"It's the market" is another way of saying "because I can".

They don't have to raise the rent to match the market, the market is simply a signal to them that if they lost you by raising the rent, they could potentially replace you for the same or higher rent.

They could ignore that and leave your rent alone. They don't. It's a choice.

I think if he really wants that plan to shake out he needs to transition ownership while he's alive. Just dumping it on them with no discussion, no cultural adjustment and no preparation time will cause a lot of problems.

"Mob justice" is a boogeyman invented to distract you from the fact that the cops and the state give you no justice at all.

I've been showing my kid some hbomberguy videos, and they started with the new ones. When we went back a bit they were like, "wow, he looks so young".

It was completely the wrong way round to me, but I couldn't argue with it.

I'm far less concerned about emboldened supporters than I am about the likely backlash by the state. Events like this are always taken as justification for more harsh oppression of the people. Also, Biden now has to make statements sympathetic to Trump. This couldn't have gone worse - we get the blowback from an attempt, and he's able to ride this to more popularity.

Assassination isn't the way, folks. I know you're hurting, I know you're disempowered by the electoral system, but Trump and Biden aren't the core of the problem. You can't cut the head off because it's not a snake, it's a hydra. The way to beat this system is to build alternatives and wean people off of their dependence on it, and deprive it of victims. You have to starve the beast.

I found it at the end of that big red arrow. Turns out it wasn't a useless red arrow after all.

And if they think that this monitoring is going to help anything when people know about it, they need to learn about Goodharts' Law:

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

As soon as this becomes a thing people will get anxious and petty about it, and they will start trying to game the system, and that system gaming will take some portion of their focus away from driving and guess what, that's going to make them worse drivers.

I think it would make sense to have a specialised forum for it. The question & answer format requires data that Lemmy just isn't able to fully replicate as it is.

Also the community editable nature of stack exchange is really unique and more like a wiki than a standard forum/branching discussion threads, where we're presumed to have sole ownership of all of our posts.

Pinchy.

Also, hair-pully.

Edit: oh god imagine running fast on this thing then falling over with long hair. scalped

"At last we have invented the Torment Nexus, from the classic sci fi novel, Do Not Invent the Torment Nexus."

I never actually considered the idea that established websites implementing activitypub to join the fediverse would be an important part of its growth. This is fascinating!

I've been talking for a while about how the fediverse might dethrone youtube - which is maybe the biggest challenge it faces - to become the default form that people use to consume content, but I've only ever thought about it in terms of collapse and replacement. I don't see youtube implementing activitypub any time soon, but maybe if more sites fo it and it becomes a key selling point that might start to tip the balance more.

This is the rare kind of pedantry I will stand behind. Like if you're going to sentence someone to death at least take some care to get the details right or you reveal how much contempt you have for human life. You're the state; if you don't maintain the illusion of legitimacy then people start to get choppy with you.