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The research firm’s top property economist likens the decline in office demand to what malls have experienced over the last six years—and sees a similar outcome.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In my family, if a kid (such as myself, for example) tended to talk a lot, they'd say "he was vaccinated with a Victrola needle" (because, for the younger readers who are possibly ignorant of history, vaccines were originally applied by scratching the skin surface with a needle, and a Victrola was an early record player with an actual needle for converting the grooves into vibrations - so perhaps some of the capacity for endless automatic patter carried over with the vaccination)