61 points

“Three millennials become slumlords”

Wow, I’m uplifted

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If this apartment building is what you consider slums, you must be super rich.

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1 point

Lol, give it a decade, you’ll see what happens.

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-1 points

Pessimist

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I have been aware of that area of Homestead for decades, and it has slowly been getting a lot better since the 80s/early 90s. The area it is in is the gentrified part that has been steadily getting more wealth, and less QOL issues, for decades now. It is on 9th right between west and amity, just up from the waterfront.

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Lol, takes three millennials to buy real estate 🥁🥁🛎️

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-3 points

you think they built it themselves?

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No, I was just riffing on the fact that millennials have little chance of owning real estate, so it takes multiple of them to even have a chance. https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/ if you’d like to read a bit about it in an interactive way.

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9 points

While this is wholesome, fuck this AI article. There’s absolutely no human alive that would accidentally type cost instead of caused.

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27 points

I watch confirmed humans type “should of” every fucking day.

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1 point

I concede. I just typed “I” instead of “eye” in a comment. U right.

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6 points

I am humans lmao, I can see that. I feel like what I said is a bit more of a stretch, but from a proofreading/editors standpoint, it’s not excusable.

Bonus story, in fifth grade, I had to write an essay and I swear to god I wrote “ov” instead of “of” and I had an internal battle about which it should be knowing damn well how to spell much more complex words. After I settled it, I could feel my ears get hot from the embarrassment of even having to deal with it. I wrote ov naturally, then just saw it in writing and was like no, there’s no way. Then I erased it and wrote of, then thought no fucking way, there’s no way they landed on ‘f’ for a ‘v’ sound.

English is and always will be German, French, and Spanish in a trenchcoat pretending to be one language.

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1 point

You had wordnesia! It feels so weird when it happens :D

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14 points

It might be possible that a human dictated it and the speech-to-text program transcribed it that way; in most American accents those words are near perfect homophones. Still, -10 points for failure to proofread.

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3 points

You may be on to something. But yes, imagine your whole job is to read, rather than write/read/write/read and you still miss this and many others.

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14 points

In fact, I’d assume a bot would be less likely to make a phonetic mistake than a person/

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5 points

I started to say this in my previous comment, but on things like Youtube shorts, I’ve noticed the baked in subtitles they always have tend to be hilariously inaccurate, even if the video is using a text-to-speech program to read aloud something written on Tumblr or Reddit, so they had the text in the first place… It does speech-to-text, then they run text-to-speech on that.

LLMs are trained on written text, and I don’t think they would correctly innovate on misspelling. Someone else mentioned the “should of” mistake, which I can see an LLM doing, because it’s a common mistake humans have made. “cost” instead of “caused” isn’t commonly made by humans, so I don’t think an LLM would just come up with it. STT software has been pulling that shit for 30 years now though.

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3 points

Likely. I was thinking that too, but still sort of the same outcome. Journalism is dying a very public death.

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-19 points

Kind of wierd to call middle-aged people millenials, here. It’s not like they are particularly young or old or anything.

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11 points

1981-1996, we aren’t exactly young anymore?

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6 points

Im a milleneal. Im 42.

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What do you think the word millennial means?

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1 point

It says in the article, 36 to 43.

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16 points

Many millennials are middle aged now but I think securing $3.3M is a stretch for most of that generation.

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Name a generation for whom securing $3.3M was not a stretch

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I think securing $3.3M is a stretch for most of that generation.

What? You say don’t have 1.3M lying around to gamble on whether or not renovating an old high school might be an incredibly bad decision? Find some bootstraps, losers!

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3 points

I found them and I pulled but I couldn’t lift myself up. What am I doing wrong?

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Millennials are middle-aged people. We’re in our 30s and early '40s now

But I agree, it’s stupid to refer to generational terms in this sort of context anyway.

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4 points

Brilliant.

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