But yet they can keep finding people willing to pay such high rent.

Not always, especially if it’s a company that’s holding a lot of units – they’ll keep the rents high even if they can’t fill all of them to ensure the valuation of the others stays high. The math works out such that they’ll earn more from 12x$2000 than 20x$1000, for example. Plus, not as much money spent on upkeep for unused units.

Edit: And quick edit to add, the best way to fix this is to tax unused units or property (roughly, there’s a lot of nuance there). In fact, that would fix a lot of the current housing and rental market insanity. It’ll be a monumental effort to push past realty lobbying, but any time you see this proposal pop up in regional politics, please show up and voice your support if able.

Think about how fast you can evacuate from the cocaine after snorting cocaine

The new law will allow kids ages 14 and 15 to be able to work until 11 p.m. during the summer.

The way they use the word “allow” feels like some really creative writing.

But valuation is a very real predictive measure on IPOs, and what Reddit is making all these bad decisions in preparation for. They tried to cut a little more pie by dragging third party app users onto their app to try and increase revenue and bump valuation, it’s just that it was so terribly misguided and executed that it had the opposite effect and blew up in their face.

Jfc that’s grim. I get that these kinds of things have gotten less shocking over time since it’s all coming to light on a monthly or even weekly basis, but those cops didn’t see those men as people at all.

It’s fucking monstrous what the police were capable of doing, and I honest-to-god don’t think any rehabilitation of their behavior is possible; they don’t just deserve to be fired, they should be in jail for life.

This is more preventative than something that would help you now, but try to practice gratitude/active appreciation. It’s a bit of a slog to start, but once you get in the habit you’ll feel overall more positive and more directly in control of how you feel at times like this.

Basically, take time a few times throughout the day to acknowledge something you’re thankful for or are enjoying, and then say or murmur it out loud to solidify it. Sunny weather or a crisp morning? Feel good about it for a second or two. Those headphones your relative or friend got you as a gift sound banging? Mentally thank them for it.

This is one of the few therapeutic practices that have a universally positive impact on mental health and outlook, and it’s definitely served me well in general as well as in very similar circumstances to what you’re dealing with.

https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2019/03/practicing-gratitude

Exactly. At this point I’m more invested in fediverse services. Between that and RSS feeds, they scratch 90% of the dopamine itch that Twitter and Reddit did. If the communities just continue to expand a little bit more at the rate they’re already going, I’ll have no desire to look back.

I mean, reading that, it’s a stretch but not that much of a stretch. They’re basically saying “JVM, .NET, Node, a bunch of CI/CD and DevOps tools” and then a bunch of repeats and calling out adjacent technologies/specific dependencies. It’s not something where you’d be expected to work on all of those every day, but work full-stack at a company a bit and drift into a few different projects and you’d check those boxes. This is just a very bad/scary job posting calling out every minutiae.