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- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 1 day ago:
cis he/him
insert ‘I’m gonna pre’ compilation
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 1 week ago:
Yes, and my rent covers literally all of them.
So, nothing’s keeping you from buying a house then, since what you already pay in rent covers all of the cost. Right?
I should not be forced to pay a premium for a feature I will never use.
Why haven’t you bought a house already, then? Could it be that it doesn’t just cost what you pay in rent each month?
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 1 week ago:
No, I will not define basic fucking terms for you.
Then don’t be surprised when people read the terms and use the definition 99% of people use in 99% of situations, and not the fringe academic definition you’re thinking of, and misunderstand what you’re trying to say.
Grow up.
If you are too ignorant to understand the difference between personal and private property when it comes to systemic analysis of our systems of ownership, the. You’re too fucking ignorant to have an argument with.
You’re so mad you couldn’t even keep track of where you’re ending and starting sentences, lol.
Imagine being this furious over something that’s entirely your fault.
Also, fuck you, I’m autistic and I’ll communicate how I fucking please, shitheel.
So am I, so what? Stop making excuses—how you communicate is your responsibility, no one else’s. You have zero justification for throwing a tantrum like this, over the fact that the vast majority of people consider “private property” and “personal property” to have identical meaning, and not the obscure academia-specific definition you’re using.
P.S. I hope you realize one day that you will never change anyone’s mind on anything, speaking to people this way.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 1 week ago:
The concept of someone having enough money to rent but not enough to own is ghoulish in the first place.
Don’t think you’re being a little dramatic? There are many more costs involved in owning a house than the mortgage payment.
If my landlord can pay $<1,200 for this house’s mortgage and upkeep, and I can pay $1,200 a month for the right to sleep in it, then we should simply cut out the middle man and have me pay that $<1,200 a month for mortgage and upkeep directly.
You’re paying for not having the responsibility to pay for any maintenance/repairs upfront, and for having the ability to easily pack up and move on short notice. If the roof suddenly needs replacing, that’s $9500 on average that you have to pay right now.
Chances are, if you’re financially stable enough that you’d be able to handle things like that without it being a financial catastrophe for you, then you do have enough money to own.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 1 week ago:
Holy bad faith Batman.
Pointing out that what you’re saying doesn’t make sense isn’t bad faith.
For the love of God, go read fucking theory
How about ‘for the love of God, define your fucking terms’, if you’re using them in a way inconsistent with colloquial understanding?
No one in everyday life considers “personal property” and “private property” to not be the exact same thing. Stop playing semantic games and communicate normally, if you expect to ever sway anyone. It also helps not to insult people not privy to said semantic games.
If you live in the house, it becomes your personal property. Meaning you own it while you live and reside there. No one can just come into your personal space. Yet, when you no longer wish to live there and are moving away, the house transfers ownership back to the community until someone needs it.
So:
- How, exactly, is it being determined who gets to live there first/next?
- If none of the residents are actually purchasing the house, who’s footing the bill for them all? I’m seeing estimates that the total residential housing in the US carries a value in the area of $45 trillion, with a T. You think you’re getting anywhere near that with tax revenue? And that’s without even considering new construction and repairs to existing construction.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
Housing, and other necessities, should be community property…Fuck the exploitative system of private property ownership.
So you’d want it to be the case that anyone can enter and live in the house you’re living in, and you have no say in the matter because you don’t own it?
Do you really see no massive problems with such a system?
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that complicated. Without landlords, there is no renting. Without renting, owning is the only way to have a place to live.
So without renting, if you can’t own, you have no place to live.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
It’s impossible to prevent anything of significant value that can be owned from becoming a “financial vehicle” to some extent. This is idealism with no practical application.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
place limits on how many properties they can own as well, plus also close loopholes like using LLC / some kind of other shady company to buy more houses.
This is a cat and mouse game that the law, glacially paced as it is, can never win. The tax strategy suggested would be much more effective.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
If repeating your meaningless slogan is the only response you can muster to someone actually trying to offer substantive explanation, you’re the one that lacks understanding, whether willfully or not.
Writing it in all caps only further emphasizes this.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
So everyone who has enough money to rent, but not enough to own, should be homeless? That middle ground of renting has to exist, or we’re overall in a much worse state of affairs. And you can’t rent unless there is a homeowner to rent from.
Also, a lot of people deliberately choose renting over owning, because they value things like not having the financial burden of home repairs, or it being orders of magnitude easier to relocate, for whatever reason, and so on.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 1 month ago:
Sure whatever man. It’s not that important.
You thought it was important enough to say in the first place (and also double down once after your error was already made crystal clear).
Is it really that hard to just genuinely accept being wrong about something without the asinine passive-aggression? Grow up.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 1 month ago:
That is not advocating for people to be shot, and I have a feeling you know that and are just being obtuse.
An actual equivalent analogy to what you quoted would be saying that we shouldn’t ban a sport just because some people get hurt playing it. If someone said that, would you claim they’re advocating for players of that sport to get hurt?
Of course not. Use your brain.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 1 month ago:
Not LAMF unless he was explicitly advocating for others to be shot.
Hence ‘voted for leopards eating faces party, didn’t expect them to eat my face’.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 2 months ago:
I’ve got a worthless degree i deeply regret
Meanwhile, not far from this comment chain is someone claiming no one regrets getting their degree, lol.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
were those numbers perhaps cherry-picked to make the situation look more dramatic than it actually is?
If anyone can go from 554th to 5th in any sport/event just by competing among the other sex, nothing else changing, then that obviously indicates something. You can’t handwave that away.
Her personal 100m freestyle time dropping less than a quarter of a second post-transition is honestly a bigger indicator that transition is not making a substantial difference, because that angle completely removes the ‘chance’ element in your opponents being different people.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
The very fact that their ranking is lower than what it should be is an issue in and of itself, your disingenuous mockery notwithstanding.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
The question is fair, but so very few people are affected, who cares?
The vast majority of people are never murdered, either. But I’m sure it matters to them and their loved ones.
It’s an extreme example for the analogy, but the point stands: it doesn’t follow that a bad thing being rare makes it less bad. This is not a valid argument against.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage.
Going from 554th place pre-transition to 5th place post-transition doesn’t line up with that claim.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer [Lia Thomas] soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle; all divisions) in men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition tells the story
In the 100 freestyle, Thomas’ best time prior to her transition was 47.15. At the NCAA Championships, she posted a prelims time in the event of 47.37. That time reflects minimal mitigation of her male-puberty advantage.
During the last season Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, she ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. As her career at Penn wrapped, she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.
It may not be an issue to you, but it’s an issue to every woman whose ranking is lower as a result. I imagine it especially hurts if you’re pushed out of first place in that way.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 months ago:
It’s now trivial, in 2025, to depict the world as a 3D shape, this is coming a few decades after it matters, imo.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 months ago:
“Daily murder” is a sneaky rhetorical trick, considering it’s something influenced more by raw population size, than by capita. It’s easy for there to be a “daily murder” in a country of 340,000,000 people, even when the overwhelmingly vast majority of people do not murder.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 months ago:
Knowing that Europe literally has a problem with its soccer audiences making monkey noises at black athletes makes this particular bit of condescension all the more ridiculous.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 months ago:
The issue here is that the authorities are letting a piece of half-ass code (Read: AI) decide what is a legitimate threat and, worse still, acting on that determination without question.
Yeah, at the very least, the software should be passing on the statement, and context surrounding it, along with its ‘judgment’, to the authorities, putting all the responsibility for making the call that X genuinely merits action on said authorities.
Of course, that’s just one piece of the puzzle, and not a solution if law enforcement isn’t held accountable when they fuck up.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 months ago:
So my objective person: you are saying you believe the word of ICE
Skepticism of one account does not amount to endorsement of another.
Neither should be taken at face value, but who do you think is more likely to be telling the truth?
I don’t think there’s sufficient justification to assume on either side, but the fact is that because it’s the popular position, people are happy to take the side against ICE regardless of the circumstances, which is why this post exists in the first place.
All I did was point out said lack of justification on that side, and try to find more information about a situation the linked article obviously wasn’t giving the whole picture for.
No emotional response from me (though plenty of people here project their emotional response onto me, since they can’t fathom someone not eagerly believing whatever benefits their narrative without scrutiny, and so the slightest bit of scrutiny/skepticism of their narrative instantly becomes the assumption ‘you’re a foot soldier for the Bad Guys!’).
That’s literally what objectivity is.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 months ago:
The 2005 deportation order, issued one year after his arrival in the US, makes me think that, somehow, he might not have been a lawful permanent resident.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 months ago:
his visa papers were taken away years ago and he’s been trying to get them back ever since – hence the “working towards legal citizenship”
That’s not a “source”, that’s the quoted claim of his girlfriend:
Celeste Hernandez, his significant other, said that although she doesn’t know the reason behind this, Arce has been in the process of getting his visa papers back after getting them taken away years ago.
There has been no verification that that’s even accurate, and she is the furthest thing from an objective third party.
Not to mention, “working towards legal citizenship” very strongly implies he was never a legal citizen before, or else why wouldn’t it say something like he was working toward ‘regaining’ citizenship, or mention that he ‘lost’ citizenship?
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 months ago:
From the linked article:
Arce has been working toward legal citizenship
The event is fucked up, but based on this, “legal immigrant” in your title is not accurate. It’s important to be honest and truthful, lest you offer weaknesses to your opponents.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is appearance really the first thing it occurs to you to comment on?
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 months ago:
Jorge Hirsch, the creator of the h-index asserts that a “successful scientist” will have an h-index of 20 after 20 years; an “outstanding scientist” will have an index of 40 after 20 years; and a “truly unique individual” will have an index of 60 after 20 years or 90 after 30 years. Jordan Peterson has an h-index of 57.
His academic work had been cited well over 10,000 times before he became a publicly-known figure in 2016.
He obviously isn’t a quack in the field of psychology, by any objective measure.