It’s a great launching pad to learn how a language works, but beyond simple things, it get bad very fast.

I also use AI to look for terms in specific domains, which is really helpful as well.

The tenants literally pay the taxes, insurance and maintenance in their rent payment. When any of these inflates, so does the rent unless there are protections in place.

So being a landlord means someone else pays the mortgage for your unit.

The only thing that could be seen as a service are short term rental, and even then, it was abused to death by the AirBnB/VRBO and any other short term rental service.

Rent seeking is the most capitalistic thing someone can do : you use your money to get someone else to pay your rent. You do the minimal maintenance that you can get away with, and when you actually do real maintenance, your tenants get a rent hike.

If there weren’t any landlord, there would still be housing. But a lot more people would own the place they live in, at a reasonable price, instead of housing being used as an investment vehicule.

Microsoft primary motivation was not to benefit the community, but to gain good PR in that case. It just so happen that this move also benefits the community as well.

And that’s my point. Sometimes, corpos’ decisions benefit the community, but this is only a side effect, not the intended purpose.

It’s a decent starting point for a new language. I had to learn webdev as an embedded C coder, and using a LLM and cross-referencing the official documentation makes a new language much more approachable.

No corpos does something for the good of the people. It just so happen that this particular thing does.

Behind every move, there is a price tag attached to it.

By doing that, Microsoft is trying to get good PR.

They sell ibuprofen with acetaminophen at the pharmacy, off the shelf, so that’s not an issue.

It is recommended to alternate between the two so that you are always under the effect of either one and it reduces the pain throughout the day, instead of having big spikes of pain/no-pain.

It’s probably more “Hey look at what HP got away with. Let’s try it”.

It’s always the same thing.

Corpo push dog-shit idea and receives backlash.

Pull back for a moment, and goes a little bit softer than the last and see if it sticks.If it sticks, it becomes the new standard for every similar corpo.

Rinse and repeat.

Just look at when Bethesda tried to sell a horse armor for Skyrim. Now it’s the norm.

You are the one with reading skills issue. OP said he doesn’t have money for the meal plans items.

Depending on where you are, eating fruits and veggies in season will be a lot less expensive and somewhat satiating if mixed with inexpensive fats and proteins.

Nuts are expensive as hell, avocado are expansive as well. Even super greens are getting expensive.

At this point, we can boil down everything to a nutrient paste with no flavor to be healthy. But very few people would be able to endure that.

This is a terrible advice to not eat fruits when trying to lose weight. The diet fatigue is real, and eating an apple can at least take off the edge when its getting harder in the later weeks. I know it did for me when I wanted to eat junk food.

And the goal is also to develop healthy habits, and having fruits add to the variety of available food.

I mean, you are technically correct, but it won’t help anyone trying to change their lifestyle.

That’s such a dumb take. Fruits are like the second best thing after vegetables in their ration of satiation per calorie.

Added sugar is completely different beast from the sugar in fruits and vegetables.

You would need to eat an ungodly amount of fruits for it to be bad for your health.

I could technically disapprove of something and still want it to be legalized, but you normally approve what you want to legalize.

But to be clear, I approve of sex workers because to me, it is a job like any other. But since we built society on puritan values, they get a bad reputation and a terrible work situation.

Absolutely because then we can start talking about protecting and helping the sex workers that need help, and give them a chance to work in a safe environment.

Sex worker have been a thing since at least when we invented writings and still going strong today.

Might be time to give sex workers the dignity and respect they deserve.