jennwiththesea

joined 2 years ago
[–] jennwiththesea 8 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the heads up that we're going to be hearing from Alex Jones again soon, regardless of who, exactly, has chosen to platform him again. This is awful. He's a hateful, horrible person, and I don't look forward to the conspiracy theories he's going to create again.

[–] jennwiththesea 5 points 1 year ago

I just switched to Antennapod, so I don't have data from this year yet. I would guess my top three were:

  • Kill James Bond
  • 538
  • possibly This Day in Esoteric Political History, but those shows are really short.
[–] jennwiththesea 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, nice! I didn't have that one on my radar. Our next family car needs to be either hybrid or EV, and I've just started looking.

[–] jennwiththesea 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Or in a five-seater car or crossover. It's ridiculous. Carseats and boosters are massive, even the ones with the smallest bases. Then after that you need space for sports equipment, musical instruments, other friends, etc. I'm not sure what the solution is here, other than acknowledging that for a few years in a family's life they're going to need a bigger vehicle, and it would be great if manufacturers offered a hybrid or EV solution for them, too.

Mazda is finally coming out with a PHEV three row next year, starting around $55k. Not sure who else, besides Rivian with their new fully EV three row at $75k+, which is completely unaffordable for most families.

[–] jennwiththesea 3 points 1 year ago

This is why I come to the comments. Thanks for this explainer!

[–] jennwiththesea 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Vancouver, BC in Canada did the same, though they actually fully banned foreign property purchasing. I'm guessing it's low hanging fruit that won't get much pushback within the country. Hopefully these are just first steps, in both cases.

Really wish fucking anything were being done in the US.

Vancouver: https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/experts-say-foreign-buyer-ban-wont-bite-b-c-real-estate-prices

[–] jennwiththesea 6 points 1 year ago

Oh, sweet! Thank you. I'll see if I can figure this out this weekend.

[–] jennwiththesea 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I went to download it, and apparently I already had! Now to start subscribing to everything again...bleh.

[–] jennwiththesea 6 points 1 year ago

I'm curious to know how many of those people eventually move to the place they visited for their healthcare. Visiting a place once is often all it takes to make it feel easier to move there.

[–] jennwiththesea 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is! In a pressure cooker, you can cook beets in a basket over a layer of potatoes and garlic cloves. The beet drippings turn the potatoes pinkish-red. Super fun for kids.

[–] jennwiththesea 6 points 1 year ago

"Google's similarity demo uses the same technology to identify pictures of cats, so turning that into the world's fanciest optical character recognition system sounds pretty doable."

Oh, well then.

[–] jennwiththesea 2 points 1 year ago

Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, it's bobsled time!

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