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When a society is collapsing slowly (eg USSR), or undergoing a long crisis (WW2, Covid) over many years, with supplies being unreliable, the short-term response seems to be hoarding and fattening at the last mile, for both people and orgs, but what’s the long-term (>2y) response?
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I was only tweeting about wanting a ironically, and maybe in metaverse but wife called my bluff so we are h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ mansion-hunting for real now 😖 Serves me right What I really unironically want is a mansion in a backpack
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We looked at a few houses this weekend, had no idea track houses in subdivisions had grown to literal mansion scale. Ticky-tacky Stabdard Track McMansions. “65 4br 3000-4000 sqft luxury homes now available with 13 floor plans” sorta thing Funny how they always call them “homes”
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With the right reading chair, every home is a mansion. Only mansion worth owning is one with a ballroom. Or an observatory if that is your kink. Most people's ideal of a mansion is a giant kitchen, 5 car garage, pool table. The alt-dream is an estate.
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A quirky sideffect of that is how much appliances and other equipment costs. People anchor to house price and they are fine paying 10x for a microwave compared to what were used to in Europe. Talking renovation costs is a fun game with US friends while watching their eyes sink
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Slightly Evil how you tricked yaksters into designing your mansion automation system. Plan A: rovers on Mars! Plan B: taco bowls on the Moon! Plan C: "How was the omelet, sir? Fine, iJeeves."