pelespirit
@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on No explanation needed 4 hours ago:
It’s because you have to use a spoon, I think.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 5 days ago:
The corporations are the ones making you feel guilty, especially if the infrastructure isn’t there. That’s how they tried it (and won) in Seattle. They’re all like, build, build, build, and then covid hit. The transit takes hours if the person can’t afford to live in the city (see my bullet points). There are a lot of grey areas and people like you. The system is broken and they’re blaming the home owners who don’t want to live in a fucked up area. The CEOs don’t care because they’re money hoarders and living in gated communities somewhere.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 5 days ago:
It’s true that it’s doubtful that this stuff will get implemented if we continue the way we are going. Most people don’t know about these issues and talking about it gets this info out there. The propaganda coming from the corporate landlords is heavy and strong. I’m surprised this isn’t getting trolled heavily tbh. Not sure why it isn’t.
Things to continue talking about and what I don’t think people realize, know, or understand how bad it is:
- Price fixing is a huge problem in rentals. They have website services that help the landlords do this.
- Corporate landlords hold empty homes and apartments vacant until they can get the prices they want rather than lower the price. This is why that trickle down housing shit doesn’t work.
- Corporations buy up all cheap housing so downturns in markets are only good for them too. See the first 2 bullet points.
- The push for more housing means that there are more luxury apartments, not homes for who need them. They’ll say that homes will be available when they get shitty over the years. See above bullet points and even if that were true, would take 30 years anyway.
Go after the corporate landlords and corporate airbnb shit first, then go after the nimbys. The nimbys are the distraction and pits the neighbors against the 15 minute city types instead of the corporations that are making fucking bank.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 5 days ago:
I meant under 10 units, you’re right. I fixed it. I’m down with a cold and I knew it wasn’t quite right, but my brain couldn’t fix it, lol.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 5 days ago:
Drastically increase the tax rate for more than 3 houses by any single person.
I would say that it should start building the tax after one house and go drastic like you said on the 3rd.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 5 days ago:
- Crack down on price fixing
- Don’t let corporations run AirBNBs or similar
- Don’t let corporations own any rental building over approximately 10 units.
- Don’t let rental buildings have more than a low percentage of empty units for turn around. They have to lower the rent then. If it goes to $200/month, then so be it.
There are so many things to try, but Trickle Down Housing never works.
- Comment on Largest Nurses Strike in NYC History as Nearly 15,000 Healthcare Workers Hit the Picket Line 1 week ago:
Don’t forget that they were the front line during covid. Remember the city not knowing what to do with all of the dead? Also, there were a lot of covid deniers harassing them. They deserve to be treated like decent royalty.
- Comment on You never know who you're arguing with 1 week ago:
Nice to meet you Vincent Adultman
- Comment on How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life? 1 week ago:
Just walk there and go back home. You’re going to have to embrace the “feels too weird” part. Feeling weird is part of life.
There are like shopping malls within 20 minutes walking distance, but I don’t wanna like just walk around if I’m not buying anything… feels too weird.
- Comment on "The trolley made me fear for my life" 1 week ago:
“But he’s a good christian!”
Are there sects of christianity that makes murdering people okay?
- Comment on X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns 1 week ago:
Idk, Andrew (formerly known as prince) is probably trying to stop them.
- Comment on I think I might be in love with the new Lemmy lady! 2 weeks ago:
Right? She might be falling for him hard now. She’ll give up the spam business for good for him.
- Comment on genius 2 weeks ago:
It’s unclear if he printed it himself or the shop did. Probably himself, but man if it was someone else, I’d be pissed.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 2 weeks ago:
There are some good ones:
Unlike the stomach, the brain does not tell when it’s empty
- Comment on Give me some good ones 2 weeks ago:
You were so cute when I first met you.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 2 weeks ago:
Was that actually in the show? I don’t remember that one.
- Comment on Venezuela Live Updates: Maduro Tells U.S. Judge He Was ‘Kidnapped’ 2 weeks ago:
The world knows that’s the truth.
- Comment on seven 2 weeks ago:
If I don’t consider the news, I’m at 1. If I do consider the news, I’m an 8.
- Comment on The Wall People 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it wasn’t Pentecostal, but had a name. I wish I could remember it. The kids were nice but always were tired and had that look of abuse. I don’t think they were abused like hitting, but they all had to take care of the younger ones or themselves. They were always tired. Funny, but tired.
- Comment on The Wall People 3 weeks ago:
I guess I’m one of the only people watching SNL now and then
- Comment on The Wall People 3 weeks ago:
The were like the quiverfulls but didn’t call themselves that. I can’t remember the name. They believed every child that could be born, should be born. It was their duty.
- Comment on See George Takei And Rebecca Romijn Lead Star Trek Float For Rainy Rose Parade 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the entire video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3fqPtyWpM
I dig the Unified High School playing “Born in the USA” and “God Bless America” at around 28 minutes.
- Comment on The Wall People 3 weeks ago:
I knew a large family with 10 kids growing up. The last 4 called themselves the “too manies”.
- Comment on Filtered 3 weeks ago:
I kind of want to see this as a Halloween costume now.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
Oh they know how to get to the porn.
- Comment on My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day 3 weeks ago:
I thought I saw comments from you, but there are people taking other’s names on different instances. A name doesn’t mean much anymore. I wish sh.itjust.works would move to piefed and we could have a tagging system.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 3 weeks ago:
I really hope you’re not a working scientist.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 3 weeks ago:
If you compare a 2 year old and a really smart dog, they’re about the same in their reasoning skills. So yeah, I’ve had arguments with 2 year olds and dogs.
Again, you’re saying you personally haven’t had those experiences, so you might be an outlier.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 3 weeks ago:
None of them have ever exhibited the ability of abstraction.
First of all, isn’t science always testing and studying? Why and how can you make that statement so confidently? You don’t know this for sure.
Second, couldn’t this just be bias on your part? I’ve had dogs that could speak our language the best they could. Granted, these were very smart dogs, so they might have been outliers. But your dogs could have been dumb as rocks too.
Third, you’re like that archaeology meme with the obsidian in the rafters. It might just be you.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 3 weeks ago:
But it is nothing more than symbolic association at its absolute best
Have you ever had a pet that you were close to? I think you’re right that it’s cruel to study them though.
