Moose

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Greed is the reason, because they can. People need housing. Same way grocery stores are getting away with charging so much, people need food. The working market theoretically should fix this in time, but so far it isn't. New houses and competing grocery stores don't appear overnight. I fully agree with you, rentals have their place and there can be many benefits, but without proper oversight and rent control this was always going to be the outcome - squeeze as much cash out of people until you literally can't anymore. I don't think there is some secret collusion going on between landlords (at least in most cases), there's really no need. Just watch rental prices, then when the area average becomes higher than you charge for your unit, you raise yours slightly above that. By doing that you've now ever so slightly increased that area's average, now other landlords will raise their prices slighy higher, causing other landlords to raise their prices slightly higher, rinse and repeat. Note that I might be completely off the mark here but this lines up with my experiences at least.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If a consumer watches something on their Apple TV and then presses the pause button, a Roku TV set could use either audio or video-based content recognition technologies (known in the industry as ACR) to identify what’s being watched, match the current scene to a database and extract relevant information to pair an ad with it.

Wow somehow their idea is even worse than I imagined, glad I don't own a Roku now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It says 5 moves, which could average 10 seconds or less per move if it's speed ~~chess~~ sex, so a much more realistic standard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's a pic of the goofball during winter, somehow in a state halfway between sitting and standing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh boy yeah that sounds awful, it was bad enough with them isolated downstairs and after washing the dog immediately. Both times I could very easily smell it in my room for at least a week, fades over time though, first few days suckkkk.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I always thought people overexaggerated about how dramatic huskys are - until I had one live below me for a few years. Some of those noises just made me laugh from how goofy it was. Dummy got sprayed by a skunk too, twice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Poor lil dude looks petrified 🥺 Glad they were able to catch and rescue it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

shiiiiid, i guess thats me

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The fact that the hair looks almost identical to a girl I dated in High School who shaved her eyebrows at one point is just too perfect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't print a mask but I did join in on a city wide effort to make 'ear savers' and give them away free for hospital and other essential workers. I do wonder how many of the ones I made got used, I wasn't too fond of the design and found a better one a month later but by that point they had tens of thousands and weren't accepting more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My roommate from a year ago was adamant CCleaner was required for his PC to keep running. In 2023. I was just shocked to see it was still even a thing.

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