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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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my sister has apparently had to stop playing Skyrim because she stole every book in the game to stock her house so now her house is full of books to the point where it almost breaks the game and every time she tries to read one guards teleport into her home and arrest her
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Got a great ad encouraging people to dismantle surveillance equipment and then sell the guts at a pawn shop
"they own one, maybe two or three buildings and often live off the cash flow"
I'm sorry but it's hard to emphasize with SF landlords, I really don't care. We shouldn't prioritize these families when so many are homeless
Landlord voice: "it's so hard to be rich, people want to live in houses that are empty but I can't afford to relocate them, and that person might not want to leave the house I own in a city I have visited twice"
Taxes apartments that have been vacant for longer than six months.
The obvious solution is to make it more expensive to leave the units empty than to maintain them as actual human habitations.
landlords want to say they "provide" housing, but that's not true. the housing already exists and would sit vacant if not sold. what they are "providing" is a service. a service to maintain the building. a service to improve the building to meet modern standards. a service that makes living in a home without owning it a better value than owning it yourself.
instead landlords horde housing so people have no option except to rent. then the landlords don't think they need to provide the service of being a landlord. the value of rent versus buy isn't there.
i think there is a place for landlords. i think renting is good for people who intend to live there for a year, or part time, or some long term temporary reasons and won't have time or reason to maintain the building. there is a place and reason for landlords, a service. it's a job, and when treated as a job i think its worth while.
to be clear, not everyone needs a landlord. most cases i think people should be able to and should own where they live. in dense residential zones, aparrment/condo buildings with individually owned units contributing to an owners' controlled/ran organization that maintains shared spaces are fine. yeah hiring a building manager makes sense, but that's not a landlord it is an employee. private companies running/owning the building is bad and should be illegal. single family homes, absolutely should not be owned by a corporation. that should be illegal. renting out a room or floor in your own house you live in? sure, that's acceptable. owning a whole multifamily home just to rent out the one half? no, that should be illegal.
in many cases, rent is higher than a monthly mortgage payment, but banks refuse to approve loans. so the very people paying the mortgage also pay service fees and other junk to rent the same place. which arbitrarily increase for greed reasons. People can afford the housing without landlords, but banks are gatekeeping owning a home. landlords aren't "providing" a house to people who can't get a loan, those people were discriminated against and trapped into renting. it's stealing.
Rental properties as investments for peoples homes should not be legal. maybe, maybe i can see a case for rental properties in "destination" areas, for tourists who want to rent a home for a week or so. that needs to be regulated, restricted, and zoned so people who actually live in those places full time can still afford housing. those rentals will be reduced in number to what they are currently, they will be more expensive to rent due to demand and reduced supply. that will likely price out people who want to visit and rent a house but can't afford it. that's fine, because the people who live there shouldn't need to rent and struggle for tourists.
Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
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You dig a big enough hole that water can stay in, it becomes a pond. And once it's been a pond for long enough, fish somehow appear. Even though it's not connected to any other water - hell, consider all the lakes that aren't connected to any other water. How the fuck are there fish? Where do they come from?
One day, something in space is going to look at humans the same way. You go to a new galaxy and there's freaking humans in there, like they just spontaneously manifest on random planets that have the ability to sustain them. All you need is an atmosphere with enough oxygen, some form of water, and that's pretty much all you need before they seem to just pop out of the ground and start terraforming it.
The mystery of the lake fish has been solved, by the way. It's waterfowl. Much like the birds that eat seeds and spread them around, waterfowl consume roe from the water, and while the number of fertilised fish eggs that pass through the digestive system of a duck or wild goose alive and unharmed may be small, it's not zero. A goose will shit in the lake water, and through comes the roe. It happens just often enough that lakes and ponds become - and remain - populated with fish.
Humans don't pop up on unknown planets and and unreachable galaxies on purpose. They couldn't get in there any more than they could get out of there, they have no choice but to claim the most viable-looking planet they can reach and start terraforming it. But how did they even get there?
You see, every once in a while an unfortunate human spaceship gets swallowed by a cosmic duck
ive said it before but it really does bug me how this site (and “progressives” across the board) hear “sex work” and will only advocate for the girl with an onlyfans, or someone camming or something. and yes they absolutely need advocates. but i have a feeling most of yall either forget or choose not to think about full service workers.
sex work is shown as “sexy” and “empowering” when youre taking pictures of yourself to sell, but god forbid you physically make somebody cum for money. often we are derided, patronized and seen as unwitting victims, or simply left out of the discussion (and trust me the silence is DEAFENING and says a lot on its own)
please remember that some of us out here risk our bodies and legal status to do what we do. and we deserve your respect and help, not condescension and pity.
"You will often be subjected to uncomfortable situations in public and you should learn to navigate that" and "if you play your music out loud in a public hike then the other hikers should be allowed to hunt you for sport" are two sentiments that can and should co-exist
life is hard, and you need to be reasonably ready for that. don't make life unreasonably harder for others.
"I don't tip in the US because US tipping culture is ridiculous and exploitative"
Ok but you realize you're not hurting the corporation, right? You know they won't care or notice? Right?
You are, however, screwing over an employee that already makes poverty wages.
Great job, little revolutionary! That waitress can't pay rent! That'll show the capitalist overlords!
