Holy crap this is such a good and well written set of articles. I can’t speak to the accuracy of everything, though it seems to have been researched and written with accurate intent, but the parts that I live are spot on. Lots of little cool details in there. Shoutout to the thing autistics often do where we redefine terms on the fly in a conversation so we’re sure our message is communicated correctly, like “X can mean a few different things, so I’ll say Y when I mean thing 1 and Z when I mean thing 2”, which reminded me of some Flying Circus sketch where they awkwardly created a overt double hand spin gesture to indicate that they were done talking and it’s the other person’s turn to talk and not just the end of their sentence.

and is the shareholder value in the room with us now?

Yep, had a friend who worked housekeeping or something on those empty mansions. He said that in general for that area people tended to use the house for like a week or two in the year and the rest of the time it was totally empty. They apparently had like 10-20 houses like that and just didn’t use them.

Wait how does that work? I didn’t know there was a way to not let someone into bed, I thought you could just pile on?