It’s because they have fewer limits on what they are willing to do.

No judgement, I believe in social programs

I don’t normally judge, but I do when people pull up the ladder.

There are definitely good parts of Reddit, which is why I still lurk (at least for now).

Stay away from the big subs and especially anything political.

I’ve looked up stats on number of apps average phone has. The app count seems unrealistically low with how everything is pushing apps these days.

New Reddit is such a shit tier interface though.

Going public = enshittification. As in the former is a direct cause of the latter

You can’t comment or post, but being banned doesn’t actually prevent you from logging in and viewing. Well, unless they change that too.

Enshittification will continue until morale improves

Switched to an MVNO and have been quite happy with it. Cut bill by almost 2/3.

MVNOs do have a lower data priority than the parent network, but IME this hasn’t made much difference. I don’t tend to stream a lot of video on my phone though, so it might be a concern if you need fast data.

So still a net loss for those wishing to upgrade.

As you said in another comment:

I’m not saying homeowners are in a worse position. Just that increasing values also hurt them.

My parents had to move out into the country into a smaller house because their taxes got so high they couldn’t keep up after retirement when they quit getting raises.

I don’t know how evenly houses go up or how much consistency there is, but going from $100K to $200K is easier than $300K to $600K.

Housing price increases are almost certainly making the gap wider for upgrades.

Step 1 - make housing unaffordable

Step 2 - start crying about declining fertility rates

Step 3 - just keep whining and applying bandaid solutions that don’t do anything to address the underlying cause of unaffordable housing

Or those who do wish to move, and upgrade while doing so.

GOUGING The word is gouging. The number of times I see “gauging” used for this is too damn high!

It’s one of those words that I see misused all the time, like rouge (instead of rogue) and loose (instead of lose).

QQ moar Jeffries

Air from room is cooled and that same air is blown back into the room after being cooled.

Air from outside is pulled into AC (does not go into room), gets the heat from the air in the room, then is blown out as exhaust.

If you aren’t sure, look for a diagram or in-depth explanation.

Jesus…

They are going to get an ugly lesson in unintended consequences.

This isn’t going to play out the way they think it is.

A shit in the victim’s head? That’s rough.

Outside air. If you are using AC, the intake probably isn’t cold. But: air in => heated up by the AC => sent out.

2 hoses in the window that connect to the back of the AC unit.