A product of his environment

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• statelesz@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  HOA are such a crazy concept. There is no such thing in Europe.

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  • helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Look up the word bünzli

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    We have them for apartment buildings in Romania. Never heard of any for houses, fortunately.

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  • harsh3466@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Am in US. I will NEVER own a house with an HOA. NEVER

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course there are home owners associations in Europe. They’re just not crazy.

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    OTOH, your town planning councils tend to be a lot more restrictive.

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  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Condo buildings I saw things. Did you know that you can stuff a keyhole with glue and human feces?

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Challenge accepted, I just need to find a step ladder to reach!

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not HOA but similar. I was living in a different city during covid. The city closed the outdoor parks in the poor and working class neighborhoods, the rich folk parks remained open.

  They started wrap the swings at the park around the top bar. I’d unwrap them each day and that went on for about two weeks. Then they went to zip tying the swings together so they couldn’t be used. So I would cut the zip ties each day. This went on for another few weeks. They they brought a sign post and a sign saying the park was closed and using the swings was prohibited. I dug the sign post out and threw it in the woods. Then they chained the swings together with a pad lock so I went to harbor freight and bot very heavy duty bolt cutters and lopped the chain off. That lasted a few weeks then they just took the swings away. I debated about buying swings and attaching them but figured the gambit went on as long as it should have and called it. I had fun.

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  • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love it. Perhaps it would have been more effective to just do whatever they did to the swings at the other parks? Either way it’s good stuff

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My park was close to my house and it was closed by ordinance, the other rich ones were not. There is no difference in the parks at all other than the property values in the neighborhoods in which they sat. I wasn’t going to go to city hall and complain since the mayor and council people were all from the rich neighborhoods. Rule of law is downwards in our class based society.

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The difference in the swings in the other parks were that they were surrounded by rich people

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are you saying sabotage the rich kids swings? Thats awful. Like something done shit to your park so you’ll pay it forward to other innocent kids. Terrible behaviour. You should be mad at the people doing it and take it out on them or the rule makers.

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  • DeadPixel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good effort! Hopefully some of the local kids got to enjoy the swings after your heroics each day, & that the council/city eventually put them back after restrictions loosened again.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They did eventually, I think it took more than a year. It was ridiculous.

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Imagine being so fucking basic you care about trash cans being visible from the street.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its not about the trash cans, its about making sure your neighbours know YOU are calling the shots. If it wasnt the trashcan it would have been the grass a half-inch too high, or the paint on the door chipped slightly, or gravel leaving the premises, or dirty windows.

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    • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, basic as fuck.

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      • didn’t respect mah athoriteh

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• mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t believe it… Moving a welcome mat when the guy has a camera doorbell? C’mon…

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  • night_petal@piefed.social ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    This is easily accomplished with a fishing rod. I also don’t believe this, however.

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  • Lawnman23@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    image

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  • Thatuserguy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even the trash cans. Just…put the trash cans in actual view of the camera? How would you buy a camera just to watch your trash cans and then not actually watch the trash cans with it?

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, you’re overthinking it. Say the cans are on the opposite side of the house from where op is. If he crosses in view of the front door, he’ll be spotted. So he goes through the backyard instead for access to the cans.

      He’s not buying a camera and pointing it straight at the cans from the property fence or something.

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  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a Google doorbell and it’s night vision is terrible. I’ve taken the garbage to the curb during the winter when it’s the darkest and the doorbell didn’t register anything not the noise not the motion. Even knowing what I was looking for I barely show up in the video feed, it looks like a ghost.

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      it looks like a ghost

      Even better

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    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have you tried turning the porch light on?

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Easy solution, jam the wifi signal while moving the mat. Added benefit of making them more concerned that the house is haunted. If the houses are close enough (likely, hoa so suburbs) you could just hook it to a basic wall-wart timer that actives at 3 and deactives at 3:05, and have it + jammer plugged in at the closest outlet to neighbors front door. Ring doesn’t have a wired ethernet version to fix this vulnerability.

    …why are you looking at me like that?

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, good idea. Commit a felony offense to cover the tracks of your late night trashcan shenanigan…

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?

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    • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You guys are no fun

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Impossible!

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You have no idea how many of those things are mounted such that you can walk up from the side unseen.

    Source - my neighbor’s an idiot

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• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  These are creative writing exercises on reddit. It’s gotten a million times worse since LLMs.

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  • VinegarChunks@lemmus.org ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    A LLM that does not understand that you can’t avoid being seen by a ring camera by ‘approaching from a different side. ‘

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I mean its perfectly conceivable for any camera to have a blind spot. The lens can only see so much. Heck given its a Ring camera its almost certainly on a wireless connection so its trivial to briefly disrupt the connection if you’re okay with violating FCC regulations

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This should be green text.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weird request, but okay.

    Image

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    • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      MY EYEBALLS ARE MELTING

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      whooosh.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Blind spot so big the cans are there too which defeats the purpose of the camera. Got it.

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  • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Someone who reports people’s trash cans to the HOA so they can be fined for it probably aren’t someone who understands camera angles.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even the dumbest person is going to check the feed bro, come on.

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The term Gaslighting gets thrown around a lot, but if this story were actually real it would be the perfect modern day example of it.

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ya no way this is real. My ring doorbell detects the damn trees when the wind blows too hard. Not a chance he avoids the camera.

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    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unless he was behind it, like the post implies.

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• LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Fake but still kind of funny.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m just glad my HOA is chill and I like them.

  The only thing they’ve had to bring fines about is people trying to move furniture in the wrong elevator and scratching up the wood finishings, and they should. We have a freight elevator for that.

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  • parzival@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    That sounds more like just an apartment management or smth, no? HOAs are more for separate houses I thought

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• deacon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This would be me if I ever moved to the suburbs in an HOA, which I would never do on purpose.

  I am enraged by proxy at the very existence of HOAs even though I have never been part of one or indeed interacted with an HOA or even (knowingly) a member of one. I just hate them for existing.

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have had some shitty HOAs and I now live in a home with no HOA for a reason. Fuck those overbearing shitheads.

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      IDK. I’ve had good and bad experiences with them. But overall more positive than negative. It’s all about which HOA you’re talking about. Yes, you can say you should be able to do what you want with your land. But that isn’t how any kind of land ownership works anywhere on Earth. There are always some entities regulating how you can use it, as you inevitably have neighbors and you don’t have a right to damage the enjoyment of their property.

      Can they be overbearing? Sure, the wrong ones can. But they also keep mean that I don’t have to worry about my next door neighbor turning his property into a junkyard.

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• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shit Americans will do instead of just abolishing HOAs.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’ve creeped into Canada. I always call people who voluntarily join an HOA authoritarian morons.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a reason I bought a 14 acre homestead for $225k four years ago than anything in an HOA.

      I’d rather live in the middle of no where and shovel snow, carry firewood downstairs, feed chickens and pigs and break up frozen waters and dig out doors, deal with 6ft drifts blowing around my house all winter, than ever share space with fucking Gary.

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  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s the HOA Karens that run politics, so you do the math on how well that’d work out.

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d rather live in a cardboard box behind a wal-mart than in an HOA.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t even notice if the bins moved 6"

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