#peach's posts

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Here's the thing: imagine if we fixed the housing market, so that the price of housing only increased to match inflation. That would be great, right? Except, homeowners typically spend $2000-$10000 per year on maintenance. So homeownership would go from an investment to an endless money pit, just like renting. The idea of a house as an investment, a house as a way to build wealth, requires that housing prices increase faster than inflation forever, which means that the burden of housing costs on working people must keep increasing forever, and the number of homeless people must keep increasing forever.

The housing crisis isn't just a result of greedy landlords and investors. It's an inevitable result of social policies that encourage people to treat their houses as in investment. Because once a homeowner internalizes the idea that their financial future depends on housing prices going up, they start favoring policies (such as NIMBYism) that make housing prices go up.

Conversely, if we want to end homelessness for good, we need to accept that housing is someone we'll all have to continuously pour resources into, because buildings are complex physical objects that break a lot.

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There seems to be a movement in Indie ttRPGs to take tasks that would traditionally be the GMs responsibility and give them to the players. Unfortunately, much of the time they only offload the fun, easy GM tasks to the players, leaving the GM with only the hard, boring tasks.

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A lot of cishet men don’t interact with women unless they are family members, authority figures, or women they want to fuck.  A lot of cishet women don’t interact with men unless they are family members, authority figures, potential romantic partners, or men who hit on/harass them. 

I think these this explains 90% of the cishet gender discourse I see.  Straight people’s experience of the other gender are not based on a representative sample of the population

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Clicking on red usernames while using shinigami eyes is a fun game of roulette because the breakdown is like:

60% of the time: TERF

20% of the time: Ultracatholic or other religious weirdo

10% of the time: seemingly normal person who may have been mislabeled due to a misunderstanding

10% of the time: a wholly novel form of awful person

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A lot of desirability politics discourse seems predicated on the assumption that a person's sexual desires are a product of their current ideologies, and therefore fixing a person's ideology will "fix" their sexual desires.

But there's really no evidence for this. If anything, research has suggested that people's sexual desires tend to contradict the ideologies they believe in

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Beauty is a very real form of power. But if you spend money and time making yourself more beautiful, you're sacrificing one form of power for another. Does this lead to a net increase or decrease in total power? That's the question I'm always grappling with. There must be some level of beauty at which one's total power is maximized.

It's hard to find good discussions on this. Most discussions of beauty are from people committed to being as physically attractive as possible no matter the cost, or people reacting against this and demanding that we all stop trying to be attractive regardless of the consequences.

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As someone who is autistic and used to be socially isolated, reading social justice and feminism discourse online did severe damage to my ability to interact with people irl. Every time a real-life person complains about my behavior, I'm completely blindsided because it's the exact opposite of what people on the internet are mad about.

This isn't to say there's any bad about social justice or feminism, it's rather that in order to properly interpret posts on the internet you need to already have a baseline understanding of how people think and operate.

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I'm just brainstorming ways to make people mad, but what if I became a billionaire then learned to DJ but not very well then used my wealth to coerce people into listening to my shitty sets.