I am once again asking countries with low birthrates to increase immigration.

You don’t need a Lord to maintain a property though. That is the function of a superintendent, which is a role small landlords sometimes assume, and yes that is a job that should be compensated.

But it has nothing to do with owning and rentseeking.

Wow what a messed up situation. Surprising to hear the tenant was wealthy. I still maintain that the only winning move is not to play.

Yeah being a landlord makes you into the bad guy despite intentions. You’ll always make back whatever “losses” you incurred in equity, because we have a crazy for profit housing market.

Landlord/renter is an abominable financial relationship.

If it’s a longer term tenant, the landlord is actually disincentivized from fixing the AC, because they can fix the AC and jack the rent way up as soon as the old, abuse tenant inevitably leaves.

One of my friends suffered through this during the recent heat wave. They’ve been told there’s no budget for AC despite a recent $50 rent hike.

Their landlord is an independently wealthy multimillionaire — they don’t even need the money!

Kinda neat

No frickin way!!

Dαrn!

Related, while I’m sure it’s not fully pacifist, Torment: Tides of Numenera greatly emphasises dialogue and text descriptions.

Gold source

Might not be in keeping with the vibe of this community, but I’ve found that embracing a kind of boring and routine life has done wonders for my mental health.

I mean I don’t think it’s boring.

Agreed. 10/10.

What does the last line say

What’s the punchline please

Can we get an uncensored version so I can read the secret letters

Wow what a fuckin shitshow. I have so many follow-up questions

What is the Tea hack?

An infinite loop used to be such a rank code smell back when I was a junior, specifically because I was a noob and made giant loops like 50 lines long and invariably didn’t plan the exit condition right, and then my computer would lock up and I would have to hard power cycle.

But yeah, now it’s it’s a totally acceptable little pattern imho.

There is no such thing as fair in sports.

Reminds me of an aside from this blog article that has been living in my head for a few months — To Save the Arts we must Kill the Artist — that goes like:

the artist as the bourgeois failson

And other such points about the intersections of privilege, wealth, etc, and art.

Is there any other? As someone who used to go there, I can confirm I was also on occasion the issue.

How actually great would that be though