I like it. Art and activism.

Points out awful business practice by Bezos in both the lack of bathroom breaks for employees and the lack of quality control in content.

No person was harmed. Product pulled to ensure as much once the piece was complete.

Well done.

By simply having all PC games mod able and with accessible console commands, most issues will eventually have workarounds.

It’s October, but does this guy not have a nose?

Their content turned fairly bad. Witcher and Stranger Things were the only reasons to keep it. So why keep it?

Haven’t had it for a while. It was cool in the 00s, started to go bad in the 10s. Inertia can only take you so far.

Hell, even AppleTV free run had more decent content for 3 mos.

Not stand up. David Sedaris, his life essays, not the short stories.

The Ship Shape, amiright?

He’s probably sad about the outfit.

I’ll never argue in favor of glitter, but if we’re discussing micro plastics there’s this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43023-x

All the synthetic shit cloth you wear and/or sleep on has impact.

Likely to make more impact on this microplastic by buying cotton or bamboo than trying to ban glitter.

How to then pay child care to work that part time gig. Odds are good the cost of childcare would exceed part time unskilled labor income.

There’s a lot of assumption here re entitlement. Ideally everyone should have housing. Ideally, everyone who engages a contract to loan out use of their stuff for money should either get the money or get their stuff back. If there’s no rent to be had, great, give that persons belongings back.

My point is there’s impact on both. Being dismissive of either party who can no longer pay bills is what misses the point.

The landlord IS entitled to rent while you’re in their property. That’s the contract.

If you want to call housing a right, which is an ideal I would love to see realized in a practical, actionable way, then the onus should not be on the back of any single private citizen making loan of their property, but in those who collect 22-32% of our incomes already.

That piece, the responsibility of providing housing to citizens, regardless of capacity to pay rent for a loan, would go higher up the chain.

Punishing a private citizen for engaging a rental contract on the landlord side, out of spite, because housing should be a right but isn’t is not the way to solve the problem but only works to not only create bigger problems (including higher rent…a spite response to that spite) but is just another version of private citizens fighting one another instead of fighting up.

Had a relative in a car accident. They climbed out the vehicle, walked to the ambulance, and took their suggestion to get looked over at the ED.

Nothing needed but an X-ray then a CT to make sure the spine was fine. Doc saw them for all of 10min. Most of the time was spent doing nothing, alone, waiting for a ride in a mostly empty rural ED.

Bill comes. $15k.

I did charges in the 2000s as part of my ED tech duties. Back then the stroke/heart attack go to ICU or get prepped for life flight charge, the most acute of 5 tiers of service was ~$2.5k. The lowest, say getting a ring cut off, was less than $200.

I know costs have risen in the last 20 yrs but how the fuck do you go from what is at a very generous at most a tier 3 for ~$1k to $15k. AND that CT scan, 90% of what happened there, was billed separate.

AFTER Medicare, the ED bill is $1.8k. Imaging is $800, and the ambulance ride, that didn’t even put in an IV, is $1.9k.

So an elderly person on a fixed social security income is getting billed almost $5k for a ride, a glorified wait for my ride room, and a CT.

One non displaced broken rib btw, that’s it.

$15k. Is ring removal in ED now $15k a pop? I just don’t know. Or is a remote, empty ED soaking anyone who goes because they don’t have lines out the door and around the block like city EDs do?

Either way, that’s several months of social security to pay for it while not buying groceries or driving.

Then what you want is less rental inventory. Because this is how you get less rental inventory.

All true. But what’s also true is paying a mortgage with rental income. It’s why some folks found themselves out anyway as the house was sold. When a landlord is backed into a corner financially, this is their answer.

What is also an answer is rentals sitting vacant out of squatting fear. I found this often while travel nursing. Landlords who would rent to me for 3+ months, but only because I’m temporary and can show them I already have a home. When folks stop honoring the contract to pay for the shit they’re borrowing, less inventory is going to be a very real outcome.

Consider. Your monthly income is 4 rentals at $1500 each, minus expenses. Property tax. Income tax. Maintenance. Possibly a water/sewage bill. One stops paying. Then 2. Enter legal expenses. Your current mortgage where you’re living is still due. Managing it and providing your own childcare is your full time job.

There’s this whole ethos that there are no people involved on the landlord side and there can be no financial struggle from anyone with a landlord title.

That and there’s a very simple fact of it’s not your shit. You’re borrowing someone else’s things under contract.

I agree it’s not ideal, but systemic housing change comes from several steps above a landlord. She’s just someone with extra shit she can lend out for a fee. Punishing her in the meantime like she owes you something, after making property available for use so someone can have a home, not cool. She doesn’t owe you rent or a home.