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TubularTittyFrog

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    Rent is theft

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  • a gouged price is a price that exceeds the fair market value, due to a short term scarcity or other circumstance, that typically can't be changed under normal circumstances.

    but i'm guessing you don't want a clear definition?

    a fair market price is a price set under normal market conditions of supply and demand. Where I live a fair market rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is 3,000. Maybe people find that unfair because they can't afford it. I can and I find it fair, and the vacancy rate in my city is below 1%, so 99% of people here also find that fair.

    lots of people love to complain that is too much, but they are still willing to pay it. during the pandemic rents dropped a lot, due to a lack of demand and places were going for $2,000. but once it was over they went right back up again and even higher than they were before. were the landlord being 'gouged' by low rents when they couldn't find anyone to rent their units in 2020-2021? or are they only gouging now that demand is high again and they can get 3.5K for one bedroom?

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  • well it wasn't really a 40K discount if that transaction didn't require real estate agents, it might have actaully netted them more money.

    but your case is extremely rare. most people are bidding on the open market and don't have that kind of luck. I've also been very lucky with renting, buying, and renting out my bedroom of the place i owned. but most people aren't as lucky or as shrewd as i am.

    There are bad people all around. Bad landlords, bad sellers, bad owners, bad renters, and there are criminal ones as well.

    But the truth is most people are somewhere in the middle, they will have some good and bad experiences, some good and bad luck.

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  • perfect worlds don't exist.

    people in them would have to be perfect, they wouldn't be people.

    maybe you could have such a society if it were made of precisely programed robots, but people aren't like that. They have this thing called free will.

    you too, in this very post, are trying to profit and win by convincing others to believe what you believe. you want to score points just like everyone else.

    it's almost as if capitalism isn't some 'system' it's just a product of human competition for power and influence...

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  • Hey man, we can't have reasonable normal discourse in here.

    Everything has to be vastly oversimplified and moralized into a hyperbolic statements measure against some ideal utopia society.

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  • You buy another house that's cheaper and you pocket the difference in value.

    That may not be in the town you want, or the size you want, or etc. but that's life. Where I live people make 500K a year whine there are no houses, but that's because they want to live in mansions in the most expensive towns and won't settle for the 1.5million dollar 'dump' they can afford.

    Investment groups don't own anything. Most properties are owned by people who use them and they want the values to go up as much as they can, while their property taxes go as low as they can. normal people are insanely greedy, and everyone who becomes a homeowner becomes this way because it's it's in their self-interest. very few people are going to want to buy a house if it goes down in value.

    if you were a landlord you would not think rent is theft. you'd start realizing how much it costs to own property and you'd keep having to raise you rent as those costs went up. If I went and bought a 3 unit building in my city it would be 2-3 million dollars. The mortgage would be about 15K alone, which means before all other costs, reach rental unit would have to be 5K. Even if I bought it outright, the taxes, fees and other costs would be 2K per unit. The market rate in my city for such a unit is about 3K. Is that 'greedy and evil' or is it just basic economics?

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    A Life of Crime

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  • and even if you provide all of that, there is a subset of the population that will prefer to remain homeless. within homeless communities there is often an identity and a pride. it's not all shame.

    some would rather be a big shot in the homeless community than an nobody in a low wage job.

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  • it can be both. and in reality, it tends to be a product of both things. it can also be a product of mental illness combined with the other two things.

    a lot of homeless people's stories are a combination of bad luck and bad choices and a system that has very limited and narrow pathways out of homelessness.

    but it's true people tend to believe it's one or the other.

    and for some homeless, it is very much one or the other. not all homeless folks are homeless for the same reasons.

    the difficulty really lies in how much resources are you going to contribute to certain particular difficult people? there is a significant subset of the homeless population who do not want to become productive citizens and I'm not sure it's morally correct for us to force them to so so. I mean, are we suppose to jail addicts if they don't want to anti-addiction treatments and force them into it? or do we allow addicts to decide for themselves when they want to stop being addicts?

    most people are really uncomfortable with putting themselves in the shoes of these folks and the complexities involved. they tend to either demonize or anglicize them and fail to be able to imagine the circumstances under which they could be come homeless, especially if they never lived with the shadow of that possibility in their lives.

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  • true, but it sucks.

    a movie is meant to be consumed as a unified whole. so is each tv episode. it's typically more immersive when you watch it whole.

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  • yeah this is just that large singular tasks tend to demand more of us than multiple smaller tasks.

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  • because most people put it on as background noise, like they did with TV.

    half my my 'binge watching' is me falling asleep and waking up four hours later and the show is still going on. And then the next day I go back to where I was, usually 5-6 episodes back.

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  • or they just have more patient and different standards than you do.

    tons of shows are bad or awkward in their first season, and then go on to become blockbusters later on as the creative team finds its stride. that's just part of the process. Very few shows are banger from start to finish because of all the complexity involve in creating a show over multiple years.

    Personally I really enjoy watching how a show changes over time as team members, cast members, etc come and go. Part of my enjoyment of a show is the process of the show changing, for better or worse. And it's interesting to compare seasons and episodes against each other as they vary in quality.

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  • nah, clearly it's that anyone who doesn't like what I like is stupid and anything i don't like is wrong and bad.

    and anyone who says otherwise is dumb and wrong, because my ego is incredibly fragile and can't process that other people have different opinions than me, and some of those people have superior and far more informed opinions than my own...

    god forbid I admit I have preferences and limits to my understanding! i might be forced to acknowledge that other people have different preferences and limits and they are just as legitimate as my own!

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  • yeah i didn't regard it as a particular difficult film at all.

    but people are different and at different levels. tons of people in this thread seem to flip out at the notion some films aren't for everyone. not everyone reads at the same grade level, but for some reason the idea of films being at different levels is very offensive to folks.

    running a marathon is a lot harder than running a mile. and we have people who can't run a mile telling us marathons are stupid and shouldn't exist.

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

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  • I live in one of the most expensive zip codes in the world. It doesn't smell like urine other than on the subway elevator, which i never use.

    I live here because it's fucking amazing living here, but no place is perfect. The people generally suck balls, but I love being able to walk to a restaurant with my dog and not having to drive a car unless i want to do so. I'm sure living in 1000 acres in northern California has it's benefits, but I'm not equipped or interested in such a lifestyle. Maybe if I was a prepper I would be.

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  • If you want to feel your deep profound anarchist liberation feelings, go right ahead.

    I'm not an anarchist and I'm don't care about idealistic sentimentality. I care about reality, and yes, if your world view is that 'reality is bad and must be abolished' then yeah, I suppose you'd be pretty annoyed at someone who was pointing out that reality to you.

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  • everyone would magically self determine that and there wouldn't be any conflict because there would be endless abundance and we would all be endlessly happy forever.

    the earth being a finite resource over which there is inevitable conflict is a social construct of our minds, clearly.

    who gets to live where in reality, is a determination of systems of government and law. in some systems land is entirely own by the state and the state grants people temporary rights of use. essentially, a lease from the government.

    and private property purists will argue without unless government guarantees land ownership and rights in perpetuity, that government can't be legitimate and they also typically see taxation of land as a form of injustice.

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  • I can rank it, but it would depend on the context and the evidence involved.

    I used to work professional in land policy. Land ownership is ultimately about the legal system and who posses the 'deed' to the land. Governments are the ones who control this ultimately. They can create, take, and steal land via the law. And different government define land and the rights to land, differently. In China you can't own land, you only lease it. In America, you own the land and everything underneath it to the earth's core. Other countries have different laws and definitions.

    Proof of theft requires proof of previous ownership, as a starting point. To prove that land was stolen you'd have to prove original ownership, and the series of events that lead to it's loss of ownership and their illegality or illegitimacy. the further back you go the messier it gets. land records from the past 50 years are quite clear. land records from 200+ years ago, not so much. It's basically impossible to prove any of it if say, the town or municipality in dispute, had it's records destroyed in a fire or somesuch, perhaps even maliciously.

    Plenty of Europeans have land-conflicts that go back centuries and involve murder. There are also conflicts amongst indigenous people's over land right and land use and tribal recognition. It's vastly more complex than 'hey white people give us our land back because your ancestors stole it from our ancestors'. My ancestors arrived in America in the 1910/20s, personally, and never left the area of the original 16th century colonies, many of which were established with peaceful agreements of the natives and were not stolen at all.

    Oh and there are also all sorts of laws about default ownership. My sister owns a home where their neighbor build a fence about 2 feet into their property line. If my sister doesn't force the neighbor to move the fence 2 feet back, then in 10 years legally, their neighbor now owns the land. Is that theft? Legally, it isn't. She can ask the neighbor to move it, and he hasn't. She has to now threaten to sue them and have the courts legally force the neighbor to move the fence. If he can legally drag it on for 8 more years, he gets the land. The law involved in is a state law. It doesn't apply in my state. My state requires neighbors to co-own fences along property lines, which hers doesn't. Hence why their neighbor built this fence without properly surveying and realizing it wasn't on his property.

    The general term of this is 'adverse possession' and also applies to squatters and other things. In my state if you squat on someone else's land for 20 years, you own it. The owner also evict you other than via the legal system. If some bum moves into my cabin, I can't change the locks on it to keep him out either. I have to go get a court order to evict him.

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  • a story is a narrative construct. it doesn't need any particular structure. I mean, yeah in writing 101 class they tell you it needs all sorts of things, but writing 101 is a vast oversimplification of the diversity of stories and narratives that are possible and exist. I read plenty of books and watch films that have no clear linear narrative, and some of which the point of the movie/film is that such narratives themselves are suspect, oftentimes in the effort to reflect or explore the non-linearity of human consciousness. You seem to think only the writing 101 definition is the only legitimate way to think of things and claiming everything that isn't neat and tidy.

    Just because my writing teacher demands a particular story structure, doesn't mean that's the only type of structure that is valid. It's juts the one that's valid for getting a good grade in her class. When you start reading stuff at more advanced levels the 'rules' you are taught typically no longer apply or are optional. That's true of a lot of things. And some of my teachers think I'm a major asshole for talking about things that don't fit into the neat little writing 101 formula.

    Yeah it's totally OK to only watch a portion of it. When I wrote papers for film class I typically focused on one scene or segment and watched in dozens of times and wrote specifically about that. That's what film class is. You watch the movie as a whole, then break it down into components and learn how they function, and work together. You also figure out what may be problematic and identify the influences, target audience, and lots of other things.

    My mom has dementia. Linearity no longer exists for her. Her memories are all jumbled and she conflates the past with the present and has no sense of time or identity anymore. I read a book called Wittgenstein's Mistress that is about a person with dementia. The book has no story in the conventional sense. It is a first person story about someone who keeps reliving their memories and can't make new ones and the repeated memories keep changing and distorting. It was incredibly powerful because it helped me understand and empathize with what is going on inside my mother's brain. I'm sure for you such a novel would be a confusing piece of shit that made zero sense. It has no plot, no storyline, no conclusions, and arguable, no characters. Yet it still tells a clear and distinct story about a person.

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  • oh, so she's poly?