Noones talking about excusing bad tenants. Stop building strawmen.

Well if there can be good tenants and bad tenants, surely there can be good landlords and bad landlords, or is that not possible, all of them are automatically evil?

Landlords, yes even the nice old man renting out his spare room, are making money simply because they already own property. Of course there is a spectrum between those and large corporations. But the underlying mechanism is still the same.

So by that logic, VPNs and Bitcoin should both be illegal because they can be used by criminals (even though they have legitimate uses too, like bypassing censorship in authoritarian states) because the underlying mechanism is the same

Just compare it to buying property where you continously pay off your credit. You get something in return, ownership of a property. Just because you are too poor to afford that, thus being forced ot pay rent, you receive significantly less for the money you spend on housing. Also, and this might be a weird stance for americans, I don’t think anyone should be facing the choice of being able to pay rent and ending homeless on the street.

So you’re saying that poor people should just… not live anywhere and instead should live on the street? I’m not sure I get your point, because if that is your point, it’s not a very good one.

They commonly siphon off income from workers to keep their properties value up. This is just pararsitic behaviour.

Sure they’re all evil parasites, whatever you say, I don’t think a large corporation renting out multiple buildings jumping at the chance to raise rent and/or evict someone who is even slightly late on rent is the same as an older man renting out a spare room in his house ever since his oldest moved out?

So bad tenants are an excuse to be an evil parasite towards every tenant there is? Also, being a landlord isn’t just a job. It is making more money from existing property by exploiting the need of housing of those that are not able to afford a place themselves.

So bad tenants being excused from any culpability means that all landlords are automatically evil no matter what?

It is making more money from existing property by exploiting the need of housing of those that are not able to afford a place themselves.

It is providing a place to stay for people who can’t otherwise afford one…? Or should those people just live on the street?

There is someone in this thread wanting to rent out a single room of a house since it’s now unused as their oldest has moved out, and they are being told they would be better off selling the house and downsizing. But what if their oldest is out of a job one day and can’t find a new one and is forced to move back? Too bad for them?

I do find it weird that all landlords are treated the same, like you said, large corporations renting out multiple buildings and doing the bare minimum are treated the same as an older person renting out a room just trying their best to provide a space for someone to stay.

It would still be someone else paying you to keep your properties value up while receiving nothing of value for their money.

Is not living on the street not really something of value? I feel that is something of value, isn’t it?

I dunno, I don’t have any interest in becoming a landlord but I commonly see people considering them as the most evil people in the world no matter what and it does confuse me a little bit. People always say landlords are always evil, but there are tenants who are weeks or months late on their rent, they destroy the place, etc, it doesn’t seem like such a dream job to me.

Everyone needs a shelter to live in, but that doesn’t mean everyone can afford buying one outright. What about the people who can’t afford to buy one outright?

If someone can’t afford to buy a house or a condo, does that mean they shouldn’t get to live in one?

What about people who want the freedom to move from place to place without being tied down, too bad, they have to own a place?

They extract value through ownership alone, and add no labor value of their own to the process, that the tenants as owners couldn’t do for themselves.

What about landlords that do repairs themselves though? Is that not by definition labor or am I missing something here?

So you’re saying that person should sell their house because one of the rooms is unoccupied? What if their oldest loses their job and can’t find a new one, but has to move back, and then can’t because they downsized to a smaller house?

I’m not so sure that is a great solution.

Is there a third option? It’s an unused room in a house that’s being used.

They can rent it out, leave it out, or sell their house and downsize but then what if their oldest is out of work and can’t find a new job and has to come home, but now because they downsized there’s no room for them. How does that help? It seems like there are only two valid options unless I’m missing something.

Almost 250k petition votes now, 150k more votes in the past day alone.

What about people who don’t use this app, do they not deserve to be protected, do they deserve to suffer because they didn’t use this app?

Let’s be real, this app is about gossip, it’s not about protecting women and keeping them safe, it’s literally in the name it’s about “spilling the tea” aka gossip.

I mean it’s even in the app name that it’s not about protecting women and keeping them safe, it’s literally about “spilling the tea” aka gossip. It’s pretty gross and can be used for nonconsenual sharing of images and even slander too since there’s no way to know if what someone is writing on there about someone is true or not.

But, you can’t disable Recall, that’s the point…

You can just not use Windows and use Linux instead.

Yep, and you also have to be in a specific state of mind to be okay with “features” like something that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC.

I mean, police officers get scared from acorns falling on their cars. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone closing their door causes an officer to fear for their life.

With cheap routers, bufferbloat is actually more likely to cause a noticeable slowdown with uploading rather than downloading, since your upload is usually much lower it’s much easier to max it out unless you have a powerful router and/or some good QoS rules defined.

It’s like 90% full, scrubbing my pool is always super fast.

Two weeks to scrub the pool sounds like something is wrong tbh.

What drives do you have exactly? I have 7x6TB WD Red Pro drives in raidz2 and I can do a scrub less than 24 hours.

Great, can’t wait to afford it in 60 years.

Sure, but it still built out a full-featured webapp, not just a bit of greenfielding here or there.

Who says I made my webapp with ChatGPT in an afternoon?

I built it iteratively using ChatGPT, much like any other application. I started with the scaffolding and then slowly added more and more features over time, just like I would have done had I not used any AI at all.

Like everybody knows, Rome wasn’t built in a day.