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Cake day: October 28th, 2023

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  • That’s interesting, because YouTube recently hit me a channel named “Scary Interesting” where he just tells stories about diving and caving accidents. I’m not sure where or how it got that, but after the first one I saw, I binged a bunch of it

    I just checked and he does have 1m subs, so it’s not small, but it’s not corporate.

    Another seemingly random recommendation was Gabi Belle. She does video essays too and they hooked me in with her talking about how ridiculous Kitchen Nightmares as a show is. Gabi has a great humor.

    If I had to classify my YouTube recommendations, is in the first two rows I’m guaranteed to have like 25-35% of them be at least someone I’m subscribed to. The next 70% are related to videos I’ve watched recently. Sometimes it feels like one video in there occasionally is a “moon shot”. That’s where scary interesting or Gabi Belle squeezed in. Sometimes it’s a generic trending video, sometimes it’s a creator I haven’t watched in a long time just posting something new.











  • That same logic applies to landlords though. They don’t provide housing, they provide a service. They provided the capital for the construction workers, plumbers, electricians, etc.

    Insurance and taxes are forced as part of typical mortgage payments because otherwise people wouldn’t pay them. Coordinating repairs and hiring out those jobs is also part of the service.

    Part of the problem is that rent is more expensive than a mortgage. Another problem is that a majority of rentals are owned by corporations that cartel to have ever increasing rental rates. Rent increases aren’t tied to anything except they can raise the price on a whim.

    If you mortgaged $200k at 3% in 2020 you had a house note of $850. That same house would require a $350k mortgage at 7.5% is $1400. The landlord has the same house note on the same property but is charging rent like they just bought the house last week.