MyBrainHurts
@MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 6 days ago:
Neat, our tenancy laws pretty much borrow that word for word!
In this case, loud neighbouts, failure to act would mean not calling law enforcement.
Or letting the place deteriorate would generally count. But, most buildings are up to code etc and the landlord isn’t expected to install extra sound proofing above and beyond code.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 6 days ago:
That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.
Please feel free to share an example, because this seems like absolute nonsense.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 6 days ago:
Wow, that’s uhhhh, an interesting take. If one tenant is too noisy, you want the building manager to install noise dampening somethings? And who determines if it’s too noisy, the landlord who’d have to pay for the renovations?
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 6 days ago:
To be slightly more polite, as this seems like one of your first places… You absolutely want to keep a neutral third party involved.
In my building, some of us are paying half or a third what new tenants do, the manager has a clear financial incentive to remove as many old timers as possible (and has tried her best.) If the norm was that building managers patrol for noise etc, you could much more easily get into a “he said/she said” with someone who has the means and motivation to remove you. Having the norm be police means that the complaint has to be somewhat valid, not just “enough that the building manager can increase their income stream.”
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 6 days ago:
Building manager isn’t your parents. If you have a problem with the building, that’s their issue, if you have a problem with your neighbour, you’re expected to deal with it like any other adult; talk to the person, if that doesn’t work, police.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 6 days ago:
What do you expect a building manager to do and why do you think boise complaints are their responsibility?
- Comment on The Resistance Libs Were Right 1 week ago:
(I don’t actually dislike the nyt as much as some of the online crowd does but this is still the first thing I thought of and had to share.)
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Two things can be simultaneously true:
1) Russia has suffered substantial loss of materiel etc.
2) Russia still has effective command and control systems. Whereas the EU depends heavily on America for advanced targeting (think the Ukranian long range missile strikes on refineries in recent months.)
Here’s a fairly accessible article on some of the difficulties/timelines for a post American NATO:
(Notable quote from someone wiser than myself “We’re almost completely dependent on U.S. intelligence for satellite and everything that goes with it")
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
It’s one of those symbolic initiatives. There may be an official mechanism but right now, it would be a disaster without NATO. Right now, the US has most of the Command and Control logistics (think constant satellite connection, missiled detection systems etc.) That stuff is super expensive and the assumption was that America was an ally, so not a lot of duplication was built in.
A NATO without the US dooms Ukraine and presumably, whatever hits of Eastern Europe Putin feels like holding.
It’s shitty, frustrating and awful but it’s also the grim, current reality. We didn’t realize our allies would become two bit thugs.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
When the US briefly revoked command and control (think, satellite connections, real time intelligence, missile warning etc) Ukraine suffered heavy casualties quickly. Were thr US to walk away, neither Ukraine or NATO has those same capabilities. NATO minus US vs Russia, in the immediate future would be incredibly bloody and possibly fall in Russia’s favour.
- Comment on It's New Year's Day and you want something entertaining to watch. You NEED Auralnauts' Star Wars remix. 3 weeks ago:
I listen to this way too often. Have it in my downloads and grin whenever it comes on randomly.
- Comment on It's New Year's Day and you want something entertaining to watch. You NEED Auralnauts' Star Wars remix. 3 weeks ago:
Always! Especially if it’s a Cerveza Cristal!
- Comment on It's New Year's Day and you want something entertaining to watch. You NEED Auralnauts' Star Wars remix. 3 weeks ago:
For those just starting their auralnauts journey, you are in for a treat!
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 3 weeks ago:
Okay?
The question was “why does internet advertising work”, how does what does what you’re saying have anything to do with that?
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 4 weeks ago:
I mean, showing random ads before or during things is pretty much what sustained most television and radio for a number of decades.
And now they aren’t random.
If you’ve been watching influencers on youtube or tiktok, they know a lot more about what to show you. And whatever they’ve been talking about, they can shoehorn an appropriate ad in.
Then you consider the cost which is a fraction of a penny per eyeball, so even nudging only one in 20,000 targeted views, of an audience who are interested in your type of product is probably going to be profitable.
Think of email phishing scams. It seems insane that anyone has ever fallen for thr Nigerian prince thing but all they need is one success every so often and it’s profitable.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 4 weeks ago:
Oh no, that was an extreme example and it would be impractical to always have that granular level. For other, more mass ads, consider say, the water bottle trend or almost any other tik tok food fad. Maybe it started organically, maybe not, but advertisers absolutely jumped into those, connected with “influencers” to make sure their brands were represented. And for those campaigns, age and location or general demographic of each influencer’s audience would be more than sufficient (and still fairly microtargeted, they’re hitting folks with under 100k subscribers! Almost no other traditional media campaign can slice so finely.)
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 4 weeks ago:
My friend’s partner works in online advertising from matching, ugh, “influencers” to brands to more “traditional” targeted online advertising.
I asked her something along these lines and she told me about a campaign she’d just worked on which dropped my jaw and changed my perspective.
Essentially, she was working with some product being sold with or inside some luxury brand of cars. Her firm was able to target people who seemed to work in dealerships for that brand in Canada. The product being expensive as hell meant that even a handful of sales would justify the campaign.
The campaign cost her firm almost no time, the data were available fairly easily and once established could essentially be run automatically.
Hers is an extreme example but combine relatively low costs with unnervingly accurate micro targetting like that… It’s a stupidly efficient means of communicating to prospective clients compared to every other type of advertising.
Reddit is an interesting example. They’re milking the advertising for all they can but I’d be surprised if the bulk of their revenue/stock valuation was from ads versus holding all sorts of AI trainable data.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 4 weeks ago:
There are uhhh, many people who are not you.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 month ago:
Complete societal collapse, hard to say what, beyond the basics, would be useful as a medium of barter.
But, in a society facing major issues, e.g., hyper inflation, or say, a US government default, yeah, gold is a pretty decent hedge bet.
The traditional safe haven has been government debt but that’s been seen as an increasingly risky bet where you could lose a lot of money to inflation or worse, government default/intervention.
So, while not ideal, gold at least seems a better bet than most other “safe” places to put one’s money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This feels like ragebait or you need to read or watch more modern stuff.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 1 month ago:
I’ve legit wondered about this and one of the many reasons I don’t want kids is I don’t think it’d be fair to inflict my lifestyle on them, no matter how morally correct I feel.
My basic thought though is that as long as social media is the dominant means by which cultural trends are spread and amplified, anti-consumerism will be hard to spread.
Once modern social media became dominant, social justice pivoted from our own sins (wearing slave made clothes, children losing limbs for our new phones etc) and switched to dunking on public figures and large systemic forces. I think that’s because it’s much easier to share, make jokes about etc evils that you are not currently doing. That is to say, it’s a lot easier to make memes about say, OscarsSoWhite when none of us are in the Academy than say, “my shoes are made by kids who occasionally burn to death” while many folks are wearing those types of shoes.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 1 month ago:
And I just got a better job after having a bad one.
I’ve also known addicts who’ve quit.
Does that mean “just get a better job” “just quit your addiction” and “reject consumerism” are reasonable answers to people struggling?
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 1 month ago:
This is the same as “I would just have a better job.”
Some normal folks are out there, trying to give their kids as normal a life as they can despite their financial circumstances and not all of them are as enlightened as you claim to be online.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 1 month ago:
It’s fucked but with a charitable view, I can see some logic.
For all the nonsense, there are a handful of good deals on the Friday/Monday. If I were living paycheque to paycheque, seems like a bnpl scheme could let me budget say, November to February for christmas gifts, interest free unlike a credit card.
That being said, that’s the theory. I imagine a lot of folks end up in over their heads much like credit cards etc.
- Comment on Still looking for the right community for this meme 1 month ago:
Lol, did you just “I’m rubber and you’re glue” ?
Every comment you sound more like the kid in my elementary who wasn’t allowed to use the glue sticks without supervision because he kept eating them.
Now, as then, I’m not particularly interested in charging with either of you, so this is my last interaction with you.
Hope you find a better use of your time!
- Comment on Still looking for the right community for this meme 1 month ago:
“I’m funny, everyone else is just a dumb poopyhead!”
- Comment on Still looking for the right community for this meme 1 month ago:
Lol, it would be weird if you didn’t think it was good.
Believe it or not, others can disagree. As has been the case.
- Comment on Still looking for the right community for this meme 1 month ago:
Have you considered it’s also just not a very good use of the format?
- Comment on Truth in advertising 1 month ago:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hegseth-ssecretary-of-war-name-plate/
I’d guess it’s still ai generated in that someone asked an ai to print their labels.
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 1 month ago:
Yeah, this isn’t going to be productive or interesting.
Have a nice day.
