whoisearth
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- Comment on Landlords are parasites 9 hours ago:
Based on human nature over thousands of years the prevailing history shows us that “we” do not want to administer what we build. Governments worldwide forever have struggled with Capex vs Opex.
For that reason, I do not want government getting into the habit of owning shit. Look at Russia or anywhere in the eastern block for the infrastructure that is literally crumbling. It’s all because we do not do Opex. We never have and nothing tells me we ever will. Working in corporate I can tell you it’s a struggle there too. Human nature does not prioritize Opex.
So the question is, how would this be any different?
I personally believe the government should be building more housing not the market because the market wants money and some things like starter homes do not make money. That does not mean I want the government owning and administering homes. Build them, sell them in the market and let the people who own it decide what to do.
Do not let non-citizens or businesses in any way own anything.
Government should be putting in place the rules and enforcing them but that’s it. The problem is they don’t want to enforce shit.
There’s the other issue. People are lazy AF and what’s worse is most people refuse to acknowledge it which means most people are hypocrisy too lol
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 15 hours ago:
You mean þretentiousness 🤣
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 1 day ago:
And it will never not be funny
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 1 day ago:
I feel like they could have called CoD Points something other than CP. 🤣
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 days ago:
Here I am like a preb using a hot water bottle when cold and less bedsheets when hot. If only I knew there was a technical solution for a problem that’s already been solved hundreds of times over!
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 days ago:
Ok? That’s not all housing which to me is nationalizing. All countries have some concept of co-op or subsidized housing which is owned and administered by the government. It can and does exist in parallel. Should the government be doing more of it? I would argue yes.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 days ago:
Housing is a human right, not an investment.
Yes and yes 1000%
Nationalize housing
Fuck no.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 days ago:
You’re getting flack but you’re not wrong. When I moved into my current house I was a landlord for over 3 years adopting the basement tenant already in the house. Rent was well below market rate and I never raised it. We were both respectful. Ultimately I terminated their lease because I have kids that are getting older and I need the extra space as well as just not in the mental headspace to rent my basement anymore. I’ve since gutted it with the intention of making it a proper finished basement for us all to enjoy.
I gave them over 3 months notice. First month rent back and provided references.
Some of us just want to do good.
- Comment on Manic Stew 3 days ago:
Inattentive toast
Bonus my boys —
Inattentive pancake
Anger pancakes
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 6 days ago:
$20 a month
LOFUCKINGL
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
I’m horrible for laughing to myself but my response was “Jesus don’t men just punch their girlfriends in the gut anymore?”
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
Clippy goes in dry.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
I hear you need help with how to fuck yourself.
- Comment on TRUMP 1 week ago:
Being an optimist it’s waves throughout humanity and this is merely the most recent one. We are better as a species though still not perfect. My gut tells me we will make it out of this but like many times before the old thinking will need to die.
We are going to look back at the greed rampant today for the mental disease if truly is and address the underlying issue that makes people like Elon or Bezos not only exist but thrive. We will come to the realization that people like that are not normal and we will no longer idolize or encourage such destructive individualism.
- Comment on TRUMP 2 weeks ago:
Amen. Trump is showing the world what America truly is. The rest of the world sees this. Many Americans do not.
And to throw an olive branch, many countries are a Trump away from the same realization.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
Amen. I get the sentiment but Jesus Christ everything is politics when you boil it down. Yes it’s draining to focus on it 24/7 but it’s equally destructive to bury your head in the sand.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
The elephant in the room more people need to pay attention to that many of us who work in IT are painfully intimate with.
Many IT people are hardcore libertarians who believe in some warped idea that they are where they are through their intelligence and hardwork while completely ignoring many of them come from backgrounds that afforded them the opportunities they are taking advantage of.
100% many of them are sexist, racist and bigoted pieces of shit that hide it at work because they’re adept at masking the fact that a lot of them are borderline autistic at worst and neurodivergent at best.
This is also why you see such a deep investment in idiocy like AI, Bitcoin and other paradigm shifts. They all have their heads up their asses and feel they’re better than everyone else.
Couple all this with the demographic being primarily white males.
Fuck talk to any woman who works in IT. It’s changing yes, but Jesus Christ it’s a cesspool in many ways.
Source: 25+ years in IT
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
I will argue this is not the problem. It’s that vaccines were too good in their effectiveness. A victim of their own success.
The problem is not and has not been science. The problem is messaging.
This is the same reason why anti-vax is so popular, you think that’s about science? It’s idiots like RFK Jr and Trump have the ear of people. It’s all messaging folks.
A person is smart. People are dumb.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 3 weeks ago:
They should make it more like SO and have it chastise you for asking a stupid question you should already know the answer to lol
- Comment on What even is money at this point 4 weeks ago:
Found the shitcoin advocate
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 4 weeks ago:
I think the MCU of all places summed this up perfectly and I think it was in Thor: The Dark World where Jane has fuck knows what and they operate on her in Asgard and she’s giving medical terms and they’re like “WTF just hook her up to the whoziwhatzhit and she’ll be fine.”
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 4 weeks ago:
It’s wild as a Canadian watching for sure. All international news sources are still in on the koolaid as well because they have to be. For all intents and purposes midterms will happen but behind closed doors I bet all journalists would tell you it’s gonna be like a Russian election. The fix is in. What’s laughable is no one is saying it out loud yet and Americans aren’t fighting for their democracy.
1/3 of America is full in on fascism 1/3 of America doesn’t give a shit 11/36 of America sees it and sits on their asses 1/36 of America is actively trying to stop this
- Comment on Kinky 5 weeks ago:
Everyone is friends with Dale and his sweet-ass pee. Fucking diabetes.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 5 weeks ago:
Of which there’s no sign of. I agree it’s a bubble. I don’t see it popping yet in my day to day.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 5 weeks ago:
Personal experience as some of her views have come across my viewing habits is she is as full of shit at the next one. She passes off conjecture as fact.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 5 weeks ago:
I work in finance (IT side) if the bubble is gonna burst all the ppl making money off of it haven’t got the memo and I trust their collective intelligence over this woman.
- Comment on The song that never ends announces what it is in the first line, then expects us to believe some people started singing it without knowing what it was 5 weeks ago:
The best song ever written
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 month ago:
You ain’t gonna like my hands then hahahaha
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 month ago:
Ass, dick, chest, shoulders, forearms?
Just a guess I’m a straight dude I have no fucking clue
