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elephantium
elephantium @ elephantium @lemmy.world
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There's now a phenomenon where everyone's (including you) political beliefs are now visible to everyone within a 1KM radius, how fucked are you?

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    • There's now a phenomenon where everyone's (including you) political beliefs are now visible to everyone within a 1KM radius, how fucked are you?

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  • Idk, how far is that in "freedom units"? Probably fine, the bigots are too far away to get mad at me.

    • Dogs probably think we are nuts for washing our clothes when they finally smell of us and the places we've been

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  • I thought OP meant that the clothes smell LIKE us in this one.

    • When Digg has the “Digg Effect” and Reddit has the “Reddit Hug of Death” then what is Lemmy’s equivalent?

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  • I was remembering "slashdotted"

    • The enshitification of Meetup.com

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  • Yeah, basically you'd have to cut those figures down to 1/4 of what they are before I'd consider them reasonable.

    I do agree with you in principle -- if the organizer is feeding everyone, it's only decent to pitch in a few bucks to cover the groceries.

    • To the admins and moderators of Lemmy: How often do you encounter disturbing content? How do you cope with the things that you see?

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  • I bet you could get a lot of users if you reached out to some choirs. They might split between signing up for your instance and yellowlemmy.com, though 😂

    • The enshitification of Meetup.com

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  • Looking at the post, it's $345 for commuters -- or about $70 per meal.

    For people staying in the accommodations, it's about $210 per night.

    Overall, that seems expensive for a camping trip on Meetup.

    • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • I am not sure arguing all the edge cases does anything but muddy the water.

    Eh, fair. Still, I was curious what you'd say about some of those edge cases.

    I would argue that the way housing is working right now

    Well, that's the problem, isn't it? Housing isn't working right now for way too many people. :(

    Personally, I have very different opinions on "in an ideal world, here's a sketch of how humane housing might look" and "in today's dystopian hellscape, these are the worst of the worst"

    • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • difference between a hotel and a home. They are prima facie not the same thing

    Hey, not so fast. It's easy to say that glibly, but the lines get kinda blurry when you consider long-term hotel stays and short-term rentals. What's really the key difference between the apartment and the hotel when you're staying at the former for a week at a time or the latter for a 3-month stint?

    I'm not saying the Venn diagram is a circle, mind you, just that there's definitely some overlap.

    • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • What about condos? Is there something that prevents converting all apartment buildings and having owner-occupants instead of tenants?

    • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • As noted above, this isn't completely true. You can also buy stocks for dividends.

    • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • I'm just speculating that someone else will want to buy

    No, not entirely. Lots of companies pay dividends. Buy stock in those, and you're speculating that they'll continue to be profitable enough to pay dividends.

    don't have the time and skills

    I'm not sure I can agree on this point, either. The time, maybe. The skill? If you're skilled enough to use Lemmy, you're skilled enough to set up a brokerage account and click "buy" on whichever companies meet your criteria. It's not actually any more complicated than online banking IMO.

    • Should Democrats also gerrymander blue states to counterbalance any advantage that republicans have due to the gerrymandering in red states?

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  • Four legs good,

    Two legs better!

    • why so much Star Trek?

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  • Ah, that makes sense.

    Thanks for clarifying!

    • why so much Star Trek?

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  • Magazines?

    • Do you think kids should be prohibited from using social media? If yes, how should it be done? If no, why?

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  • We can't even keep knives out of prisons. How tf are we supposed to keep kids off the Internet?

    • How long will it be until we realize AI is detrimental to society?

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  • This is a good point. Intelligent sociopaths do exist. "stupid" and "evil" are not synonyms.

    • How long will it be until we realize AI is detrimental to society?

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  • Ugh, I hate that you're right about this. It used to mean a topic of study in computer science. Now it means...I don't even know what it's supposed to mean.

    • Awkward doge

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  • Meh, that's not even a lukewarm take. It's a common sentiment.

    BUT

    It won't make embarrassed teenagers any less horny.

    • Goku isn't actually sad, he just kinda always looks it.

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  • Who can ever know the innermost feelings of another? Even the most exquisite language fails to express shades of meaning deep in the soul.