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    Bait and switch, Tovarich

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  • Conflating jews and israelis is antisemitism pushed by zionists.

    It doesn't matter much who was behind Epstein's operation, it was primarily funded and sustained by US billionaire elite themselves, stop shifting blame away from a bunch of rapist oligarchs.

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    Rent is theft

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  • If you're paying a mortgage, you get to live there for the duration of it, and then you get to own the place at the end.

    If you're paying rent, you get to live there for the duration of it, and at the end you own nothing.

    If we're going to compare it with food, it's like cooking your own food vs. going out to eat. If you cook on your own, you'll need to pay a bit more upfront for the equipment, but you own that equipment until it breaks and can make food for much cheaper from then on. If you go out to eat every day, at the end you're left with nothing.

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  • The problem is that in your original comment, you are presenting a false trichotomy: people need to pay rent, or own a house, or be homeless. There is indeed a fourth option of providing social housing, free at the point of use.

    Not many people are calling for the end of homeownership.

    It depends on what precisely is meant by "ownership", but maybe I am.

    Personally I'm in favor of some modified version of the chinese system where almost everyone "owns" a home, but their children can't inherit it. I think technically the state owns all the housing, and provides people with a cheap/free lifetime lease of some kind. There should also be a limit on how many properties a single person can own, and renting those places out should be banned.

    And then as a compliment there should also be some excess state-owned social housing. There are edge-cases where for one reason or another you can't/don't want to own.

    So yeah in general I think we need to abolish the concept of homeownership as it exists in the west.

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  • Even if you misinterpret the argument that way, social housing could be provided for free at the point of use, with no rent to be paid. The main distinction is whether the housing is owned and controlled by private or public entities; the former will necessarily demand a profit to be made, the latter can operate at net zero spending or even "at a loss" by spending taxpayer funds as a social service.

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  • Generally yes, because you are also building up equity that way. Renting is just money wasted down the drain.

  • Someone got tired of hallucinated reports

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  • you will get errors on your errors.

    Python3: hold my beer

     
        
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  • Oddly specific

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  • Why not? Not everyone has the money or knowledge/tools/time to fix it, and that's ok. Sometimes fixing it costs more than the car itself (e.g. when Prius gets its factory cat stolen).

    Also, what if the person doesn't have a car at all?

  • YSK that every single thing Donald Trump is doing was predicted in this article published right before the election

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  • Who are the "good guys"? The only remotely non-evil person who had a serious bid for president is Sanders, the rest are straight up pieces of shit who bankroll genocides, bomb civilians, and empower their billionaire donors. Even then, Sanders is ineffective, somewhat zionist, and old, and I don't see a viable young replacement even for someone like him.

    In the US, the political mainstream isn't "good guys vs bad guys", it's 80% hitler vs 100% hitler.

  • This is America

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    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • The benefit of the fediverse is that it's trivially "forkable". If lemmy.world and other big instances get overwhelmed with bullshit, I fully expect that many smaller chill/focused instances will defederate and keep on doing their own things, chatting only with each other - no need to jump any ships. Perhaps there would also be some in-between, instances which are federated with both worlds, and where you can get a combination of tons of niche information/entertainment but with bots, and a small amount of genuine human interaction. I hope if that ever happens, lemmy-the-software gets sorting algorithms to deal with these situations.

  • How accurate is this?

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  • TBH like a half of those questions is something I could ask when I was younger, and the other half might have been asked by my friends when they were high. I hope I didn't upset the retail workers too much...

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    A Life of Crime

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  • I'm not advocating for "rounding up" of anyone, even though that's happening in the comments here too.

    What I am primarily advocating for is:

    free & non-judgemental mental health support (incl. medication), free addiction recovery programs

    I've spent some (short) time volunteering for homeless people, and from my limited interactions it seemed to me that at least some of them would be open to some kind of mental health/addiction support, but it was either humiliating or impossible for them to get it. And because of that, there were some people who "chose" to be on the streets in the same way as someone "chooses" to be depressed - there's no choice involved, it's a situation the society forces the individual in by not providing the required support.

    My time volunteering was in a second-world country which didn't have any government-supported free mental health services. Like, at all. If you wanted mental health support, you had to pay for it, or get really lucky (there was one NGO offering a "lottery"-type support system, and even that was just for a couple therapy sessions) - the former is impossible for a homeless person even if they had a place to sleep, the latter is really humiliating and sketchy.

    Back in russia there were in theory free mental health services, but it had a terrible catch-22: in order to enroll, you needed a permanent residence, and none of the homeless shelters provide that. And then if by some miracle you managed to get on, you'd have to pay for any medications that were required, which is pretty much a non-starter.

    And even in countries which do provide mental health services for the homeless, there is often stigma and judgement associated with it. The medical professionals themselves might be kind and understanding (and even then not always so), but the bureaucratic procedures required to get there can be humiliating as hell.

    All this means that if you're coming from a position of homelessness, which makes it really difficult to do anything already, getting to the help can be an insurmountable challenge, either physically or mentally.

    Also, after you get help and a warm place to sleep, it can feel disorienting in many ways after the street. There needs to be a robust network for helping people get up their feet (with basic supplies like food and meds provided for free at least for some time), getting people back into their local communities, and helping them find a job. It doesn't have to be a 6-figure white collar one, but even entry-level jobs can be difficult to get for an ex-homeless person for many reasons (stigma around homelessness, lack of a resume, degradation of social skills, or some really basic shit like lack of appropriate clothing) - there needs to be help associated with that, like agreements with local workplaces and support during interviews/trial periods.

    Just providing housing is a good first step but it's definitely not enough. Combining it with other help multiplies the effectiveness.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • Dolphin (well, whatever the KDE's indexer is called) uses xattrs under the hood for tagging, so it will be compatible with other software (including {get,set}fattr).

    The index has to be up-to-date, but then that would be true with any tag-based filesystem, it's just happening on a different layer (and arguably a layer which is more suitable for this - not sure it'd be a good idea to enforce synchronous indexing during xattr writes).

    The most significant user-facing obstacle is lack of software which supports this system, but I guess that shows that there's not much desire for it in reality.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • One that stops inviting ideological battles

    That's impossible IMHO. Nix is fundamentally about doing things "the right way", and so there will always be disagreements about what "the right way" is. I think they are bound to be eventually settled on the best possible answer, you don't need a fork for that.

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  • The CSS thing might be true, but the swayconfig file is probably a solvable problem, especially with everything being slowly moving to freeform modules. We just need to write a Nix -> swayconfig generator, which shouldn't be too difficult because swayconfig is not even turing-complete.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • You don't have to waste 30 seconds on a full eval when just iterating, I use these one-liners when trying to get some config file working: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/flake.nix#L140 ; they only evaluate one specific file and then link it into the right location "imperatively"

    Then when I get it working I do the nixos-rebuild switch, which is a no-op in terms of home-manager stuff because the link points to the same location, it just makes it so that it stays the same after a reboot (I use impermanence).

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • I think what you're looking for is simply an indexer + UI that sorts your filesystem by tags rather than by directory structure. Not sure if that's as beneficial as you imagine it to be, but IIRC KDE allows you to do something like that in Dolphin.

  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • They provide the same immutability guarantees

    Not as easy to have your entire system introspectable, sharable between devices, and under the same VCS. NixOS is declarative first and foremost, and all other benefits fall out from that; immutability is just one of them.

    NixOS is a hack that shoehorns existing FOSS software into what an OS should really be. I doubt we'll get anything better for the foreseeable future, except maybe Guix.

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    A Life of Crime

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  • Housing is a good & necessary first step, but housing alone won't alleviate the issue entirely. I'm not sure that there's any disagreement between us.