acchariya

@acchariya@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I sue my apartment management company?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually worth it because

  1. You include court costs in the amount you sue for
  2. You include the highest possible rate for your time in the amount you sue for
  3. You include all incident expenses

  Plus, the landlord has an asset you can put a lien on in case of non-payment, the place you rented. It’s not the same as suing someone with no assets where the debt is uncollectible.

  NAL, just a former renter who got screwed over a few times, then stopped getting screwed over after I figured out that court is actually good for tenants and bad for shady landlords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I sue my apartment management company?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  NAL, but always sue, and sue for more than you are owed. Court is a negotiation and judges do not take kindly to landlords trying to pull a fast one and landing in their court.

  I have done this myself to a scammy corporate landlord and they settled out of court after a barrage of threatening letters, subsequent “you sued the wrong party”, and “we’re willing to drop what we were going to charge you if you drop this case” letters. I ended up about $400 up including court costs for filing and serving, just for ignoring letters.

  Private landlords, who I’ve also sued, are much more naively willing to go in front of a judge. If you have any case at all, the judge is likely to eat the landlord alive- unless you are a deadbeat tenant you will walk out of court probably with 3x damages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually the only time I’ve ever needed one is outside of the country. You need a police report from anywhere you lived for more than six months to apply for residencies, get teaching jobs, etc etc. the only authority in the US that can do this and provide a report acceptable outside the country is the FBI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s understanding code like chatgpt helps me understand Hungarian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We all know it’s going to be nodejs, backed up by mongodb. This is because LOC on the commits can be maximized for minimal effort, and it will need to be rewritten every 2-3 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Get an FBI background check, and get it apostilled. Easy to do from your local post office in the US, difficult and expensive to do outside the us, and you will need it for many things you might want to do in other countries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s the police that keep breaking in and shitting on your pillow it would be best to move to a different town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They seem to be using Molotov cocktails - that is, about a liter of gasoline ignited and spread when the bottle breaks. Since the car body itself is metal and glass, I would guess that until the battery ignites, it’s much the same mechanism of any other car burning.

  Plastics in the wheel wells, mirrors, tires are ignited, which burn hot enough to ignite more protected plastics. Eventually, the battery is heated to the point of thermal runaway (analogous to the fuel tank in an internal combustion car), and then it burns to the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not marketing it’s that they extend credit to anyone who comes through the door. 550 credit score? No problem sir, here is your $62500 RAM 1500, loaded with options. If you can’t pay $1000/month for a Kia why not splurge and not pay $2000/month for an optioned out truck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Risky, but cryptocurrency. Never a bad idea to diversify a bit but maybe don’t put your whole savings there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and you can thank private equity for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  currently depends on having a working-age population that is large enough to support the non-working population

  This is only a problem if production does not increase dramatically, as it has for the last century. The reason it feels like there are insufficient working people is because parasites siphon from the resource distribution between more and more productive workers and their non working counterparts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death of the Junior Developer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Confidence is indistinguishable from correctness if you lack competence and experience. Now in addition to the competent and experienced having to interpret the requirements and do the work, they must also sift through half baked AI solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t hire someone who was too lazy to proofread over someone who wasn’t; would you?

  Since “would you?” is incomplete, a comma would be correct here rather than a semicolon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All these hurricanes might kick off a new modular house trend.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  South Florida is full of these small cinder block houses because everything else gets wrecked and these survive. Sure, they might need some new roof sections, and maybe the drywall cut 4ft from the floor, but porcelain tiles on a concrete slab with cinder block walls is going to last until the rebar rots.