person420

@person420@lemmynsfw.com

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person420 , to cats in Cat parking

Cats purrcking

person420 , to politics in Nate Silver's model for the 2024 election is out, currently predicts a 65% chance of a Trump victory.

Mets aren't good enough? ::cries in Yankees:::

person420 , to RetroGaming in I miss console ads being this weird

Dancesafe.org was it! I'm going back over 20 years to the late 90's early 2000's. I can't comment on the state of ecstasy today, I haven't rolled in over 20 years.

person420 , to RetroGaming in I miss console ads being this weird

Worse than that, that one website dance something that would test pills found that a huge percentage of the "ecstasy" people took didn't contain MDMA. A surprising amount didn't even contain illegal drugs. Just over the counter speed.

person420 , to News in Spectrum Call Center in Charlotte, NC Reportedly Provided Fried Chicken and Watermelon to Employees for Juneteenth

Pretty much the same thing for watermelon. It was an easy to grow fruit that freed slaves used as a source of income and they caricatured it in racist media.

person420 , to xkcd in xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas

Love it or hate it, they aren't intentionally designed not to be walkable, they're intentionally designed to discourage traffic from driving through them.

The reason communities like yours and the one behind your house aren't connected is to reduce the amount of cars driving down your block. To make it safer for your kids to play outside.

person420 , to Cool Guides in A cool guide to different types of forks

It's a very Italian American thing. It's not really something you'd see in Italy.

person420 , to politics in Trump’s felony conviction has hurt him in the polls

There's two interesting things the article points out.

  1. These were recontact polls. So these were people who were already polled, presumably a small percentage changing their minds.
  2. These were multiple pills across different organizations running them. So while they can be within the margin of error, they all saw the same trend.

Obviously you can't go by polls, and there's a ton of time between now and Nov, but it's interesting nonetheless.

person420 , to politics in Is Hunter Biden being prosecuted because of politics?

To be fair, lots of them. Kennedy, Eisenhower, Nixon to name a few off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's more I'm missing.

person420 , to politics in Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators | Speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.

Or you know, at no point did you actually engage in discussion. You used a false equivalent and rhetoric. Which is pretty much the textbook definition of a bad faith argument.

person420 , to politics in Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators | Speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.

Ahh I get it. So you're 100% the person I was talking about in my first post.

person420 , to politics in Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators | Speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.

As long as you understand that not voting for Biden is 100% a vote for Trump (whether you cast a ballot or not) and you're OK with that, then more power to you.

But I would ask, what do you think you're achieving by not voting for him? If you voted for him in 2020 then you must hold personal ideals that at least semi-align with his, and you have to know that Trump's are a complete 180 from them.

I'd also like to ask (since you imply you haven't made up your mind) what Biden could do to change your mind?

person420 , to politics in Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators | Speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.

I suspect a lot of those people are arguing in bad faith and are actually spreading misinformation. That they never intended on voting for Biden, or always intended on voting for Trump and trying to make it seem like Biden is losing his base.

IRL, most people I know, while not happy with Biden's response acknowledge that Trump's view is much much worse.

person420 , to Lefty Memes in ALAT.

The question is "what capital does a landlord provide?"

The capital needed to buy the house which the renter either doesn't have, or doesn't want to spend.

and the answer is, none, because when we talk about capital in this context, we're talking ownership of money or assets

I'm not even sure what you mean by this? The capital the landlord provides IS the money to buy the house and the asset (the house).

Just because the landlord makes money off the transaction? It's a transaction. The landlord is providing the risk of using their capital to purchase the home and the renter gains the ability to live there without having to extend their own capital to purchase the house (for whatever reason, maybe they don't have it, maybe they don't plan to live their long, maybe they are adverse to owning property, there's lots of reasons).

Why is it OK for any other business to make a profit from their risk and service they provide, but it's not OK for a landlord? The landlord is providing a service just like any other business.

I get the argument against large corporations buying mass amounts of land and driving up housing prices locking homeowners out of the ability to purchase land, but what is wrong with, if for example I have extra cash, am able to buy a home and rent it to someone who can't purchase a house for whatever reason?

person420 , to Lefty Memes in ALAT.

Because if you had the capital to buy a house, you would. A landlord has the capital to purchase the house and rent it to you under more favorable terms. I.e., not putting ~20% down and committing to a 15-30 year loan.

What is the alternative (besides a utopian society where everyone is provided housing for free or near-free)?

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