nimpnin
@nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 3 days ago:
I’d rather be an incosiderate slob than a coward who is unable to say anything to the person irl
- Comment on Silver: NBA looking into 3-point volume critiques 3 days ago:
Nostalgia
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
housing is artificially scarce
Housing is not artificially scarce, because land is naturally scarce.
Renting will always cost more than the upkeep of a house because otherwise nobody would lease
On average yes, but you also do not need to account for variability in price due to for example, having to replace the plumbing every 20 years or so.
All your issues with personal ownership of a house stem from other people treating housing as private property that can be invested in
This addresses none of the things I listed.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
I think housing is a human right but homeownership has nothing to do with it. Governmental intervention or renters organizing or both is required to secure the right.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Given a rental apartment with an affordable rent where I could live as long as I want, why would I want to own property instead?
I don’t want to worry about the plumbing being replaced or the floor having water damage, and that putting tens of thousands of costs on me randomly. I don’t want to speculate what the price of the apartment is in ten years and how that affects my mortgage. I don’t want to not have housing anymore if I get a pest infestation.
I think it’s the other way round, people own property because it is seen (and often is) the only way to have reasonable housing costs and not worry about having to move if you don’t want to.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
A single home owner does not expect to profit from that investment
What are you talking about? People definitely buy homes as an investment so that they can sell it and retire.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Housing being a human right has nothing to do with getting rid of rental properties. If anything, having to buy a house is a lot bigger barrier to housing than rent.
What we need is rent to be affordable, and landlords to do their job, i.e. maintain and fix the apartments. There are many ways to achieve this: government owned housing, legal regulation, tenant unions etc. Everybody buing a house or an apartment is not one of them.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Homeowners also treat their home as an investment. Which also makes housing more expensive and inaccessible. Moving away from renting is not the solution, we need a more comprehensive change in the system.
- Comment on Ja Morant Insane Double clutch Dunk vs Celtics 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Currently happening 5 weeks ago:
IDK man, the people with no or few friends tend to be weird but not really bad in any meaningful way: socially awkward, shy, odd interests, neurodivergent etc. Difficult to get to know, plain and simple. People with a lot of friends are often worse people, manipulative and/or have a transactional attitude to relationships
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 5 weeks ago:
Bring a printed copy of your ESTA / visa for immigration. Get some kind of travel insurance that covers health emergencies, and have proof of that printed as well.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 month ago:
In other words, no good options. Few people were truly excited to vote for Kamala. That’s the issue.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 month ago:
There were no good options. And that’s because of the electoral system.
- Comment on Why do different ethnicities/races look different? 1 month ago:
Some features, such as melanin levels, are due to evolutionary pressures. High levels of melanin protect you from the sun, lower levels of melanin boost your vitamin D production.
Other features are just random. Over time, human populations were affected by random changes that weren’t exactly useful but not detremental either. They’re called sprandels. According to a quick Google search, blue eyes don’t seem to have any advantages, but not really any major disadvantages either, so that would be an example of that.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
as cheap as it gets in my area
That’s not a very good approach to assess prices
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
Neither my phone internet nor my home internet has a GB limit. The phone internet costs 25€ a month, and home internet 30€.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 2 months ago:
They can be fucking annoying. Like we get it, you sit down and think you’re somehow superior for being different. Otherwise I take no issue with them.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 2 months ago:
Both of these claims are kinda misguided. The brain is able to detect very short flashes of light (say, 1 thousandth of a second), and other major changes in light perception. Especially an increase in light will be registered near instantly. However, since it doesn’t have a set frame rate, more minor changes in the light perception (say, 100 fps) are not going to be registered. And the brain does try to actively correct discontinuities, that’s why even 12 fps animation feels like movement, although a bit choppy.
- Comment on Why does my beard grow back faster after shaving? 2 months ago:
I am intrigued, how can a reply to that get 44 downvotes
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 2 months ago:
US?
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 2 months ago:
I have never had that happen and I buy my bulbs from the grocery store
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 2 months ago:
They don’t? What are you talking about?
- Comment on Very thankful 2 months ago:
funny comments on pornhub are best tho :D
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
this is a shit post
- Comment on How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy? 3 months ago:
I agree with the be happy to be alone advice. That part is very important. However, a practical thing you can do, which you probably already know is hitting the gym.
It serves two purposes
- It makes you slightly more attractive
- It makes you aware that you are attractive
The second one is the more important one, but it can’t be attained without the first. You gain immense confidence by seeing yourself in a new light, as somebody that you yourself think is attractive. Going to the gym is also doable for most people, and while it is hard work it’s not difficult.
Ten years ago I started going to the gym. I gained a lot of confidence. I stopped going after a few years, but the fact that I know I can boost my attractiveness and confidence if I put in the work still makes me a happier, more confident person.
- Comment on . . . 4 months ago:
As mentioned above: if the crust is not delicious you’re eating a bad pizza
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 4 months ago:
I foresee YouTube going to a cable-TV-like subscription only model in the future
Time to self host videos again, would be kinda cool. And a lot cheaper than 20 years ago.
- Comment on I'm terrified of the Netherlands now 4 months ago:
6’2" is still 9 inches taller than the average woman in Utah. Is Park City some kind of extreme international anomaly?
- Comment on Yesterday in Kroger (a supermarket for you non-Americans) I saw a bunch of cans of potato salad. Why would someone buy canned potato salad? 5 months ago:
I just went sailing for a few days. On the small sailboat, we don’t have a fridge onboard. Stuff like this can be stored in room temperature, so I can definitely see the appeal for it.
- Comment on I have become all things to all men 5 months ago:
i heard somebody say that bolsenaro got a boost in the polls after he got stabbed