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the oil of… Colombia?

I know Colombia has oil, but I assume you’re talking about Venezuela.

So you’re saying they’ve already tasted the drug of excess wealth.

So your comment is less than nothing… you haven’t said absolutely anything other than pointing out you couldn’t be bothered to read the comment chain.

For the “It’s not a realtors job anyways” to do title searches, that’s what I called out to avoid useless comments about it here https://piefed.social/post/2082718/comment/11442844/reply

I do realize I pointed out something with mortgages that is only tangentally related to realtors, but my point is that many levels of the process are a problem from leeches trying to get their cut of the big fat fucking pie.

I understand that TODAY the title search process is a total shitshow because of a bunch of disparate data sources, so you need someone to track things down. I’ve never done a title search personally because that’s not my job, i’m a tech worker though and understand how technology works.

Zero reason why this couldn’t be in a database somewhere at a nationwide level and mandatory for real estate transactions. It might take years to do the transition, but it could be done. It could have been started in 2008 when the market crashed as part of mortgage reform and already be here today, 18 years later… but it wasn’t.

It’s like turbotax and all the tax preparers stopping us from moving to another option, because they lobby the government to avoid changing it so they can keep money. It’s a racket. The government already has the data sources to know what your transactions were. For most people who are W2 employees without special circumstances they know everything without you needing to input it.

Any time there’s a big money transaction the bullshit leeches come in and try to make a living off of a niche specialty because their payday is a small portion of the overall transaction. It’s in nearly every single aspect of our lives. It’s the credit card processors, it’s the bank overdraft fees and minimum balance fees, it’s every house and auto transaction, it’s nearly every legal process. It’s in health insurance with MASSIVE contracts negotiated with any business of any real size out there. You name it, some bullshit exists to make you pay more. Just because it is the way it works today does NOT mean it needs to be the way it works in the future. If we just look at our problems and say “well that’s the way it works, and I won’t make more money by changing it” we’ll never improve anything.

So I don’t know the specifics here and I don’t doubt there is substantial environmental impact.

Do want to point out though that whenever my area has construction on water pipes we often have a flush water notice where we need to basically run our taps to flush out dirt and debris that got in during construction. Several pipes in my neighborhood were replaced in the past couple of years and we had to do it every few months. I could see that being the cause here too, if the neighborhoods are anywhere near said water pipe construction.

I do doubt the EPA will do jack about any of it. They might go out and do some survey and shake down the organization funding the work for a bribe, but there’s no way they’re gonna stop it if they pay up in those closed door conversations.

When employers are forced to pay us a % of revenue alongside our salary, then we’ll talk.

% based commissions on home sales incentivize rising home prices. They incentivize fast sales too, even if it may go contrary to the fiduciary duty they should have.

Many commission based jobs outside of art are bullshit, like auto salesmen. The whole homebuying process could be simplified with an online web form where a buyer and seller put in the information and automated systems handle the rest of the bullshit. Title search as a fee is a great example of something that makes NO SENSE in the 21st century… like most fees surrounding large purchases where they double check you’re a real human with a real job on the date of closing the deal. All that shit could be centralized and done for pennies on the dollar. Zero value add for the majority of the process. Any bullshit red tape a realtor may or may not navigate is a sign of poor process which could be changed. I do realize I pointed out something with mortgages that is only tangentally related to realtors, but my point is that many levels of the process are a problem from leeches trying to get their cut of the big fat fucking pie.

Someone could still be paid by the hour to stage homes and schedule open houses without the commission. If all you’re doing is looking for open houses it really should be no more than finding somebody on fiverr or taskrabbit… or just a fucking filter for zillow, redfin or whatever website.

Anyone who makes a living from a role like a realtor - of which there are MANY out there - will be against practically everything i’ve said. I don’t expect upvotes, I expect to be dog piled. There’s reality and what people want to believe though, and the reality is that most of the process is bullshit to give a giant fat commission for people able to pull a fast one on unsuspecting buyers and sellers.

So I do casually follow the handheld emulation stuff. I’ve always thought android sucks as a platform for gaming in general, but shouldn’t all of those retroid problems apply to the ayn thor? My assumption is that people are in love with that thing, but maybe the boot times are just better or they did a better job of the driver/power management?.. or maybe the marketing is just on point.

I have a deck so I don’t really see a point to having another handheld, but I still want to understand why x vs y.

Also am full time linux on desktop os at home and work and I can definitely see how the boot and sleep state times would be much better just in general on a properly tweaked distro.

Seriously, they are already getting a cut on every single game sold due to licensing. They discontinue services very early too for tons of games because the companies making the games are the actual hosts anyway.

So I guess we pay for shitty voice chat and some updates? and the privilege of them unlocking the ability of playing multiplayer. Imagine if microsoft charged a subscription for updates for normal users, or they charged a subscription to connect to a network connection.

Because political parties have their own agenda that isn’t simply what voters want.

This one’s analysis shows them in a poor light for picking a candidate that they knew would probably cut it close or lose, rather than a candidate that would be elected with populist / democratic socialist leanings. Probably anyway. How would we ever know, even if they released a report? They never tell the public how the sausage is really made.

Morons or masters of revenue?

We all hate it, but for every one of us who will cancel there’s ten more who will just keep paying no matter how bad it gets.

Just takes one show and a lack of motivation to self host a solution, and these companies own every popular show and nearly the entire pipeline of creation.

Advertisements work so well everybody is trying to put them everywhere to make more money. It’s just that simple. Reddit is effectively full vertical video and photo content if you browse the site without logging in, because a few second video format is enough to slip in a quick ad without triggering people as much as a long format ad does, like infomercials of yore.

If we want the ads gone we need to regulate them away.

Not just putin, the oil companies that have been financing the GOP too. Plus the military industrial complex.

The whole thing has money written all over it. They don’t give a shit about lives. They aren’t worried about nukes no matter how much they want to prop up that straw man.

They won’t rest until they own it all and we all work for nothing.