplicate what has to go on in coal plants to solidify and contain the emissions. For now hybrids will have to suffice as de facto coal powered cars.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

More like natural gas - and coal is continuing to shrink as a share of our power generation pie.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I got my official written eviction notice last night. I talked to my parents and there's nothing I can do about it and there's no realistic way I can get the company to recoup my moving costs. Apparently landlords refuse to renew leases all the time and that's just the way it is. Apparently forcing families out of their homes with little notice and for any reason whatsoever is just acceptable in our society. The notice came with a reminder at the bottom that property destruction is a crime because yeah, I'm the potential criminal in this situation.

I also came across this depressing article this morning. I've made enough whiny millennial angst threads already so I'll just post a link and highlights here:
The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials

It was the last downturn—the once-a-century Great Recession—that set them on this doddering economic course. The Millennials graduated into the worst jobs market in 80 years. That did not just mean a few years of high unemployment, or a couple years living in their parents’ basements. It meant a full decade of lost wages. The generation unlucky enough to enter the labor market in a recession suffers “significant” earnings losses that take years and years to rebound, studies show, something that hard data now back up. As of 2014, Millennial men were earning no more than Gen X men were when they were the same age, and 10 percent less than Baby Boomers—despite the economy being far bigger and the country far richer. Millennial women were earning less than Gen X women.

Kids of the 1980s and 1990s have had a new, huge, financially catastrophic demand on their meager post-recession earnings, too: a trillion dollars of educational debt. About a quarter of Gen Xers who went to college took out loans to do so, compared with half of Millennials. And Millennials ended up taking out double the amount that Gen Xers did. No wonder, given that the cost of tuition has gone up more than 100 percent since 2001, even after accounting for inflation.
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The toxic combination of lower earnings and higher student-loan balances—combined with tight credit in the recovery years—has led to Millennials getting shut out of the housing market, and thus losing a seminal way to build wealth. The generation’s homeownership rate is a full 8 percentage points lower than that of the Gen Xers or the Baby Boomers when they were the same age; the median age of home-buyers has risen all the way to 46, the oldest it has been since the National Association of Realtors started keeping records four decades ago.

As a result, Millennials have not benefited from the dramatic rebound in housing prices that has occurred since the financial collapse and the foreclosure crisis. Millennials have also been forced to shell out hundreds of billions of dollars in rent as housing costs have skyrocketed in many urban areas. This represents a large generational transfer of wealth from the young to the old. Boomers own the houses and bar municipalities from building more of them, thus benefiting from rising prices and soaking up endless rent checks forked over by younger and poorer families.

Cost pressures have also made it difficult or impossible for Millennials to save or invest. The share of Americans under the age of 35 who own stocks has meandered down from 55 percent in 2001 to 37 percent in 2018, in part because employers are less likely to offer retirement-savings plans and in part because Millennials have nothing left over at the end of the month to put away. Virtually all members of the cohort are “not saving adequately,” experts warn, and two-thirds of Millennials have zero retirement savings. This means that Millennials have benefited not a bit from the decade-long boom in stock prices, as their parents and grandparents have.

Millennials are worth less on paper than members of older generations are, and are worth less on paper than members of older generations were at the same point in their lives. The net worth of your average Millennial household is 40 percent lower than for Gen X households in 2001 and 20 percent lower than for Baby Boomers’ households at the end of the 1980s.

Could the Millennials make up this lost ground? Perhaps, if wage growth suddenly and dramatically accelerates, urban cores start to build millions of new homes, and Congress announces a student-loan debt jubilee. But financial experts consider it unlikely. Millennials missed out on the big asset boom that occurred between 2010 and the present, and “appreciation is unlikely to be as rapid in the near future as it was during the recent period,” argue economists at the Federal Reserve. “With the baby boomers occupying most of the top jobs and much of the housing, Millennials are doing less well than their parents,” concluded Credit Suisse. “We expect only a minority of high achievers and those in high-demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the ‘millennial disadvantage.’”

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

@hobbsyoyo In my town, I've noticed that a lot of former rental units now have airbnb signs on them. This depresses me, because who would want to do long-term rentals when you can make the same amount in a few days?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah that's another huge issue in many cities.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It just makes housing shortage worse!

 

[Tristan_C]

More like natural gas - and coal is continuing to shrink as a share of our power generation pie.

Oh damn. So the hybrid now runs on a cocktail of gasoline, uranium, coal, natural gas, wind, water, earth, fire and HEART

Truly a mutt car. Hitler would hate it!

 

[choxorn]

A few months ago, Honolulu passed a law heavily restricting short-term rentals, due to exactly the problem hobbs and aimee described, and hopefully it will eventually keep rental prices from skyrocketing even more than they already have/

 

[Birdjaguar]

I got my official written eviction notice last night. I talked to my parents and there's nothing I can do about it and there's no realistic way I can get the company to recoup my moving costs. Apparently landlords refuse to renew leases all the time and that's just the way it is. Apparently forcing families out of their homes with little notice and for any reason whatsoever is just acceptable in our society. The notice came with a reminder at the bottom that property destruction is a crime because yeah, I'm the potential criminal in this situation.

I also came across this depressing article this morning. I've made enough whiny millennial angst threads already so I'll just post a link and highlights here:
The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials

Keep in mind that big picture predictions are notoriously bad. In addition, the "big picture" is not your individual story Hobbs. You will wrote your own.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Small rant: I tried to set up a program to backup some files into Dropbox automatically. I screwed it up and I ended up with a bunch of duplicated renamed files. That wasn't smart. I have it working now.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Mix things up. Fire alarm goes off? Make an evening out it! Why not bring your bongo drums, or a magician?

Somebody started to sing (had a lovely voice). I have no idea what was in the food container. Unfortunately, if I were to entertain anyone, I'd have to put my organ on wheels and have a super-long extension cord. Entertainment might be an option if I carry through with my idea to take up the recorder again (it's been many years since I last played one, so I'd have to relearn most of what I knew).

Actually, these fire alarms tend to be the occasions where we meet the neighbors and get introduced to their cats (some cats get very nervous due to the noise of the alarm and the firefighters stomping around; I've helped a few people keep their cats calm).

 

[Commodore]

Apparently landlords refuse to renew leases all the time and that's just the way it is. Apparently forcing families out of their homes with little notice and for any reason whatsoever is just acceptable in our society. The notice came with a reminder at the bottom that property destruction is a crime because yeah, I'm the potential criminal in this situation

Sorry about your situation. For better or worse, our society cares more about property owners' rights than tenants' rights.

I don't know your financial situation, but maybe this is a sign to start looking into homeownership.

 

[Synobun]

I don't know what the landscape is like in Cali, but it might be doable to buy a Tiny Home. They are between 20 to 70k, you own it, and you can either buy land to set it on or rent space somewhere (like if you were living in an RV or mobile home). You can move it, too.