benignintervention

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I guess to be more specific, you can request 6 months of your data

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I used this exact thing as a teaching aid when I taught the ROTC opsec lesson. Also scared a couple kids pale when I told them Snapchat keeps a 6-month record of everything you send

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I waited for a train for the first in years the other day and every third connex was a dark gray Amazon box with the blue smile. It felt surreal and utterly dystopian cyberpunk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It always struck me as both humble and proud and it only becomes more meaningful as I age.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I was just trying to remember this today, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 167 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I hate the existing copyright system and would love to see it contested.

My brother in Christ, they're literally contesting it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you want to support local book stores, you can use bookshop.org. not sure how that affiliate outside the US though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I sincerely hope that shitposting saves us from the hell big Corpo has made of the world

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm getting Deus Ex vibes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Just practice for the human rights violations

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

http://radio.garden/

It's the radio, but you can access any station on earth that broadcasts through the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Two years ago I became a first time homeowner. I'm moving in 6 months and am going to keep this property and rent it out. I cannot afford to buy another house almost anywhere in the US. I will be renting. However, I closed on this place with 3% interest and pay $1500/mo for the mortgage, plus about $250 for utilities. Round up to $1800/mo. Anyone buying at today's interest and value with 20% down is looking at a mortgage of about $2300/mo, before utilities.

I absolutely resent this market, but I refuse to let this place go into the hands of anyone like Blackrock. And since I don't care about maximizing profit, I can keep the rate on the lower end and help someone live here for a few hundred a month less than they could with a new sale. I can rent it for $1700-1800/mo to cover incidentals and repair and still let a renter live here for less than a new mortgage.

I've been toying with the idea of counting every dollar the renter pays against the mortgage and selling to them at the difference when (if) rates come back down.

Certainly not ideal, and a little bit apologetic, but in this situation it's about as close as I can get to a win-win. Or least lost-least lost.

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