Airbnb's and similar rentals are more of an effect of housing price growth than a cause. There aren't SO MANY airbnb's that they're the major driver of demand, but in hot markets rich fucks sitting on 5 houses turn them into airbnb's. The list is also organized in an interesting way, sorting by percent drop. Are most airbnb markets dropping in revenue? If 2/3 of markets are stable or growing then a decrease in mostly southern markets where the weather is getting unbearable for tourists won't cause a full collapse. Also, are other airbnb-esque services like vrbo losing revenue in these areas? This table is just missing a lot of information. When I look at this it looks like people didn't want to travel to the south last summer. Even if airbnb did collapse, blackstone or local capitalists would just buy all the houses and turn them into rentals or let them sit empty.

Cats do have a habit of just going off somewhere to die

This worries me a little bit because he's been crawling under the blankets on my bed. He basically lives on my bed because it's so hard for him to walk, but he doesn't want to go anywhere else. The only movement he really does is going under the covers so I'm worried that he's planning to die down there. My first indoor cat started exploring little hiding areas in the house when he got ill and basically picked a death place the way mother cats make a secluded breeding area. I just hope my cat doesn't crawl under my sheets and die there before Tuesday. That would be the most horrible surprise imaginable.

She sounds like she's in distress. Was there a bus sponsored sniper nearby ready to take her out if she said the wifi was shit?

Well there's this really good album called The Wall, and my idea is related to that.

I saw a local news story that someone from the town had been an extra in the netflix adaptation of White Noise and much of it was filmed around Akron and Cleveland.

Just read the sanctions that this suspends (link) and from what I can tell the only things that these specific sanctions block are payment processing, foreign investment and purchasing property in Syria. They also include trading in Syrian petroleum products but the exemption doesn't allow that. The only useful thing the exemption allows is payment processing but that's already technically allowed in these specific sanctions, and this exemption only applies to the 2014 sanctions, not the more brutal Caesar Sanctions.

The book "When McKinsey Comes to Town" has a section on Purdue. It's a great book for making you mad.

McKinsey consulted for both Purdue Pharma and the FDA at the same time without disclosing their conflict of interest, and deliberately pushed the FDA to make changes beneficial to Purdue.

Catch 22 is a great read. Very funny, very engaging, all around great time.

I didn't notice until you said it but now it won't go away

Hey hey hey, give them some credit. It's not PURE greed, it's greed combined with having no alternative systems in place because they thought they could pillage the earth forever at no cost.

Tinder shows "18 people liked you"

They love to fluff it up by saying "Hey look, 18 people liked you! We know you didn't like any of them, but they liked you so that counts!"

According to Pew it's 12% of people meet a serious partner/future spouse online

Lol that's what hinge was and now it's owned by tinder.

I typically go to dives and play darts or billiards and those lend themselves to socializing. The smoking area and bar are also places to meet people.

Major Major

That and the situation is so stark and without nuance. "One daughter has a rich husband who owns my house and the other has a slacker husband who can't pay the bills. Should I defy societal expectations of hetero men financially providing for their wives and let the second daughter move in with me?" is what this post wants to say. AITA has always been one of those subs people love to post fake stories in for outrage/karma.

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Such an essential gift. This and new socks are my favorite gifts my girlfriend gives me.

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