Yeah, I'm generally ok if somebody is charging a reasonable rent which covers their reasonable mortgage, so long as they're still taking care of all the other stuff (repairs, city taxes, etc).

What burns me is people who either a) knowingly buy in a hot, excessively priced market with full intent to charge excessive rents while providing absolutely minimal service or support

b) bought 10+ years ago but have pumped up rents to the same as those who bought at mortgages 2-3x the rate, citing "market rates" and often doing sketchy things to raise rents including renovictions etc, while being shitty - often absentee - slumlords

Maybe I'm showing my age, but there did used to be quite a good number of mom & pop type landlords who weren't shit, and while the commercial ones cost a bit more there was a decent mix.

Now, the commercial ones are actually mostly a safer bet in small cities. They'll raise rent every year but consistently, and the decent ones are pretty prompt about repairs and not fucking people over deposits etc. There are bad ones but it's pretty easy to tell which are which. The problem is of course that availability at the good ones is lower and they do cost more.

Good private landlords are increasingly hard to come by, as the best ones generally end up quitting after either getting too old or after a bad tenant experience, while the slumlords have leveraged their existing properties to finance buying more and more, leading to a market full of increasingly overpriced mould-monsters.

Oh for sure. I'm not knocking those that can do it, just that my regular soldering skills are shit enough that I'd probably be hesitant to reball something more complicated even with the right gear :-)

Ah. Other than fixing the old Xbox360 RROD , I've never needed to do any BGA work, just circuit soldering

What's the IR bottom heater for?

Insurance and ownership papers here generally require a primary owner here, at least on paper

Pretty much, unless he was planning to donate one of his existing illegitimate children to her.

"Hey, I've got a bunch extra of these and nobody's answered my sale ad on X, you should take one"

Strange, the words i think of are more like: "narcissistic" "obnoxious" & "asshole" with a side of "moron" thrown in

"She makes some good points. I might vote for her if she wasn't a Democrat" - Republicans

Or a voting scam

"Hmm, it says here that Sir Barkinwoof IV is a registered Republican. If there is some discrepancy out must be the fault of the former owner"

Outdoor temperature in °C, unless you're talking about an outdoor pool then it's often enough °F :-)

I think part of the reasons it's so mixed might just be due to how many Amero-centric devices and parts are common between the two countries.

Y'all can take your shitty Phillips screws though. Roberts is by far superior ;-)

Ok, so when the police use a young-appearing officer to nail somebody who is looking to hook up with what is listed as a 14yo... that's just going to get dropped? Because it seems that's a tactic that's been used often enough and the actual age of the officer matters less than the intent of the perp to engage in sex with a minor.

The argument "I just thought we were role-playing" isn't significantly different from "I totally know this '14yo giving a BJ to old man.mp4' was AI generated and that's just my fetish, not real kids"

"sink Twitter and we'll give you some preferential deals"

Yeah, a lot of the stuff that the "Left" fails on seems to be because it hits "well it's not exactly perfect and good for absolutely anybody do we're not gonna do it"

Whereas the "Right" is basically 'well it came from my guy so... seems good'

And if that video built to feature a child performing fellario, it would still be child pornography

When the "AI artwork" is made for the specific purpose of representing underage children and is indistinguishable from the real thing, that argument is going to get flattened pretty quickly.

Pretty easy to present a couple pages to a jury of kids pictures (not nude) and say "tell us which ones were AI".

Does M365 not run on Linux?

Stereotypical asshole

Home Assistant, school gestapo edition?

In some cases a hobby becoming more "mainstream" can also find it being suddenly overwhelmed by those that make it less fun - or less affordable - for others. Sometimes more people can make it more affordable later on (mass production) but supply and demand is also a thing in the mid-term.

If a kinda niche hobby becomes more popular temporarily, there's also the chance that waiting it out will score you some good barely-used gear for cheap as those that buy and try decide it's not for them.

I try to find uses for ours where we can. I have a BBQ with a dead sparker so I usually use a half-tube which I light on fire and drop by the burner before turning on the gas

My doctor is a pretty cool guy and some of the banter during my visits has been fun. If there weren't potential legal implications (for him) I'd totally be down with grabbing a drink after hours and shooting the shit.

Maybe I could invite the dentist that did my root canal too, he was going into the same industry as me before switching to dentistry and was also pretty savvy.

Yeah, there's a reason people prefer Kindle e-ink type e-readers to just using a tablet like a Kindle Fire, even if the latter can do more stuff

They're also only "small" when it comes to big corps wanting to do something exploitive, not for citizens rights

I'll take a shot:

The word "Karen" has taken root in the last decade or so, describing a certain type of (generally female) personality. But why?

Well, that would likely be because it was a very popular name within a certain generation that also displays a fairly common set of behaviour among female members. The epitome of that behavior is one of privilege combined with victimhood.

But "Karen " isn't a person, it's a behavior model, and those "Karen's" had kids (often plenty of them), and created subsequent generations that often learned similar behaviour.

These same people then twist concepts of feminism - which should mean equality - to mean superiority by:

• Expecting been to be in touch with their partner's feelings, but making the latter take precedent.

• Expecting men to take on more traditionally "pink" work (cooking, cleaning, gardening etc) but not being involved in "blue" work (repairs, mowing the lawn, garbage, etc)

• Expecting men to spend more time involved with the children but also expecting them to do all that other stuff that takes up time, while simultaneously paying less attention to they kids themselves (stuck to a phone with kids stuck to a screen)

--

This can include stuff like:

Getting upset because of stuff like "you haven't taken me out to dinner in a long time" while ignoring the part where that's because the credit card hasn't been paid off since that "girls retreat" a month ago that "I totally needed and deserved". Any argument to the contrary is not taking into consideration [female]'s feelings, worth, and hard work.

Killing a discussion about [male]'s worth and feelings with "well you did/do X and that makes me feel terrible" (even if X occured weeks/months/years ago, and never mind if things go beyond feelings and into domestic violence. A man is expected to take it and NEVER raise a hand, even in defence.

Equality has been killed by "if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best".

We don't just see this reflected in relationships. Look at the crazies who will scream their entitlement at wait staff, or even police. Notice that the counter arguments become increasingly "I [don't] deserve this treatment" while ignoring the behaviour leading to it. Girls literally choose not to learn cooking, sewing etc because they don't want to be pigeon-holed into "traditional roles"

So we end up with people like this, whose entire outlook on life is based on what they believe they deserve, with nothing to say how they should act, and everything is always somebody else's fault. Men just fall into one of those "somebody else" categories.

And boys that are raised under these same household? They see their fathers go from proud to beaten-down and often broke after divorce etc. Is it a wonder that many are now growing up to not want relationships or to start a family of their own? It's terrifying.

Now I'm not going to say that this is all women. I've met great women and an proud to be friends with many who are intelligent, self-sufficient, and (hopefully) absent of most of the bullshit above. However, there are an increasing - and rather frightening - number who appear to subscribe to the above, attempting to find a man who "deserves" them (i.e be perfect) without looking at what they bring to the table other than a nice TikTok/Insta profile.

The reality is, a good relationship is a combination of the foundation you start with, what you put in, and sometimes a bit of luck. You need concrete and clean water on solid ground to start. That doesn't work if one person is contributing just sand or water.

If there's evidence of the crime,I don't think they actually need the victim to press charges themselves?

Be realistic. The background should contain Putin, Xi, and various others

They don't read them for the ads , but if you're bored and on the shitter for an extended period you may read them anyways

My phone regularly suggests words or names I've never used in my life, so I don't think it's a good indicator of my personal beliefs

Still waiting for an AI NPC that I can have a real-time conversation with in VR while slaying a dragon on some shit

Meh.. I'm not the best woodworker but I'm not terrible. I'd hope by that time I can at least leave them a decent handcrafted stained table or chair or something. No giant frescoes but nice routered edges on solid wood with a good burn+stain and a thick layer of lacquer.

She also acted very mature for her age.

"girl" is still misleading. At 23 she was still a woman and adult,just a younger woman than one might have assumed

Yeah, the whole "Dems cheated by pulling a switcheroo with candidates" line seemed to feed into that, but I also feel like there was a bit of slack-jawed "well we didn't see this coming" panic in the Republican party as well

While I am on the shitter might actually the most effective time for an ad. It used to be pretty common to keep magazines by the can and those had ads for sometimes interesting stuff

I usually keep a pair of blades. The one off the mower gets sharpened for next time and then I do an oil change + swap yearly.

Within the context it's presented I 100% agree with this. The airline case the AI was basically replacing a human agent/representative, so they were liable in the same way as if a human had provided the misinformation.

In this case, it's presenting details as fact as if they'd come from legit news sources etc. They should face the same penalty as a news agency would be libel.

Now if it's just an AI NPC in a game going a bit off the rails, that's just entertainment. So long as nobody gets to pull the "we're not really news, just entertainment" bullshit.

Or until it starts costing a fuckton of money. I hope a lawsuit by this individual is the start of that

Yeah, people have said that they thought I'd love the idea of a brain implanted computer so I could do cool hacker shit or VR.

Like, noooooo that'd be like the Matrix run by the upper management suites of Boeing and Microsoft.

"Yeah we're sorry hackers broke in and stole all your childhood memories but we couldn't apply any security updates because the QA team had to be fired after the last one left them all barking like dogs and pissing on trees, . Don't worry, we'll fix it in BrainOS 9.8. You'll need to pay for that updated but we're now offering a choice between our premium $1500/mo subscription model or new ads-in-your-dreams model for $600/mo"

That was my first thought. Stopping that flow is what your want the damn tampon for

Yeah, don't be so sure of winning that you get too lazy to fricking vote. And also watch out because I'm sure there will be some dirty tricks around polling stations as certain Republican areas get desperate

Which worked with physical stores but with Amazon where you have 100+ sellers hawking the same defective PoS under 100+ unpronouncable brand-names