blanketswithsmallpox

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blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

2024 will be my year just like every year prior to it has been lol. Just it like it has been for the vast majority of humanity and will continue to be.

blanketswithsmallpox,

Secret of Mana started it all for me.

I’ll accept inexplicably tall towers too. Dark Tower. Tales of Symphonia… Grandias… Mmmmm.

blanketswithsmallpox,

Sorry I was too busy owning noobs with my Kamehamehas to respond right away. Yeah I’ll go with you! It’s a date.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

The sexually abused are NOT more likely to abuse others. They are no more likely to abuse than anyone randomly plucked from the population. A sexual abuser likely having been sexually abused in the past does not mean the same thing.

stopitnow.org/…/will-children-who-get-sexually-ab…

You ARE more like to physically abuse others if you grew up with regular physical abuse as your normal though. Even then, it’s only statistically significant with men and the poor when you dig into thr data.

www.nichd.nih.gov/…/042115-podcast-child-abuse

People abused as children are more likely to be abused as adults.

www.ons.gov.uk/…/2017-09-27

…biomedcentral.com/…/s12888-016-1071-7

blanketswithsmallpox,

Oh God I thought Living the Dream was only super popular in my workplace with the boomers.

It just goes through phases too. One month it’s all you hear. You think it goes away then two months later…

here we go again.jpg

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

Lemmings continue to vastly underestimate who landlords are.

In fact, fewer than one-fifth of rental properties are owned by for-profit businesses of any kind. Most rental properties – about seven-in-ten – are owned by individuals, who typically own just one or two properties, according to 2018 census data. And landlords have complained about being unable to meet their obligations, such as mortgage payments, property taxes and repair bills, because of a falloff in rent payments.

Individual investors owned nearly 14.3 million of those properties (71.6%), comprising almost 19.9 million units (41.2%). For-profit businesses of various sorts owned 3.7 million properties, or 18.8%, but their holdings totaled 21.7 million units, or 45% of the total. Entities such as housing cooperative organizations and nonprofits owned smaller shares of the total.

only about half of individual landlords reported net income in 2018, with the rest losing money on their properties. Such losses can, under certain conditions, be used to offset other taxable income.

pewresearch.org/…/as-national-eviction-ban-expire…

blanketswithsmallpox,

I don’t want anyone to lose access to housing (or food, or healthcare), but I’m much more worried about renters ending up unhoused than landlords.As it stated, most are charging reasonable prices at or below market price. Meaning they are one tiny dam blocking hundreds of thousands of people who can’t afford to live in that city from being homeless. It’s one of the biggest takeaways when you read the article.

Most landlords, the large majority, are essentially people who decided to put their savings into equity rather than tossing their money into a big giant pile for the rich to make themselves richer, aka, the stock market. Sometimes you toss it somewhere and just lose it.

Their price to pay for that equity are taxes and upkeep. Their payoff is selling it when they retire or giving it to their children or grandchildren. I don’t think I’ve ever rented from any suburban or rural landlord that wasn’t in one of these two positions.

These people aren’t megacorporations buying up land from potential homeowners. They’re people in their 60s and 70s now realizing that their investment more often than not was a poor one. They subsidize their tenants allowing them to live in cities and areas they normally wouldn’t. And when they die, the homes are going to children to either sell for a quick buck to fund their own kids college or moving into them when they’re house is now too big since the kids just moved.

As always, the gamut of possibilities is way too wide for such anti-human extremist propaganda that gets pushed then eaten up by people who should know better.

blanketswithsmallpox,

Neat: fritzpak.com/is-sugar-a-good-concrete-retarder/

Although I’m unsure about the pound of sugar to entire cement truck claim.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

Berkeley wants to turn the park where homeless people are staying into housing for homeless and undergraduates… While refreshing 60% of the park.

Why are people upset about housing homeless and undergrads? Is this some NIMBY shit but people dont think it’s NIMBY because it’s their park this time?

peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu

blanketswithsmallpox,

Yes… That’s what NIMBYism is.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

I hear mid and I think oh shit, cheaper for more that isn’t overpriced shiny crystal smelly shit but still almost smokes the same.

Kinda like every movie, song, and game ever describes as mid lol.

I swear people can’t just enjoy popcorn shit anymore which is all anything mid is. Sometimes I don’t want to watch the best movie ever. Sometimes I just want to watch stupid lighthearted comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sometimes I just want another stock standard Meteoidvania or Harvest Moon clone.

When you quit chasing new highs constantly, even the old highs work well. And I don’t even smoke lol.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

I could find none of it via google except maybe the clenched jaw. The vast majority of which are from sketchy health clinics pushing dumb shit to fleece rich people from their money.

www.medicalnewstoday.com/…/jaw-tension-anxiety

So no, scientifically, it doesn’t.

Put your tongue wherever you want, keep your posture moving and in a comfortable position, and if you clench your jaw so hard you grind your teeth, then you have Bruxism, which is something entirely different you slack jawed sheep.

Want better stress relief? Quit doing coke. Quit drinking alcohol. Exercise. Eat better. And most of all, get sleep. If you can’t do any of those on your own, go to a doctor and get help for it.

Why am I Anxious?

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

I saw a social media post that sounds true so it must be… I did something good for myself! Now lets keep ego/doomscrolling social media.

I could find none of it via google except maybe the clenched jaw. The vast majority of which are from sketchy health clinics pushing dumb shit to fleece rich people from their money.

www.medicalnewstoday.com/…/jaw-tension-anxiety

So no, scientifically, it doesn’t.

Put your tongue wherever you want, keep your posture moving and in a comfortable position, and if you clench your jaw so hard you grind your teeth, then you have Bruxism, which is something entirely different you slack (relaxed!) jawed sheep lol.

Want better stress relief? Quit doing coke. Quit drinking alcohol. Exercise. Eat better. And most of all, get sleep. If you can’t do any of those on your own, go to a doctor and get help for it.

Why am I Anxious?

blanketswithsmallpox,

You’re mistaking relaxing your jaw and shoulders for meditation mate lol.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

Polar opposites experience for me. All beef Oscar Meyers are oily gross pieces of trash that only belong in the bin.

Combined meat though? I could eat them plain, in a sandwich, on a pizza, fried for breakfast. Mmmmm.

Cheap BarQs can go in casserole, Mac and cheese and ramen.

blanketswithsmallpox,

… Are they really that much better on the grill? You’re legitimately making me rethink this.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

Link aggregating site users perpetually surprised by aggregated links while feeling superior.

More news at 11.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )
blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

!polyamory, www.lemmy.world/c/polyamory life is nice. Rarely works out long term though, then again, most relationships don’t.

Fucking hell linking to other subs here is bleugh. I do miss that about reddit.

blanketswithsmallpox,

Pretty sure she’s at the neighbor’s house again…

blanketswithsmallpox,

It really feels like !sub should be the default but I get the issue. Different instances. But you’d feel like it would just default to whatever instance you’re already on lol.

The joys of being cradled by tech monoliths then going back to the stone age.

You’re telling me I have to type in the entire address!?!?!

blanketswithsmallpox,

Autistic or asshole…

Him: Either way. Fuck. Yo. Couch.

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