papertowels

@papertowels@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. We have a few housing coops in town and I recommend them to everyone I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s all well and good, but how likely is that to actually happen?

  The original commenters point was that corporate landlords are driven only by profit as they buy up rental property everywhere. Even preventing that is highly unlikely, if we’re being honest, but it is far more likely to happen than all rented houses being forcibly turned to rent to own contracts.

  We all want the same thing, but there’s a tradeoff between grandiose ideals and feasibility. It does not seem wrong to support pushes for less radical but more realistic methods of improving housing if your goal is to improve housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worker owned coops equivalent for housing is a housing coop complex, which I believe is the most sustainable model of housing.

  However, I’m not sure how that would apply to single detached houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  both of them see reduced profits when minimum wages are increased

  But one doesn’t have to act in the shareholders best interest.

  My friends are renting in an apt from a mom and pop landlord who hasn’t raised the price in years - they roughly play half of what market price is at this point.

  So sure, the direction of Mom and pop landlords interests may be the same as a corporate landlords, but that are under much less pressure to leverage that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you just randomly hitting an edgy opinionated atheist soundboard over there lol.

  Say the line, Bart!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, let’s take Christ out of the discussions of Christ-ianity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some more context:

  So we did actually ask AMD about this the first time they told us about Strix Halo. It was literally our first question: ‘How do we get modular memory? We are Framework after all.’ And they didn’t say no actually, they did assign one of their technical architects to really really go deep on this—they ran simulations, they ran studies, and they just determined it’s not possible with Strix Halo to do LPCAMM. The signal integrity doesn’t work out because of how that memory’s fanning out over the 256-bit bus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I just take a bite out of the entire kit kat bar without breaking it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hyperbaric oxygen chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is society gonna get the funding to try all this shit on a scientifically relevant number of samples?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hyperbaric oxygen chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IMMORTAN JOE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  His DND character is a barbarian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies, all lies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I posted this in another comment, but the remix is a must-listen if you haven’t heard it before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NM is there in spirit!

  kob.com/…/nmdoh-issues-health-order-to-maximize-c…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is hella sketchy. It’s MAYBE one step above saying “chat gpt, show me what this agents face looks like” and then using that to try and find a match.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to meet girls at college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stare them straight in the eye while hip thrusting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to meet girls at college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend group was always on the nerdier side in high school. One thing I’m really glad we did come senior year was we’d play poker, and the loser, if single, would be have to go and cold call ask a random gal out on a date.

  It’s liberating to know that, as long as you’re not being a creep, you can just talk to someone you think is cute and ask them out. It was especially nice to know back in the high school days lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to meet girls at college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, when people say meet others at college they don’t mean in the classes. They mean in the social events…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, dont overlook the value of healthy habits.

  I’ve seen younger siblings who subsisted on coke and PB&j in their retirement pass before their older ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida ounces⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

  • Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That certainly is a good chunk of time, but 5 weeks minimum is stellar!

  Cheers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s marvelous.

  Is “very” long on the scale of like a decade or multiple decades?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are y’all getting 5 weeks of vacation a year? My American mind cannot comprehend this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also fully recognize that I have a fairly generous employer. I don’t think my experience is representative of most Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuine ignorance and curiosity - do y’all only do days? If you have to take half a day off, do you round up or down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Employed in the US, I can stack up to 240 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A fascinating theory I read is that MAGA is making a big deal out of Epstein because it provides an off-ramp that lets them save face.

  Legit I’m like "bruh, you’re surprised that you’re billionaire ‘grab em by the pussy’, ‘accidentally’ walking into the miss teen usa, ‘I’d fuck my daughter if she wasn’t my daughter’ president is on a list of billionaire sexual predators? I’m glad that something finally looks like it might stick to him but c’mon guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I remember the dual thumb, but I just remember being amazed at how responsive it was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Typing on this thing was a dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for taking the time to walk through your thoughts - I appreciate the conversation.

  I think the particularly egregious problem with interpreting the comment as referring to the association of man=top=dom is that the meme has a gal as the dom, as you’ve pointed out, which does go against heteronormativity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand heteronormative to be about social norms centered around heterosexuality, and how that is the dominant cultural factor.

  With that understanding, viewing things through a heteronormative lens is to exclude the views of non-heterosexual folks.

  Then “heteronormative bullshit” is comparable to “heterosexual bullshit”.

  I might’ve missed some nuance - this is not my forte. However my naive understanding is that saying this was commentary on “cultural norms” is similar to saying to civil war was about “states rights”. States rights to do what? (Slavery) Cultural norms centered around what? (Heterosexuality)