I can’t wait until Lemmy gets locally-stored user labels so I can label that guy “Likes to talk about his dumps”.

The reason they did this is because they had a huge hassle getting everyone to move over back when they moved CS to the source engine. They didn’t want that hassle again, so CS2 is even installed in the CS:GO folder. This is the first time they’ve ever pulled anything like this, but the reasoning is because they didn’t want to create ANOTHER esport division, they just wanted CS2 to replace CS:GO for esports.

I’m from Florida and doesn’t sound like it’s narrowing down any of the lists that I have…

Sorry, I know there are a lot of bad-faith actors here on Lemmy, I understand if you thought I was just being antagonistic.

I think the discussion about where people live is probably less helpful than discussing the method of getting there. You obviously already know my preference for where to house people, but I think the conversation we should all be having is how to get people out of the situation they’re in in the bottom picture.

Housing prices right now are out of control due to places like AirBnB, so more regulation needs to be slapped down there for sure. “Below the line” pricing needs to stop, and taxes on these short-term rentals need to be raised so that all housing doesn’t just keep looking like an investment opportunity to offshore investors.

Another problem is that a lot of the people that are homeless suffer from massive mental issues which make them unfit to live in everyday society. Many homeless suffer from schizophrenia, drug addiction, or other major mental illness. I won’t pretend that I have even the beginnings of a solution for this. Of all the solutions I hear about, many require taking these peoples rights away from them and putting them under government care, but that rarely works out the way people think it will.

I agree pushing them out of sight is not the way to handle it. I think that’s true in most things – I think a lot of us agree on a lot more than we disagree on, but we get so hung up on the details that often times online conversations spiral out of control. I commend you for being one of the few here who can actually hold a legitimate discussion without losing your cool. It’s hard to find that when half the people on here are just looking for a fight.

I agree that we’re incredibly overdue for regulations in these areas. Since the mid 90s it’s been deregulation, privitization, deregulation, privitization. A healthy capitalistic society can only survive with regulations which govern how absolutely atrocious capitalists can be. If they could sell you rat poison as food to make a dollar, they certainly would. My guess is that these kind of apartment complexes are probably better in less city-centric areas where the construction is newer. Unfortunately all I see going up around here is wood-frame apartment complexes, and they are clearly inferior to block/prefab concrete.

How is that a yikes? We’re talking about poverty here, it is a class of people which regularly lack the same benefits in society as others, so there’s higher instances of drug use, crime, etc. You know in conversation, it’s occasionally useful to classify things with a broad brush so you can talk about overarching issues and how to solve them without being prejudiced, right?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/america-land-use/ provides a nice visualization.

Only 2% of USA’s landmass is used for our urban areas. There is plenty of “Open Space” (3%), “Shrubland” (24%), Grassland (17%) to utilize.

You’ve obviously never actually lived in one of these places. They regularly have infestations, dirty water, and no heating due to the types of people they house and the “affordable” nature of them which generally causes lack of upkeep once built. Which can be, yes – just as inhumane as living in a tent.

In addition, it removes the potential for ownership away from the people living there, in an effort to rent-seek and make sure they own nothing for as long as they live.

Have…you sat there and thought about what you’re asking? What “affordable housing” complexes do you know that aren’t made out of paper walls? That’s the “affordable” part.

It’s literally the argument in the image. That the bottom image is “worse to look at”…what are you on about?

I’m simply commenting on a third option that people regularly complain about looking at, “Urban Sprawl”. There’s no strawman here - you should really learn what that word means. I live comfortably in a medium sized neighborhood. I don’t have to deal with the sights of either of these images at all… there’s no “poor you” because I’m…not complaining. I’m offering a third option to a 2-choices fallacy presented in the OP.

I hate both of them equally and with a vile passion. Having to share walls with other families is just as inhumane. I don’t know why “Urban Sprawl” is such a looked down upon term. I’d much rather cities start as a central hub, and then urban sprawl outwards with minor hubs surrounding them every 100 miles or so.

This whole – either everyone has to be packed like sardines, or everyone has to have 5 acres per house crap is annoying. Give the nation some medium density housing. We have the fucking internet now, half the people can work from home. You don’t need to be walking-distance from everything.

No it’s not. Typical car holds $35ish worth of gas, and that lasts 4-5 days of travel to/from work. And I lose an hour a day for a 30-ish minute drive. Woo…

Edit: Okay, so I can understand European pricing being stupid here. I can agree with you when it comes to gas over there. But the population density is twice as dense over there as it is in America, so obviously arguments aren’t based on European gas prices. I left my comments but leave it able to be read. I’m not one to shy away from being wrong. In your instance, with gas like it is over there, I concede.

If you checked my other replies, you’d know I had cancer at 26, and that I’m living with disabilities too. But hey, anything to shirk responsibility for yourself. And no, auction cars aren’t “barely functional” either. Most of them last me 100k+ miles. Usually they’re at auction because they were a drug dealers car, and police ripped out the interior, but otherwise run fine.

It’s fairly clear that not only are you inexperienced with the world, but you also don’t CARE to gain the experience by applying yourself. Even when people give you solutions, you reply with excuses.

I understand. It took me getting literal CANCER to get me off my ass and applying myself. It wasn’t until I understood my own mortality that I was scared into action.

I bought my cars at auction for like $2.5kish. They have them all the time between 60k-160k miles on them. Look at your local car auction, you don’t have to pay a $600/mo loan on a car as well.

Yet…again… First time home buyers programs take care of that. Also the reason I said that people need to get fixed rate mortgages if they’re going that route. You’re an idiot if you get an adjustable APR.

Buy a house that needs major work. Do the damn work. That was the only way I could afford mine, and if I can do it, so can you. And stop living in the city, live out in the rural areas.

Weird that they can afford $2k in rent somehow, but can’t afford a $1200/mo mortgage…right? If they wanted more money, they would stop renting and pissing all of that money away, don’t you think?

I can’t work like most people, I got cancer when I was 26 and it blew out my immune system (COVID-era was fun let me tell you!). I can’t make more money than what I make, as I need a schedule that’s flexible because I’m tired constantly. I utilize food banks whenever I can, I drive 25 minutes to work when I do, I have multiple paid off cars (because I buy them from auctions and repair them myself). The house was paid off 4-5 years ago, it was an almost-condemned write-off. It’s still not even finished, we’ve still got concrete under the carpet (again, auctions) and no proper padding. I can survive on almost nothing now because I managed to scrape together around $100k in 5 years by taking advantage of every last bit of help I could get.

It’s hard, but I guarantee people here are making way more than I do, with way healthier bodies.

I even had 2 years of non-stop code violation complaints from the neighborhood karens because I couldn’t keep up with the yard in my condition.

Additionally, I’ve always been in poverty - I can’t get a job worth a shit because I have no college, I could never afford it. What I DO have though, is friends who are real estate agents. They led me to real estate auctions and landed me this property.

A) I’ve been in poverty my whole life.
B) By-owner financing is a thing, I mentioned it already. If you qualify for renting, you qualify for the first time homebuyers programs. You’re making excuses and you clearly don’t know how these programs work.
C) Again, nope.
D) Covered that already. Closing costs are miniscule compared to the amount of equity you build, and first time home buyers programs cover closing costs, enough with the copium.

I bought my house without a front door, no working a/c, water pipes cut off inside the walls, no toilet. Learn how to do shit for yourself. I learned all the shit to fix my house from YouTube videos.

Really? Because I make less than $20k a year with 3 kids…tell me how privileged I am. I am FAR below what the poverty line is.