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  • Real Breadwinner 🌟

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  • Is it cynical to share my experience that literally every single landlord I've ever had has seen me as nothing more than a money spigot? I don't think it's cynicism to see reality as it is.

    It's cool you've had a different experience to me, but I do notice your example is a single landlord(ing family) where mine is lots of different landlords over the course of decades. I think my experience might be a little more common than yours.

  • Real Breadwinner 🌟

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  • Be careful thinking any landlord is a good person. We rented from a couple like 10 years ago who were as nice as you could want, and they were the best landlords I've ever had.

    And yet, the two times we (slightly) threatened their bottom line, they turned into the nastiest human beings I've ever had the displeasure of meeting.

    Saying we "threatened their bottom line" is actually putting it extremely, extremely strongly. The first time, I paid rent one day late because I was so busy and simply forgot. I was still a lib at this point, so I was shocked by how mean the text I got from them was. But it did teach me that landlords don't see their tenants as people, they see us as dollar signs.

    The second time our landlords showed their true face, they had messed up our lease renewal. The new lease, which we'd all signed, listed our rent at about $100/month less than the verbal agreement we had with them. My partner was like "I mean, let's pay the cheaper rent that's in writing on the lease we actually signed". I was like "I'm extremely uncomfortable with that, I don't want them to sue us and I'm pretty sure they would try." So my partner gave them a call and was like "hey, the lease says this, so that's what we're paying". My partner got actually screamed at. I could hear it from across the room. They had a new lease at our door for us to sign within 2 hours. Screaming and rushing over a new lease because of less than $100 a month. Once again, tenants aren't people, we're dollar signs.

    So be careful with "nice" or "good" landlords. Even the best landlord will only ever see you as a money spigot, and will do their best to ruin your life if there's so much as a suspicion that you might slightly decrease the rate of flow of money to them

  • "if we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files the system would collapse." My response

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  • My favorite part of Atlas Shrugged (which is a dogshit book not worth reading) is when the capitalist good guy steel magnate has to have a full-ass monologue explaining why buying a fancy necklace for the woman he's involved with is actually selfish, actually, and isn't him being magnanimous and giving someone a gift.

    Ayn Rand has so many brainworms that giving a gift to a person you love has to come with a monologue about how it isn't actually a gift. Which feels to me like the other side of the "only property crimes are real crimes" brainworm

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    Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Novo General Megathread for the 6th-12th of February 2026

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  • Big old oof!! I hope you're able to recover any lost data without too much trouble!

    I think that's one of the reasons the Arch wiki tries to warn people off dd for making bootable USB's these days. (I still use it, it's what I know and I haven't (yet) nuked an important partition due to carelessness)

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 26th to February 1st, 2026 - A Powerless Ukraine

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  • Back before the '24 election I was arguing with my dad again (I'm learning how to give non-committal answers that just move the conversation along without an argument, but it's hard), and he said that shit (don't let perfect be the enemy of good) and I asked "can you honestly say the democrats are good?" and he was like "no, I can't", and I was like "cool, so really it's more, don't let good be the enemy of evil, but slightly less evil than the other option, isn't it?" and he changed the subject. One of my prouder rhetorical moments, really

  • Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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  • This doesn't surprise me. It's pretty clear that a whole foods plant based diet is the way to go if you're serious about your health. (I'm not. I'm vegan, so I get some of the benefits, but I also eat like crap, lots of processed meals and other such garbage, so I'm not super healthy)

    But yeah, if you want your cholesterol to decrease, the easiest way is to switch to a whole foods plant based diet!!

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    Angela Yvonne Davis - Novo General Megathread for the 23th-29th of January 2026

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  • I hate Silksong!!!!!! It's not true, I don't, Silksong is a fantastic game, but I sure did just rage quit because of

    fucking Nyleth!! I don't like Seth, I don't like Nyleth, the whole pollen heart situation can eat my entire asshole! Fucking hell.

    I wish I had a decent reason to hate Seth and Nyleth as much as I do. Crust King Khan and Karmelita I mostly enjoy. Sure, Karmelita pisses me off a little with how very much she blocks, and the many, many combat rooms leading to Crust King Khan are perhaps a little much, but still, I like those fights. Karmelita is a really, really fun fight when you get in the rhythm of it, she reminds me a little of NKG. And Crust King Khan is such an anime kind of fight, the spectacle of it is fantastic.

    Nyleth though, big no thank you! There's nothing good about that fight! The dodges don't feel good, and that spitty acid attack she has is so, so annoying!! I hate it! At least I figured out early on that you gotta use clawline to dodge the giant aoe explosion, that's the one attack I can confidently, easily dodge.

    I also don't really like the music. I can survive, even sort of enjoy, Bilewater and 1st Sinner because the soundtracks are so good, but fuck, the song that plays during the Seth and Nyleth fights is perhaps my least favorite part of the soundtrack!

    I'm sure as I play this game more times, which I will, I'll get to a point where I don't absolutely despise Seth and Nyleth, but I'm definitely not there yet!

    Fucking Nyleth, you annoying-ass flower, let me kill you already!!

  • (image in body text) Arresting people for being brown is ok, actually

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  • McGraw Hill, yup!!

  • Windows 12 will work even worse than the original Windows 1.0 did. And MS fans like my dad will think it's awesome.

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  • GOOD rant

  • Video contradicts Trump administration account of Minneapolis killing of Alex Pretti

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  • Is this really the comment you want to be making at a time like this? ICE has, on camera, in the streets, executed two people. They've kidnapped at least two elementary school children, that we know of, and probably many more. They've killed several people in custody, but since there aren't multiple video angles of those deaths, those deaths aren't getting the same play on the internet.

    And this is the context in which you want to blame ICE's victim for getting shot? Really? What's wrong with you?

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • But also, I feel like it's a false promise! LLMs are wrong in subtle ways, ways that are not obvious on first glance, especially to a less skilled worker. You kind of need an actual expert to double check stuff if you're trying to leverage LLMs. So like, all this "de-skilling", which I agree is happening, is going to cause serious issues in the future, when the errors the LLMs cause can no longer be ignored and are obvious to everyone, not just the technically skilled workers who have already been laid off!

  • Vegan Recipes?

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  • I've found that vegan recipe threads get pretty good traction on hexbear. I don't think there are enough vegans on the fediverse to actually have a whole comm that's active enough to be worthwhile, but you can get quite a hopping thread going if you try.

    I'd suggest posting to hexbear's c/food with a little detail about what kinds of recipes you're looking for. You'll likely get good engagement, especially if you respond to people responding to you, to make the thread stay active longer!

    btw

  • First look at Jared Leto as Skeletor in the live-action ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ movie

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  • I liked him in American Psycho, really, but that might be because it was such a small part, and also he got rather murdered

  • histogram theory of economics

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  • I'll have to watch that vid later! Can't watch stuff at work!

  • histogram theory of economics

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  • I mean, alright, but it still seems like misogyny to me. Just like "girl dinner", except worse because of the pervasive (and extremely incorrect) stereotype that women are bad at math.

  • histogram theory of economics

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  • I think it falls under the broad category of "girl math"

    Please explain to me how this isn't misogyny.

  • Bring back Kirbywithwhip1987 if you can, I am his friend, he's in terrible situation and I'm worried about his mental health [CW: mental health and violence]

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  • A lot of racists have black friends

  • Bring back Kirbywithwhip1987 if you can, I am his friend, he's in terrible situation and I'm worried about his mental health [CW: mental health and violence]

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  • it's really a miracle that he isn't LGBT phobic.

    He sure is queerphobic, in that he refuses to change the queerphobic beliefs he clearly holds.

    I don't know why you keep repeating this line as though it's true. It isn't.

  • Bring back Kirbywithwhip1987 if you can, I am his friend, he's in terrible situation and I'm worried about his mental health [CW: mental health and violence]

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  • so that was definitely influenced by her

    Oh cool, so Kirby only has bigoted beliefs because his sister has them. Is Kirby incapable of independent thought?

    I also don't care what Kirby told you about his ban. The inciting incident has been linked multiple times in this thread. There's also a link to a separate thread in which he repeatedly doubles down on bigotry, on a different topic. You can read these for yourself and see the disgusting bigotry on display.

    I've changed my mind about being ok with him coming back. I hadn't realized him doubling down on bigotry was a pattern. Now that I see it is, no thanks.

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    So about Papers Please