Not_mikey
@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 4 days ago:
Yes, there are plenty of other investment opportunities, the fact that you chose the one that profits off of housing insecurity shows you don’t enough about it to forgo a little bit of extra money.
Like other people have mentioned you would also have to be advocating against your own interest. Yes you can do that but your passion will at least be dulled by your innate desire for profit. You’d have more passion and will for the cause if you didn’t own investment properties, even more if you are renting and are a victim of housing commodification.
Another point is that you’d be adding to the demand of houses and thus raising the price. You could argue it’s a drop in the ocean, but that sort of attitude leads to a million drops in the ocean and rising sea levels. You would also probably be buying it on a mortgage that’s larger then the house was previously on so the floor for rent , the break even point, would be higher.
Eg. If you bought the property for $400,000 on a mortgage for say $2,000 a month from someone who only had a $200,000 mortgage on it for $1,000 a month you’ve now upped the rent floor $1,000.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 4 days ago:
You could make a lot of these same arguments for owning slaves. If you don’t buy them then someone else will, and they may be a worse master then you. Better that you buy them and treat them right, provide them good food and housing, while at the same time advocating for the abolition of slavery.
In both secenarios you may say you want what’s best for them, but that desire is in direct conflict with your desire for profit so either you become a bad investor or a bad slave master / landlord. Why bring yourself into that conflict instead of investing in something without those moral implications?
- Comment on [Video] Genius way to solve homelessness in USA 1 week ago:
Ideally yes, Palestinians have a right to defend themselves from genocide.
Realistically you could sell those weapons to Ukraine since the weapons industry is the only thing keeping this shit country going.
- Comment on It's almost here 1 week ago:
Come to San Francisco, the weather never goes above 70 degrees and we have the best bread bowls and they only cost $25 (without tax)
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 1 week ago:
You can still use free fillable forms, you can fill out the raw tax forms yourself online and can submit them online there. Not the best UI, it’s literally just the forms, but you cut out the middle man so they don’t get more money to lobby congress to keep this dumb system going. It’s also free if you make more then $85,000 , which alot of the “free” software isn’t.
- Comment on Help. 3 weeks ago:
If llms are juiced up auto complete then humans are juiced up bacteria. Yeah they both have the same end goal, guess the next word, survive and reproduce , but the methods they use to accomplish them are vastly more complex.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Was thinking the opposite, thought lemmy was above the unprompted furry bashing and this post made me doubt the maturity of a lot of people here.
- Comment on This is WAR. 4 weeks ago:
Born to early to get poisoned by lead Born to late to get poisoned by microplastics Born just in time to drive a forklift
- Comment on I'm sure this would work out fine 5 weeks ago:
That won’t work, there sick child seeking missiles will just hit this instead.
- Comment on Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show 5 weeks ago:
Just gonna give myself a little bit of cancer stan
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 5 weeks ago:
It does look like a clone, but fuck IP law. Sony winning this will only hurt games because any publisher with a genre creating / defining game could gatekeep any competitors from coming in *cough Nintendo.
The original horizon came out 8 years ago, that’s plenty of time for them to cash in on the monopoly they get for all the creativity that went into creating the genre / style.
Its not like they’re marketing it with a similar name or main character or any other identifier that could trick someone into buying it instead either.
- Comment on Google AI strikes again 1 month ago:
Human here, and didn’t know what the post was about. Had the same thought process as the ai and couldn’t understand the gotcha.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 month ago:
I don’t hate guns, I hate the “gun rights” movements and there fetishization of a skewed interpretation of the second amendment where any individual has the unalieanable right to own a gun.
Even if a violent revolution were to happen, which odds are 99 to 1 it wont happen in the US in our lifetimes, then people like op hoarding guns aren’t going to help. A well regulated militia might but that requires social organization and discipline, which most people in the gun rights movement don’t have the time or willingness for.
They aren’t serious about using guns to defend liberty, they just like the aesthetic of it and make it part of there personality. So much so that they get offended by dumb and probably made up stories like this but not the countless other similar stories where there were no red flag laws and the gf gets killed.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 month ago:
This is the horror story for red flag laws existing.
Now imagine the horror stories of red flag laws not existing
- Comment on California, Once a Mecca for Animation Work, Is Rapidly Losing Ground, Report Claims 3 months ago:
Cool, another state race to the bottom for tax incentives. This always works out great for all involved, i.e. Production companies and major studios.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
In the u.s. a bidet refers to a type of toilet or an attachment for a toilet that shoots water at your asshole while your still on the toilet after you shit. The separate sink as a bidet is unheard of here.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 4 months ago:
If it was a comedy I would give it a pass, but this episode wasn’t, or at least it was a bad one. The only sort of funny scene was the sermon. The rest was young boys slowly dying.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 4 months ago:
I get the focus is supposed to be on Elijah and how bad he is but the background is the lost cause myth and sympathizing with the common confederate troops. I guess you could say they didn’t want to make the confederates look bad so Elijah could look horrible in comparison, but you could’ve had Elijah just be even more racist then the troops.
Like the only sort of funny part where he gives the sermon, if it were realistic he would’ve gone full race baiting and go one about how the unions gonna come and free the n*****s and slavery is in the Bible etc. to rile up the troops. But in this mythical confederacy racism and slavery don’t exist which is ahistorical.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 4 months ago:
They gave it back after doing a war crime and executing prisoners of war. They also executed them with a fucking gattling gun which is just cruel. I think they were trying to get you to sympathize with the confederates about to die instead of the northerners who were killing an already defeated foe.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 4 months ago:
if it was a serious show I’d agree but it’s satire
I agree, righteous gemstones generally whitewashes the southern church and rarely shows the racism and homophobia that would be present. But I give it a pass because it’s funny, this episode wasn’t funny. The only joke of the show was him giving a bad sermon to those troops, the rest was just sad imagery of confederate boys dying. This episode was them trying to be serious and it didn’t work IMO.
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- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 5 months ago:
Microsofts too lazy to make new IP so they’re trying to reboot any game that wasn’t a complete flop.
- Comment on Cybertruck Crashes in Light Snow as Driver Shouts "NOT AGAIN!" 5 months ago:
Can someone explain why he stopped accelerating when he started sliding back and seemed to just brake?
I get laying off the accelerator for a bit and sliding back a bit to get out of a rut, but he just gave up.
- Comment on Acorns! 5 months ago:
There’s a study showing about 1 in 6 people have it to some degree, so relatively common. It’s just that the images that trigger it are specific and rare, for me the clustering and the type of holes have to be just right, but if it is, ick
The way I learned about it was someone posted a picture specifically meant to trigger it on 4chan to troll people, and it haunted me enough to look into it.
- Comment on Acorns! 5 months ago:
That’s trypophobia . Don’t Google it though, might come up with a lot of triggering pictures.
- Comment on Tea time 5 months ago:
The fbi is always monitoring far left spaces. There’s an old joke that half the people at any given communist party usa meeting are cops/fbi.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 5 months ago:
Going to steel man this since theres obviously no one on here answering this question seriously. Not a republican and don’t agree with all this, just imagining what my republican dad would say about this:
For ukraine and Europe, we have no interest in protecting them besides sentimental attachments. Ukraine is not our problem, it’s Europe’s and if they want to dump money into a lost cause by all means go ahead, but leave the u.s. out of it unless your going to compensate us for it. The u.s. isn’t threatened by Russia, we have an ocean, the world’s largest navy and nukes to protect us. The larger threat is China and we should be focusing on them, not russia which can barely invade it’s neighbor, much less march across Europe and the atlantic. Europe can handle its own problems.
For Canada and Mexico and tarriffs in general. We need to bring manufacturing back to America and revitalize the rust belt. We can’t do that if companies find it more profitable to go over seas and pay people pennies when they’d have to pay Americans mich more. The only way to get them to come back is to make it too expensive to import things.
This is all about putting America first. For decades America has been spending billions to protect Europe and has been sending billions of dollars over seas to build factories overseas while factory after factory closes. We need to stop all of that and spend our money in America for Americans.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 5 months ago:
There was a poll a few days before the famous march on Washington that culminated in King’s “I have a dream speech” and two thirds of Americans thought the march was unamerican.
America has always hated uppity protesters demanding rights.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 6 months ago:
You’re making the mistake of viewing a car as a reliable means of transport and not a way to show off how cool and rugged you are.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Seems to be more complaining about the lack of it. The better the skill based matchmaking is the larger those yellow slices would be. But a lot of gaming companies know about the gambling mindset of players who want to roll the dice and hope they get in the lobby where they stomp the other team so they’ll make the matchmaking not as good and make it a coin flip on whether your on the stomping team, so the yellow slice becomes smaller.
