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Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • EnderofGames@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Lizard treats
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    1 year ago

    I think you may have read the data wrong, in two places it says

    Most rental properties – about seven-in-ten – are owned by individuals, who typically own just one or two properties, according to 2018 census data.

    and

    Businesses own larger shares of units because individuals, while far more numerous, tend to own one or two properties at most, while businesses’ holdings are larger. In fact, 72.5% of single-unit rental properties are owned by individuals, while 69.5% of properties with 25 or more units are owned by for-profit businesses.

    The first sounds like most (read: more than 50%) do, but, and I may be reading the census data wrong, it seems like less than 20% own a single property for rent. The use of typically would indicate that most do, but they don’t actually include the data in the article, which is odd and worrying.

    The second also looks like it agrees with your assessment, but it actually kinda says the opposite- 72.5% of people who own single units for rental are individuals. This is surprising because it means there are 27.5% of single unit properties that are owned by businesses. However, it doesn’t mean that 72.5%, or even 50% of individuals (individual landlords) own a single unit to rent.

    This article all comes from the 2018 census, when the 2021 census is also available, but I wasn’t able parse either very well.

  • EnderofGames@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•I'm not even sure I want to know
    36·
    1 year ago

    If you rely on others…

    Yeah, I’m sure you formed that opinion on a factual basis that you found through no help from what others posted or said. When I want to learn something, I do research on books and online media. When I want to understand someone’s opinion, I ask them. If you don’t know the difference between those two, your problems stem way earlier than “after school”.

    You sound like the closeted book nerd that doesn’t understand public opinion. Like all the people on Twitter who once read something about “blacks are more violent than other races”, and if you ask them why they think that, how many stats they read that confirm that, possibilities of other reasons for a study’s conclusion, they respond with “It’s not the rest of the internet’s responsibility to do your research for you”- sound familiar?

    If you want to accuse this “intensely human” person of lying, just do it. But claiming that anyone who hasn’t seen an example within thousands (tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands? Only been around for 2 months, but millions of site uses) of posts of users being “tankies” just needs to “research” is obtuse and moronic. If someone makes the claim, surely they have an example, and don’t expect everyone who sees this meme to read thousands of messages before continuing on their journey through !memes.

    Except you, of course, who has clearly learned after school not to rely on others, so you must have read all of the comments from various hexbear users yourself, and not taken that opinion from some other poster’s list, right? You did waste all that time before suggesting others do the same for no reason, right?

  • EnderofGames@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•I'm not even sure I want to know
    310·
    1 year ago

    It’s not everyone on the internet’s responsibility to change their opinion to match yours. It is incredibly narrow minded to assume that someone would just do “research” and end with the same opinion of a group of people as you.

    If you see someone express an opinion, and you don’t know why, you ask them, not go to other sources to find why.

  • EnderofGames@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•(Left)
    9·
    1 year ago

    It’s a kbin setting… It needs some refining. There is no @ autocomplete, so turning it on is the only way to have easy access to the names of who you want to ping. But people who don’t know how it works…

    Anyways, you also have to turn on notifications to see if people respond to you in kbin. So it needs some work.

  • EnderofGames@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•The sneaking suspicion that I'm being robbed
    11·
    1 year ago

    They came back and verified WarmSoda’s claim, and WarmSoda responded with:

    You’re stuck on details that don’t matter. Ramen is not worth buying no matter how cheap it is.
    But whatever. I give up. Be annoying.

    So that’s why there are downvotes. Hardly “dogpiling” at these tiny numbers. It’s not about the claim, or the fact that $0.30 a pack is still dirt cheap, as they said, it’s the fact that WarmSoda is being obnoxious and name calling because they aren’t being praised for their observation.

  • EnderofGames@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•The sneaking suspicion that I'm being robbed
    12·
    1 year ago

    Nah, I downvoted you because you are being obnoxious.

    They told you from the get-go that “Ramen” while being a specific food is also colloquially used to refer to “inexpensive food” and Specific amounts don’t really matter.

    But here you are, stuck on details that don’t matter insisting that $0.10 a pack of ramen matters to this discussion, then calling everyone “idiots”, “annoying”, and “are arguing about dumb shit”- even though you were the one who came in arguing about dirt cheap trash food not being exactly as dirt cheap as first claimed it was.

    Given your continued astounding lack of awareness, too, I take it you missed your meds.

  • EnderofGames@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•freedom of speech
    173·
    1 year ago

    Nah, OP doesn’t have a point. Most of these comments are calling out the lack of a point, but you are looking for “objectivity”…?

    I don’t think anyone cares about your “apolitical” point of view that is clearly political. I would post something to r/EnlightenedCentrism, but I don’t know a magazine for that.