exocortex

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• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! Nicely put. The problem isn’t people like your aunt, its massive shareholder-controlled investemet machines that own thousands or even millions of homes. Your aunt probably knows eafh renter by name - there can exist a personal relationship. There’s two things limiting your aunt becoming a money-hungry antisocial ghoul:

  1. raising the rent is a relatively large amount of work for relatively small of a reward. If she raises rent she has to write these 4-5 renters a letter explaining why she has to increase it. Those renters might disagree, have objections, ask for reasons and proofs (like the central heating bill or maintanance costs etc). If she raises the rent by lets say 2% it’s 2% of not that much money (with her single digit number if houses).
  2. she is raising the rent on people she knows. She is taking money away from people she even may like - have a personal relationship with.

  So increasing rent is a lot of hassle and her renters might like her less after that - which might be a factor.

  Now lets think of the hugr real estate company. They have thousands of renters and maybe hundreds of employees. They have lawyers employed. If they raise rent by 2% they have to send thousands of letters. But these letters are sent by people whose job it is to do so. Tyey can calculate in advance that from their renters X% will just accept the nrew rent, Y% will require some manouvering, Z% might move out and so on. They can estimate the cost of raising rent pretty well based on experience and compare to the profits they make. And with thousands of apartmants 2% is a lot of profit. The employees have no relationship to the thousands of renters. Renters are just numbers anyway. Everything is much more efficient. Also: Shareholders. They demand profits and dont’t care how. They care even less aboht the renters. They demand more profit and will just say “make it happen”. If thr ceo doesn’t raise profits - with whatever means necessary - the shareholders will replace the ceo.

  The soltion IMHO would be some progressive tax That makes it basically unprofitable to have more than 10 apartments. And to prevent legal entities owning other legal entities owning apartments in order to circumvent this. If there exists (and can reasonable exist) a personal relationship between landlord and renter everything is alright in my opinion. People usually are not animals to eaxh other if they know eaxh other personal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using none of these. But what i use almost all the time : possibly = evtl (eventuell) maybe = vllt (vielleicht) kindest regards = LG (Liebe Grüße) e.g. /for example = zB (z.B.: / zum Beispiel) (i omit the dots and colons)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC most successful VCs invest very early and get out often early-ish too. The real enshittification that dangers the actual position of the company often happensuch later. At that point the company is traded publicly And there’s a large anonymous body of shareholders. They only care about profits. VCs are actually a little smarter and care about longer time frames ad in that stage often much larger (relative) growth rates are possible. At a late stage (think Google, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc today) growth is much more difficult. How could Google grow today? They’ve saturated the search market years ago. So the only way of making more money is by sucking mire money out of their existing user base. And they absolutely need to to it, because there’s a huge pressure on the managerial class to do it, because the shareholders demand it. And if the managerial class doesn’t do do it, or isn’t capable of doing it they get replaced by people who are more willing or capable - even if it’s detrimental for the company when viewer long tee term. VCs i would argue care all about profits, “but”. (they are smart enough to see the big picture. That’s why they often get out once most of the possible (easy) growth has been achieved. The shareholders of large publicly traded companies are not that coordinated as the agree on anything other than just “growth”. There isn’t enough nuance in the wants of the masses as to want any more sophisticated strategy than simply “growth”. That’s why only short term growth can be thought.

  Of course sometimes also large companies can grow 2.5x or something like that. But it’s rare and takes more time. The exception makes the rule here. Early stage growth that VCs bank on is much more explosive i think. More like 10x or 100x.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New ‘Star Trek’ Movie in the Works at Paramount from ‘Andor’ Director⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, so it’s only the director of certain episodes. I misread this and thought it was Tony Gilroy for a moment - that would be really interesting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It peaked there right? So the rest of the day it was lower wasn’t it? Still very expensive!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reviews for "Leave The World Behind" being brigaded with copy/paste negative reviews - presumably because it was produced by the Obamas.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually liked it. it’s a really cool / scary atmosphere. I was surprised by how much i liked it as it’s been ages since i even dared to watch a Netflix-produced movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reviews for "Leave The World Behind" being brigaded with copy/paste negative reviews - presumably because it was produced by the Obamas.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually liked it and was really surprised about it. It being a Netflix produced film and all that. It was definitely a vibes movie and it excelled at that. No dense plot needed here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another spoken word album is coming from Bill Shatner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I missed it. Will listen. His Common People cover was so perfect. I bought the CD recently. Gotta give this one also a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t we buy it?

  Could this be a kickstarter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  !Who in their right mind makes that decision as a producer?!<

  Business-people obviously and sadly. I mean movies have always been a business first, but since there are now basically only 2 or three large companies left with a much larger share of the income they can much better predict the expected income. Everything becomes more efficient. With thousands of little studios competing each individual project is kind of hustling around at random. It’s hit or miss at random basically. But a small studio wouldn’t do focus-grouping in order to increase a movies financial success. Focus-grouping would be too expensive for a small project. Those things only make sense financially if your movie is fairly large OR your company already has a well oiled marketing-department that focus-groups for basically every movie automatically. But with focus-groups you obviously always aim for what most people like. It’s like the lowest denominator. That’s why so many things feel so boring in marvel/disney-productions. There’s no too room for random happy accidents.

  i still have hopes for cinema though, since the incredible rise of the A24 brand in recent years for me is a clear signal that people are fed up with this marvel/disney-monoculture-assembly-line that clogges up the cinemas. One major aspect of the disney-death-star is that Disney basically prevents other productions from materializing. They even prevent their own productions from. materializing as their planning shows them that N large movies a year is about the most they can extract from the movie-going audience. So they will not produce more big budget blockbuster because that would only waste money. Similar with competitors: They know that their big budget movie will have to compete with e.g. Marvels new this-and-that that weekend (or another Disney release at another time) and will not produce a movie. Disney is clogging up the cinemas with their grey goo.

  A24 simply made movies that are different and not aimed at everyone. That simple idea was e extremely radical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LMG has made a response video to Gamers Nexus' concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Try out sync. The filters you can customize are amazing.