benignintervention

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

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

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

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

My brother in Christ, they're literally contesting it

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

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

I'm getting Deus Ex vibes

Just practice for the human rights violations

http://radio.garden/

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

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.

This is just Westworld.

I'm tired, boss

I initially wrote "opaque" and then second guessed myself, got confused, and refused to look up the correct use.