Interesting Links for 30-07-2017

[andrewducker]

The Party Establishment Wing Of Trumpworld Collapses

(tags: republicans politics usa )

The rise of the 35 year mortgage

(tags: mortgages debt )

When you're a camp counsellor and need advice about the sudden rash of horrible deaths

(tags: funny horror satire advice )

Jupiter is so big it does not actually orbit the sun

(tags: space )

Australia's Labor opposition vows republic referendum

(tags: monarchy Australia referendum )

'Valerian' Would Make a Great Silent Movie

(tags: movies review scifi )

34 criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs

(tags: police OhForFucksSake transparentsociety )

For video games, the loss of Flash is a tragedy

(tags: Flash Technology sad )

Did Airbnb Kill the Mountain Town?

Build! More! Housing! Seriously, this would all be solved if they expanded the towns.
(tags: housing rental )

Bespoke porn: Nothing is too weird. We consider all requests

(tags: porn )

Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse Global Warming

(tags: globalwarming )

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

Mountain town discussion here:
350,000 people have moved to Denver alone in the past years. Doesn't count the little mountain towns.
They move here without checking to see if there's a house to live in, and there isn't for a number of reasons. There's a labor shortage. Land: You can only expand a town so far (Boulder can literally not get any bigger). etc. Denver is surrounded by oil and gas fields. Sure, you CAN build houses on oil and gas fields but those houses are already blowing up.

In the case of the little mountain towns: it's in a valley, there's no more buildable land. Even if there was buildable land, there's no where to put workers, and no workers to put there anyway.

[andrewducker]

I can understand not building on oil and gas fields. Why can't Boulder expand?

[threemeninaboat]

Boulder doesn't want to grow any more. They have an ordinance that says there can only be X number of houses and people in Boulder county and they reached that awhile ago.
We visited Boulder today for Ingress. We passed a sign for a 2 bedroom apartment: $1,400 a month.
(we live 2 counties south, about 20 minutes away. We have almost an acre of land and our mortgage is less than that. But we also bought 12 years ago.)

[andrewducker]

If they don't want to grow _and_ they want to make housing cheaper then they have conflicting desires and are going to have to do either do something about the former or live with the latter being unfulfulled.

[simont]

I saw a link recently to a petition to Adobe to open up the Flash specifications when they discontinue the player, on the basis that that way it ought to be possible to write a properly compatible free player (and, one way or another, find a way to not have the same number of security holes as the official one!) and preserve access to all those historically interesting and/or fun Flash games.

[danieldwilliam]

I think longer dated mortgages are more common in the USA.

I have certainly thought about extending my mortgage term in order to gain the flexibility of being able to change the monthly payments.