Greg Isaacson

Freelance writer focused on real estate and tech

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As Miami prepares to host the FIFA World Cup, global attention is lifting demand for office, retail, industrial and mixed-use space. ⚽️ Here's my article in Florida Realtor magazine about what the games mean for the state's CRE market: https://t.co/dae0maWDuj

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By age 40, you should have:
• Never left your hometown
• Never been married
• Never kissed a woman
• Never held a stable job
• Never published anything of note

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@geneticdrifts @BoyanSlat I'm partial to "semimonthly" myself.

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@lyndseyfifield It's not your house and you should chill out about what kind of windows the owners choose to install.

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@NoahRyanCo There is absolutely nothing special about age 27. You are projecting.

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The 1986 Guide to Western Indiana may not be "precious," exactly, but it's easy to see how it might be of historical interest. It is part of the corpus of human knowledge and should be preserved. The question is whether digitizing and then shredding the book is worse than just letting it moulder in a warehouse where no one will access it and it will probably be destroyed anyway.

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I recently asked someone on here to give an example of Nolan dialogue that's widely quoted (aside from the weird line "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now"), and I did not receive an answer. On the other hand, I can think of half a dozen lines from the original Star Wars trilogy that are still quoted and recognized ~50 years later.

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@antipode_elliot @Rule3O3 Those are all good movies but No Country is the closest thing to a film with broad and long-lasting cultural impact. For people can remember or quote from the other two.

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@angelzglock @coldhealing How many couples do you know who met on Hinge before 2017?

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@JonJonBelloo @KINGBRONK @Emarged His legs age him dramatically despite his top condition. It's mainly because of the skin, I think. If you covered his upper body in the 2nd photo, I would assume I was looking at a very fit man in his 50s or even 60s.

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@TheFCBdawg @Emarged He does not look exactly the same, he looks a decade older and his changing skin tone and texture show it clearly.

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@ryeguy427 Except for that one (confusing) line, which lines of dialogue are quoted constantly? I can't think of any others, whereas Star Wars has lots of famous lines that are part of mainstream culture 50 years later.

I find Nolan's dialogue to be notably clunky and unmemorable.

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Yes it makes sense that farmers in medieval and early modern Germany were expected to transfer their farms to their heirs once they became too old to work. We live in a totally different world where life expectancies are long and 1% of the workforce are farmers. The current norms around retirement are problematic but this really has nothing to do with whether boomers should be allowed to keep their suburban houses.

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@stalefated @uncledoomer These were voluntary and contractual arrangements that have more in common with modern-day concepts of retirement and inheritance than a forced transfer of properties from the "old" to the "young."

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@stalefated @uncledoomer >"There used to be traditions and laws regarding the old needing to hand over property and land to the young in the old world."

No, that did not exist.

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Lots of issues going on here including a lack of guidance and mentorship from their elders, overly permissive parents, and a feeling that "the American dream" (stable job, family, home in the suburbs) has slipped out of reach for the average person, so what's the point of even trying? Will white-collar jobs even exist in 5 years?

Add to that the psychological problems and lifestyle delusions fostered by social media, as well as the proliferation of products highly optimized to addict and distract (e.g. sports betting apps).

I would argue that GenZ faces a tougher path than Millennials like me did, though of course plenty of GenZ are doing just fine; the aimless people that always get trotted out in articles like this aren't necessarily typical of their generation.

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@yosoymario91 You can actually be any of those things today.

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@MediaKing AI slop and untrue.

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@High_Rise_Trini Lol. I used to live in that building. I wonder if the pool has reopened yet.

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@memecrashes "I am not interested in the truth of the results" is a wild take from a mathematician.

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@touchmasterodd @owenbroadcast It is not historically normal to be able to instantly communicate with almost everyone you have ever met at the touch of a few buttons. "No contact" before the 20th century could have meant just moving to another town/state and not answering someone's letters.