Worse, these comic wishing prices reverberate into crazy wishing prices for collectibles off-platform, like "retro" computers.

People search eBay, they don't realize the prices they see aren't what anyone pays, then they demand that price for their dead dad's old PC on craigslist.

If actually think the challenging American housing market is in any way comparable with the Dutch structural housing crisis, it sounds like you indeed have lots about the Netherlands to learn (vs. just being an American tourist there.)

Now share an update after trying to find a rental apt in the Randstad without generational wealth.

Born in 1944, not 1953.

It's like a real-world version of "Repeal and Replace".

I was in one of Judy Ramey's directed research groups as a masters TC student ~20 yr ago.

Coming from industry, it was really cool to work on published research with PhD students for the first time.

My favorite anecdote in After Steve.

I admit I thought it was more about who has control over the rare earth minerals?

Can't wait for the seventh and biggliest Trump bankruptcy -- this time, it'll be America and every American!

The only "protection" here that would improve our lives needed to have been done by his parents, and approximately 79 years ago.

A friend studying at @uarizona.bsky.social was on the receiving end of an attempted, random vehicular assault tonight. The attacker followed him into a restaurant, insulting him with anti-Asian rhetoric.

Looks like UofA, though, took down their "diversity" website with info for harassment victims.

I remember visiting a friend at NASA in the 1990s, who wrote software for Mars rovers. I asked him if I could make a call on his desk phone.

He declined, explaining it was taxpayer funded. He handed me a quarter (of his own money), and pointed me to the hallway payphone.