I was going to just write that but apparently it's a stock meme on Google keyboard. Yeah we're fucked.
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Average economy going up. Median economy going down. Inequality confirmed.
It's hard to figure out the criteria for it suggesting a sticker but it's definitely just using your text in a template.
I think it's supposed to be common phrases. For example there's a lot of Happy X but no Orphan Machine or "Great Game".
I also happen to know it won't do Swiggity Swooty. Which is a shame.
Which app are you using to upload images directly?
Sync, but it's possible on the web app for lemmy.world as well. Just hit the little image button. As proof I offer this standard issue cat uploaded on lemmy.world's site.
Hang on let me try this.
It also works on Connect for Lemmy!
I’m not convinced this is working. You should post more cat pictures to test.
How about this one? I'm meeting this cute guy for potential adoption this week.
More than acceptable! I hope the meeting goes well and you get adopted.
We'll see! Last time I adopted a cat I intended to get a kitten but immediately soul bonded with an older tomcat at the shelter. He's incredible and I want to get him a companion.
I trust cats to choose the person they go home with, so we'll see if any click when I visit this weekend.
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I am in awe of that cat's beard.
Voyager has it too
Our vultures are so fat, you wouldn't believe how full they are all the time...
The working class need to stand together, unionise they're streets and join the struggle.
The tipping point is coming.
The point when we collectively start tipping landlords
While I am not fan of those who choose to make someone else’s home and investment, the landlords only exist because we as a society have allowed homes to be an investment. Tip one landlord, another will pop up as the reward is so great.
When landlords make the news over here they are always put down as: "that nice guy who is sacrificing a part of his home to help the victims of the housing crisis".
While in reality they own multiple houses which lack maintenance and have 11 people in 12m2 rooms for €750 a month, while the older generation like my parents only pay €550 for a 100m2 home.
We made it out of private owned housing but they still expect us to pay €900 for 55m2, while we would have liked to expand our family and my parents wouldn't mind moving to a smaller (and cheaper) place, but if we were to trade houses they will pay €650 for that 55m2 and we will probably pay closer to €1100 for their 100m2.
I don't agree housing cost is tied to income instead of surface area, if anything it should be tied to both in a more fair manner.
I coworker who is in the same housing market as us (my parents are priviliged for being stuck in an older market) is on his own and did get a decent size house at 110m2 but he pays roughly €750/800 which seems fair compared to my parents €550 for their 100m2 and considering his wage is better compared to their retirement.
Off scaffolding and into woodchippers?
I fucking hope so. We're way overdue
Oh hey didn't this happen shortly before The Great Depression?
wasn't the thing that ended the great depression a world war? I find that even more concerning.
I'm no history buff but iirc wasn't FDR doing an absolute fuckton to help the people, too?
Well, I'm not sure about other nations, but there was also a lot of new progressive reform such as the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and The New Deal of 1933 in the USA. I don't really feel like the nazis or japanese had much to do with ending the great depression.
Still waiting for people to come together. For a few years now I've been getting responses such as, "I can't risk my job/home/food/pay/etc." Still wondering how much more it'll take. Cause all of that is being taken away in some form with inaction.
The average person desires peace. We will suffer immensely for even the promise of peace.
Thousands of years of warfare says otherwise. Humans love conflict and tribalism.
Im sick of eating cake, let their heads fucking roll.
My BlueSky feed is increasingly filling up with "I am short $X for rent and if I don't make it I'll be evicted" panic-posts.
Not saying this is some kind of leading indicator for a bad economy, but we did just spend the last two years telling people rents can only go up while wages must remain static.
Don't worry, the rich pumped NVDA stock so you know where your stolen money went 😊
Weird that the people fighting the war on poverty seem to be rooting for the underdog.
Just curious, can you raise the rent and evic if tenant don't agree to pay new price ?
Your rental contract states a certain amount.
So like $2000 a month for 12 months, which was what I paid on 2018.
My one shitty apartment complex absolutely said that if we don't file a renewal for $3000/month, we'll automatically be paying month to month at $4200/month.
If the contract is up, is there a limit or can you increase at much as you can ? Can you refuse to renew, envic the tenant , then put up higher price ?
This varies by state and sometimes by city. California, for example, has a limit of 10% or 5% + change in COL, whichever is lower, per 12 months. This only applies to renewals. And there's a carve-out for single family home rentals.
What you're describing is often called "Rent Control" and it is something liberal politicians from New York to California have crusaded against for decades, on the grounds that it prevented new residential housing space from being built.
Incidentally, there is no recognized correlation between rent control as a policy and diminished housing starts.
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If you refuse to renew, then you'll be put into the month-to-month. Which is a encouragement to just leave.
That clause is also on your lease when you initially sign. The cost of month to month is often not listed, but says something like "market rates". It's always unfavorable.
Guess how investment companies empty out retirement communities so they can build condos in Florida.
Also, that's the basis for laws on rent control. Which in Florida, is more of a suggestion than a law.
That's literally what they do. Every single landlord I've had has been the equivalent fusion of Mr. Krabs and Plankton.
A few apartments ago, the pipes sprung a leak and destroyed my living room wall. The landlord ignored it for two months. They would answer my phone and immediately hang up. I notified the city, who sent a health inspector that took one look at the black mold and said the LL had to fix it. They "complied" by slapping a new coat of paint on the wall. When I got my renewal later that year, they raised my rent from $1800 to almost $4000.
It probably depends on your location.
Where I live, you can only (legally) increase rent by something like 4% per year. But if the price increase is within the legal limit, and the tenant doesn't want to (or can't) pay the new price, they either willingly move or are forcibly removed from the premises when they don't pay.
You can’t do it during the lease, but when the lease is up, sure. Unless there are regulations in place preventing how high they can hike the rate.
All while corporate profits are at all time highs. It's painting a clear picture, something either has to change, or something has to break.
Housing costs aren't rising. Leeches are just demanding more and apparently owning all the land let's you do that because land ownership is only a right for hedge fund babies.
What really hurt me to see (obviously it hurts the actual victims more) was how during Covid there was this what felt like once in a generation opportunity for progressive policies that were necessary during Covid such as rent eviction moratoriums, child support payments and stimulus checks to prove themselves to society and be embraced outside the context of Covid.
Then the rich violently slammed the door shut, and seeing the rent eviction moratorium be let to unceremoniously expire made my heart sink, it felt like the final nail in the coffin of the possibility of a brighter future because of how obviously wrong it was as a choice and how much the narrative of mainstream media was ready to move on as if we always had to move on, we always had to get back to this incredibly unsustainable grind that is quite visibly slowly (and not so slowly) destroying everyone around me including myself (which isn’t casual hyperbole, I say that very seriously).
The system cannot be fixed at this point I don’t think unless the people in power see agreeing to fixes in system (“concessions” from their standpoint) as the less scary alternative to other things. Otherwise Covid proved exhaustively that populist changes that improve everyone’s lives will be forced by any means necessary to be repealed by the ruling class.
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