SatanicNotMessianic

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in ‘This is stealing’ ; Instagram account lets you squat in metro homes

You’re talking like a Sovereign Citizen.

I’m talking about the very specific laws that prevent people from being evicted if they’ve been residing on a property for N months without following a very deliberate and drawn out legal procedure so that landlords cannot evict a family from their home of many years because of some missed rent payments or because they want to upgrade the place so they can charge more to a new tenant. Those are the laws that keep the sheriffs from just kicking down doors, at least in some states.

I’m not taking a moral position on squatting. My friends and I squatted in an abandoned house while I was in high school, although most of us didn’t live there full time. If I noticed someone squatting tomorrow, especially in a corporate owned home, I would not have seen it. But the laws that I’m talking about were designed to protect tenants from having their lives unfairly disrupted, and I’m arguing that even if people are against squatters, we still need to protect tenants’ rights.

I would have thought that was abundantly clear.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Memes in Comrade Goat

“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good goat trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”

-John Lewis

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Technology in Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

Towards the end he says that it was about 35 minutes. Plus maybe green ket is like blue meth.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in ‘This is stealing’ ; Instagram account lets you squat in metro homes

I have no issues with raising property taxes on non-owner occupied housing, and having them even higher on unoccupied housing.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in ‘This is stealing’ ; Instagram account lets you squat in metro homes

Being from California (and earlier from New York), that’s very much the intention. Both states (and municipal laws in places like LA, SF, and NYC) make the landlords have to jump through a lot of hoops before an eviction can take place, and the tenants can file for protection.

I know that things vary from state to state, but I’ve only been a renter in NY, NJ, and CA. I’ve also successfully sued a landlord for over $100k in damages and expenses.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in ‘This is stealing’ ; Instagram account lets you squat in metro homes

No, they mean the same thing, at least in my familiarity with the phrases. “Cry me a river” means that I don’t care to hear about their complaints, even if their tears were enough to fill a river, because I think they’re not legitimate.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to 196 in rule

No, that’s not a good example at all. This is closer to Orwell’s Newspeak, in which the government makes a word mean its opposite in order to force a change to the way people think.

A more relevant example is the use of the term “fake news.” The term was originally coined to talk about Trump making up “facts” on the fly that were completely disconnected from reality. Then Trump started using the term to refer to news articles he didn’t like.

He was even asked at one point if by “fake news” he meant the story wasn’t true. He said no - he meant he thinks it’s not something the media should be talking about, true or not.

For his fans and for the media in general, it’s come to mean “false,” but that’s an inversion of the original meaning, which is that Trump was inventing “facts,” mutated to Trump thinking the media shouldn’t be reporting on his extensive dealings with Russians, and finally being interpreted as challenging whether those fully documented and verified meetings even really happened.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in ‘This is stealing’ ; Instagram account lets you squat in metro homes

First, squatters of this type are taking advantage of laws intended to protect renters from predatory landlords. Wherever you stand on people appropriating unused property, these laws need to stay in place even if they’re made more specific.

Second, news outlets like this will always quote a “guns and drugs” case and not the mom with three kids seeking employment or homeless vet cases.

Third, with security cams and doorbells being so cheap, there’s no reason why this should be an issue, especially for a large real estate rental company. That alone puts me in “cry me a river” mode. Notice again that the article lists interviews with individual homeowners but is actually profiling the impact on a rental company.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Technology in Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

Yup - this is one that stayed with me. This has earned a place in internet history.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to 196 in Rule

They thought about including a pendulum blade but they went back and forth on it.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to 196 in Moral rule

I absolutely loved House - to the point of distraction - because I identified so strongly with Hugh Laurie’s character. Having myself a tendency in that direction (which I’ve worked, with intermediate success, to overcome), it was very easy so see the world through his eyes.

I even really liked the repeating theme of his always being wholly confident that his initial diagnosis is 100% right, then being proven wrong and being full in on his secondary being right, and finally having his third being right is very very familiar from my own career.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to 196 in Moral rule

Thanks!

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to 196 in Moral rule

Please sir, what episode was this?

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims

Elon is first and foremost a con man.

He gives them the old razzle dazzle, and even tech investors get so impressed with his confidence and his technobabble and his statements like “This is ready to ship today” that they’ve just lined up to give him money.

I think what’s happening now is that the blush is coming off the rose. Elon first got his money because he was involved as a founder in a company that he was fired from because of incompetence, but kept a large enough founder equity stake that he cashed out a billionaire. Then, because money was cheap and because you hit a tipping point where it’s easier to make money than lose money, he failed upwards.

Now reality is starting to catch up with him, and he’s in a panic. He’s psyched himself out enough that he’s turned pure Trump, doubling down and becoming more outrageous instead of taking his responsibility to his companies into account.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago to Technology in Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.

I think that Toyota recently announced they sold a total of 14,000 (in the US, I’m assuming). They also announced that they were planning on continuing production on the same article, but I don’t know what this will do to their plans.