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| Topic | Why has housing prices gone up so much? |
| adjl 10/12/23 10:44:11 AM #46 | Ozmose posted...
If no one is scared of the commies, I guess we can tell Ukraine it's all good. If your understanding of geopolitics hasn't been updated since 1991, you might want to refrain from commenting on geopolitical matters. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Israel declares war after massive attack from Hamas. |
| adjl 10/12/23 10:35:48 AM #50 | AdviceMan posted...
This conflict has been going on so long because it is a nuanced conflict. If it was easy to solve, it likely would have been solved, but it is not, so it continues. The nuances make it difficult to completely solve, but there's a substantial amount of middle ground between where it is now and a complete solution, and you don't need to deal with much nuance to find it. If the dominant power (currently Israel) were focused on peacekeeping and mediation instead of self-serving subjugation and genocide, conditions would be significantly better for Palestinians and Hamas wouldn't be able to gain nearly as much traction among them, cutting down both their membership and the number of Palestinians willing to shelter/tolerate them. The problem won't completely go away because of the core ideological conflict and the difficulties of stamping out tiny pockets of insurgency, but a very substantial portion of the suffering can be placed on Israel's shoulders for their refusal to use their current position of power to improve the situation. Basically, Israel has the power to make things significantly better, and they're choosing not to. That's something they need to be held accountable for. Holding Israel accountable for that also does not in any way preclude holding Hamas accountable for executing babies, as much as people seem bent on believing that saying "Israel is bad" means saying "Hamas is good." AdviceMan posted... the civilians aren't the people that caused this problem. This is a very dangerous road to go down, so I don't plan on pursuing it too much further, but it is worth noting that Netenyahu has been democratically elected by Israeli civilians that would rather see Palestine wiped out than do anything to constructively solve the problems. If memory serves, Netenyahu has made several moves to make it harder to vote him out, and it's likely enough that most Israeli voters didn't actually choose this outcome that genuinely and collectively pinning the blame on them for it isn't altogether sensible, but I still feel like there's room to hesitate before completely removing all blame for the situation from Israeli citizens. In a democracy, political will involves more than just the decisions of leadership. Of course, that's largely an academic distinction and doesn't mean that any of those voters deserve to have Hamas behead their babies. I'm saying this more as a matter of saying that they have the power to do something to fix the situation, which their voting choices to date haven't necessarily done. That's something they should keep in mind moving forward. Even more broadly than that, as voters in countries that are lending support to Israel, we have some power to effect positive change as well by voting for support that's contingent on more of a peacekeeping approach instead of this retaliatory one. This isn't a problem that's strictly isolated to one government and one terrorist organization. Many, many other people have some potential to influence it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why has housing prices gone up so much? |
| adjl 10/11/23 10:48:59 PM #41 | Lokarin posted...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/10/investing-in-lego-more-lucrative-than-gold-study-suggests I have zero difficulty believing that. As soon as any popular set goes out of production, the price increases substantially, especially if you've got it complete in box. Trying to figure out which sets to invest in can be a bit of a challenge, but pretty much anything big and complex is probably a pretty good bet. Out of curiosity, I just looked up this set, which was like $80 when I got it two years ago: https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/dinosaur-fossils-21320 Two years later: https://www.amazon.ca/LEGO-Dinosaur-Fossils-Building-Pieces/dp/B083GK6WXJ 100% return in two years is quite respectable, though not the easiest to scale up due to the fact that it tended to sell out quickly when it was in production. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Fucking republicans |
| adjl 10/11/23 10:46:18 PM #27 | wolfy42 posted...
You do realize that is how you make more republicans don't you? Depends how you do it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Israel declares war after massive attack from Hamas. |
| adjl 10/11/23 10:45:49 PM #44 | Yep, pretty much. Understanding why Hamas is retaliating does mean anyone thinks the retaliation in question is justifiable. It just means understanding why it's happening.
Does Israel need to completely lay down their arms and let Palestine steamroll them? Of course not. They do, however, need to stop being such oppressive assholes. Palestinians join and support Hamas because they're desperate and pissed off. Significantly fewer people would be desperate and pissed off if they weren't on the wrong side of an apartheid state. There's still inevitably going to be a lot of "the Jews shouldn't even be here" sentiment as a consequence of how Israel came about, because such shenanigans are never going to go over well, but Israel can and should be doing significantly more to generate good will instead of actively making life as terrible as they can for Palestinians. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | 14 day purg for posting a pic of myself post facial |
| adjl 10/11/23 6:43:15 PM #11 | MightBeOverSoon posted...
I thought it was funny to post sensationalist political drivel, and the mod assumed something else because they subscribe to said drivel. I don't rember the post because cringe shit like that usually just goes in one ear and out the other with me, but it's likely whatever post you're thinking of, because I likely would have laughed at something like that, but not for the reason you're thinking. Laughing in any context that involves suggesting that LGBTQ people should be killed is in poor enough taste that I'm not about to hesitate in saying "fair, next." If you lacked the necessary media literacy to pick up on that context, that's your problem. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why has housing prices gone up so much? |
| adjl 10/11/23 6:28:24 PM #34 | Jen0125 posted...
Are only renters mad about the housing market and rent prices? I own my home and I'm pissed about it. Like the "OK renter" remark is so dumb lol Don't you know? You're only allowed to have a problem with something if it personally affects you. Never mind recognizing the harm being done on a larger scale, your success is all that matters. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why has housing prices gone up so much? |
| adjl 10/11/23 6:03:06 PM #26 | MightBeOverSoon posted...
Cool, who is going to determine what a large swathe* of land is and what an extraordinary price is? You say this like governments don't define arbitrary thresholds all the time, adjusting them as needed when new information comes in to suggest they aren't working for whatever reason. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why has housing prices gone up so much? |
| adjl 10/11/23 5:34:58 PM #20 | MightBeOverSoon posted...
So people have no right to property? I'm not sure why so many people have so much difficulty understanding that there's substantial middle ground between "people have no right to property" and "people should be able to do whatever they want with their property regardless of the consequences." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why has housing prices gone up so much? |
| adjl 10/11/23 4:32:46 PM #14 | Yellow posted...
Is it because people are scalping them, or is it because we just don't have enough houses? It's a bit of both. Populations have grown, and in particular more people are moving to cities, but in most cases they haven't grown by that much and the number of potential homes has increased by enough that everyone could be housed. A very sizable number of potential homes are tied up as investments, though, often sitting empty while people gamble with the land or being turned into short-term rentals that throw off cities' efforts to plan zoning and development plans. That cuts down supply, while demand remains the same or grows, and that drives values up. In turn, that makes them even more attractive as investments, which means even more gets taken out of the housing market by investors (who, after a certain point, are the only ones that can even afford to buy properties because they're leeching off of everyone else), driving prices up further, and so on. Yellow posted... Why are people allowed to just buy and sell houses like pokemon cards? Because most of the people in a position to regulate the housing market have significant real estate investments of their own and therefore have a vested interest in not solving what's proving to be a very lucrative problem for them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why has housing prices gone up so much? |
| adjl 10/11/23 3:27:50 PM #6 | Jen0125 posted...
Greed --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Conspiracy theory: Trump as speaker, then Biden/Harris mysteriously disappear |
| adjl 10/11/23 12:55:51 PM #7 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote]
Who's going to hold him accountable for not doing it? The democrats don't have enough votes to single-handedly oust him, while the republicans will back him up because he's the only way they can maintain any power. Meanwhile, all they actually need him to do as far as his job goes is not let any democrat ideas through so they can criticize Biden for not getting anything done, and that's not exactly work. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Israel declares war after massive attack from Hamas. |
| adjl 10/11/23 9:55:57 AM #40 | Ozmose posted...
I don't understand how so many people are still defending them. Nobody's defending Hamas. People are defending Palestine, which has overwhelmingly been victimized by thoroughly oppressive Israeli policies. Hamas is understandable, being the manifestation of decades of impotent frustration over said oppression and the desire to lash out at it in any way possible, but everyone agrees they're still bad. Hamas being bad just doesn't justify apartheid. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How much data do you have with your mobile plan? |
| adjl 10/10/23 9:07:54 PM #3 | Nada.
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| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/10/23 3:15:00 PM #69 | speedpunk posted...
Weird. All he had to say was 'homophobia is bad' but now he's arguing 'both sides' while claiming not to be an American. It's textbook terminally online libertarian, really. He's built a substantial portion of his sense of self-worth by observing political bickering without actually being sufficiently affected by what's going on to actually consider the context of it, then deciding that he's better than such bickering and that the only sensible course of action is to denounce the fundamental political system that is causing it instead of explicitly taking a side. I don't believe that he's actually homophobic, he just doesn't have enough of a grasp of how the real world works to see homophobia as anything more than a buzzword for angry politicians to throw around in lieu of a real argument. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/10/23 2:56:03 PM #68 | Your apparent inability to produce evidence for something you consider to be self-evident should perhaps make you reconsider your position.
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| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/10/23 2:23:41 PM #65 | "It totally just happens bro trust me."
A random, out of control riot is not a situation in which you can assess much of anything, both in terms of how appropriate the label is and how genuinely the one applying it means to use it (as opposed to saying whatever came to mind in the heat of the moment). You're claiming that inappropriately calling people homophobic makes up so much of the political rhetoric of the American left that you hesitate to denounce homophobia lest those reading your posts lump you in with them and miss out on your enlightened centrism. A claim like that should be easy to back up with examples of such political rhetoric. So back it up with examples. Preferably concrete ones that can actually be said to reflect a definite trend in political narrative, rather than some random nobody using words incorrectly. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/10/23 2:06:24 PM #63 | KobraSum9 posted...
Dave Rubin. That's a person. I asked for an example of a situation. Please try again. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/10/23 1:31:39 PM #61 | KobraSum9 posted...
So you dont think getting labeled random slurs isnt just lies though without evidence? I'm not talking about labelling people with random "slurs" (we'll put aside your highly dubious decision to call "homophobic" a slur for now). I'm talking about identifying people as homophobic for espousing beliefs and/or enacting policies that seek to harm gay people. Given that that's the literal definition of homophobia, I'm not sure what you're taking issue with. KobraSum9 posted... Again you just choose what fits your narrative for whatever establishment you support. Do you have examples of people being inappropriately called homophobic that you'd like to present so you can test that hypothesis? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I just ordered 500 Lindor truffles |
| adjl 10/10/23 7:26:01 AM #12 | A few times through the year, particularly at Christmas, physical Lindt stores here will sell a bag of 100 truffles of your choice for ~$35 CDN. It's a pretty great deal and I usually end up giving a bunch of people truffles as a result. At the current exchange rate, I think that's actually even better than $139 USD for 500, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's more than $35 this year with how much things have inflated.
I choose not to think about how much this means we're getting ripped off by typical retail prices if they can sell them this cheap and still make money. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | mem 30: mem |
| adjl 10/10/23 7:08:19 AM #362 | Rounding it out with a Ditto is a nice touch. Versatility is important in a Poke-harem.
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| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/10/23 7:07:18 AM #50 | KobraSum9 posted...
Ok. Now try this By asking for evidence of the claim, same as I do whenever anyone makes a claim that doesn't align with the information I have available. Presuming they're unable to produce evidence (a fairly safe presumption, given how outlandish the claim is), I point out that they have no reason to believe that, dismiss the claim accordingly, and suggest that they do the same because it's the only logical course of action. Why do you think this is in any way analogous to your hesitation to denounce homophobia? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | john riccitiello, unity killer, has been fired from unity effective immediate |
| adjl 10/09/23 10:03:28 PM #10 | That's an exceptionally soulless-looking picture, even by CEO standards.
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| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/09/23 9:43:53 PM #43 | KobraSum9 posted...
Why dont you denounce sexual predators? Same thing. Sexual predators are bad. Oh hey look, I just denounced sexual predators, and I still have loads of time and energy left to devote to discussing the finer points of politics. Who knew such wizardry was possibe? KobraSum9 posted... In USA its just a slur It really isn't. It is occasionally applied inappropriately, yes (like pretty much every word in any language), but there's a very significant number of government officials in the US who are demonstrably homophobic (or at least are acting in a manner that's meant to appeal to voters who are demonstrably homophobic, which is functionally identical) and are actively working to strip away the rights of gay, queer, and especially trans people, including policies that literally constitute genocide. There are millions of queer people outside of that bubble of ignorance you're so proud of who are in very immediate danger from politicians with genuinely homophobic platforms. Dismissing calling them such as being nothing more than political theatre is grotesquely ignorant at best. "The two-party system is the real problem" is not a hot take. It's about the most tepid, milquetoast piece of rhetoric libertarians have, and that's really saying something given how tepid and milquetoast most libertarian philosophy is. Everyone that's paid even the remotest amount of attention to politics knows the two-party system sucks. Yes, it's true that queer people likely wouldn't be staring down the barrel of such persecution if not for polarizing tendencies of the two-party system, but you can't fix the two-party system in a sufficiently timely fashion to prevent that harm. The only real choice anyone has is to vote against the worse of the two evils, and that's not a remotely difficult decision in the current American political environment. Making any other choice at the ballot box - whether abstaining, voting independent, or voting for the evil - is a conscious decision to enable that evil, no matter how much you want to present it as fixing something. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/09/23 6:43:39 PM #41 | KobraSum9 posted...
But i just dont care about the USA politics circus around it is all Why does that prevent you from denouncing homophobia? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| adjl 10/09/23 5:33:14 PM #39 | Translation: "I don't have a problem with homophobia and am trying to avoid answering the question because I know that answering it would just make me look bad."
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| Topic | You ever go to goodwill? |
| adjl 10/09/23 3:13:25 PM #23 | I don't believe there's a Goodwill specifically around here, but a solid chunk of our furniture, kitchen stuff, and clothes have come from Value Village.
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| Topic | YR: Joe Biden walks up to you, opens up his wallet... |
| adjl 10/09/23 11:52:52 AM #16 | Thank him and go immediately to a bank because walking around with ~$15k in cash seems needlessly risky.
slacker03150 posted... I take the money and continue ignoring my student loans until they go away And also this. They're zero-interest, so I just have ~$200 come out of my bank account every month for the minimum payments and leave it at that. In a few years, that will stop, but there's zero value in moving that up when I could instead put the money toward something useful like getting out of the race to the bottom that is the local rental market. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | KFC $20 fill up box |
| adjl 10/08/23 10:32:48 AM #6 | MagicalPrincess posted...
I can make that stuff homemade for far cheaper Probably not if you count the value of your time in addition to the ingredients. MagicalPrincess posted... organic grass fed meat. Chickens need to eat a whole lot more than just grass to be healthy. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Israel declares war after massive attack from Hamas. |
| adjl 10/08/23 10:25:59 AM #25 | Muscles posted...
"It's ok if we do because they did it too" It's more that Hamas is very obviously the lesser of two evils. Hamas should not be killing civilians. That's correct. To paint them as being the "bad guy" for killing civilians when Isreal has killed an order of magnitude more constitutes an utter failure to understand the situation. Hamas is bad, but that doesn't mean Palestine isn't overwhelmingly the victim of an oppressive apartheid state, one which the west continues to support out of some misguided notion that not doing so would be "anti-semitic." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Prison cell quality |
| adjl 10/08/23 10:17:37 AM #23 | jsb0714 posted...
And how many of these fuckers want to be rehabilitated? Their living conditions should be absolute shit.adjl posted... Prison as a punishment is a fundamental failure of an ideology that achieves nothing except momentary catharsis for the general public That approach doesn't work. Every single piece of data available on the subject disagrees with you. Get over yourself and try thinking in a way that actually seeks to solve the problem instead of self-righteous intellectual masturbation. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | mem 30: mem |
| adjl 10/07/23 7:56:14 PM #318 | "Bat Care" is a nice touch.
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| Topic | Wii U and 3DS servers shutting down in April 2024 |
| adjl 10/07/23 3:56:09 PM #19 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
The real irony is, most younger people aren't entirely sure how e-mail works either. True, but for different reasons (the medium becoming less relevant to colloquial interactions vs. not having caught up to the new developments of 30 years ago). I will say, though, that I'm really amused by the number of people in their 40's and 50's that I work with that format their Teams messages like emails, with a greeting, line break, body, line break, and pseudo-signature. They break from that once it gets into an actual conversation, but cold calls like that are kind of funny because I can tell that they're having trouble adapting to using something other than email to initiate contact with people. ReturnOfFa posted... I mean, most people don't know how email works. Basic networking stuff isn't too tough to wrap your head around but most people just never have to learn it. The underlying mechanisms, no, but most people at least understand how to use it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Kevin McCarthy voted out as Speaker of the House |
| adjl 10/07/23 3:54:21 PM #46 | Count_Drachma posted...
I feel like this is perhaps a cautionary tale in reaching across the aisle When the post opens with "look it's ackshually a bad thing when parties work together," you know you're in for a take that's more unhinged than a sliding door. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Wii U and 3DS servers shutting down in April 2024 |
| adjl 10/07/23 12:52:33 PM #15 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
The funny part is where you think anyone on their end gives a shit. Indeed. Short of legislation that requires publishers to commit to and clearly indicate an end-of-service date for any digital games that they don't plan to support in perpetuity, this will keep happening. In turn, that legislation won't happen because most courts that handle matters of business are run by people that still aren't quite sure how e-mail works, let alone the nuances of digital purchases and the lack of transparency around their lifespan. Fortunately, there's zero reason whatsoever to hesitate to pirate games you've purchased but lost access to through no fault of your own. Yar har fiddle dee dee. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What is going on in Peru? |
| adjl 10/07/23 8:46:03 AM #4 | Not sure. I can't say I've been Perusing their news.
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| Topic | Prison cell quality |
| adjl 10/07/23 8:32:20 AM #14 | Gaawa_chan posted...
I don't have a problem with this. The restriction of their freedoms is their sentence, not the conditions of the place where they have been restricted to. It's not like living in an absolute shithole magically makes you a better person. Pretty much. Prison as a punishment is a fundamental failure of an ideology that achieves nothing except momentary catharsis for the general public and to line the pockets of a few executives. It doesn't do a particularly good job as a deterrent, it does very little to prevent re-offending, and in many cases it actively pushes minor criminals toward worse crimes than they otherwise would have ever committed. If nothing else, all of the "this is like being in prison!" histrionics (many of which came from the same sort of people that insist that prison cells should be miserable) in response to the Covid lockdowns show that most people understand that being unable to leave is itself a punishment. And that wasn't even actually being unable to leave, it was just not being able to go wherever they wanted but still having full access to anything they'd normally have done at home that didn't involve physically bringing another person there, which is substantially better than even the nicest prisons. Zareth posted... That's better accommodations then a lot of American apartments to be honest Which is more of an indictment of the housing situation than anything to do with prisons. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | mem 30: mem |
| adjl 10/06/23 8:40:19 PM #305 | Is this Icoyar?
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| Topic | Wii U and 3DS servers shutting down in April 2024 |
| adjl 10/06/23 1:19:11 PM #3 | That article is unclear whether that includes downloading purchased content, which is bothersome.
Yellow posted... I maintain that they have zero reason to do this at all. And it wouldn't cost anything if they used a unified server system for all platforms. Same with the eShop. It's 100% an effort to push holdouts into using newer platforms. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Are you plannin' on getting the new covid shot? |
| adjl 10/06/23 11:19:56 AM #28 | Accrovideogames posted...
I already got four shots. This isn't necessarily relevant. Different vaccines require different numbers of doses to reach full effectiveness, including periodic boosters in some cases. I've had way more than 4 flu shots in my life, but I still get one if I get around to it each year. I recently had another tetanus booster, which is #5 or 6 (there are several scattered among the infant/toddler immunization schedule, then I've had one every 10ish years since). I probably won't get another hep B shot, though, since the 3 I got are the full course (as far as I know). It varies from shot to shot, and for something as new as Covid in particular, I expect it to be several years before we settle on a "best" approach. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Unless you work in Cybersecurity, your takes on data privacy are irrelevant. |
| adjl 10/06/23 10:53:58 AM #16 | Depends on the opinion. Opinions about what is/isn't happening or what is/isn't possible? Yeah, those depend on specialized knowledge and laypeople aren't likely to be qualified to draw meaningful, correct conclusions from their limited understanding. Opinions on what they would like to be happening/not be happening? Not only are those opinions valid, satisfying the desires expressed by those opinions (and helping to refine the requests based on knowledge of what's possible and what other issues need to be considered) is cybersec's entire purpose.
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| Topic | Trump can not win the future of democracy depends on this election. |
| adjl 10/05/23 10:01:29 PM #55 | Far-Queue posted...
I honestly don't feel there's much "loyalty" to Trump in the Republican party. It's opportunism. They need his seemingly unflappable voterbase, and no one has yet figured out how to appeal to Trump's followers without alienating them, in no small part due to the fact that anyone who challenges Trump ends up squarely in his crosshairs, and Trump's base loves him most when he's on the attack. Pretty much. It's not a personal affinity for Trump, it's just having no sweet clue how to appeal to voters except to piggyback on him and whatever he's doing (that, and attacking LGBTQ people). On the bright side, that fanbase is alienating more and more moderate voters as it becomes more extreme (dragging the GOP along with it), while the Democrats have generally been pretty unoffensive thanks to Biden being thoroughly unremarkable as a president (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), so that actually bodes pretty well for the Democrats' chances in the next election. It's hardly set in stone, and complacency will be extremely dangerous, but there's at least reason to be optimistic. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is it even worth it to clean an apartment before moving? |
| adjl 10/05/23 5:43:36 PM #22 | BoomerKuwanger posted...
but what I do know is that landlords are banking on your average tenant assuming it's not easy/worth the effort That, and the fact that renters have a vested interest in staying on good terms with their landlords because of the potential for a bad/missing reference to keep them from being able to find a place in the future (especially where "my landlord won't give me a reference because I took him to court to get my security deposit back" is going to pretty solidly convince the new landlord not to sign a lease). The laws are there, but even when tenants know about them, the power imbalance in landlords' favour makes it pretty scary and potentially dangerous to take advantage of them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is it even worth it to clean an apartment before moving? |
| adjl 10/05/23 1:22:24 PM #17 | IceT posted...
Don't be a dick. You didn't move in the apartment fucked up why would.you leave it fucked up. If the landlord's going to allegedly hire cleaners as a pretense for keeping your money regardless of how much effort you put into cleaning, why not leave it dirty enough for the cleaners to have something to do? That's not to say you should make a bunch of holes in the wall or anything else that goes beyond just not scrubbing the place down, but unless you actually get your deposit back, there's little point in putting real effort into making it perfect. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | If you ran across a modern day Diogenes |
| adjl 10/04/23 10:44:49 PM #2 | I'd hand them a chicken while maintaining intense eye contact the entire time and saying nothing.
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| Topic | Watch for Rolling Rocks done in ZERO A presses |
| adjl 10/04/23 6:32:51 PM #2 | And we didn't even need to talk about parallel universes this time.
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| Topic | Do you think the U.S. will have another insurrection? |
| adjl 10/03/23 2:48:56 PM #15 | CarefreeDude posted...
I could see someone trying to assassinate trump if he won. Which would honestly probably do more harm than good. At this point, Trump is more of a figurehead than an active participant in his cult. Martyring him would make that so much worse. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | mem 30: mem |
| adjl 10/03/23 1:07:11 PM #248 | What the actual trenchgoblin did I just read.
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| Topic | What's the point of anything? |
| adjl 10/03/23 12:57:11 PM #8 | There isn't one. Life is pointless, existing solely to make more life which in turn exists solely to do the same thing ad infinitum. So long as you aren't hurting anyone, just do whatever you need to do to enjoy it.
EclairReturns posted... It feels odd that I am fulfilling it only to escape my landlord. That's not that odd. Even putting aside for a moment the fact that your particular landlord is *really weird* and grossly inappropriate, people pretty routinely move from apartments that would otherwise be good places to live because of a bad landlord. Some landlords are just miserable to deal with. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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