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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's one near me that only advertises the price with car wash. So the sign shows what you pay per gallon if you also decide to spend an extra $15 on a shitty automatic car wash. WTF??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This article is cherry picking numbers from a Redfin study. It says 28% empty-nest Boomers vs 14% Millennials with kids. Together those two subsets own 42% of large homes (3+ bedrooms). So that doesn't account for elder GenZ, Millennials without kids, all of GenX, and any boomers that don't count as "empty-nest" for whatever reason. It's not half corps like everyone keeps saying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you click through to the Business Insider article you can see that it's a misquote. Private investors accounted for 44% of the flips in 2023, not 44% of all single family home purchases total. That's still a problem, but it's a huuuuuge difference. Flips are a small minority of home sales.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah, I thought we killed satire years ago!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like the quadpod

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Calf is a good ballpark. I think I could take a whitetail doe but not a buck, and that's about the same range.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I took the phrase "small business" to mean places with an actual storefront (restaurants, small shops, studios, and so on) who use FB or IG in lieu of having their own site. For those places it makes particularly little sense because social media isn't most people's first port of call when they're looking for somewhere to eat dinner or go thrifting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What? Myself and most of my friends are Gen Z and nobody I know does this. Google Maps is always the first place I look, and 70% of the time I click through to the business's actual site.

Hell, most of us barely use IG at all anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Even worse are the ones I see flying in West Virginia – you know, the state that only exists because its inhabitants didn't want to secede along with the rest of Virginia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm not sure what you would export, just your listening history and favorites? Pocket Casts doesn't host the actual audio files themselves, those are all available elsewhere online. I doubt there's an easy way to port your existing subscriptions and such to another app, that would require them all to use a standard format for that data and there's not really any incentive for that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Worth noting that in October they're increasing their annual subscription price from $9.99 to $39.99, which is when I'll be finding another podcast app. I love Pocket Casts but it doesn't provide $40 worth of functionality for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Did you even bother to skim the article? That's literally the first reason they give:

There are a few theories that seem to come up again and again. First, Gen Z simply uses technology more than any other generation and is therefore more likely to be scammed via that technology.

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