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aesthelete, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

They wanted to DNA test my dog and keep his biometric data on file as part of the terms of the last lease I was looking at.

I uhh, didn’t fucking sign. The neofeudalist movement is for real.

aesthelete, (edited ) to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

They don’t do that at all anyway, but hey at least the professional landlord class gets to inflict upon you one more indignity for some imagined benefit.

The park adjacent to those buildings has so much dog turd in it you’d think they were purposely producing low quality fertilizer over there.

aesthelete, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

Nobody’s DNA testing dog stool. They can’t be bothered to even do routine move out cleanings in those apartments. The whole thing is a giant farcical pretendy power game played out by managers far away designing a system for the benefit of their rentier owners to simultaneously rob renters of their last scraps of dignity and every remaining dime they have in the form of bullshit fees.

aesthelete, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

Nowadays too they often require renter’s insurance so they can get money from the insurance company if you leave too many peasant droppings on the floor during your stay.

aesthelete, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

I’m aware that the apartment people aren’t running the DNA database themselves. They have some weirdo company that does it. I’m also aware that that weirdo company (or companies) is capable of putting together a website.

I’m saying I live in the same neighborhood (I bought a place). Nobody is going through that park and picking up the dozens of available dog stool and sending it off to some lab to be tested. They just aren’t. The whole fucking thing is a wet dream had by some awful corporate bureaucrat that only succeeds in making renters lives a little more miserable and pads the pockets of some other random, doggy DNA database building weirdo somewhere else.

aesthelete, to asklemmy in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

The NFL. Really? Two games on Christmas? Multiple games on Christmas Eve? Go fuck yourselves.

aesthelete, (edited ) to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

For the record I’m not actually pro “leave your dog shit everywhere” I just question both the imposition of the indignity of subjecting your tenants to pet DNA screening, and the effectiveness of it as a mechanism for preventing that.

I actually am pro throw unbagged dog shit in a bag-containing garbage can though, and don’t really understand why anyone would care about that.

I tend to see more of the leaving it on the ground, not even the throwing it in a can.

Edit: Alright, you guys are right, you need at least 2 layers of bags for dog shit. But then I guess triples might be safer, or even quads. Fuck it, every piece of dog shit must be wrapped in at least twenty layers of plastic before it hits the landfill! We need to preserve the remains of this dog shit forever!! It’ll be our mummies!!! Inject it with formaldehyde!!!

aesthelete, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

If you didn’t have insurance, they’d just need more insurance themselves and they’ll pass that buck on to you.

I honestly think they should be prevented from just transparently passing every single cost of ownership (as well as most of their responsibilities) onto renters, but I’m also American so I understand what you’re saying here.

aesthelete, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

You caught me, I’m complaining about DNA testing of dogs because it’s actually me sneaking out at night and pooping (not even the dog, but me). I shit out there just for you, bud.

aesthelete, (edited ) to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

I’m going to briefly go on a related rant here that you can feel free to ignore.

rantPeople in America have this perspective that if somehow you devise a theoretical solution to a problem (especially if it’s fancy and requires “tech” and “DNA” and labcoats) that you will magically have solved the problem. This isn’t actually the case, and it’s shown to not be the case over and over and over again in this country and everyone still seems purposely ignorant to that simple concept. Things have unintended effects. Systems can have effectiveness issues. System costs (of all types, not just monetary) on all parties involved in the administration of those systems are often left unconsidered because it’s not part of the problem solver’s business model. Convoluted systems will not be fully understood by the agents who are supposed to implement them. Modern, technical solutions to problems are not magically better or more effective than the alternatives that are very often never even considered, simply because it wouldn’t give you a reason to strap on a lab coat, or start up a new SaSS company.

aesthelete, to memes in Flight sim people are on another level

I work in the motorcycle industry and there’s a large overlap between pilots and motorcycle riders for some reason.

I got a single neighbor who has two different cars, a bunch of e-scooters, and builds different e-bikes constantly in his garage. Some people are just enthusiastic about modes of transportation I think…

aesthelete, to lemmyshitpost in How much for cuddles?

I can pee and throw up 10 times per day, no issues.

Am I the only one alarmed that he’s cleaning up so much vomit? I mean I get that he wants the BJs, but is he feeding the kids syrup of ipecac sandwiches?

aesthelete, to comicstrips in Banksy on Advertising [Zen Pencils]

Points deducted for missing an opportunity to use the word penultimate.

aesthelete, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

You think they have a lab in the apartment complex and they’re doing the testing themselves? 😆

aesthelete, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

I dunno maybe it isn’t entirely but it’s a very pervasive attitude here.

Look at the COVID death numbers in the US versus some places that had the common sense to just use masks.

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