theangryseal

joined 2 years ago
[–] theangryseal 1 points 4 minutes ago

The person is laying down. Bam. Problem solved.

[–] theangryseal 2 points 1 hour ago

And yet, half the people perceive this as strength.

I was so happy to not be pissed constantly for four years. I had so much hope for my species. I understood it accidentally happening the first time because so many people didn’t think it could.

Oh well.

[–] theangryseal 27 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You came at the right time. When I left during the API nightmare and removal of third party apps, Lemmy was like walking into a desert wasteland and praying it loaded up and you weren’t just standing there in the void.

When it did load, where sand should be in the wasteland, it was beans. Slimy, canned beans as far as the eye could see.

You’ve entered during the golden age if you ask me. I don’t even think about Reddit anymore.

[–] theangryseal 2 points 1 day ago

Well I can tell you with 100% certainty that the hud recipients have raised the rent at my apartment. Not that I blame them.

I collected the rent from folks for a few years and it was when the first person with hud showed up that the landlord raised the rent by 25% because that’s what hud was willing to pay.

[–] theangryseal 37 points 1 day ago

Man. This reminds me of one of the funniest moments in all of life.

My niece came over to spend the weekend with my daughters and used my exes laptop to look at videos on YouTube. She was really into everything babies at the time, but specifically diapers and bodily functions (thank you baby alive).

She looked up “baby peeing”. She shared nearly 20 videos of baby alive dolls and diaper changes on my exes Facebook with captions like. “Look at the wee wee water awwwwwww”. “This baby sure pee pee a lot”. “This baby poop like playdoh”.

Then she moved on to animal videos. I guess the baby alive dolls made her think of the bodily functions of animals.

She posted several videos of animals urinating.

“Awww he got pee pee everywhere.” “What a nasty nasty mess”.

And finally, the video that led to a call from a friend of hers. Somehow in the rabbit hole of animal videos she found one of pigs mating. “Look at pig ride the other pig. So funny.”

This is right around the time of the first iPhone and we were still using computers so no notifications. When she logged in she was so humiliated. Comments like, “are you ok girl?” And finally, “ok this is just nasty. Something is wrong with her and someone needs to take her computer away.”

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more humiliated person haha.

[–] theangryseal 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Buddy I tell ya hwhat. Yer gonna be so happy because we are gonna do bigly interesting things.

We’re gonna build a big arena just for Trump rallies. We’re gonna find a princess to marry Prince Barron, who by the way is young enough that we’ll have the longest stable gubment in American history. King for 70 years bud.

Joel Olsteen is gon’ build big ol churches in ever state. We ain’t worried about prayer in school no more. We’re bringing school to prayer. Christian academy gonna be the normal school. Ever kid in American is gonna learn about being good with Ace Virtueson, Racer and the gang. They’ll learn that fish are fish because god wanted it that way and how we ain’t monkeys. Real science will git done like how many babies can good girls have.

I’m so tired.

[–] theangryseal 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also this. I doubt he will forget it.

https://youtu.be/ya6-_OA4As0?si=Km7flbD0KOXeZ381

For fun in case you don’t click. One of the libertarians at the convention said, “I’d rather eat my own foot out of a bear trap.” When asked if she’d support Trump.

[–] theangryseal 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not entirely true everywhere.

If you go into the poorest places in the county you can own apartments and have them paid for in no time. You can charge HUD twice the going rate and make life miserable for everyone by destroying the market in those areas.

Take where I live. The average rent in 2012 for a three bedroom, two bathroom home was 400 bucks. Now 13 years later it is 800-1000. Way higher than inflation.

How did this happen? Well, landlords exploited a program designed to help poor people by overcharging it and causing the rent to go up everywhere. Why rent to steady job Steve when meth head Molly’s check is always there because HUD pays her rent?

I know the three men who bought up all the property in this entire area.

One I know very well, so I’ll focus on what he did.

In 2010 he bought 3 apartment buildings for 115k each. They were all built by the same people in the 50s and are nearly identical with three bedrooms in each unit, but one of those bedrooms (in the downstairs apartments) has no window so can’t be categorized as a bedroom, only a closet.

So HUD pays 800 for the ones downstairs, 1,050 for the ones upstairs.

Each building has 4 apartments.

That’s 6300 a month for the upstairs apartments. 4800 a month for the downstairs.

That’s 133,000 a year for apartments he paid 115k for. The previous landlord only charged 200 a month. He has changed nothing about them. They were only fixed up enough to qualify for hud with the cheapest materials available. Nearly no upkeep. Pay a local drunk to redo the roof every few decades. Bam.

I’ve been living here for 8 years. I have nearly paid for the apartment myself.

How did dude get money? You guessed it. Dad helped him start businesses and everything grew from there. He has always paid his workers minimum wage and recently started selling off his businesses because being a landlord is easy peasy.

In the 8 years I’ve lived here, the only thing he ever had to fix was a leak outside.

Before he took it over, the entire building was on the same water and electric bill. First thing he did was separate all that so people handle their own bills and he gets as much as he can get.

NONE of the original tenants are here now. They all got priced out and replaced with easy money HUD recipients.

I’m the only one left who actually pays my rent in full. I’d say he’d be stoked if I moved out. I would, but I’m just too damn lazy and my upstairs neighbor is amazing. If she ever leaves it might motivate me.

I would like to say that many many outsiders have been buying up property here for the last decade and a half. They’re stopping now they they’ve made it impossible for us natives to buy a home.

This place is so poor that I almost had a house for 5,000 dollars in 2003. You could get homes crazy cheap here back then. That same house recently sold for 130k. It has been remodeled, but that was around 2009.

One county over things are still like that if you’re brave enough to live there. I had a problem once over there and had to call the police around 1 AM. “All of our officers are asleep at the moment, but if it turns out to be a big problem call us back and we’ll wake one up.”

[–] theangryseal 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

On the day that Puuuutiiin died. We sang bye bye goofy kgb guy. Hope you fell out of that window thinking of me and mine. Them good old boys on the Ukrainian side, well they’re just gonna laugh and cheer as you die.

I hate myself. My brain does this to me all day, in every situation.

A song to feed the pets

A song to feed the brats

A song to see the teller

Or say hi to some feller

I sing when I’m not singing

And I’m singing if I’m thinking

If I’m thinking then I’m singing

And I’m singing while I’m sinking

It’s gotta be mental illness right? Nervous breakdown?

I’ll let you decide. I’m sorry you had to see this.

[–] theangryseal 5 points 3 days ago

:p If they were the beasts, the “godly” would line up to take the mark.

[–] theangryseal 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Dementia or something. Probably wants Mexico and Canada to be states if he can figure out how to deport all the Latinos/as further south.

That’s honestly probably why he isn’t calling for Mexico to be a state. Too many not quite white people.

 

So, my child (nearly 3 years old) is music crazy. As odd as this may be (maybe not), her four favorite things in this world are The Beatles, Nirvana, The Rolling Stones, and Michael Jackson.

It occurred to me that she doesn’t have any experience with religious iconography, but she loves the Heart Shaped Box video.

So I thought, for fun, let’s show her a picture of a cross and ask her what it is.

“NIRVANA! It’s Nirvana!” (Forvana actually).

I’ve been laughing my ass off.

I have raised multiple children from two generations now and none of them have had the burden of religion. Thank…god? :p

 

Everyone has been stopping to admire this. I figured I’d share it with you guys.

 

Look back through my posts to see her sleeping like this since she was a fresh baby.

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Thank abowt it!

 

I have found myself using my Steam Deck for everything. I sit at that old desk and play Counter-Strike when I’ve got time. I use it for paperwork as well.

Truly an amazing machine.

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