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interolivary, 8 months ago (edited 19 days ago)

Up until very recently most housing in Finland was co-ops, and it’s still extremely common although many new developments are built and owned by corporations which then rent them out.

I live and own shares in a new housing co-op (proportional to the size of my apartment), and all of us together own and run the building and we’re renting the property from the city (although you can buy your share of that property off from the city if you don’t want to pay that rent.) It’s not a perfect system by any means but it’s better than corporations owning everything; ideally the people who live in a building are the ones who decide how it’s run, but of course that’s sort of gone out the window too with rich people just buying properties speculatively and to rent them out. If enough of the shareholders in a building are rent-seekers, upkeep of the building is going to go way down because they don’t live there themselves and don’t give a shit about whether it’s a nice place to live in, they care about making a profit.

interolivary, 9 months ago

show that Descartes was wrong, because they exist but they don’t think.

“A therefore B” doesn’t imply “B therefore A”

interolivary, 8 months ago

I don’t think the goal of Beehaw is momentum or growth, or at least that’s the way it’s seemed to me

interolivary, 8 months ago

See my other comment on this thread, I think it applies to your comment too

interolivary, 8 months ago

Beehaw was around much before the current “population explosion” of the Fediverse, though, and by all accounts was doing just fine. Naturally it didn’t have as much content as it currently does, but the sort of reddit-esque content flood that some people seem to need really isn’t a requisite for sites to thrive.

I’m on a small lemmy/reddit -like content aggregator / forum that has maybe a few hundred users, and while it’s certainly quiet compared to Lemmy nowadays, it’s got a small active community and nobody feels like it would need more “volume” to be a nice place to be.

interolivary, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I lost the game years ago, and soon you will have lost it too. It’s a 20 year old meme, but basically:

The Game is a mind game in which the objective is to avoid thinking about The Game itself. Thinking about The Game constitutes a loss, which must be announced each time it occurs. It is impossible to win most versions of The Game. Depending on the variation, it is held that the whole world, or all those who are aware of the game, are playing it at all times. Tactics have been developed to increase the number of people who are aware of The Game, and thereby increase the number of losses.

interolivary, 9 months ago

Oh nice, I’ve never thought to make fried onion garnish in a microwave

interolivary, 8 months ago

More cost effective solution: space (verb) billionaires (noun)

interolivary, 9 months ago

so you can keep your phone away from your bed to improve sleep quality

Wait how does this work

interolivary, 9 months ago

Ohhh duh right, of course. I was thinking like notification sounds or even the signal itself somehow interfering with sleep quality

interolivary, 9 months ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’d be the last free election in the US if Trump gets elected again

interolivary, 9 months ago

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0f77c6f7-8477-441e-bf2d-065872264b40.webp

interolivary, 8 months ago

But only if you get caught! Rule #62, “the riskier the road, the greater the profit”

interolivary, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’ll be treating the freebie as a limited collectable in a video game

Ah so you’ll be using it impulsively on the first thing that crosses your mind, only to regret what you did just moments afterwards?

and never use it fearing that I’ll waste it

Oh I see