House prices are set by supply & demand.

House builders won’t overbuild as it harms their sale prices so that won’t cause an oversupply.

The only way that the ratio can change in the buyers favour is if suddenly an ungodly number of people die for some reason or the general population’s finances collapse to the point where they are no longer trying to buy a house. You’re likely to be one of the victims if either of those things happen. All you can do is keep saving.

The per capita stabbing rate in the USA is actually worse than most, if not all of Europe, but it doesn’t hit the news because of all the shootings taking up air time.

I’m not familiar with the existence of chainsaw clubs where people meet up to show off their chainsaw collections, buy chainsaw accessories and merchandise, and swap fantastical stories about using their chainsaws to kill people who have wronged them.

Police being better armed is extremely common in developed counties with far better police than the USA.

If that’s the reason why Yanks like to arm themselves to the teeth, you’d think that at least one of them might actually do something about what’s happening to their country now.

Instead it just looks like they enjoy the power fantasy, imagining that they might get to legally murder someone who trespasses on their property one day.

It’s a tool whose primary purpose is to kill

That sounds like a terrible nature documentary

Yeah, seeing an entire room filled with cubes is very ugly and stifling, but as an introvert I’d want at least one place where I can just work out of sight as it reduces my stress levels significantly.

Even America doesn’t have proper free speech. You can’t just go and make bomb threats without ending up behind bars. And didn’t some woman get charged with terror offences a few weeks ago for saying or graffitiing something pro-luigi?

I believe that they can be trained to use a litter tray, as for not gnawing on things I’m not so sure.

Same with Guinea pigs. They have a reputation for being dumb because they do often have a vacant expression, however I’ve taught mine several tricks like spinning, standing up and offering a paw.

They can also learn from each other. I adopted one into a herd that liked to lie down with her legs in a different position to my others, and within hours they had all watched her do it and started to try it out themselves.

The biggest barrier is that they don’t understand human speech at all (they can kind of learn to understand your tone of voice but that’s about it) however they are very good at picking up body language and gestures with your hands.

On the other hand… dogs stink, are relentlessly needy, and have to have violence trained out of them.

Probably because Marxism is an inherently flawed political system, and every country that has ever attempted it has quickly become a hellhole.

The iconic Tiananmen square “Tank man” photo, where one guy stands in front of a column of tanks on their way to slaughter pro-democracy protesters, briefly stopping them. Tankies are lunatics that wish for authoritarian communism and so unironically support the tanks running him over.

Rarely happens though because who the fuck uses Linux?

Sounds like your hardware is fucked more than anything

Oops you’ve picked the wrong audience posting that on Lemmy!