acchariya

@acchariya@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the real cause. Tech peaked and has since gobe to dogshit monetization, ai-ification and ultimately idiocrification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I sue my apartment management company?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually worth it because

  1. You include court costs in the amount you sue for
  2. You include the highest possible rate for your time in the amount you sue for
  3. You include all incident expenses

  Plus, the landlord has an asset you can put a lien on in case of non-payment, the place you rented. It’s not the same as suing someone with no assets where the debt is uncollectible.

  NAL, just a former renter who got screwed over a few times, then stopped getting screwed over after I figured out that court is actually good for tenants and bad for shady landlords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I sue my apartment management company?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  NAL, but always sue, and sue for more than you are owed. Court is a negotiation and judges do not take kindly to landlords trying to pull a fast one and landing in their court.

  I have done this myself to a scammy corporate landlord and they settled out of court after a barrage of threatening letters, subsequent “you sued the wrong party”, and “we’re willing to drop what we were going to charge you if you drop this case” letters. I ended up about $400 up including court costs for filing and serving, just for ignoring letters.

  Private landlords, who I’ve also sued, are much more naively willing to go in front of a judge. If you have any case at all, the judge is likely to eat the landlord alive- unless you are a deadbeat tenant you will walk out of court probably with 3x damages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually the only time I’ve ever needed one is outside of the country. You need a police report from anywhere you lived for more than six months to apply for residencies, get teaching jobs, etc etc. the only authority in the US that can do this and provide a report acceptable outside the country is the FBI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get an FBI background check, and get it apostilled. Easy to do from your local post office in the US, difficult and expensive to do outside the us, and you will need it for many things you might want to do in other countries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s the police that keep breaking in and shitting on your pillow it would be best to move to a different town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They seem to be using Molotov cocktails - that is, about a liter of gasoline ignited and spread when the bottle breaks. Since the car body itself is metal and glass, I would guess that until the battery ignites, it’s much the same mechanism of any other car burning.

  Plastics in the wheel wells, mirrors, tires are ignited, which burn hot enough to ignite more protected plastics. Eventually, the battery is heated to the point of thermal runaway (analogous to the fuel tank in an internal combustion car), and then it burns to the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doordash deserves it's fate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $50 for a week worth of groceries? Either you are posting from 2003 or the developing world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Risky, but cryptocurrency. Never a bad idea to diversify a bit but maybe don’t put your whole savings there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA Question | How much is a dozen large eggs near you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you said USA, but maybe an interesting data point: €2.28 or $2.38 in Catalonia, Spain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and you can thank private equity for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im flyinf to the USA from england⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe perception on my end too but I feel like the quality of clothes at the fast fashion level has cratered in the last five years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im flyinf to the USA from england⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The clothes thing is interesting to me as an American living in Europe. I feel like our clothes are shapeless blobs made in china for fast fashion exclusively, while the clothes in Europe and UK seem to be much better in cut a quality. They are certainly more expensive in UK and western Europe though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well clearly you drank the Comcast kool-aid. Bandwidth is nothing like clean water supply, food, or generated electricity. It’s more like traffic on a highway. Sure, there is a finite amount of room on the highway, but until you hit that at any one time, there is room on the highway for more traffic.

  It could be a problem if everyone was playing flight simulator at the same time but they are not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because soft toilet paper is too gay for Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in an area of the country where mosquitoes are a year round nuisance. Think mangroves and tropical weather. Thermacell devices actually work, unlike just about every other device out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever seen coal in real life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We used it to heat our house growing up. But only on the very coldest nights, normally we’d use wood since the coal would actually put out too much heat. This was the 80s through early 90s in New York state, us.