Rachelhazideas
@Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
- Comment on Us ❤️ 17 hours ago:
Well ackchyually, that’s anti-semitism. /s
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 days ago:
History is path dependent. Not every country has the same literacy rates, civic participation, income inequality, intergenerational wealth, social inertia, and so on.
What is rational and common place in one country is radical progressivism in another.
You can do what is ideal, or you can do what works. You can deny a reality of systemic barriers to affordable housing, or accept that they are real and must be tackled one at a time.
In an ideal world, yes, there would be no landlords. In the real world, property, laws, the economy, and people are so deeply intertwined that to propose the elimination of landlords is about as facetious as eliminating bankers because of exploitation in banking.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 days ago:
Home insurance does not cover costs associated with maintenance and negligence.
Your sewer line failing because it’s 50 years old and made of cast iron is not a valid home insurance claim.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 days ago:
Socialized housing isn’t an overnight project. It starts with regulating the current housing marketing and prioritizing the take down of corporate slumlords. It starts with revising zoning laws, promoting higher density housing and multifamily homes, and creating walkable and accessible neighborhoods for all.
I get the idealism from Lemmy, but this is also it’s pitfall. Anything less than a leftist utopia is not worth working towards, and so we sit in righteous inaction.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 days ago:
Pretending that small landlords and corporate landlords are the same is like saying your local grocer is as bad as Walmart.
Renting is an essential part of the housing market. Not everyone wants or can commit to home ownership and all it’s unpredictable maintenance costs. A plumbing failure can be as cheap as $200 to fix or cost you $10,000+ for a full replacement and restoration from the biohazards of black water damage.
The reason why the housing market is fucked is because poor regulation allows corporate landlords to buy up tons of investment properties and control the housing costs and supply.
- Comment on plume moths 3 weeks ago:
The idea that eating IUDs causes pain is a myth and any frog who says otherwise is just being hysterical.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 5 weeks ago:
Roblox is literally actively shutting down anti-pedophilia efforts.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Thoughts and prayers.
- Comment on breakfast 1 month ago:
They might be wild blueberries which are smaller than regular ones.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 1 month ago:
People when kids screech at a restaurant: ‘Must be shitty parents.’
People when kids run around at a restaurant: ‘Must be shitty parents.’
People when kids use an ipad at a restaurant: ‘Must be shitty parents.’
There’s no winning here. Children just aren’t allowed to exist.
We are the exception because we most definitely weren’t like that at all as a kid. /s
- Comment on Hep mak fren 1 month ago:
Imagine being an early hominid and not knowing that dogs only live for so many years.
The last day always comes too soon.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 1 month ago:
Wisdom teeth were amazing to have back when dental care didn’t exist and our teeth fell out from decay or injuries.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 month ago:
People when autistic boys have mental shutdowns: haha it’s so quirky when he hyperfixates.
People when autistic girls have mental shutdowns: what a bitchy and emotional teenager. She’s not even autistic she just does it for attention.
- Comment on 50 mph man 2 months ago:
I’ll read out the subtext for people who are unable to:
“When I say ‘hurry up’, what I mean is that I’m annoyed because you should have hurried up before getting to the bus so that I don’t have to wait for you while you’re late.”
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
Make sure to keep your left eye looking at the ‘x’ the whole time. The ‘.’ should only be in your peripheral vision.
- Comment on requirement 2 months ago:
That’s a recipe for a UTI. Please do not garlic bread.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
Quick way to find your blindspot:
- Close your right eye
- Hold your phone/monitor 1ft (30cm) away from your face
- Look at the ‘x’ below
- Slowly bring your phone towards you (or your face towards the monitor) until the ‘.’ disappears
. x
- Comment on Stop! 2 months ago:
Not a smartphone in sight. Just trilobites living in the moment.
- Comment on healthy nutrition 2 months ago:
That’s the evolutionary theory behind polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). 10% of all women have it.
Starve a lot, eat a lot, expend minimal calories, rinse and repeat. As a bonus, we get hyperandrogenism and delayed fertility. Great for surviving scarcity, terrible for surviving the modern world.
- Comment on Seems a sensible precaution 2 months ago:
40% of Mormon missionaries leave their church after their missions.
Don’t turn them away. Talk to them with kindness and compassion, and understand that they grew up as victims of a cult. Show them there is so much more to the world than the what the LDS church tells them.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 months ago:
Yes, rat experimentation is the cornerstone of modern medicone, but that doesn’t make it any less fucked up.
Something can be equally good for people yet completely inhumane. It doesn’t cancel each other out.
Do I think we should stop experimenting on rats? Absolutely not. But we can try to at least improve the general well-being of these rats and stop deliberately torture them. Peopes have done sleep deprivation experiments where a rat is forced to stay awake or fall in the water and start to drown.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 months ago:
The fucked up part are the experiments, not the euthanasia.
Rats have to be killed because we don’t know if they will continue to suffer after the painful experiments done on them. They can’t be let out either because it can harm the general rat population. Companies don’t give enough of a shit about keeping rats alive in rat retirement homes either.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 2 months ago:
Smh can’t even spell gellapinnose right.
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 months ago:
Nope. Just reading with basic comprehension:
Once us guys hit our 40s we just disappear into the hedges like homer, just part of the background.
The context of which was that women don’t experience this because OP was making the claim that young women can ‘have their pick of men’ when ever they want.
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 months ago:
Ironic that you complain about men disappearing in their 40s when this happens so pervasively to women it’s called Invisible Woman Syndrome.
Aging out of societal relevance is hard for everyone. Let’s not pretend that this is a uniquely male thing, especially when women are pressured to conceal their aging to a far greater degree.
- Comment on bank circuit water 2 months ago:
Why are there so many mastercard ads on lemmy lately?
Someone needs to go prune the astroturf.
- Comment on BRB, Eating Pierogi with the penguins 3 months ago:
Woah no need to get Pol-itical about it.
- Comment on YSK: if you are visiting Puerto Rico from the mainland US, you can sign up to escort a rescue animal on your return flight to their adopter 3 months ago:
You’re a kind soul for helping these animals
- Comment on Have a good trip 3 months ago:
Don’t let the patriarchy stop you. Assert your dominance and piss anywhere, anytime, even with your pants on.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 months ago:
-
The phone is clearly mounted on the dashboard.
-
It’s not uncommon for people to record their whole trip for social media, not just take to a picture.
-
This caption could have been pasted over a completely unrelated screenshot of someone else’s video for all we know.
Don’t touch your phone while driving, but also, don’t believe everything you see on social media.
-