baronvonj
@baronvonj@lemmy.world
I play guitar, watch USMLR and NHL, occasionally brew beer, enjoy live music and travel, and practice sarcasm.
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- Comment on American ambassador to Italy refuses to live in the official US residence in Rome. Instead, he stays on his super yacht moored 60 miles from the capital 11 hours ago:
Tillman fucking Fertita is ambassador to Italy?!
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 5 days ago:
Uh … Steam actually did this same thing before Itch did.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The ironic twist there is that insurance companies here should have good legal teams to go after someone else to cover it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
good luck with getting the PT covered!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is actually where Twitter was good. I would always get a better response with a public @ mention to the company on Twitter.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
But the bank would care about the police report for the charge back. A civil court would care about it if having to sue for restitution if the charge back is denied.
- Comment on Crikey 5 weeks ago:
I imagine it’s been difficult to find your phone with all that other stuff in your pocket.
- Comment on Crikey 5 weeks ago:
I’m more than 50% sure I briefly worked with this guy.
- Comment on only the first..... 5 weeks ago:
So true.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 2 months ago:
I don’t mind that they have 2FA features in their app. I mind that using SMS for this has been known to be bad practice for years and they’ve tried to leverage that insecurity to push users to the Steam app. It’s reckless and this current data breach is only possible because of it.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 2 months ago:
Steam is warning users to enable Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator and keep an eye on account activity.
Fuck off and let me use my own TOTP app already.
- Comment on The private home listings most buyers aren’t seeing 2 months ago:
Right. The sentence I quoted was kind of wedged in with the reporting on what you’re stating. So it seemed like associating the two, and I didnt really see the direct private sale as something to have lumped in (to report on as something nefarious).
- Comment on The private home listings most buyers aren’t seeing 2 months ago:
Honestly regulating businesses to ensure fair and ethical competition and trade is something I like my tax dollars being spent on.
- Comment on The private home listings most buyers aren’t seeing 2 months ago:
I know you weren’t replying to me, but … what?
- Comment on The private home listings most buyers aren’t seeing 2 months ago:
I don’t doubt it, and I 100% support regulations aimed at increasing wealth and ownership opportunity and equality. If Compass is shown to be discriminating against minorities, then yeah prosecute the fuck out of them. I just think forcing people to list their home even though they already have a buyer selected isn’t really going to do anything about it and just artificially raises the sale price to cover the realtor fees. Say some elderly home owner is nearing hospice or something and wants to sell the house to their grandkid who is starting a family. Why should they have to do anything other than get a mortgage approved and go sign all the deed/title paperwork for the bank and the county? Forcing it to be listed isn’t going to suddenly make that home be an option for a discriminated minority buyer, because the buyer has already been selected by the owner.
- Comment on The private home listings most buyers aren’t seeing 2 months ago:
No, dude. Redlining is about banks not lending to people in a discriminatory fashion. The first sentence in your link:
Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities.
I quoted a line specifically about the home owner (a person, not a bank or a coporation) having a specific buyer in mind. Not at all the same thing. Even if the owner lists it publicly, the owner still decides to whom they sell the property. Otherwise you would have property-holding companies out there suing to force the sale to them as the highest cash bidder. Forcing a public MLS listing is regulatory capture forcing buyers and sellers to pay a commission to a middle-man when there didn’t need to be one.
HOAs can fuck off and so can you.
- Comment on The private home listings most buyers aren’t seeing 2 months ago:
Some homeowners want to sell to a neighbor or family member without broad advertising
So? Why should they need to broadly advertise it? It’s a private property transaction. It’s not like it’s government public property.
- Comment on wilosaur 2 months ago:
My crest! Oh it’s the best!
- Comment on I don't know who The Rizzler is and Im not interested. 2 months ago:
We definitely had ridiculous slang in the 80s and 90s,
Dude, it was radically tubular.
- Comment on Ah, 2015... 2 months ago:
Shark still looks fake.
- Comment on Best game ever? 4 months ago:
Either Witcher 3 or Baldurs Gate 3.
- Comment on Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remastered - Trailer 5 months ago:
The first two were crackin. The 3rd one with Jean Reno and time travel was a bit odd. I don’t think I finished what came next and the series dropped off my radar until the recent Netflix series. I’m excited about the new ‘Way of The Sword’ game. Might go back and check out the 2019 Warlords remaster.
- Comment on Google's AI is using past tense to describe a sporting event that takes place in 3 days. And it knows who won too. 5 months ago:
Ben Affleck and Thomas Jane are wanted for questioning.
- Comment on Gravity 5 months ago:
Medieval art had more murderous rabbits.
- Comment on Why can't I sort by name on the communities page? 5 months ago:
I want to see if there are new communities on other instances with names similar to ones I’ve already subscribed, without going back and forth manually searching for the names of my current subscriptions.
- Comment on Why can't I sort by name on the communities page? 5 months ago:
That doesn’t have a name option in the sorry menu either?
- Submitted 5 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Yes, it’s exactly what you’re thinking. Just like Laura Ingraham in 2016
- Comment on When your friend moves to Berlin to become a DJ 7 months ago:
I slept in the car
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
By and large the posters/commenters for those other communities just haven’t wanted to move over.