It helps remove the incentive to buy up all of the single family homes. The calculus is pretty simple -

1. buy a house
2. rent it
3. pay the mortgage, insurance, and maintenance with the overinflated rental costs because everyone colluded to jack up rental prices across the board
4. eventually own the house entirely off of the back of renters
5. repeat

Renting a home shouldn't cost enough for that cycle to be self sustaining.

That video has a rich, complex undertone of depression. Mmmm that depression is smooth. You know, I find this video to be a real go-to for when I want that bouquet of isolation and denial. I just keep coming back to watch it again and again.

Yeah, many of those christmas lights use pulse width modulation to control brightness and it is very noticeable. I hope that gets changed over for an analog voltage dimmer soon.

Wait... is this the USA's first Gen III+ reactor?

The Toyota Tundra honestly makes the Ford F150 feel small.

You're mostly right. The main problem is that manufacturers chose to ignore the spirit of the US CAFE fuel economy regulations, and instead build everything bigger and bigger. That's why quarter-ton trucks grew to the size of the F150 in the year 2000 when they were quite a bit smaller before.

It's not the fault of the regulation. It is the fault of the manufacturers and to an equal extent, of consumers for preferring gigantic vehicles.

And let's not let GM off the hook for the 1990s Suburban, which began to, quite literally, dominate the roads. Those fuckers were the original huge grocery getter, and they had truly awful turning radius and blind spots. You just couldn't drive them safely or courteously if you tried. So of course everyone wanted more powerful and bigger vehicles to compete.

"That busted wheel bearing isn't so bad." -Rail inspector in Ohio

That sounds like a Stingray.

I think the question you meant to ask is "Why do cats claim many of us?"

OK I'll never be creative again, sentient notepad.

Wikipedia's page serves simple. The documents get edited and processed into html when submitted.

Lemmy dynamically builds the html for every single http get.

That's a very different cost for a server.

Personally, I like that the individual posts and comments have up/down votes. That allows the community to self moderate to some extent. That lightens the load on moderators to police bad content, while simultaneously promoting good content. It also means that the community rules do not need to be so heavy handed as to suppress dialog - take /r/conservative as an example.

But I do not believe that those votes should carry over to any kind of metric that affects users or communities in other ways. Perhaps a hidden metric available for moderators is useful for identifying problematic posters. But any kind of publicly visible metrics turn into some obnoxious internet point scoring game that invites shitposters and spammers and bot farmers.