Lurker > averagejoel

yeah 4 is definitely the worst one. the way it tries to show kung fu as "competitive" with other martial arts is super weird. like if the one karate dude can beat up all these highly skilled kung fu masters, and only one of them can beat him, doesn't that necessarily show that kung fu is less well-suited than karate for actual combat?

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ZMythos posted...

You're right

Almost like how for profit charter schools siphon away funding from public schools and make the education system objectively worse while "investors" line their pockets with taxpayer dollars.

Or how privatized healthcare leads to millions without adequate coverage and hyper-inflated out of pocket costs while "investors" line their pockets with taxpayer dollars.

I'm sensing a pattern here....

yes. and then when the quality of such services inevitably degrades due to a lack of funding, people who don't know what they're talking about can say shit like "government-managed housing is almost always a shithole" as though that's an inherent trait of public housing. and a lot of people are uninformed enough to just believe that

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gunplagirl posted...

That's almost certainly the case, a pregnant woman would look like that when looking at herself. There wouldn't have been enough dietary opportunity to gain and maintain those kinds of curves and weight outside of pregnancy.

it's also like, the only real reflective surface they had would have been water. so they would largely have had to determine their proportions by looking down at their own body, and/or by touching their body and estimating from there

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a while ago I read a theory that the Venus Figurines were actually created by women as a sort of early attempt at self-sculpture

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CanuckCowboy posted...

Yes and if the government ran it they'd be fucking people instead. Itd be new problems plus the old problems.

Are you familiar with the history of council housing / social housing in the uk? Its largely bad.

it's important to remember that the existence of private housing (that is; housing that is used to turn a profit for the person who owns it) inherently siphons funding away from public housing; making it worse and even threatening its existence in the first place

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Where the fuck is Fargo in that list

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silver. unambiguously.

I watched the video again looking for a lane reduction or something. if that were happening, then I could see it being partly the black car's fault for trying to pass in the first place.

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g980 posted...

Averagejoel has completely given up on rebutting anything lol cant risk accidentally challenging his worldview

there's nothing to rebut

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KILBOTz posted...

Renters do benefit from renting.

Landlords take on the transaction costs of home ownership. ~10% of home value is a transaction cost when it changes hands in a sale. A new tenant transaction costs are a tiny fraction of that, and most of those costs are recoverable upon move out so long as the property is not damaged.

And as mentioned before they take on the risk of ownership and all that entails. Renting caps liability to your rent. If you have a lease and the owner suddenly has 2x expenses, doesn't matter to you, your lease is a contract.

none of this contradicts anything I said. try again

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g980 posted...

You really struggle with analogies huh

no, I know what you're talking about. it's just a completely different conversation that I am not interested in having.

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Will_VIIII posted...

I'll say this at least.

My experience with landlords has generally been more negative than positive, and a lot of valid criticisms have already been posted.

That said, having the inability to evict problematic tenants, even during a pandemic is not a great scenario. I'm talking about tenants who are constantly making noise outside noise ordinance hours, causing damage or being filthy where it impacts other tenants etc.

I recently bought a house, but there are some rental townhomes across the street. One of the tenants would periodically put extra recycling material just on my lawn (shipping address made the culprit obvious) and there were regular domestics I could hear to where cops got involved. I can only imagine what that was like for the other tenants sharing the wall.

We had an eviction freeze end January 1 and those problematic tenants across the street had to move out. My next door neighbor had mentioned to me they had been a problem for the neighborhood for months but due to the eviction freeze we had to deal with them longer.

I don't have a perfect solution when it comes to situations like this, but it's definitely an issue that impacts more than landlords.

providing people with housing is more important than providing investors with return on their investment

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g980 posted...

I dont economically benefit from buying groceries either but i still benefit overall

cool. that's an entirely different conversation that I'm not interested in having

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dirtydog posted...

It benefits both parties. Including the one who gets to live in a home they otherwise couldn't afford to buy, and if renting weren't an option, they'd be homeless.

this is so catastrophically incorrect that it must be intentional.

first: it's extremely common for people to pay more for rent than they would for a mortgage payment.
second: the alternative to housing being treated as an investment (i.e. the thing that creates the landlord/tenant relationship in the first place) is not "every person who would have rented becomes homeless"; it's "all the housing that would have been rented becomes public housing." housing being treated as an investment (as opposed to, say, a basic human right) is what creates homelessness. removing that economic relationship does not create more homelessness

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g980 posted...

It also benefits people who want to rent a home

I'm talking about material economic benefit here. renters do not benefit materially from renting. landlords do benefit materially from owning the rental unit

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dirtydog posted...

The rules of the game were changed halfway to benefit one side excessively versus the other. That's not fair.

"the rules of the game" allow housing to be treated as an investment. in the vast majority of cases, this status quo benefits the people who own that housing. this is still the case even with a small balance patch

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dirtydog posted...

A non-paying tenant could end up owing thousands very quickly, even tens of thousands if there is a rule preventing evictions due to Covid. That is exactly what has been happening in the UK. Some tenants who CAN PAY are simply NOT PAYING because they are immune from being evicted.

Most landlords are not rich, they usually own ONE rental property and have a full time job and a mortgage on the rental as well as their home property.

landlords are the ones who want to treat housing as an investment. they should not get preferential treatment when this does not benefit them. they should live within their means.

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g980 posted...

So you think everyone should have to buy a home or otherwise be homeless

did you respond to the right post? this does not follow at all from the one you responded to

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welcome2DAslam posted...

Because they already spent money trying to have a place that can offer you or someone else a place to live

Your turn

okay. you should hold landlords to at least the same standard as the people renting from them. that is; they should be responsible for having enough in savings that they are not dependent on their investment to stay afloat

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"exploration platformer" maybe?

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dirtydog posted...

Why do you have no savings. If you are a private tenant without security of tenure, you should always have enough money to move at short notice and be prepared to do that because sooner or later, it will happen to you. It has happened to me in the past and it does suck. But it is what it is. You can't blame all landlords because you've had bad experiences with a few of them.

why are you not holding landlords to these same standards?

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it is certainly terrible at being a fruit

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FortuneCookie posted...

I'm not saying it's a bad movie. But the point of empowerment is to make a specific target audience feel empowered. If they don't feel that character represents them or their interests, it's not empowering to them.

wouldn't that necessarily differ for every person who sees the movie?

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FortuneCookie posted...

That's absolutely the basis of empowerment.

We're making you, the target audience, feelstrong.

I think that's an extremely shallow way of engaging with any film; but especially a film that was probably not intended to make the viewers feel strong in the first place

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FortuneCookie posted...

No.

One of the criticisms of the two movies is that the Bride is often seen as unrelatable to most female audience members. It's not very empowering if the people who are supposed to be empowered don't see themselves as the main character.

so in order for it to be a "girl power movie", a movie has to "empower" the women who watch it?

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ok again I don't know if these are bar chords or not:

C
D7
D-7 G7
C

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FF_Redux posted...

(No barre or other weird chords)

I don't play guitar and I don't know which chords require bars on it

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A- (1 bar)
A- (maj7) (1 bar)
A-7 (1 bar)
A-6 (1 bar)
FMaj7, E-7 (1/2 bar each)
D-7, CMaj7 (1/2 bar each)
B-7b5, E7b9 (1/2 bar each)

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trickster types are fun, but there are lots of other ways to play a rogue.

like you could go Swashbuckler for an Inigo Montoya type

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Golem used Strength!

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IMNOTRAGED posted...

Exactly how is the country supposed to function with millions of people suddenly losing their homes

more prison slave labour

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aboveaveragejoel

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belowaveragejoel

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some of it is worth watching. for the most part you're better off reading it though

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pigs' ability to cum for half an hour

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pinky0926 posted...

It's a shame but hey. I guess if you stay inside drawing a single comic for like 90 hours a week for a decade you probably burn out and just dont want to do it anymore

he's also had some really serious health issues

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^good summary without going into too much detail. I'll also add, though, that each prince from the royal family has what's called a Guardian Nen Beast. they get it by completing a ritual, and it's basically a Stand. I believe the Prince (used as a gender-neutral term here; several of them are female) can't see their own beast or something?

Anyway, to shift the balance in the succession war, Kurapika revealed the existence of nen to basically everyone involved. he also used the syringe to awaken several peoples' aura nodes.

there are some really interesting nen abilities among the princes and their bodyguards.

some minor qualms:

he's also killed Neon too offscreen to remove her ability from his book.

as far as I know, it's not actually clear that this was done by Hisoka. the Nostrade family has many enemies. it could even potentially have been her father that killed her; as Neon might be considered worthless without the ability.

The rest of the spiders are also on the same ship as the royal family, and they're looking for Hisoka. I believe Illumi has also joined the Troupe too, along with Kalluto.

if I remember correctly, Illumi was actually hired by Hisoka to work with the Phantom Troupeto kill him. Kalluto is actually part of the troupe though

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there's... a pretty major portion of both Heaven's Arena and Greed Island that explains basic principles. and there's lots of other stuff that talks about the various types of Hatsu

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tbh I didn't find the normal white palace all that hard. the last little bit of Path of Pain is just ludicrous though

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the term "criticism" is sometimes used as an antonym of "praise", but it's extremely reductive to frame professional criticism as though it's nothing but people who say negative things about a given work.

engaging with media, having something interesting to say about it, and articulating that in writing, is a skill that not many people can do well.

criticism is an important part of the community for any media

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Could go the other way with school choice

sure. there might be several different public schools in the area that are known for different things. but they could all be improved if private schooling were taken out of the equation

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bigblu89 posted...

What do you mean by "better quality essentials"?

to use one example of what I'm talking about: private schools. they basically exist to reinforce the existing class hierarchy: ensuring that the kids with rich parents largely interact with each other, and that they're getting a better education than kids who don't have rich parents.

this also contributes to the funding issues within public schools.

the clearest solution is to remove the option of private schooling in the first place and to improve funding for public schools in general

Like, if you have an apartment for rent that's on the luxury side, should you NOT be charging a premium for it?

the option to have privately owned luxury housing in the first place should also be removed

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bigblu89 posted...

That's a slippery slope, especially with housing.

Just thinking of myself as an example. Would the government have denied the purchase of the house I currently own because it has 4 bedrooms, but I only need 3? Or if I decided to upgrade the kitchen or windows, they would decline it because I'd them have a kitchen that was above what they considered essential?

this is so far removed from what I was talking about that I don't think you're actually making this point in good faith

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bigblu89 posted...

Is it though?

You were basically saying there shouldn't be luxury options because the people at the very bottom cannot get what they need.

this raises the question of whether or not people should be entitled to better quality essential services just because they can afford to do so. I don't think they should.

also remember that it's not only food services that I'm talking about here -- it's healthcare and education and housing too.

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pojr posted...

Several. I like the diners that look like this.

there's one a few blocks from my parents' place that has that cool 50s-style decor. I haven't been in a long time, but I do like going there when I visit

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

IMO basic levels of necessities such as housing and health care should be government subsidized and available to those who need it. but private enterprise can and should provide additional for those who want it.

the existence of privatized services is inherently a threat to the public versions of those services.

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

then why did you go on about it? i was just replying to what you said.

no, you were not. I was describing the position of a landlord. you were talking about how someone got the money to become a landlord in the first place. it was not relevant to the conversation

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

you said that landlords' money always comes from their tenants. i illustrated how that might not always be the case, especially initially. that's the only point i was making.

okay. that point is completely irrelevant to the conversation here

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Fishstick posted...

You need a place to live, they have one for you to rent. Therefore they provided you housing.
Plus not all landlords are bad.

everyone needs a place to live. they turn people away. therefore, they prevent people from having housing

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