I will say… that I heard rumor of price fixing in the rental market and the DOJ investigating it, link below from a quick google search. I haven’t really dived deep into that topic, but it’s there if you’re interested in a little read.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/20/rental-housing-market-doj-investigation-00147333

Thank you for the nuanced response.

Hey, man. Take that up with ol’ Lucas over there.

Only the Sith deal in absolutes, my friend.

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Ok, so we’re going to throw a negative generalization up to support our narrative of ‘ALAB’.

I purchased my home within the last 4 years. Before that my wife rented from the same owner for 10 years. Living in midtown Atlanta, a place that is now full of 1.5 million dollar homes on postal stamp sized lots. That landlord or owner may have had a few properties, we don’t know, but it was a personal rental that was a 2Bed/1bath for 2/3rds the local rate. And they did the maintenance at their expense.

They also have kept up with her afterward, and mentioned that they wish that they could have found another tenant like us. If I rented out a portion of my place while I was living out of town for work? I’d aspire to be as good as they were. Sadly, it’s just me now so maintenance and yard work would have to wait for the weekends.

Let’s just have a little more nuance. Big Corpo is bad, but not everyone who is trying to make a living is.

Betty and Bob who are in their sixties, and Bob who still does all the maintenance on the apartment, aren’t the bad guy. They’re renting out a portion of their property because society failed them, because the capitalistic elite failed them, and they don’t have the safety net they should have already had to carry them through their retirement years.

It takes five seconds to realize that mindlessly saying ‘ALAB’ removes too much nuance here. Big corporations that are buying up the land and putting out overpriced apartments? Pricing out the community that lives there? Yeah, absolutely. Pass me a pitchfork and I’ll jump in behind you. But all of this ‘A*AB’ stuff gets nonsensical very quickly.

I think Anyone who wants to stifle honest and open discussion and who wants* to push a narrative that strips all nuance from complicated situations… to fill their own agenda… Are Bad.

And I’m on Lemmy, and generally fit the demographic here. I would just like for us to sometimes have a little more nuanced conversation instead of mindlessly doom scrolling and falling in line. Ok?

Eh… ALAB…? Just like ACAB we’re hyper polarizing ourselves into ‘us vs them’ groups, just like the mainstream media and the capitalistic elite wants us to!

What was that early Jedi mantra, that they later dropped and bastardized but originally had a good point? Something about absolutism in thinking?

I say all this knowing you’re going to tear me up for it, but critical thinking and discussion is better than mindlessly following narratives that are being pushed on us by our puppeteers, too. Even if you think ‘hey, this is a new bad guy I can get behind’, remember, that’s also the distraction they’re putting in front of you.

POV: my house, that I am currently sitting in, is 4 hours away from my office, where I was recently promoted to and stay during the week. In the next year I might try to rent out a room, to… maintain someone here making sure it isn’t broken into or vandalized, and to offset some of the mortgage. When I transfer back, if I get the chance, in the next couple years I’ll return to my home being intact and I’ll invest in some upgrades I’ve wanted. In the meantime? I still fully expect to come out weekly to maintain it. Bad guy? Come on, there’s A Bad Guy, and that’s the capitalistic elite. ‘ACAB’ and ‘ALAB’…? Don’t lose sight of the true enemy here, there’s a myriad of variety for everything in between us and them.

Can’t someone look up his what party he’s registered for or is that not a thing in this area?

But the strip mine brings generational jobs and careers to the community, through stripping the area of its natural resources to enrich the wealthy!

Get out of here with your socialist wind!

That’s why also waiting until they’re streaming helps, too. If it’s an IP I’m already interested in, I’ll see it in theatres, blind, if it’s something new I’ll generally wait for it to be stream able then do the same at home.

Edit: case in point, I’m watching Tenet now and had no clue what it was about and it’s blowing my mind. I can’t believe I slept on this one for so long.

Noise canceling headphones and an audiobook or music, I do it every time.

Just stop watching trailers and go in blind.

One of my favorite reveals was finding out that ‘Passengers’ wasn’t a train movie, which made everything that much better being blindsided by a pretty decent scifi story when I was expecting another train murder mystery.

And add onto that that Former (felonious) President Trump’s personal Doctor said he was the fittest president ever! The doctors will absolutely be on the payroll when it comes to the most powerful politicians.

I use digital notes, reminder checklists, and calendar with my partner, since those are shareable across our devices.

But, for work I use a small notebook where I write down every tasks to-do or completed, and the supporting tasks under that. I write the tasks in black, and X the check blocks I make for the tasks/subtasks in red. Any ticket numbers or additional notes (dates, etc) that come up are also written in red, so that they stand out more easily for review later.

For work related appointments or dates, I use outlook calendar.

She’s got that Ellen Ripley, Sigourney Weaver, hair from Alien.

You wouldn’t have to go far or work hard to guess what party the victim was from, either.

“… I don’t know why I did it.” says the person who has been doing it for years.

Let me preface this by not having read up on the subject AND wanting to hear from someone who has…

But, doesn’t Biden’s executive order specifically target asylum seekers AND NOT standard migrants?

Please address the ‘asylum seekers’ vs ‘standard migrants’ difference with your response.