A single venture fund owns everything around my house. I’m the last one standing. If I suddenly stop commenting and a new hotel.is announced, I probably got pushed off a cliff. (joking…but also not)

That’s what you’d expect, but it isn’t the truth. Teton counties (Wyoming/Idaho twin counties) are very blue and the ultra wealthy actually fund a lot of programs. If you think about it, it makes sense. The counties are remote. If you want to maintain an exceptional quality of life, you need to take care of your area and those who keep it going.

SOURCE: I live here.

EDIT: OK. I am watching the video, and so far I am seeing a lot of truth bending. Jackson Hole is for Billionaires, but Victor and Driggs Idaho are for multi-millionaires. If you own in Victor or Driggs, you are not slumming it. The footage of the decrepit trailers and rows of RVs are disingenuous. Decrepit trailers cannot survive our winters and the RVs are the summer Yellowstone crowds. Locals are not living in them.

I bought in 2016 and moved in in 2019. I had heart surgery so that delayed the move to my house. I paid $210k for it and in 2018 my wife tried to sell for $250k to pay for my expected medical bills (thankfully, the bill wasn’t as bad as we expected). No buyers. While it was empty, we rented it out and all we could get was $1000/month for the entire house.

The real reason for the lack of affordable housing is not the rich people in hiding. Billionaires/millionaires want their slice of heaven left intact. The real craziness started with the COVID-19 lockdown. Since the lockdown, my $210k house valuation jumped to $800k. All of my neighbors, except one, sold to venture capital funds. The trailer parks got sold to funds who ordered trailer owners to move their trailers with 30-days notice. To where? How? Rental only multi-family developments started replacing generational homes and the trailer parks. Y’all know this story. Funds are like locusts.

In response, some of the wealthy residents and even the resorts, have started to build affordable housing because the area cannot survive without the people keeping the lights on. Whoever sold or couldn’t buy before covid is priced out. It’s a really big problem, but it isn’t because of the rich people that lived there for years. It’s because of the funds looking to squeeze renters. The same story you see nationwide.

PS: I know Brandon (from the video). Him and his dad built (rebuilt) my deck. Good guy.

EDIT 2: LOL. First edit was early in the video but it soon caught up with what I wrote. There you go. Funds came in, bought everything, and kicked everyone out. The conservation priority is real though.

Wyoming today has a libertarian “leave me the fuck alone” type of conservatism. The push is to turn it into a christo-fascist conservative state like Idaho.

Existing Archive link.

They needed to hire a great PR firm before anything else. They shouldn’t have to, but that is not the reality in this country…especially in a red state.

Meanwhile, those all white neighborhoods are A-OK.

I’m in that group where caffeine is calming (often makes me sleepy) and I never have physical withdrawl if I skip a couple of days. My cousin on the other hand is physically addicted to the caffeine. I have seen how it affects him if he doesn’t get any.

Personally, if caffeine affected me that way, I’d never touch the stuff ever again and I’d look for other solutions and coping mechanisms.

I have been around since production servers were predominantly HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX. I settled on Vi because it was the one common editor that was preinstalled on every *NIX OS, including Linux and you could jump right into edit mode while reading a file without having to exit the preview first.

Nano is fine, but one you’ve gone through the pain of committing Vi to muscle memory, there’s no point to switch.

…if Republicans ever actually read…

One hundred percent, but don’t forget Jony Ive. The mythology of Steve Jobs is built on the genius of Woz and the designs of Ive.

So a perfect open source name then.

The myth of Steve Jobs needed the actual genius of others to exist. Steve’s gift to the world was recognizing and pointing out actual gifts tonthe world that would have otherwise gone unoticed or not brought to their full potential.

If Steve was still around, he would have taken Ronald’s idea and had it rebuilt with a little polish and an exorbitant price tag.

Leopardos comiendo caras

No, not normal. Also, 32 is still very young.

I see someone mentioned B12, but have you checked your vitamin d levels? I (53m) was feeling like that back in spring and my doctor gave me a ultra high dose of vitamin D (50,000iu) and it was like someone turned on all the lights in my brain. Now I am on 5,000iu daily.

What, they finally went outside?

'Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center,’

So…never.

The president is learning…