itsnicodegallo

"Let's play Smash Bros. For science."

I don't know. The identical faces adds some humor to me.

I think I've given up on finding Farside funny. I must just not be enlightened enough.

I'll give a very literal example joke demonstrating how this used to function.

NOBODY:

ME: Yes, I did get a haircut. Thank you for asking.

See, nobody asked, but the speaker was still compelled to share this fact (or in other cases, an opinion). Over time, it became such a common format that people didn't even grasp the initial purpose beyond it being convention. The term "POV" in captions is used this way now too.

If you haven't read the article, this is terrible news for people trying to buy a home. Touring homes and making offers was previously free for the prospective buyer and entirely paid out by a 3% commission paid out by the seller who was already making money off the sale.

Now, not only do landlords no longer have to pay real estate agents, this startup of theirs would force prospective buyers to pay flat fees per tour and per offer.

Oh, it's much worse than that. The suit argued that property owners felt like it wasn't fair that they had to pay a 3% commission to get their property sold, filed a suit, won, and now, they're starting a service that forces the prospective buyer to pay additional flat fees per house tour and additional flat fees per offer they make, all of which was previously free for the prospective buyer.

TLDR; some property owner that got miffed about having to pay a real estate agent a 3% commission for helping them sell a house that they failed to sell on their own filed a lawsuit about it, won, and now, they're starting a "service" which would instead force prospective buyers and renters who are probably already paying their life savings for a place to live "$49 for each home tour and $199 for an offer prep session. If they want more hand-holding, they can cough up a flat fee of $1,799, which includes up to five home tours and two offer prep sessions, with additional services available on an à la carte basis".

Say it with me now: "I have never done this job, and I do not know what I am talking about. I sound just like every boomer criticizing others for making 'too much' for doing hard jobs that I don't do and are already struggling to make ends meet.

For everybody's information:

1. My partner is a real estate agent who busts her ass looking up properties for rent and making listings on platforms to get the word out on them because people simply do not want to or do not know how to or do not know where to look for these kinds of things without them. She spends HOURS driving around town to tour these places with clients, many of whom want to see multiple in a day, all of which they expect her to find and line up for tours that they expect her to schedule with the property managers. Then, most of the time these scumlords will withhold documents, add fees, or argue for why certain repairs don't need to be made before her clients move in, and she has to fight to fix all that.

2. Real estate agents don't get paid a percentage from their clients. They make a percentage commission from the landlord or seller. Why? Because these people want to rent their apartments out or want to sell their homes and either cannot or do not know how or have been failing to do so themselves. Sometimes, over a year. My partner is the reason those repairs get made to an otherwise sellable home sometimes because she and the client agree that the landlord is an asshat for not making them, and her client "will not agree to rent unless the repairs are made".

3. In this situation, the SELLER was complaining that they had to pay a 3% commission to a real estate agent to help them sell their house. This service now forces THE PROSPECTIVE BUYER OR RENTER to pay "$49 for each home tour and $199 for an offer prep session. If they want more hand-holding, they can cough up a flat fee of $1,799, which includes up to five home tours and two offer prep sessions, with additional services available on an à la carte basis" for services which were previously free to them.

So all in all, the world is worse for people trying to find a home thanks to all this just so people who were already going to turn a profit can make even more.

Why did you have to give away a dog? What made you able to get given a new one?

Why is this getting down voted?

I think there's a website out there dedicated to explaining the joke in Farside comics because they so regularly make no sense to me, to the point that I can't even find them funny.