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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • What in the fuck is this guy talking about? Me when I’m addicted to social media but refuse to turn off notifications or curate my experience. The beginning of that second paragraph is a strange concoction of words that doesn’t actually communicate anything. I skimmed through the article and it devolves into a rant about a play the author didn’t enjoy and other stray ramblings like this:

    Less is considered more. Being “tacky” is seen as the greatest imaginable sin. Odd, considering who’s the president of the United States and what he’s done to the White House, but maybe that’s the origin of all this cold minimalism.

    This entire article feels like a paper you didn’t start until the night it was due and only remembered about after you took a weed gummy.


  • paristo196sad rule
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    11 days ago

    I really enjoyed The Sandman. It’s one of my favorite shows ever. I can’t think of any changes I would have preferred.










  • To preface, what I’m about to say is no hate towards Kagi and I’ve actually considered trying them.

    Think about your last few searches. How many times did you: Scroll past several ads disguised as real results? Add “reddit” to your search just to get human opinions instead of SEO spam? Feel slightly weird searching for something personal, knowing it’s being tracked and stored? Get frustrated by results that felt absurdly off, like they were optimized for someone else’s agenda?

    I have never felt this way. I use an adblocker as god intended, I append reddit when I feel like it’s something reddit comments would answer well, if I’m searching something I don’t want attached to me I use an incognito tab, and my results are never absurdly off (and in fact practically read my fucking mind by how well optimized the results are). I genuinely don’t understand what people are searching to have this hard of a time with google search results.




  • paristoNot The Onion@sh.itjust.works*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    Unironically yes. He’s part of the Daily Wire. He’s a right wing ghoul who has explicitly called for the extermination of “transgenderism” (read: trans people). I don’t know if he still does this, but he has gone to college campuses to raise a fuss and then complain about the intolerant woke leftist commies who protest him being given a platform on their campus. He’s anti abortion, anti IVF, and has run defense on Trump raping women.

    These people are flames that only burn as long as you feed them oxygen. Don’t bother giving this guy any more attention than he has.


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    2 months ago

    To my understanding, vacant housing refers to housing in which someone is not currently living, including housing that is under repair/renovation, needs repairs, or is abandoned/condemned.

    https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/census-reveals-vacant-housing-mysteries

    Also, of the housing that is vacant, two thirds are vacant for 6 or fewer months, and ~85% are vacant for 12 or fewer months. The median duration of vacancy is about 2.4 months. Only a small portion of vacant housing is actually vacant in the way people typically think when they hear vacant housing. Freeing up the ~10% of housing that is actually vacant long-term the way people think just would not alleviate the housing crisis. We gotta build more housing, y’all.

    https://www.tiktok.com/@divasunglasses/video/7189814160165702955


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    2 months ago

    Unfortunately it isn’t actually that straightforward. That number includes abandoned and run down homes that are currently unlivable, houses that aren’t actually on the market because they’re being remodeled, they exist in the middle of nowhere where people don’t want to live, etc. Fundamentally, the problem with housing in the US is supply. We don’t build enough housing in the places people want to live.

    While on the topic, a lot of people say that housing is commodified and that’s why it sucks. This is not accurate. Housing is treated as an investment that should go up in value over time, not a commodity that can be easily bought, sold, and traded.

    If anybody is interested in learning more about housing in the United States from someone who studies this full time, I recommend Clayton Becker


  • paristoGames@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    itch capitulated in like the worst way what do you mean. they nuked a bunch of stuff and stole money that they hadnt paid out to creators yet even for non-delisted games. itch is hardly “fighting censorship” in that regard. dont bother boycotting them or steam though. call visa and mastercard daily to pester them about their recent changes that have affected digital storefronts and dont let up until they reverse course. thats where your pressure will make a difference. three people refusing to buy from steam anymore will do nothing at all.