Hacksaw
@Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 days ago:
That’s not the original intent. In the US, HOAs were mostly created after the end of segregation to keep black people out of white neighborhoods, an origin story that puts into context the modern of pettiness and desire to control others we see in stories like this.
In the early postwar period after World War II, many [HOAs] were defined to exclude African Americans and, in some cases, Jews, with Asians also excluded on the West Coast.
A racial covenant in a Seattle, Washington, neighborhood stated, “No part of said property hereby conveyed shall ever be used or occupied by any Hebrew or by any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic race.”
When these were found unconstitutional in 1948, they became private contacts until those became illegal in 1968, but because HOAs had to approve new members/buyers, the rules stayed in effect until the majority of a community decided to stop being racist. On top of that, in 1963 the Federal Housing Administration said they would only insure mortgages on homes with an HOA which is really what created suburban sprawl and the ghettoization of the American inner cities.
If you look at the history of HOAs it’s really a long and protracted fight on all levels by racists and bigots against the Civil Rights movement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association
TL;DR: Although conceptually HOAs are a good idea, even trending towards communalism, actually existing HOAs are, with a few exceptions, downright regressive, often criminally so.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 2 days ago:
Yeah, that’s fair. In leftist spaces we should have healthy debate. We just can’t let that undermine solidarity with our more and less radical members.
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 2 days ago:
It’s such a great skit
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 2 days ago:
I get what you’re saying, but we need both of you, and we need you to stop fighting.
We only win enough power to deal with fascism (which will kill millions at this rate) and eventually climate change (which is going to kill billions of people) if we use EVERY strategy available to us. Progressive like electing the best democrats we can, socialist like labour action, and radical like actually fighting an unjust system.
But most importantly we have to stop fighting eachother. People like you need to hold their noses and vote at every election they can for the best candidate they can. People like wuffah will need to tolerate well targeted revolutionary action without publicly criticizing the left.
- Comment on new player 4 days ago:
That’s not what the devil looks like in South Park damn it!
- Comment on I'll take 4 and 8 5 days ago:
Hey. No being John Malkovich!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not. They may have the same goals but one side is MUCH FASTER … I suppose the main question is “are you an accelerationist?” Or would you rather bad things happen more slowly and infrequently?
- Comment on DHS asks tech companies for names, email addresses and phone numbers of accounts that criticize ICE 2 weeks ago:
andywibbels.com/privacy-email-cloud/
Back when email was new, server storage was tiny and you downloaded your emails frequently. That’s when this law was passed.
Nowadays with gmail etc… no one downloads their emails. They stay on the server forever, and government agencies are free to take them without a warrant.
- Comment on I literally can't even afford dinner everyday in Paris! 2 weeks ago:
When you invest money back in the company that’s either R&D or capital expenditure, both are tax deductible and don’t count as profit.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 3 weeks ago:
If you seriously think the doctor’s notes about the patient’s symptoms don’t include the doctor’s diagnostic instincts then I can’t help you.
The symptom questions ARE the diagnostic work. Your doctor doesn’t ask you every possible question. You show up and you say “my stomach hurts”. The Doctor asks questions to rule things out until there is only one likely diagnosis then they stop and prescribe you a solution if available. They don’t just ask a random set of questions. If you give the AI the notes JUST BEFORE the diagnosis and treatment it’s completely trivial to diagnose because the diagnostic work is already complete.
God you AI people literally don’t even understand what skill, craft, trade, and art are and you think you can emulate them with a text predictor.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 3 weeks ago:
LLM gives correct answer when doctor writes it down first… Wowoweewow very nice!
- Comment on Rep. Massie gets the mic snatched from him by own local Kentucky Republican Party (House Speaker) as he tells them he works for the people not Speaker Johnson... 3 weeks ago:
“if you want a rubber stamp vote for my opponent” bro look at the suits in the room, they just want you to accept the bills their lawyers write to drop their taxes and remove the regulations that constrain them.
They want a rubber stamp, they’ll vote for your opponent. That’s why the other Republican politicians felt confident enough to snatch your mic and move you out, you’re offending the donors by having a spine!
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 3 weeks ago:
There isn’t a single homeless person successfully taking advantage of society. If you’re “successfully” scamming society, why are you destitute??
Lots of homeless are assholes, belligerent, alcoholic, drug addicts, disregard laws, rules, and procedures. But they’re not “taking advantage”. If they were UNFAIRLY benefiting then they would by definition have more than the bare minimum required to live a decent life, not LESS. It’s the system that’s depriving all of us of the necessities of a dignified life, putting them behind a paywall.
- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 3 weeks ago:
The biggest hint is the names. People who are assholes online LOVE to hide behind anonymity. It is very surprising that 3 people in a row said heinous things using their real names like that.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 month ago:
Camus J’ai pété
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 1 month ago:
You didn’t read past the first paragraph.
you can just hook the faucet up to your device, and let the water pressure drive the generator directly. In either case, for a bathtub faucet, this works out to almost 200 watts, or $25 per month
- Comment on Pizza styles 2 months ago:
IEEE style pizza, because then the ingredients appear in the order in which they’re used in the recipe instead of alphabetical by author.
- Comment on FACTS 3 months ago:
But he previously said “Sex is for making children. Any man who has sex with women because it ‘feels good’ is gay”… So that doesn’t seem to match with him saying you’re supposed to have sex with many women for fun… What the hell is he saying!!!
- Comment on I'm snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 3 months ago:
Yes ravens vocalise… That doesn’t make the original videos not AI slop.
Thanks for finding a real video of a Russian crow. Maybe you could have posted that instead of slop. It’s not the same crow because this one is clearly real. The channel also doesn’t have your “new” video so I’m not sure why you’re claiming it’s the same crow. Neither the humans, nor the background, nor the vocalizations, nor the crow are even similar.
- Comment on I'm snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 3 months ago:
This is AI. The background is weird, especially when it’s close to the lady or the Raven. You can look up this video and it’s a dozen different YouTube channels with less than 1000 views with the identical clip.
- Comment on Israel has been caught disguising bombs as toys to kill Palestinian children 3 months ago:
Journalism shouldn’t “try to be neutral” they should pursue the truth. The truth is that the IDF is a genocidal force. To try to frame that in a neutral way is to give aid to the genocide.
The truth isn’t neutral.
- Comment on They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs. 4 months ago:
Oh yeah I’ll drop it… With my NO ARMS … you insensitive piece of poop
- Comment on They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs. 4 months ago:
I know I’m a terrible human, all I could think of was this skit
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 4 months ago:
The minimum insurance isn’t a scam. If you hit someone and cripple them you’ll be glad for insurance to pay their medical etc…
Comprehensive is absolutely a scam. Just take the money and save it, maybe buy some bonds. Then when it’s time to buy a new car (or when you get your car totaled) you’re already half way to a new car.
- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 4 months ago:
But don’t stay TOO far away, otherwise you can still be a victim of arrows. There is in ideal distance to THAT GUY to minimize your arrow related risks.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 4 months ago:
Looks like Stanford disagrees, 13% of entry level work has been replaced by AI.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 4 months ago:
While there are essential fats and proteins, there are no essential sugars. Your body can work perfectly fine indefinitely without any sugars of any kind.
- Comment on A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side 5 months ago:
Genuinely: magic mushrooms. That’s what it feels like after a trip. All the bullshit is cleaned out, the depressive recurring thoughts, unhelpful beliefs… Just a clean brain ready to get demolished again by our cruel capitalist neoliberal world.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 5 months ago:
He’s not even hiding the fact he’s a fucking Nazi with the “SS” tag as if that subtle…
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 5 months ago:
Let’s not paradox of tolerance this place into a Nazi bar