8 hours in a hot car in Texas sounds like a recipe for a brisket. That’s just awful. I always assume it’s an accident and not negligence until I hear otherwise, but there needs to be better safety systems for this. Either teaching new parents personal systems or built into cars.
For a while, and it might still be there, Waze had an option to add a pop-up to check the back seat for kids after a drive was done. Knowing I had a backup gave me peace of mind.
You’re not that off with the brisket comment. On the really hot days here in Texas you can take a cookie sheet, buy a pack of break and bake cookie dough, put the dough on the cookie sheet, leave it on your dash board and go to work.
When you get out you have a dozen fresh soft baked cookies and your car smells amazing 😁
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Ratings were higher at least. Doesn’t matter though. It’s the clippable TikTok moments that most people will see. Hulk hogan VS gus walz. That sort of thing.
The software vendor does have a point: the software doesn’t set prices itself, it just makes suggestions based on the metrics it sees, and ultimately the property owners are the ones that raise rents. But I don’t think the developer realizes the role it is playing in the feedback loop.
Landlords pay for this software to help them set “fair” rents. But if the software consistently sets rents that the landlord sees as too low, they will question whether the software is worth paying for, and the software vendor goes bust. On the other hand, if the software sets rents that are too high, landlords will see that software as working well, and will continue to use it. So the developer is incentivised to goose the numbers up a bit, knowing that landlords are free to set their rents lower…
… except we all know that’s not what actually happens, particularly for these large real-estate conglomerates whose tenants are just lines in a spreadsheet. Some pencil pusher is just using these numbers from the software as-is, because there is probably more paperwork involved in justifying a rent change to their boss, while if they just accept the computers’ numbers they can make it to Happy Hour a bit early.
It gets even worse when most of the real estate in an area is owned this way, because then the additional “the computer told me to charge this” surcharge gets “baked into” the overall market, and gives landlords who don’t use the software a reason to raise rates, because of “the market”. Then next year, it all rises again, because the software sees the overall increase in rates and thinks it’s because of “the market” and not because of its role in the increase last year.
The incentives in this system benefit everyone but the renter. This may be a appropriate place for the government to step in and force change. Government is accountable to voters, and there are more voters who are renters than landlords.
Landlords pay for this software to help them set “fair” rents.
If that’s the goal, landlords would save so much money by calculating fair rent in some spreadsheet or such. Calculate how much their monthly costs are per building, divided by how many units, plus some percentages to set aside for emergencies and renovations… but we all know that’s not the case.
But someone in their org has to set up the spreadsheet, and more importantly, take the blame if the numbers don’t match Management expectations, even if they are correct.
By outsourcing this to the software vendor, they also can outsource responsibility. Instead of Management leaning on the team to conjure “better” numbers, the team can say “We get these numbers from this independant vendor outside the company, who has all the info and is totally impartial, nudge nudge, wink wink”. Questioning the numbers then becomes questioning the financial decision to employ the vendor in the first place. Just so much easier to do what the nice computer tells you to do.
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Ironically if the Bible had specifically called out race-based bigotry as seen hundreds of years later during and after the African Slave Trade it would have been pretty good evidence of God’s omniscience.
Or it would have caused some sort of time loop since Christian Europeans wouldn’t have done it if it was explicitly called out.
I once had an argument over someone who was anti fluoride. They said it makes you dumb. But they have also in the past commented that I was smart, so I said imagine how smart I’d be without fluoride? They don’t have a comeback for that one.
Also too much oxygen (twice the limit) will also cause you harm and possibly kill you, do we ban oxygen?
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