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- Comment on Anyone for some fizzy egg??? 12 hours ago:
It’s alcoholic custard
Isn’t that basically what eggnog is?
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 days ago:
Did you respond to the wrong comment
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 days ago:
K agree to disagree
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 days ago:
Dawg you gotta be a troll if you think I’m “disconnected from the real world” just because I know that better specs is why the steam deck can handle modern games and the switch can’t. Also I said that we don’t know what the switch 2 will cost, and that I’d be surprised if it was that low. Don’t put words in my mouth.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 days ago:
The base steam deck blows the OLED switch out of the water specs-wise on everything other than the screen. Nothing I’ve said is untrue, the relevant top comment is pure speculation at best.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 days ago:
No, it’s just straight up misinformation, or at least a disingenuous oversimplification.
The base model steam deck is $400 (and you can get steam-certified refurbished ones for even cheaper), and we don’t know the price of the Switch 2 yet. If it comes with even some of the hardware upgrades that have been leaked, I very much doubt it’ll retail for as low as $350.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 days ago:
Nah, you’re not giving the steam deck nearly enough credit. It fills a very similar niche to the switch - a viable mobile gaming option that can also be readily used for couch gaming. You don’t need a large steam library to get use out of that, just like how the average switch owner probably only has a few switch games.
- Comment on Anon's strict mom 2 weeks ago:
The floods were definitely real
- Comment on Anon's strict mom 2 weeks ago:
Some of the dorms at my university had to put up signs in the men’s bathrooms warning people not to nut in the showers because of how often the clogged drains flooded people’s rooms
- Comment on Anon admits they were wrong 2 weeks ago:
Every public forum site on the planet, even Lemmy, has insecure edgelords, dick measuring, bots, and bad actors though. That isn’t unique to reddit
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
I mean, with how common back problems are in people of all ages, maybe we should all be seeing physiotherapists
- Comment on Wanna play a game? (please don't call osha) 3 weeks ago:
Huh, yeah that makes a ton of sense. I’m gonna have to find a recipe for spinach canned with vinegar, that sounds fire
- Comment on Wanna play a game? (please don't call osha) 3 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of good reasons for keeping a large quantity of vinegar, but I think we’re still mystified as to why you keep it in the fridge
- Comment on Wanna play a game? (please don't call osha) 3 weeks ago:
Either perpetual motion, or a very wet desk, no in-between
- 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? 3 weeks ago:
Here’s my point: if landlords change basically everything about how “renting” works so that it’s basically indistinguishable from property ownership from the tenant’s point of view, they’d qualify to be non-parasitic.
- 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? 4 weeks ago:
The question is what they should do in order to be fair and non-parasitic.
Sell their properties to their tenants, or grant tenants equity in the property based on how much they pay in rent (ie, co-ownership).
So far, I understand that you’re convinced ownership is necessary if any payment is involved. What I don’t understand is why*.
For an exchange to not be parasitic, both parties must gain something equal to what they lose. This, by definition, means that a renter must be able to pay zero dollars for rent in months where the landlord doesn’t have to make a mortgage payment and doesn’t need to do any maintenance on the property.
We agreed that people should be paid for their labour. What makes home rentals special in that regard?
As I’ve already said, landlords don’t provide a service equivalent to the payment provided, and the indefinite nature of a lease makes it impossible for a landlord to ever provide value equal to what a renter pays. As long as a tenant lives in a rented space, they have to pay a fee for the privilege, even if they’ve paid enough to pay for the mortgage many times over. You can’t convince me that a landlord can provide potentially multiple properties worth of value over the span of a lease.
- 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? 4 weeks ago:
Landlords don’t do that. Until they do, they’re parasites.
Also, I can’t tell if you’ve realized by now, but everything I’ve been describing as ways to make landlording “fair” is just a roundabout description of ownership.
- 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? 4 weeks ago:
What I’m trying to convince you of is that there exists a non-zero positive value that is reasonable to charge someone as rent.
And I’ve already told you I don’t agree. Paying a non-zero amount of rent is always parasitic.
- Comment on Anon makes weed eggs 4 weeks ago:
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I just thought it was funny that you claimed that you don’t need to mix weed with fat, then immediately suggested a recipe mixing weed with fat
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Trying to eat weed without mixing it with a fat would be not only unpleasant flavor-wise, it would be a huge waste of weed. The compounds in weed that get you high are much more bioavailable when they’re in the presence of fats. So, loosely speaking, you kinda do need to mix it with fat if you’re gonna eat it, unless you’re okay with large amounts of wasted weed and money
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- Comment on Anon makes weed eggs 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t need to go into a lipid
Gives instructions for putting it in a lipid
- Comment on Anon gets plastered 4 weeks ago:
Neither of those things is true
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 weeks ago:
I feel like a rake would be a better alternative on all accounts
- Comment on Motivational, inspiring 4 weeks ago:
Which of the words, “what” and “the”, are swears
- 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? 4 weeks ago:
Then landlords should send me an itemized invoice that details each of the expenses incurred while I’ve been a tenant, a breakdown detailing how any rent payments cover the cost of those expenses, and a payment plan that we can negotiate to ensure both parties are getting fair deals.
Or they should give me equity in the property based on how much I pay in rent.
But they shouldn’t simply charge an amount based on nothing other than “the market”. That number never equates to the amount of work they put in, and makes them parasitic.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 4 weeks ago:
I encourage you to explore the wonderful world of indie games, and free yourself from the shackles and shitty anti-cheat implementations of the AAA/AAAA gaming industry
- 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? 5 weeks ago:
Think of all the work you need to do as a home owner and that you wouldn’t need to do when renting. These are the services you get.
Then a landlord can invoice me if/when that work is done. Work like that isn’t done every month though.
- 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? 5 weeks ago:
Services can be an equal exchange too. A labor receives your money, you receive a service which requires that laborer’s active time and expertise.
Renting is not a service in the same way. You pay indefinitely, but you aren’t being provided a laborer’s time and expertise equivalent to the money being paid. Owning a thing isn’t something that requires a landlord’s active time or expertise, it’s something that happens passively.
- Comment on where's my damn plume 5 weeks ago:
The fact that billions of us still get that right hundreds of times a day is honestly pretty fucking insane
- 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? 5 weeks ago:
But why is that a problem?
Because whatever a renter pays in rent disproportionately enriches the landlord. Sure they get temporary shelter, but the landlord owns the shelter, plus they get extra money on top of that. The renter ends the relationship in the red, the landlord ends in the black. That’s definitionally parasitic.
Not everything is about physical possessions.
It sort of is though. In the case of renting, the renter pays money but ends up with zero physical possessions, but the landlord ends up with more money and physical possessions (in the form of increased equity in a property). That can never be an equal exchange. That’s the difference between renting and buying a meal (or the difference between renting and ownership in general) - when you buy something, the buyer loses money but gains a physical possession, and the seller gains money but loses a physical possession. That can be an equal exchange.
- 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? 5 weeks ago:
Do we at least agree that if the landlords sets the rent at $1/month, then the transaction will be to the benefit of the tenant?
No. A tenant never gains anything once the terms of the lease expire. The property owner is the only one that gains, as long as the price of rent is a positive number.