CS / ML / BJJ Student Nazarbayev University
Joined October 2020
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2027: gas is $15/gallon. Chabad House Caracas has raised money from u.s. synagogues to subsidize flights for israelis finishing IDF service. the new jewish hippie trail extends from san salvador to ushuaia. milei says he will bring the extinct magellanic penguins back via cloning
yes but even a jewish and director with zionist sympathies can barely get away with it
“after several years, prices on steak went up by less than two years of inflation and everyone gets free sauce now”
re: airbnb discourse
in college I worked as a server at an upscale steakhouse. we had a few different steak sauces that were made from scratch daily. they were expensive to make, and less than half of the customers that ordered steak wanted sauce, so the restaurant charged $3 for it
we got complaints constantly. just at my own tables, half a dozen times a week I'd get complaints about being "nickel and dimed" for $3 of sauce on a $70 steak. a few times a month someone would mention it in an angry online review, or ask to speak to a manager and demand that it be removed from the bill because "who the hell charges for condiments?"
after several years of this, finally management had enough. they raised the price of every steak by $3, and now complimentary sauce was included with each steak on request. want to hazard a guess about how many customers complained about the $3 price increase on steak? essentially zero.
it was great, from the restaurants perspective! no more complaints, and instead of making $3 on 40% of steak orderers, they made $3 on all of them. and the customers were much happier, despite this deal being absolutely, unequivocally worse for them.
consumers are not rational agents from microeconomics textbooks. very often the *feeling* of what they're being charged for matters way more than the absolute value of what they're being charged. I think that's more or less what happening with airbnb. people don't want to be charged a cleaning fee and then also told they have to clean, even if in the counterfactual world the additional cleaning fee is more than they'd be willing to pay someone to do the required cleaning. a $100 cleaning fee *feels* better than a $50 cleaning fee + "load the dishwasher and take the trash out to the dumpster", even though most people would not pay $50 to not have to do that.
my wife showed me some music by underscores and said she was listening to “[jun] music” but funny enough i’d never heard anything by her before
when i was hanging out in new york with only chinese people back in 2021 i was always tickled by the way they always referred to me on the phone with each other as “the foreigner” to clarify who i was
once i was in manhattan at night and tried to pass a middle aged guy, he turned around and grabbed me by the lapel of my jacket, we were both just frozen scared staring at each other for a few seconds
