causepix
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- Comment on Landlords are parasites 21 hours ago:
They’re fake internet points, you don’t get anything for them. You said something and people expressed disagreement. Don’t sweat it.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 day ago:
People say landlords provide a service that is providing housing to another person without them having to pay the full cost of homeownership. Yet, because the landlord is not only covering their costs but extracting as much profit as the market will allow, the cost of renting is pretty damn competitive with the cost of ownership. So to answer your question,
Are landlords supposed to protect people from increasing costs of home ownership?
Yes, that is the way most non-landlords justify the existence of landlords to themselves. The alternative is to acknowledge that landlords exist only for the sake of enabling the owning class to generate capital for themselves by exploiting the working class.
- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 2 days ago:
He just does it as a hobby
- Comment on Poor doggo 2 days ago:
Dog, dog is the word
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 1 week ago:
Put the rice in with the chicken. Problem solved.
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 1 week ago:
nah. you will not catch me using a plastic receptacle in anything that gets hot enough to boil water.
- Comment on Every time! 1 week ago:
Is this about windows always turning on/waking my computer for no god damned reason every single night
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 week ago:
sprife
- Comment on At 1% 1 week ago:
The only time I’ve encountered VGA was my first year as an intern when my office had given me a flat screen monitor that frequently gave me migraines. Thing had to be older than me. That was 7 years ago.
If I encountered it before that, I wasn’t aware of it because I was a child and wasn’t responsible for plugging in the monitors I was using.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 week ago:
Just so you know, this link shares your substack username with everyone who clicks on it, and more than likely links them to you in the background. Everything after “?r=” is a unique hash linked to your account.
PSA for everyone else: You are sharing URLs with Tracking Links. Please stop.
- Comment on Colorado delenda est 2 weeks ago:
lake Superior lookin pretty lush
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Ironically enough I know it as a 2014-era tumblr meme Image
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
You mean like ICE is doing right now?
- Comment on soda 2 weeks ago:
Hope it had a triangle stamped LDPE
- Comment on Spokesperson 2 weeks ago:
Money doesn’t buy talent, and sure doesn’t buy culture, but it does buy expensive instruments and production equipment. More often than not it also buys industry recognition and other privileges above others that don’t have the same means, but that’s besides the point.
His entire career is built upon the appropriation of black culture; he started on the hip-hop scene. Only to take what he gained from that, strip black people and as much of their culture out of it as he could without making himself irrelevant, and use the resulting “rap rock” sound to pander to a broader more racist audience that would then cheer as he performed underneath white supremacist hate symbols. Once his fame was secured he would cleanse rap out of his sound entirely, and revert to country rock
He’s a cynical and talentless hack that formulated his music not as a tool of cultural or self expression, not for the sake of doing anything new, but for the purpose of self enrichment. To have the broadest appeal to an audience that wanted black cultural touchstones without black people involved in it, and would have rejected it if it were a black man in his place. He uses the spoils of his theft to support policies and politicians that are directly harmful to the people of the culture that he got his start from, and the city he takes credit for as a claim to fame. None of this points to him having any appreciation for music at all, other than as a scheme to become rich and famous.
So yeah, it’s no wonder his music has broad appeal within a certain audience, it wasn’t made for any purpose other than that. That doesn’t make it good. It’s a lifeless, blanched corpse of the culture he owes his career to.
That is what it has to do with music. Like it or not, all of these things are interconnected. Nothing exists in a vacuum. Music is culture is status is politics is history and so on.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 2 weeks ago:
The Wikipedia page for neoliberalism has more thorough real-world context for liberalism as it is applied today.
- Comment on Spokesperson 2 weeks ago:
He isn’t even from Detroit. He grew up on a fucking apple orchard in a 1.3 million dollar home, with a guest house and a horse stable. Of course he’s a shithead.
- Comment on Ohio never sleeps 2 weeks ago:
it’s clearly a chunk out of Michigan if you look at the maps
I suppose there’s no honor among
thievescolonizers - Comment on Ohio never sleeps 2 weeks ago:
It seems the connect was, in fact, cut
- Comment on Ohio never sleeps 2 weeks ago:
Michigan has unfortunately always had the displeasure of sharing q birder with ohio. Kinda had a whole war about it.
- Comment on Sage advice? 2 weeks ago:
SAU sage or sa USA ge?
- Comment on Invading your feed 2 weeks ago:
Please,
It was cute the first time I saw it, but I’ve had enough snootposting to last a lifetime.
- Comment on Ohio never sleeps 2 weeks ago:
Invasion by train doesn’t seem very effective
- Comment on Got ya 2 weeks ago:
froge
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 2 weeks ago:
How about nationalist?
- Comment on pick up that chapstick 3 weeks ago:
There are enzymes in your saliva that actually dry your lips further when you lick them
- Comment on Young boys and porn - 1940 version 3 weeks ago:
I was mistaken, the original nickelodeon was a movie theater where admission that costed a nickel. For some reason I had the impression of a machine like this that took nickels.
- Comment on Young boys and porn - 1940 version 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the original nickelodeon
- Comment on Breaking news 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like you’re speaking from experience
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 3 weeks ago:
In Germany the recycling is sorted at the household level, rather than the mixed recycling that is practiced in the US.
