Buying groceries in installments is already bad enough, but if you are very good at lying to yourself and very bad at the detecting your own lies, you may be able to convince yourself that you are not going to need to buy groceries for the next four months.
But even this twisted kind of logic does not apply to rent.
Why do I keep getting surprised every time a new height of dumbness gets launched?
You see, it's easy to blame AI data centers buying all the RAM - but that's only half the story! theotherhalfofthestoryismanufacturerssellingtothesedatacenters
As much as these ads suck, they were not the problem. The problem was Reddit charging for using their API (which was a big problem for third party readers) in order to force you to view said ads.
Capitalism's most basic promise was that businesses will create value and have positive influence on society because that will be the only way to generate revenue. Reality proves that it's somehow more profitable to enshittify things.
Yes, both parties suck, and you are allowed to dislike both, but they don't suck equally and not (completely) in the same way and you are obliged to decide for yourself which party sucks harder, which you dislike more, and most importantly - which are you the most scared of getting into power.
Just because you don't want to be neither leftist nor rightist doesn't mean you need to aim for the dead center. That's as dogmatic as aiming for one of the extremes, and in fact dumber because it's not even motivated by any ideology.
