TubularTittyFrog

@ TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world

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6d ago

An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch
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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 6d ago

they didn't want to pay for it. it's expensive to license music, esp across multiple countries and events. each skater basically has to hire a copyright lawyer to file all the paperwork for them.
none of this was an issue until recently... people didn't care if they used their music for the obscure sport of figure skating. now they sue you for doing so. it's add tons of cost and legal bullshit for skaters, so why even bother? just use uncopyrighted music for free and don't get sued.
blame greedy lawyers and record companies who decided they needed a 'slice' of the tiny sport of figure skating and now want to sue skaters for 5-6 figure sums. 'untapped market' of exploiting teenage girls and competitive professionals.

2w ago

Pizza Hut closing 250 US stores as parent company considers selling the brand

Because the the rich people who would pay for quality pizza don't live there. they live in cities and fancy suburbs.

and poor people that live in those places are not going to pay $50 for a fresh made pizza with authentic ingredients. they are used to paying $10 for artificial chemical pizza products that pizza hut now offers.

2w ago

New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

because in the 90s we started teaching people that their feelings are the truth, rather than mostly stupid and wrong.

if there is anything in common with ignorant fools it's that they think their feelings is the only measure of things, and truth and knowledge is just a feeling they feel like any other.

i was lucky enough to learn in school that my feelings are stupid and wrong and they need to be verified before i can trust them and that other people know more about things than i do. but i'm part of the homosexual queertrans agenda like that.

2w ago

Rent is theft

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

it doesn't do that. most business owners and home owners are not above others nor do they cause other people suffering.

some people are abusive and exploitative, yes. that is regardless of their financial status.

And who judges all of this? I work in medical trials. Is my job causing other people to suffer because we have them go on experimental treatments that might not improve their chances of beating a disease? is my job evil or something because it's not feeding the homeless? according to some of my ex girlfriends, my job was causing them suffering because I wasn't making enough money to buy them expensive things like Audis and go on trips to Bali ... are they right? They also got very angry when I suggest that they if we lived together we should split costs, even when they made more money than I did, and their reasoning was that because I'm male and I'm advantaged in life therefore I should be giving them my money and I should be doing everything I can to make more money, and give to them because they deserve it more than I do.

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

I'm not currently a landlord and don't intend to be one ever again unless my circumstance sharing housing with someone else.

You simply don't think economic relationships should exist at all, and probably think people shouldn't have to breathe oxygen or eat food. I mean that's a nice sentiment, but good luck making any of that real I guess?

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

according to many other random people here, I should be murdered and killed because I own property that I live in, and they think that's correct because of some theory they believe in and/or they feel like they 'deserve' it more because their efforts are heroic and good and my efforts were bad and evil.

what they really mean is 'I wish I had the power to kill and murder people who had more than I do because I'm bitter and blame others for my failings and refuse to take responsibility for my inability to provide for myself. So I'll just sit around and fantasize and wish violence on others in my head and be abusive on the internet.'

Sitting around and fantasizing about a prefect world in which your life will be a wonderful and happy is a lot easier... than actually making your life better though work.

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

ok, so if i come over and murder you and steal all your shit, you're perfectly OK with that? As long, as I think it's moral to do that, we're good right?

Good to know. All you are making an argument for is total chaos where everyone's feelings are all that matters, and it's ok to do whatever i want to anyone as long as any of us feel it's good to do that thing.

I bought a home and then rented my spare bedroom. No theft was involved and nobody's money was involved other than my own and my renters. I also paid taxes on my rental income. Taxes you benefit from and I'm sure I pay a lot more tax than you do.

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

do they murder and kill all the conservatives, moderates, and white people in Star Trek?

last time i saw it all the captains were white guys...

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

It entirely depends on the house. Some people get bankrupted by their homes, some get really lucky and have very low maintenance costs. When I rented I had something like 60%+ disposable income.

Sounds like you are very economically well-off, and you can likely afford to outsource your labor and upkeep. I could not. I had more free money and time when I rented because I cannot afford to higher maids, landscapers, and etc. I do almost every minor repair myself, including plumbing and electrical and I absolutely dread the day I will have to replace a roof or do another very costly repair and it sucks to have to have a pile of money I have to keep aside for that, when I'd rather use it for something enjoyable. Owning a home has seriously impacted my ability to vacation and travel in both terms of money and time to the point I haven't left the country in 5 years. I am 'wealtheir' on paper, but that wealth doesn't do much for me in my day to day life. My 8 grand a month income does less for me than my 2 grand a month income did for me 10 years ago, because so much of it is sunk into my home.

2w ago

GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

whose reality? people live in very different realities and in 2025 the notion of a shared reality is ever more tenuous as people bubble themselves up.

i invoke fallacies because they are part of reality. the vast majority of human beings operate with cognitive and logical fallacies, there are inherent aspects of every single person.

you can prattle on about your perfect society where intolerance is not allowed, but how are you going to enforce that? through violence? would you yourself, wish to be subject to such violence if you yourself had thoughts that society deemed intolerant? if so, great. but many people would not want to be a part of such a society.

2w ago

GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

right, so just kill everyone you don't agree with. sounds like a very progressive and liberated and FREE society... one where you must live in terror and fear lest you upset the government or your neighbor.

2w ago

Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

what makes it genuine? i have no doubt she feels that way. i can feel lots of things and make statements about them.

that is very different than taking actions regarding those feelings. and that is true of celebrities as is of everyone else. Lots of people I know complain about stuff, but few of them actively make choices to improve the things they complaint about. And the people who tend to actively do such things... don't complain or make grandiose political statements.

One of my friends and I donate to immigrant families. I take old computers from work, fix them up, and together we give them to immigrant families, because they need computers. I take direct action to support and make their lives better. I don't complain about how hard they have it and how awful their lives are and how evil ICE is. I simply help them.

2w ago

Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

right, my 1850s ancestor who was a substance farmer in Italy totally stole the land from the native americans...

2w ago

Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

You believing in anarchism isn't doing anything to change the laws that govern your physical and legal body.

But please lecture me about how nothing exists other than the ideal utopia inside your head and anyone who thinks your imaginary world instead your head is the 'real' one and the external one with property laws, borders, and real human beings is 'fake'.

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

pretty much. they cosplay at being working-class/poor because it makes them feel like they aren't rich douchebags like their parents, and once it gets old/difficult/mom and dad get mad, they 'grow up' and stop doing it.

I am in my 40s and I meet a lot of trustafians. they get so ANGRY when they realize I am not like them and I'm some 'loser' who made my own way up in life with hard work and didn't spend my 20s partying and traveling and working low-income jobs because it was 'authentic'. i had a low income job because it was the only one I could get until I had enough experience to get a better paying job.

my rebelling was going to college and working my ass off, because my parents were uneducated lazy morons.

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

so basically let the poorest of the poor guillotine everyone so they can take all our stuff, and then start killing each other?

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

who determines the number of properties?

what if a landlord buys up 1000 properties and rents them out below market rates, is that systematic harm?

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

You're not wrong. I do some of those things.

But the problem is most of my peers disagree with me. The majority of people in my city are against opening up zoning restrictions. My opinions is in the minority, and I am not economically powerfully enough to have much influence over politicians or voters.

And this includes many of my so called leftist progressive peers. many of my leftist friends are adamantly against zoning reform, and they, like landlords, want more restricted development. when i express my opinion on expanding housing supply they tell me I'm greedy and evil and that what we need is rent controls and no new development and that nobody should be allowed to move here who doesn't already live here. and this is all local politics, not federal stuff.

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

my mortgage for a 2bedroom apartment is 3000/mo. i make over 8000 a month so it's not a big deal. 5 year ago i was only making about 6000 a month so I needed rental income.

2w ago

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TubularTittyFrog @lemmy.world 2w ago

based in that you actually brought facts and context to the discussion.

housing values detached from inflation starting in the early 1990s, which is when housing starts started to decline and population and economy grew a lot.

it's too much money chasing too few homes due to economic changes in the 1980s and 1990s that vastly financialized the economy and homes became investment class assets rather than fixed assets, which they had been historically. Fixed assets typically retain value over time only see returns that are approximate to inflation, like a savings account. Homes used be savings accounts, now they are more like stocks.

all of this can be fixed with changes in economic policy. but nobody wants those changes because deflating the housing market would cripple the economy because so much wealth is locked up in housing values. housing values are so high, and rents are so high, because people are willing to pay those prices and people are actively against new housing supply construction.