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GrammatonCleric, in System of a D'oh!
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I wanna know the facts behind this story šŸ¤”

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The fact is that Serj is a class traitor.

All Landlords Are Bastards.

He can talk all the good talk all he wants but heā€™s renting a luxury place for $6000 a month.

brbposting,

AyyyyyyLABmooooo

UnverifiedAPK,

Crab pot mentality

BarrelAgedBoredom,

I donā€™t necessarily disagree with you, but I have a hard time feeling sympathy for anyone who has the means to blow 6k/mo on a luxury rental. At his level of wealth and privilege heā€™s not really a class traitor is he? A bourgeois parasite on other bourgeois parasites maybe, but not a class traitor.

Semi tangent warning. Being a socialist doesnā€™t mean taking a vow of poverty. If youā€™re in a position that affords you a certain level of wealth, thatā€™s not an inherently bad thing and youā€™re not ā€œless socialistā€ for it. There are obviously systemic pressures that act on wealthy people that encourage certain behaviors and thatā€™s something to be aware of and mitigated as much as possible. Living in a capitalist economy means we have money, and people with a lot of money can put it to good use in supporting struggles. Until we can rid ourselves of market economies there will always be some people who have more wealth than others, itā€™s a function of currency no matter how itā€™s structured.

I obviously canā€™t say this is the case for serj, I donā€™t know much about his finances or what he does with it outside of supporting left wing movements and the liberation of Armenian people. He may do other things with his wealth that would be unbecoming of a socialist, canā€™t say. But the fact that heā€™s wealthy doesnā€™t immediately mean heā€™s a fraud, the fact that heā€™s a landlord definitely raises some eyebrows. But the elements of violence and coercion that are normally present in housing rentals arenā€™t really present here. If you can afford a 6k rental, you can afford to buy a house basically anywhere. With that kind of budget youā€™re not really in a ā€œfork over most of your money or be homelessā€ situation. Yes, private property is bad, but thatā€™s just an aspect of our current social structure that canā€™t feasibly be eliminated yet. Heā€™s playing the game a bit and that can be fairly criticized given his stated political positions, but itā€™s not necessarily an affront to the concept of socialism itself

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

No, when millions of homes are owned but left empty because theyā€™re unafforable for people to live in, anyone involved in keeping housing off the market for only themselves is a class traitor.

When millions are in the streets who have jobs but housing is unaffordable itā€™s a fucking indictment of our entire system and all the people who own more than one piece of property.

If he is renting it, he has a place to live.

What, youā€™re fine with paying this pricks mortgage for him?

In my city thereā€™s a guy who owns some of housing, but he tries to bring down property values with them, so people can afford to live in the neighborhood. He rents them well under market value and paints them entirely black, out of character for their neighborhoods. Thatā€™s class solidarity.

BarrelAgedBoredom,

I agree with you generally, but narrowing the scope to serj specifically Iā€™m not 100% on the same page. You say heā€™s a class traitor, but thatā€™s assuming heā€™s in the same class as you and I. His net worth is apparently ~$20 million. Are you a multi-millionaire? I know Iā€™m not. Heā€™s simply not in the same social class as you and I. As I said earlier, the relationship of violence and coercion (which is only part of the issue) that makes renting problematic. Heā€™s taking money from people in the same class as himself. If anything, the idea that heā€™s taking money from other wealthy people and (presumably) and funneling it to progressive causes should be a point of reassurance. I donā€™t personally view it that way and I definitely see the red flags but Iā€™m being hypothetical-ish here.

Serj isnā€™t personally responsible for homelessness and poverty and he could (I would argue has an obligation to) be doing more. It is an indictment of our system, youā€™re absolutely right. But is it an indictment of him specifically?

If other rich people are paying for another rich personā€™s mortgage, I donā€™t personally have a big issue with it. Itā€™s money changing hends between two people in a similar position. Again, the rent is 6,000 dollars a month. Thatā€™s 3x what I make in month working 60 hours a week in public service. I donā€™t feel bad that a rich person is fleecing another rich person. It happens all the time and itā€™s either inconsiquential or very, very mildly helpful to the left in general.

To your last section, that looks like beneficial virtue signaling to me. That landlord has a direct impact on the livelihoods of people like you and I, serj doesnā€™t. If he were serious about expressing solidarity he would do something akin to rent to own for his tenants or give them equity in his business.

Land lords are shitty. Youā€™re right. Serj is doing a shitty thing by renting his house. Considering the context in which this shitty thing is taking place, who itā€™s affecting, I donā€™t think itā€™s as shitty as you think it is. We could extrapolate and put all of our problems on serj tankian but that doesnā€™t do much. Itā€™s the system weā€™re within and the selective pressures at play to blame, not this specific individual. If we were talking about someone like Larry fink (CEO of blackrock) Iā€™d be with you, but weā€™re not

KoalaUnknown, (edited )

I wouldnā€™t exactly call a 1900 sqrt ft. house ā€œluxuryā€. $6000 a month may sound crazy but thatā€™s extremely reasonable for the area.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Thereā€™s a fucking housing crisis and youā€™re the second chucklefuck to defend this dumb shit.

No, when millions of homes are owned but left empty because theyā€™re unafforable for people to live in, anyone involved in keeping housing off the market for only themselves is a class traitor.

When millions are in the streets who have jobs but housing is unaffordable itā€™s a fucking indictment of our entire system and all the people who own more than one piece of property.

If he is renting it, he has a place to live.

What, youā€™re fine with paying this pricks mortgage for him?

In my city thereā€™s a guy who owns a bunch of housing, but he tries to bring down property values with them, so people can afford to live in the neighborhood. He rents them well under market value and paints them entirely black, out of character for their neighborhoods. Thatā€™s class solidarity.

KoalaUnknown,

Maybe he is just living in a temporary place somewhere else for work? Itā€™s not like he buying houses in mass to rent them.

You donā€™t even know what he is doing with the profits. Maybe he is donating to charity or maybe he is just coving his mortgage.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Maybe he is donating to charity

Charity is a farce. We need progressive taxation. We shouldnā€™t have to rely on the flighty kindness of the rich to achieve anything in society.

KoalaUnknown, (edited )

We DO have progressive taxation, but itā€™s full of loopholes and doesnā€™t work.

But whatever you want to be reality, is not, and we do rely on the kindness of the rich so would you rather them not be kind?

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

No, Iā€™d rather eat the rich.

wandermind, in How I like my pi

Pihole and uBlock Origin have different purposes. Pihole blocks ad domains network-wide. uBlock Origin can remove specific elements from specific webpages with surgical precision regardless of the domain the content is served from, so it is a much more precise wide-spectrum content blocker.

In other words, uBlock Origin can block basically everything, but only works in your browser. Pihole blocks fewer things and less precisely but works for all your devices.

abcde_fz,

Thank you, this clears it up really well!

brain_in_a_box, in OHHH WAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF TRAITORS,

Everyone here acting like the Biden administration is actually going to call their bluff and not just fold instantly is either terminally coping or only just started following politics today.

Rhynoplaz,

Let us dream, dammit!

nxdefiant,

I donā€™t know what his limit break is to transform into Dark Brandon and start going full Homelander, but I hope itā€™s close.

cmbabul, in How I like my pi

pfsense with blockerng anyone?

herrcaptain,

This sounds like something I should look into. I already run pfsense and wanted to look into a pihole, but if I can do it all in pfsense thatā€™ll work out even better. Thanks!

cmbabul,

Iā€™d recommend it, not very hard to setup and thereā€™s tons of guides online if you need help

gnuplusmatt,

Opnsense with unbound dns for me

Anticorp, in How I like my pi

NextDNS & a VPN should be in there somewhere.

xe3,

NextDNS and pihole serve the same purpose and are redundant. Personally I prefer NextDNS but it wouldnā€™t make sense in ops meme

rammjet, in How I like my pi

Pi-hole wonā€™t block Youtube ads. uBlock Origin does.

JohnDClay,

Is there any router side solutions for YouTube adds? I want to block for my family, but they donā€™t see the point.

CosmicTurtle,

You have to set up a proxy.

Even for those who are technical enough to set up a pihole, itā€™s annoying to set up a proxy and some apps simply wonā€™t work with it.

rustydomino,
@rustydomino@lemmy.world avatar

I would love to learn how to block YouTube ads with a proxy. Do you have a link to instructions?

CosmicTurtle,

Not sure if these instructions work. First result from Google.

ivn,

It does not. Domain based blocking does not work with youtube.

Your link event says it:

Some ads may [ā€¦] be served through the same domain as the website, making them harder to block without blocking the website itself.

There is no point in using a proxy for this, because of https it wonā€™t be able to block more than with DNS blocking. Maybe a tiny bit more if you set up mitm but thatā€™s really not worth it.

Fosheze, (edited )

Nope. Youtube ads are served from the same domains as the videos so there is nothing you can to to block them via DNS. Your best bet is just installing Ublock for them. Now a days an ad blocker is a security necessity anyways.

mrmacduggan,

Installing uBlock is so quick, all you need is 30 seconds of their consent to lean over their shoulder and install it. The whole process can be faster than the actual ad break, in some cases.

Steve,

Ublock on roku when?

Fosheze,

When you stop using roku and just plug in a cheap used laptop or something instead

Steve,

Thats about to happen, Iā€™m just going to miss the tv remote user interface

Fosheze,

I actually really like the unified remote app. It lets you use your phone as a remote for any computer on the same network. I think the premium version just lets you link more computers otherwise the free version is just as good.

Zerush, in How the mighty have fallen
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

Not all birds have forgotten, this one can gut a human in half a second.

animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/cassowary.htm

Siegfried,

Wait, floridians are afraid of wild cats?

psud,

And this one will steal your lunch

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu

platypus_plumba,

the article says there are no records for that claim.

Cypher,

Cassowaries have a claw on their middle toe that is up to 12cm long.

Im just going to assume itā€™s possible even if its unlikely.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

No witnesses.

peopleproblems, (edited ) in They wish

So ive put a lot of thot into this, and after going through what I did with my ex wife, I think it wouldnā€™t be a problem so long as

A. I know about it.

B. I get access to it and all paid content

C. No one else appears in it. This covers the whole ā€œwell that was an old video I uploadedā€ scenario too.

D. The relationship is otherwise secure.

E. But the real problem would be someone with an onlyfans wanting to date me.

Bunnylux,
@Bunnylux@lemmy.world avatar

Itā€™s fine to not want to date someone with an onlyfans, but I feel like the guys who go out of their way to say it usually have other red flags about

HonoraryMancunian,

Basically men who: ā€”

Could never get a woman that hot

Get jealous easily

Donā€™t like women having agency over their sexuality

Donā€™t like women having agency over themselves full stop

afraid_of_zombies,

Right I donā€™t see where you get the ability to mindread people nor guilt people into being in a relationship that they donā€™t want to be in.

agitatedpotato, (edited )

I just ask that people realize what I realize, which is itā€™s an issue with ME that Iā€™m not secure enough to be with a person who I can see having sex with someone else. I cannot control my feelings but I am responsible for them, or at the very least, other people are not responsible for them(at least in this example anyway itā€™s not as if the of model was having sex with other people AT me.)

Bunnylux,
@Bunnylux@lemmy.world avatar

Itā€™s ok to be monogamous :)

agitatedpotato, (edited )

Oh absolutely, I dont feel bad about that. But the feeling I get thinking about being with someone who does that kind of stuff is exactly a feeling of insecurity. Itā€™s fine and normal, same way its normal to have a little anxiety or a little depression. In healthy doses itā€™s essentially just personality traits, but to me those feeling stem from insecurity. Perhaps itā€™s even innate and not something to be ā€˜fixedā€™ but it still feels like insecurity to me. But Iā€™m realizing that I suppose I can only speak for myself here.

afraid_of_zombies,

Except insecurity the word is used always as a pejorative.

agitatedpotato,

It doesnā€™t have to. Same with anxiety, alone no oneā€™s going to think the word itself is good, yet a healthy dose of anxiety is simply awareness.

afraid_of_zombies,

It isnā€™t about what you think it should mean it matters how people use it.

agitatedpotato, (edited )

Thats not what I think it should mean, thats how emotions work. Those feelings stem from insecurity. Thatā€™s factual. People say theyā€™re so OCD when they like to be organized, is that what OCD means now?

afraid_of_zombies,

I think you are aware that your comparison is false.

agitatedpotato,

I think youā€™re grasping at straws because you donā€™t want to engage with complex feelings.

afraid_of_zombies,

Fine you go around demanding everyone change the meaning of a word.

agitatedpotato,

You seem to be the only one who doesnā€™t get it. Good luck with your emotional intelligence though.

afraid_of_zombies,

ā€œseemā€. Making assumptions now.

agitatedpotato,

Really scaping the bottom of the barrel. Seems to me is synonymous with looks to me. Got anything else or just more dissappontment for your English teacher?

MotoAsh,

C and E sound indicative of some insecurities.

Spendrill,

Yes, but the vast majority of us do have some insecurities and you can at least be honest with yourself and your partner about them.

MotoAsh,

Agreed, but know what they are. They arenā€™t lines to control someone with. Theyā€™re lines someone should agree with and should know may be signs of other controlling behavior. So many people are OK with being controlled and itā€™s frankly pathetic.

peopleproblems,

Ha, C&E are actually relationship needs of mine, friend.

In fact, I think the others are more indicative of my insecurities, but hey, Iā€™m not anxious-avoidant so I donā€™t know for sure.

MotoAsh, (edited )

If youā€™re dealing with the boundaries healthily, then itā€™s not so much an insecurity and more of a limitation. If others are aware and OK with it, Iā€™d call that healthily dealt with. Whether or not the limitation is a problem is merely a matter of preference, and luckily it sounds like yours line up.

I love how everyone assumes ā€œindicative ofā€ is a direct accusationā€¦ As if false red flags based on perception do not exist. People are so small minded.

MySwellMojo,

I mean, I wouldnā€™t want to deal with the mental gymnastics involved with my significant other getting down with other people

Paradachshund,

I think they were reacting to the ā€œno one can appear even if it was an old video before we metā€ part.

MySwellMojo,

I mean, thereā€™s still mental gymnastics going on there. For me at least

MotoAsh, (edited )

An open relationship isnā€™t that weird of a concept to some. Itā€™s about how much others mean to you, not how much of them you posess. People in these comments are fucking pathetic for not understanding this basic fact of healthy relationships: You do not own anyone else. To any degree. Period.

Nelots,

Thatā€™s a neat story you got there, but literally nobody here is saying they do own someone else.

MotoAsh, (edited )

Why yes you are correct: what Iā€™m saying isnā€™t appliccable to 100% of people! Do you want a gold star for your basic observation?

Itā€™s like you retards donā€™t understand that not everyone has or wants the same relationship.

You are in this comic.

MySwellMojo,

I mean weā€™re just chatting, but for some reason it feels like youā€™re yelling

MotoAsh,

Not my problem Poeā€™s Law is real.

Nelots,

do you want a gold star for your obsevation

you retards

you are in this comic

Haha yeah, only 75% of your comment was attempting to be insulting in some way! How could anybody think youā€™re being an ass? Poeā€™s law sure is crazy.

MotoAsh,

Right, Iā€™m definitely not commenting about the previous part of the discussion. Or did you forget that happened?

Retard is apparently appropriate.

Nelots, (edited )

People in these comments are fucking patheticā€¦

Amazing how you children cannotā€¦

Iā€™m sorry for not going into further detail?? Youā€™ve used belittling or downright insulting language in like 5/7 of your comments in this thread now. And the small page of profile digging I had to do to find those shows itā€™s not just this thread youā€™ve got an attitude in. Maybe youā€™re the problem and not everybody else?

MotoAsh, (edited )

About conversations turning south? Absolutely, totally my fault. Though youā€™re still all retards fundamentally failing to understand how healthy relationships work or how what I said applies.

Nelots,

The problem is that so far literally nobody has disagreed with you. Some people have said that open relationships arenā€™t for them, and then you went and said theyā€™re claiming they own people??

Please point to a single instance where somebody has said they own someone else, or that they think open relationships are disgusting or some shit. No, I imagine we all understand how healthy relationships work but youā€™re too busy putting words in our mouths to see that youā€™re insulting people over things they never said.

MotoAsh,

Do not take me speaking in generalities as specific accusations. You people really need to learn reading comprehension.

MySwellMojo,

Lol

Nelots, (edited )

I said nobody here. I.e. these comments, the people you said think that. Would you like a participation trophy for your reading comprehension?

AscendantSquid,

I think most people here agree with you, itā€™s just that the way youā€™re speaking to them comes off as judgemental and kinda mean, so they respond accordingly.

MySwellMojo,

No ownership, but sharing time. I want to buy a house not a time-share. I want that deep emotional connection with someone. I donā€™t have the capacity to have more than one deep connection and would like someone similar. If my partner chooses they want something open, thatā€™s fine, but we would transition to friends

agitatedpotato, (edited )

Im someone for whom C is a necessity like the person youā€™re responding too and I think youā€™re 100% right.

It may not be a nessesarily pathological insecurity, but it absolutely is an insecurity.

If I felt more secure Iā€™d probably be able to deal with it. I donā€™t think that means im a necessarily insecure person, or am someone for whom insecurity is a clinical problem, but at least comparatively that makes it an insecurity.

You can get depressed and not have depression, you can get insecure and not be an insecure person, heck you can even maintain a healthy amount of anxiety. These are essentially just human traits and thereā€™s no shame in admitting that I have a trait thatā€™s at least a little rooted in insecurity so long as it doesnā€™t negatively impact my life.

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Ehehehehee, a lot of thot. Nice.

HonoraryMancunian,

I wouldnā€™t mind C, so long as itā€™s someone where all 3 of us are willing to have some fun together privately anyway

Marduk73, in New Yorker Caption Contest #695
@Marduk73@sh.itjust.works avatar

that explains the yeast infection

blackbrook,

And, worse, the crumbs in the bed.

TooLazyDidntName, in Texas: We're going to secede

Succeed at what?

AnomalousBit,

Certainly not a spelling bee!

Quexotic, in Spices too

I have mixed feelings because they are dog poison. Makes me feel like theyā€™re kind of evil.

RizzRustbolt,

Theyā€™re people poison too. We just out-toleranced them.

Quexotic,

Really? I didnā€™t know!

TexasDrunk,

I feel like thatā€™s a lot of things. Some of us poison ourselves recreationally with alcohol.

ethan,

If grapes and chocolate are evil I think Iā€™d rather be evil.

Quexotic,
username_unavailable, in New Yorker Caption Contest #695

If this was the winner, can you imagine how bad the others were?

Dasnap,
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Nah mate nothing can compete with this.

SpaceNoodle, in New Yorker Caption Contest #695

Christ, what an asshole.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Woke up this morning and it seemed to me,

That every night turns out to be

A little more like Bukowski.

And yeah, I know heā€™s a pretty good read.

But God whoā€™d want to be?

God whoā€™d want to be such an asshole?

God whoā€™d want to be?

God whoā€™d want to be such an asshole?

zaph,

I think I fucked up the last line

BestBouclettes, in Spices too

Sucks to have IBS, itā€™s hard to avoid alliumsā€¦

theangryseal,

Me too, and I just suffer for it haha.

I know itā€™s stupid, but I just canā€™t give up good food. My stomach will hurt so bad it feels like I have back problems or something and Iā€™m still not eating spaghetti without my garlic bread.

I donā€™t eat the good stuff constantly, most of my meals are bland. When I get a chance though I donā€™t pass on it.

emptiestplace,

How sensitive are you? Iā€™ve found I struggle with them a bit if I eat lots suddenly after not eating them for a while, but if I continue, it tends to be fine. My guess is that the reason it is inconsistent for me is related to fluctuations in gut bacteria partially due to what I am eatingā€¦

I know actual IBS is no joke, but I think it would be interesting to determine your threshold and see if you can change it at all. For example, eat a pea-sized piece of onion and wait a couple days. No effect, start eating a pea-sized piece of onion every day and wait for cumulative effects (a week or two?). Still no effect, add another piece for one day, go back to regular dose for a couple days, etc. When you reach the point where it starts to cause discomfort, back off a bit and try to push it again in a week or two.

BestBouclettes,

Iā€™ve never really tried to change it, I adapted as best as I could.
Iā€™m intolerant to most fodmap (lactose, mannitol, fructans, gos and fructose). I also noticed that gluten can wreck me if I eat too much of it, fatty food can trigger me as well as alcohol.
It was hard to get used to it but now itā€™s a question of self regulation. I skip most of the things that trigger me and indulge sometimes, often a bit too much and I have to face the consequences for up to a week or so. Lactose is the easiest to deal with because of lactase, the rest not so muchā€¦ I guess at least Iā€™m not celiac or suffering of Crohnā€™s, so thatā€™s that I guess.

BmeBenji, in How I like my pi

PiHole doesnā€™t work with VPNs, does it?

Tenthrow,
@Tenthrow@lemmy.world avatar

No because VPNs route your traffic through an encrypted tunnel. But PiHole can filter traffic on any device on your network regardless of whether or not you can install a plugin.

Landmammals,

Yes, its a DNS server. You can set up your device to use whatever DNS server you choose, including pihole.

Iā€™ve got my VPN connected with pihole as the default DNS server so it works on my phone when Iā€™m not at home.

9point6,

Yep it does, most VPN software lets you configure the DNS server to be your pihole.

If you care about the privacy of your DNS requests, tunnel the pihole through a VPN too

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