nfh

Or does content only die when it’s recycled for the last time?

To me the question is whether the result of what you’re doing makes the world around you better or worse. Would the people living in your place be better off if you were out of the equation? Then you’re a bad landlord.

If you’re making money from providing labor for the people who live in a place you own, and they’re paying your costs to do so, I think there’s a case for that being a reasonable occupation to hold. If there’s an issue with it, it’s not my highest priority, and there’s definitely some value in flexible housing stock for people.

If your goal is passive income, or you’re making money from owning housing and denying that ownership to people who need a place to live, then you’re behaving as a parasite, and I think it’s reasonable for people to give you an amount of respect proportional to that.

But posts are rising, and comments stable… I think the story is more nuanced than that

And it was… me. It’s always me.

Maybe that’s just because 132 is a rude number.

My preschool class took a field trip to our local children’s museum, which was a very tactile experience, so they really emphasized that you could touch anything there. My three year old brain wanted to know what happened when I touched the fire alarm. I understand shortly after they changed that emphasis: you could touch almost anything there.

Muscle is like 15% denser than fat, and you might also be building muscle in different parts of your body than where you’re losing fat. Depending on the job, I assume this is either in your arms or lower legs. You can take a few extra measurements to check this if you’re interested.

King Pyrrhus of Epirus. He was known for winning battles against superior armies, at the cost of taking heavy losses. He was once quoted as saying “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.”

He was so famous for this, that the term for a victory that devastates the victor bears his name, a Pyrrhic victory.