From Fast Company:
How the starter home became a dying American dream
When 26-year old Memphis resident DeMario Johnson returns to his home after working a long day servicing waterwells for the local utility in Raleigh, North Carolina, he doesn’t just see a two-bed, two-bath home—he sees a place that makes his family happy. His wife loves having bigger rooms, his daughter delights in a space all her own, his two-year-old son spends afternoons stretching out in the hallway, running back and forth, and he personally loves the large, low-slung front porch.
But Johnson also sees security, something he and his family can depend on, no matter what. “When I’m paying my mortgage, I can see where my money is going,” he says. “When I’m renting, I feel like I’m pissing in the wind.”
For years, Johnson had tried to do what so many young adults are still struggling to accomplish in today’s housing market: finally buy a place of their own. The idea implicit in the starter home is that it is a beginning: you acquire an affordable home with a handful of bedrooms, laying down roots as a way to build assets for your future home. The starter home is not perfect, or a final destination—but it was a step on the ladder towards a stereotypical American Dream.
What was once a big, but manageable step, has for many become an impossible leap over an ever-widening chasm. The exact numbers vary depending on the market and the circumstances of a buyer or couple, but the math behind buying a starter, or entry-level, home today remains increasingly cruel.
The U.S. is short roughly 1.5 million homes, per Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Homebuilders, a gap weighing heavily on the kind of lower-cost models favored by first-time buyers. The competition for a smaller starter home has become cutthroat: even 15 years ago, realtors had more than 2.2 million vacant housing units available to show buyers. Today, due to rampant underproduction of housing for decades, there’s just 732,000, or a third less options, all with 30 million more Americans looking for a place to call home.
Underproduction has led one economist to call the starter home “an endangered species,” and others to consider current generations resigned toward renting for life. Rents have seen an astronomical rise in recent years, only outpaced by rising home costs, making it that much more challenging to save for a downpayment; the average mortgage now costs 52% more than rent, and a stunning 175% more in Seattle and Austin.
First.
May the sun shine on your life today.
Today, due to rampant underproduction of housing for decades…
I can hit a dozen multi-unit construction sites within 15 minutes. Multiply that by 3,100 counties in the U.S. and let me know how many units are being built. Apparently, those are your starter homes. We’re all one big borough of Queens, NY.
Go sleepy Joe.
President Biden will start notifying 153,000 student loan borrowers enrolled in the Save repayment plan that their debts — totaling $1.2 billion — have been forgiven.
This is how you avoid sending money to Ukraine. Be wealthy enough to not pay taxes, the Ukrainians don’t get one thin dime. But you can still go online and support the cause without having to pay for it. Plus, with enough money, if they ever send troops, your kids won’t go either.
it’s good to be the king.
Specialized life insurance plans offered only to the wealthiest Americans are a vehicle for dodging billions in taxes, a Senate report released Wednesday charged.
The plans, called Private Placement Life Insurance (PPLI), stand apart from the life insurance policies that millions of Americans purchase to hedge against a family breadwinner’s untimely death, in which buyers pay set premiums and expect a certain benefit for their heirs after they die, or make limited publicly traded investments within their life insurance policies
PPLI customers, on the other hand, are a wealthy elite who use their life insurance policies more like private investment accounts. They are priced at the high end, with initial premiums as high as $2 million, and policyholders are required by law to already hold at least $5 million in other investments. Once the PPLI buyer pays millions into their insurance account, the insurer uses that money to buy shares in hedge funds, private equity companies and other investment options that are not open to most people.
At least the truckers haven’t boycotted NJ.
Yet.
Fast Eddie says:
February 21, 2024 at 7:58 am
Today, due to rampant underproduction of housing for decades…
I can hit a dozen multi-unit construction sites within 15 minutes. Multiply that by 3,100 counties in the U.S. and let me know how many units are being built. Apparently, those are your starter homes. We’re all one big borough of Queens, NY.
The Fed made a mess of things, with their reckless monetary policies.
Chucky wants to send our kids to Ukraine to fight. I wonder how much of his 81 million he has donated to the cause.
Well, I don’t wonder. Guys like him don’t pay anything. They get others to do it.
Just like his counterpart Mitch McConnell , Chuck Schumer has built up his fortune by occupying a powerful position in the government. With the help of a few wealthy real estate tycoons, Schumer was able to buy many properties at the right time and the right price.Feb 6, 2024
Chuck Schumer Net Worth (FORBES) $81 Million Assets –
Here’s your truck ban. Nothing more than Social Media bullshit, like the rest of his agenda.
https://turnpikeinfo.com/view-cameras.php?gps=40.858982x-73.976637
Schumer – $81 million?
And I thought he was pretty close to Pelosi. I guess not.
Pretty soon it should be a good time to get a Ukranian bride if you want one. The ratio of women to men should be getting pretty good.
And what happened to feminism? I thought they wanted to be equals. What percentage have stepped up to going on the front lines vs hiding in other countries while their men become cannon fodder.
Bill Burr was right.
https://youtu.be/onNBxynagXE?t=8
Let’s Fucking Go!
https://results.armorytrack.com/meets/26729/relays/181459/results
The Soviet Union is estimated to have suffered the highest number of WWII casualties. As many as 27 million Soviets lost their lives, with as many as 11.4 million military deaths joined by up to 10 million civilian deaths due to military activity and an additional 8 million to 9 million deaths due to famine and disease. Those totals do not include the more than 14 million Soviet soldiers who were wounded during the war.
America lost a paltry 419,400.
Sat it out while the Russians fought. Sent IBM computers to help track people (made tons of profit) In fact, many businesses in America aided the German war effort.
But hey, it was us that won the war. Nothing like showing up after all of the heavy lifting was done by somoene else.
Chicago says:
February 21, 2024 at 8:22 am
Let’s Fucking Go!
https://results.armorytrack.com/meets/26729/relays/181459/results
Hell Newark and Paterson would destroy Colts Neck. But their best and fastest are busy outrunning the police department. A man’s got to eat. Poor man just does it different.
Honestly most truckers don’t want to go there anyway. Hell it’s hard to drive a car there let alone a truck.
Libturd says:
February 21, 2024 at 8:18 am
Here’s your truck ban. Nothing more than Social Media bullshit, like the rest of his agenda.
https://turnpikeinfo.com/view-cameras.php?gps=40.858982x-73.976637
Horse Teeth Murphy plans to make every e-bike and scooter get registered and insured.
NJ always finding a way, just like a tick, to drain the life blood out of it’s residents. How long will it be till horse face wants us to register and insure our shoes, sneakers, and boots?
We’ve seen some really bad bicycle bills (here and here) but the pending legislation in NJ State Senate may be the most destructive for micromobility. S4132 would require low-speed electric bicycles and low-speed electric scooters to be registered with the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) and to be insured. That means any Class 1 or Class 2 e-bike (20 mph max power assist) will be required with up to $35,000 of liability protection. If passed New Jersey would become the first state in the nation to require low-speed e-bike/e-scooter registration and insurance. New Jersey, which is one of the last states to regulate low-speed electric bikes and other wheeled vehicles the same as bicycles, could become the first in the nation to regulate them like motorcycles.
Phoenix: Let’s not forget it was the Nazis and Soviets who attacked Poland which started WW 2. Stalin would have been quite content to sit out the war. Hitler of course then attacks the Soviet Union, and now they are an ally. If it was not for the US providing money and machinery, Hitler would have won. It was the US and USSR who won WW 2 with some assistance from Britain. Of course had we stayed out of WW 1, WW 2 might have been avoided.
Guess those cross dressers are on to something. All along I thought it was just a fashion thing, turns out it actually puts a spring in your step.
But not good for everyone, see link:
Could wearing high heels be good for you?
In the study, young women and men who donned customized high heels for several months soon began walking differently.
But contrary to widespread beliefs about heels, these changes weren’t problematic, the researchers found. Instead, the men and women who had worn the heels the most frequently became better, more-efficient walkers — not only in heels but also in flats.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-03/16/content_540375.htm
3b
Correct. Point taken. Very true also your statement about the war of 1917.
Kind of funny to think Russia wanted Mexico to take back what America had stolen from them. Hehe.
I guess in a way the border jumpers are just trying to get back their ancestral lands.
The Mexican Cession (Spanish: Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day western United States that Mexico originally controlled, then ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Soviet Union sent out their Zergs.
Collectivist dictatorships tend to not to get along, despite operating on similar premises. And they tend to not care how many individual lives have to be sacrificed for the supposed good of the collective.
“I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.” George C Scott in a movie playing Patton.
BRT,
Thanks for the clip yesterday. Seems like the president at least wants to work within the boundaries of a justice system, rather than flouting them altogether. Clearly he had a difficult situation to deal with, and there was no way to just send out a handful of detectives to nab a few murderers to enjoy 1-year long trials.
In the US, the new escape plan for lawbreakers is “incompetence” – beyond the old “insanity” defense, now young thugs claim they are simply too stupid to be held responsible for anything they do, and DA are going along with it and dropping charges without going to trial. The shocking thing is that anyone too dumb to restrain themselves from hurting people is exactly who people should be protected from.
“Weapons of mass destruction” that didn’t exist. Homeless vets in America. Horrible veterans hospitals. Chucky Shumer and his 81M talking about sending our boys.
America and it’s “Democracy” is not that different from the “Collective dictatorships” you mentioned. It just controls the lower classes in a different way.
Frontline has another masterpiece on how America controls people. I experienced a small taste. I know how it works. First Frontline I couldn’t finish it made me so angry.
And they tend to not care how many individual lives have to be sacrificed for the supposed good of the collective.
“I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.” George C Scott in a movie playing Patton.
https://youtu.be/V_Rh9ZlgwV8
Phoenix: That area of Mexico that the the US took , including Texas was sparsely populated, and part of New Spain, along with Mexico. The Spanish pulled out, and then it came under Mexican sovereignty. The US wanted it and took it, no argument there, but it was not like thousands of Mexicans were torn away from their mother land. As I said the area was sparsely populated, indigenous tribes and isolated Spanish mission settlements. The only people who got screwed were the indigenous people, like they always do.
There is no “justice” system.
It’s a legal system. Get it straight. That is why it’s called law and order, they want order, they want control. It’s why Acorn Cop went berzerk.
No One says:
February 21, 2024 at 9:11 am
BRT,
Thanks for the clip yesterday. Seems like the president at least wants to work within the boundaries of a justice system,
3b,
Not disputing your argument. But I’d bet except for a handful of places everything was sparsely populated back then.
Agree with your statement.
Fast Eddie,
Since you love Auto Racing so much, you should really become a more active participant.
Try Rt80 on weekdays. Yesterday I saw 2 NY cars and a PA car drafting at over 100 mph switching lanes. Plus others joined in .
Maybe if you throw LAX some Chex Mix he will let you borrow his “dialed in” ride so you can go play on the highway. They were having fun. I was hoping to get a good car crash video on my dashcam.
No luck. Maybe next time.
‘People who say Putin had Navalny murdered are idiots’: Tucker Carlson jumps to Russian strongman’s defense AGAIN
Hmm.
Well, the Americans murdered Epstein in a police station. Come on, we all know what happened. Not even a 10 dollar WYZE camera to watch him. Puleezzzze.
Russia should have sanctioned us for that. HEHE.
Tucker Carlson is absolute mind-garbage for the low IQ red hat masses. He sat there and listened to Putin state that Poland was responsible for WW2 because they did not surrender Gdansk willingly to Germany? Tucker listens and says “Of course” like it was a factual statement. He compares Russian food prices to US without mentioning that Russians make very little so prices are really astronomical. The mooks should be “radicalized” by this low cost grocery bill. Repeats “radicalized” a few times. The guy is a f-ing moron and a shill for Putin.
Phoenix: Many areas were sparsely populated, that does not make it right, but the narrative that we stole the land from Mexico, and in turn made thousands of Mexicans part of the US is false. We stole it from Spain/ Mexico, who stole it from the indigenous people.
Putting the truck ban to bed.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/maga-trucker-does-180-trying-123056407.html
Tucker is a lunatic, even Fox got rid of him.
Tucker is a silly influencer.
but what about Epstein?
JFK?
Tucker is also an admitted liar. Maybe he can be Trumps VP this time around?
Tucker is also an admitted liar. Maybe he can be Trumps VP this time around?
I think Ted Nugent should be the VP choice.
The other day, the NYPD arrested a truck driver who had to fend off a migrant who was entering his truck and attacking him with his schlong. Poor guy is trying to do his job and calls the police over and they arrest him. My brother drive a truck delivering high end food products into the city every day. He says, in certain spots, the homeless people are ready to raid you the second you park. He, on more than one occasion has had to get physical and push them back. The chaos that exists there right now is just stupid.
What are the NYPD even assigned to do now? Or the DA/courts?
Anyone thought about getting an extra $10,000 income from NYC by moonlighting as an illegal alien?
Chris Nolan’s Batman Trilogy is looking prophetic.
There are now over 200 facilities in NYC housing illegal aliens. Hotels are starting to be commandeered for the steady flow. Brawls are starting to occur on a regular basis and cops are getting assaulted attempting to control things. Compassion has a price, I guess… literally and figuratively.
By the way, who’s in on investing in commercial real estate in NYC? The only caveat is that you must be on the “correct” side of the political aisle or you will be the targeted and your assets will be seized.
Chris Nolan’s Batman Trilogy is looking prophetic.
I’m seeing Joaquin Phoenix strutting down the street in oblivious glee of the mayhem around him.
No One,
I look so Hispanic that I get someone coming up to me speaking Spanish once a week at the store. My wife and I joked that we move back to my birth city, El Paso, and I just cross the border with my daughter every day to get some handouts. But if they are just giving them away in NYC, maybe I just take the train in and get a $10,000 debit card. No ID required? Wtf….
Hey, does anyone know when that O’Biden Inflation Liposuction act kicks in? Dropping over $100 in the “15 items or less” line in ShopRite is getting a little stressful.
BRT: Apparently it is a maximum of 10k they can get, and that’s it. I wonder if they put the 10k all on at first, or they have to have the card refilled? My Dad came here with 7 dollars in his pocket, a new suit, and drafted not long after he got here.
Now,
If they give that 10k to Lib…
Yessir. With 10K, I would send them to Costa Rica, where it’s way nicer than Manhattan. And mucho cheaper.
U slummin’ it?
Thought you were a WholePaycheck guy?
Fast Eddie says:
February 21, 2024 at 11:39 am
Hey, does anyone know when that O’Biden Inflation Liposuction act kicks in? Dropping over $100 in the “15 items or less” line in ShopRite is getting a little stressful.
I’m no expert, but methinks it would be better to buy now then because when they lower the rate the price would rise.
Then just finance later.
Hold off buying a home! Mortgage rates cross 7% threshold for the first time since December due to stubborn inflation – but experts insist they WILL come down later in the year
Mortgage rates hit 7.06%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association
Experts urge prospective buyers to wait until later in the year to buy a home
Fast
Who could have predicted a sanctuary city with a soft on crime DA would have issues with crime and undocumented travelers? I for one am shocked.
https://youtu.be/SjbPi00k_ME?si=rUpMlMxvhMWjDwwP
Well that clip does accurately portray the police…
Hold my beer says:
February 21, 2024 at 12:59 pm
Fast
Who could have predicted a sanctuary city with a soft on crime DA would have issues with crime and undocumented travelers? I for one am shocked.
https://youtu.be/SjbPi00k_ME?si=rUpMlMxvhMWjDwwP
Phoenix: Nah Fast and myself like Shoprite, although I have started to go to ALDI s more. Also, Target is good for your paper towels , toliet paper, and those other types of sundries.
My theory is that homeless operate on the pigeon principle.
Pigeons congregate in locations where people throw pigeon-feed.
Dumb mayors think that throwing homeless-feed and giving them stuff solves the homeless problem. No, it attracts more homeless.
These days it’s seen to be less demeaning to let people be idle bums on the street, paid for by government, petty crime, and gullible donors, than to have them work menial jobs and live in permanent but shabby tenement housing. A hard life, but an honest and ethical one that some of them might climb out of. The “progressives” made such cheap housing for poor people illegal to build. As if outlawing cheap housing would put fancier housing within their reach. And minimum wage laws made it illegal to hire people whose labor isn’t worth much, as if outlawing poorly paid jobs would make these people’s labor worth more. And rising welfare payments made it more rewarding to do nothing anyway, despite creating a truly dead-end in life.
3b, same, great uncle came here from China, immediately thrust into the war, died in a plane crash over Germany. Grandparents fled Mao, lived in the back of a laundromat in NYC while they worked. They partnered with 4 families to open a restaurant in Teaneck. Grandfathers slowly bought them all out. They were driving nice cars and traveling the country on their own dime by 1970.
Handouts always create dependents.
Exactly 3b. Avoid the greedy corporate storefront ShopRite and go to Aldi’s. We do 99% of shopping between Aldi’s and TJs now. Only do SR for a few things now. I do like their pharma brands over likewise greedy CVS. Target has lots of good 25% off deals, 5% off for using Target card, Target circle rewards. Just loaded up on TP. Amazon is hit or miss for everyday stuff and electronics. You really have to be aware
BRT: I guess my immigrant parent’s, and your immigrant families had what’s how called privilege. That’s what many progressives think.
Most homeless are either mentally ill or drug addicts. The shelters are more dangerous than the streets. Very few are people who have naturally fallen upon hard times. This is what makes it very difficult to solve the issue.
Bystander: I am starting to pay more attention, because the price increases were just getting out of control. I have been making more of an effort , because the savings too add up. And, it’s the principal of it.
No Costco? Paper towels, bathroom tissue, salad components, eggs, coffee, clothes….. for $60/year. If you go, executive membership and credit card, then 4% off gas etc.
Bystander says:
February 21, 2024 at 1:26 pm
Exactly 3b. Avoid the greedy corporate storefront ShopRite and go to Aldi’s. We do 99% of shopping between Aldi’s and TJs now. Only do SR for a few things now. I do like their pharma brands over likewise greedy CVS. Target has lots of good 25% off deals, 5% off for using Target card, Target circle rewards. Just loaded up on TP. Amazon is hit or miss for everyday stuff and electronics. You really have to be aware
Basically we use Costco, TJ & a supermarket. Target fell off the rotation….
If you want organic standard then Costco is a must….. blows the shit out of everything.
um….. doesn’t this reflect current Federal policy?
No One says:
February 21, 2024 at 1:19 pm
My theory is that homeless operate on the pigeon principle.
Pigeons congregate in locations where people throw pigeon-feed.
Dumb mayors think that throwing homeless-feed and giving them stuff solves the homeless problem. No, it attracts more homeless.
For meat, nothing comes close to Restaurant Depot, though you’ll need a chest freezer.
Produce, Walmart or Asian farmers market.
Dry goods, ShopRite or Walmart.
Chgo: We definitely use Costco for TP , paper towels , and trash bags, we just don’t always get the chance to go there, and so sometimes use Target for those things as it’s closer. I do need to make a trip to Costco and stock up.
1:29 bring back State Hospitals.
1:53 you can’t beat my meat.
9:00 that ship has sailed. I’ve as much chance of reclaiming the waterfront königsburg parcels & structures as well as the 3 story mansion the Nazis took.
Lax: I believe that many of those hospitals were emptied years ago due to concerns about their civil liberties. That was NY, I don’t recall any details, back in the 80s I believe.
Ken Kesey’s novel and movie “One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest” tricked lots of people into thinking insane people were just quirky folks suffering under Nazi nurses. Actually he wrote it while on drugs, and wasn’t some scientific expert on insanity.
Then Kesey promoted LSD for all, which in turn made even more people go insane.
Costco for coffee and paper products at the very least. Then, if you’re looking for platters, cakes and that type of thing, no one else competes. Meat and fish as well. I use walnuts in oatmeal; Costco recently had a huge bag (can’t remember how many ounces) for an enormously great price. I bought two of them. Regular grocery stores would cost twice as much for half the size. Gee, how funny is it that we’re all looking for bargains and deals in one of the greatest economies ever by the 14th ranked best president ever. Yes, slo joe was ranked the 14th best president ever.
3b I recall in NYC they’d wander around the City.
Lax: Yes, they did, I remember that well.
Chi,
I am caught in Costco no man’s land, they are all 30m away depending on traffic. Aldi/TJs/Target are 5m. Also, my kids are picky AF. My autistic son knew I bought round crackers from Aldi’s and not TJs. He immediately called it out. They know their brands well.
TJs has some great meat., look for the filets.
Plastic wrapped in pairs. Bigger than they look wrapped.
Can someone call out Desantis and SGC for their sanctimonious tirades about blue state lawlessness?
“Organized crime has come for Home Depot—$100,000 of goods was stolen from Florida stores as self-checkout theft continues rattling retailers”
I don’t mean to dismiss homelessness / but damn it’s inhumane to live on the streets.
They’ve gotta decriminalize most drugs. Offer safe places for those folks to live.
Meanwhile out west:
Date Event Price
2/8/2024 Listed for sale $899,999+28.6%$669/sqft
1/23/2024 Listing removed $700,000+9.7%$520/sqft
2/21/2023 Sold $638,000-8.9%$474/sqft
When in doubt, pull and relist for 25% higher. This is a condo, absolutely zero work done.
Seems like we throw a lot of pigeon feed in Ukraine.
Costco is practically useless for singles. Better off going with someone else as bulk can be a pain when you don’t have a large family.
Its like Verizon. Great for a big family-you get a good discount. Visible is awesome for singles.
Costco Executive membership gas = 2% accumulation on charges + 4% credit card discount on gas + $2.95 just filled up in Marlboro. Insane.
chicagofinance says:
February 21, 2024 at 1:47 pm
then 4% off gas etc.
BREAKING NEWS!
Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business
PUBLISHED WED, FEB 21 2024 12:00 PM EST
UPDATED MOMENTS AGO
Market melting up!
ChiFi where 10 yr at?
VSG: I remark on the Ten when I think it is making impactful moves. It sold off to the 425-433 area and has sat down. We will eventually move, but I haven’t focused on it. I agree that NVDA is the correct focus given some of the weakness and selective cratering of shares we have seen over the last week.
“Organized crime has come for Home Depot—$100,000 of goods was stolen from Florida stores as self-checkout theft continues rattling retailers”
You can make some nice condos with those high ceilings in Home Depot. In fact you have most of the materials to get started already at the job site.
hehe.
LAX says:
February 21, 2024 at 2:03 pm
1:29 bring back State Hospitals.
You could. If you stopped sending money ( I mean buying friendships) that aren’t real friendships to all these countries all over the world.
or this:
Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration’s 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion war. But today, as the United States ends combat in Iraq, it appears that our $3 trillion estimate (which accounted for both government expenses and the war’s broader impact on the U.S. economy) was, if anything, too low. For example, the cost of diagnosing, treating and compensating disabled veterans has proved higher than we expected.
You had the money. You still do. You spend it elsewhere. And you will continue to do it until your own stupid civilization collapses.
TikTok, it’s coming.
In Alabama, your baby in a bottle is now a human being. IVF is now a nightmare there.
You have ten embryos, you have ten kids. You can’t destroy them.
Gonna be a meltdown there, low oil pressure, you now have a rod knock and spun main bearings in that motor. Good luck. Peace out.
The U.A.B. system said it was worried about criminal prosecutions after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered children.
Had lunch with an old friend today. He just moved out of his house wife wants a divorce two children 19 and 17.
Seems to be a trend……
Phoenix,
Each bay could hold 12 people. Place a mattress on every shelf, stack ’em high. Big Orange ladders to get up and down…voila, homelessness solved.
I’m getting to know my wife again “post kiddo”. Appreciate her more than ever.
She’s still gorgeous, works her ass off, and likes the same shit I do. She killed it this year. Once the kiddo leaves the house, I suppose couples that stuck it out just crumble.
Was on a call today with a big time Microsoft partner. They seemed a bit worn out talking about AI. I asked about use cases…..again we are a software business, we are buying AI to sell AI.
Other than stellar hardware sales for NVIDIA where is beef?
I see lots of promises of CAGR of 37.3% from 2023 to 2030 for AI enabled PCs? Really are PCs going to be a $100,000 each? Those are huge growth numbers, I don’t think so.
Snip “Many of these AI PCs will be sold to commercial buyers, but consumers will have much to look forward to in the coming AI PC age, including potential improvements in PC gaming and digital content creation.”
Why not talk wearables? PCs? Really?
Juice: Any particular reason, without divulging anything anything personal?
lol, you want a gauge into the capabilities of AI, just search Google AI on twitter today. The idiots who programmed it made it incapable of generating images of white people. People posted images of Founding fathers, 17th century physics, popes, 1943 german soldiers, vikings, swedish woman… friggin hilarious results.
3b- re: Any particular reason
I would say Bravo TV.
His now soon to be ex-wife lost her job when Covid hit but did not attempt to go back to work. I am told she did not go for booze or drugs or anything like that but worse the REAL HOUSEWIVES. Happens to millions of women. They think the grass is somehow greener by purchasing a new outfit… She also tanked several job interviews too.
He is ok.. I checked in today for that very reason. Men don’t usually have support here..We don’t have a bunch of bitches we can ring up..
She will soon find out he cannot and could never could really afford the lifestyle. I would say besides mortgage perhaps another 100k or more on credit cards, the tiny bit of home equity will be gone.
By the way I along with others told him to never to go by the home now. I don’t want to hear he was arrested…She already has an alarm system and cameras. Forget the old clothes and gear etc….don’t go there ever. Have her meet you with kids at a public place if it’s your weekend. He lives by me but moved back up where he grew up etc. An hour away is good.
Kids are of course upset.
Juice Box says:
February 21, 2024 at 9:52 pm
3b- re: Any particular reason
I would say Monkey Branching.
Sorry to hear that. Your advice is good, women will weaponize the police. She won’t need to prove anything, she can just lie. They don’t care, won’t charge her with a crime. It’s too much work-just read the story above about Home Depot.
Men don’t have support anywhere. Women have a network where they contact each other and divulge tactics they have used that work/don’t work. It’s very organized.
Did anyone watch Old Dads? Remember the scene after he fought with Dr. Lois Schmieckel-Turner- then did the auction? His wife locked the door on him-he kicked it in-they fought and his kid came into the room. He offered to stay on the couch (his legal right). She said she wanted him out (something legally she has no right to do).
So legally, he can stay. It’s his residence as well. There is no abuse. None towards her, none towards his child. If the police show up do you think they will ask one of them to leave? Do you think they will choose a side? Do you think someone will lie? Do you think with a child the man will be “coerced” to leave vs the man?
It now becomes clearer. Next comes the lawyer-judge phase- and we don’t have tribunals-rarely a trial with jury. So one muppet decides your fate.
LAX’s ” Post Kiddo” is funny. Cause now the thing she needed him for he gave her. She may want more, but she has one, and for some that is enough. Some women are like a praying mantis, they will lop your head off legally once you gave them the thing that completes them.
The least valuable thing to a woman is the man. He is just the vessel that gets them what they want-the money, the house, the kid. The child seals the deal legally.
The child seals the deal legally, emotionally, and physically. If she is as hot as he says she is, she is being hit on by other men like an American server is by foreign hackers all trying to get a piece.
A few too many drinks at a work party, one hand on her thigh. You got in an argument over a new kitchen- that finger will be deep inside her.
You now have a cheater on your hands. Best of luck. Feminism, Bravo, whatever. Morals are gone everywhere. Feminism teaches women men are useless. Every day there is a poor Ukrainian or Russian soldier sent to war to die only to read a Dear John letter sent by the woman he thought was faithful.
But just like in the Villages, women are agressive sexually. They ain’t waiting for you to come home. Their router is being pinged by every man that knows you are gone.
Kids are of course upset.
Women don’t care about them. Her needs come first. She can/will use them as weapons.
Take it from someone that knows. Their suffering doesn’t matter, her happiness does.
But happiness is an illusion. I saw my ex’s face today. She looks like Droopy Dog. He is probably tired of her sh ite. Now my kid will get exposed to her misery. Hope the new D was worth it beech. Ruining your childs future for some c o c k.
The grass isn’t greener, and we all die.