quicklime

They don't see Trump as the second coming of Christ, they see him as more like another King Cyrus. It's the idea that a ruler or other major figurehead can be a "vessel for God" benefiting the believers of a particular religion while not actually being a part of said religion or conforming to its morals.

Vox article on this, for example

You may have forgotten, in this party, winning is less important than pleasing the billionaires.

The replies make sense, and I should have realized. I guess I was thinking any deposit large enough to cover all the possibilities would be more than anyone would agree to, but I can see how it's to both owner and guest's advantage to make it work.

There are hotels that allow dogs in the rooms? I don't see how that could work in the long run without requiring deposits that most people wouldn't want to pay.

you get half an updoot for the shittymorph reference

At first I thought it said "J.D. Vance uses interview to peg Peter Thiel to help Trump campaign with cash".

I mean, that wouldn't be terribly surprising news either.

Same here. American, not going hungry overall but can no longer afford meat. I just looked at prices for it even at a discount market and I was stunned.

But I get plenty of complete and varied protein, even cooking vegetarian. The loss of occasional meat just means I'll face some cravings and have to stay creative with fats and spices.

That information is very widely and readily available with a basic web search. His voice was fine until (I forget) years ago when a weird illness damaged his vocal cords.

I'm sorry I have to ask, but, serious or kidding?

I get for vacation areas this is less of an issue but for places like ny city, San Francisco, etc it’s taking homes out of use.

It's every bit as big of an issue for vacation areas / areas where tourism is the primary driver of the economy.

Take Tahoe or Mammoth Lakes for example: until the early 2010s it was still possible to move there without knowing anyone or having any other inside track, get a job (not your favorite or first choice, usually, but something to work from while you get established) and find your crappy first apartment or half-a-cabin or rundown shack or basement or ADU to rent.

That scenario is almost completely gone now and has been for ten years, plus or minus -- depending on where each person sees the line that divides difficult from impossible. People making far less than a living wage now commute to both of those areas from an hour or more away. The sense of how "connected" or privileged one has to be to make it or even just scrape by in areas such as these has relentlessly risen to a level that has had an enormous impact on mental and emotional health and life outcomes in these areas too.

All of these factors were already big in the negative column balancing the very real positives of living so close to nature and preferred sporting activities, before the rise of the short term rental blight. But nowadays those negatives are practically off the meter.

holy shit. everybody should read this.

At that time he was just barely young enough to still be trying tricks like that to hide the gut.