[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 hours ago

I want to help you understand the situation and why people say what they say. Then you can better judge the situation for yourself and make your own decisions.

Situation "your own house": You want to buy a house but you don't have the money because... Wtf is the housing market??? 100k for a cardboard box??? So you lent money from your bank to pay for the house. With interest, you pay maybe e.g. 70% more than what you lent. And it takes you 30 years to do so. You might lose your job and have to save a little extra to cover those times and maybe the bank let's you miss a payment once. After 30 years, you have now a house that needs some repairs but you got more money in your wallet because you are done paying the bank. So you do some repairs and it cost you money, maybe you need a small loan again. Eventually, you are retired and you have less money but you don't have to repair your house anymore. Sure, there are some issues but the heater will manage another 10 years. You don't have to worry too much because you don't have to maintain it after your death. You don't need to save for a new roof in 5 years when you are 95yo. You can make the call that you don't care.

So in other words, you pay a little less than 70% more than the value of the house and afterwards you paid for YOUR UTILITY. Every repair was between you and future you.

Situation "I rent to you": I am buying the house and of course, I am lent the money as it is financially easier and in some places, gives me tax cuts. I buy a house and I too pay 70% interest on it. I need to get the money to pay for my loan. I am not a asshole but also not a saint. So what is pretty fair? Mhm... You, as my renter, pay my loan back! If i ask less, I am literally losing money. But wait, you might move out at any time and I need to pay my loan, so I am asking a little extra... Just in case. But then there are repairs and someone needs to pay for those, so maybe a little extra. Okay now, you are paying for everything! I am safe and sound. After 30 years, you paid back my loan and I own the place. I am getting old and I let my son take care of the business. He takes good care of the house and makes sure that all the repairs are done. He is earning so extra money too as well the loan is paid back. He is looking for a new house for all his children and a big nice garden. With his day job and your rent, his bank gives him a big amount of money that he spends on a beautiful house, he gets the house as he has the cash. You are getting older and you retire, but your rent is not going down. If you could have bought the house 50 years ago, it would have been yours, but it isn't and you are paying the new loan of my son. The heater could use a replacement in the next 10 years but you really don't have the money for that but it isn't your decision, my son wants to rent out the house another 50years if possible. My son feels forced to look for a new renter as you don't have the money to pay for the new loan and the repairs. He kicks you out. You are homeless. You pay off the loan and some of another loan but you are homeless.

Now that story wasn't even about actively trying to make money but not wanting to take a risk for someone else.

Most landlords want to make some money.

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 hours ago

Honestly I don't get the OF hate in general. We all have watched porn and we probably liked at least some of what we have seen. What is wrong about earning a living with producing what other people want and like? And as I don't think, we argue about people consuming porn but about paying for it, what the fuck is wrong with paying the content creator? Why do we prefer paying agencies with ad revenue while the agency effectively scams their talent? Why no ads but cash? Why agency and not talent?

Understandable and same. I just see the why. I don't like it either.

I thought the same thing but honestly I understand them from a uninformed casual observer perspective.

American politics are very contrarian.

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

My hot take is... It depends. If I produce a product and call a specific business with proper preparations, like calling someone who is the correct contact point while a specific business idea in mind for the business, that isn't really spam, as spam is about sending many unsolicited messages or call a bunch of more or less random people, but that one prepared call might be a cold call.

So for me, spam is about amount and not about how annoying it is.

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Technically 0% of their problems and 100% of their former problems.

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago

That is the good kind of conditional love; condition is "love yourself and work towards a better tomorrow"

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

If this was a joke, I love the joke

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Okay, you might actually don't understand, musk owns one of the biggest social media and musk stated that on the platform the word "cis" is considered a slur. Now you might think what does that have to do with trans people if he is against the word "cis". Well his daughter is trans-gender and musk insist that the woke mob killed his son as he refuses to acknowledge his daughter. His daughter doesn't want any relation at all with her father. He keeps deadnaming her. So it is fair to assume the he isn't very supportive of his daughter. So to sum it up, he is so against trans that the idea of being cis (so the opposite of trans) is too much of an acknowledgement of transgender people.

So why does he matter? Like I said, owner of X, Restricting the speech of many people because of he is too sensitive to handle cis due to his fear(?)/disgust(?) for trans.

So trans people are faced with the reality that some of the most powerful people on the planet are so much of a fucking snowflake and so much against their existence that even "cis" is a problem for them.

That is a good reason to be "annoying" by protest and ridicule these people.

Now musk is only one person but it isn't particularly difficult to find many many more.

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

Trans: e.g. because a lot of people, including people like Elon musk, lose their shit when presented to the idea that if trans-people are trans, that he, as an non-trans-person, is the opposite of trans which is cis.

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 week ago

Free speech absolutist...

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