smitten / is on Nostr

queer, interested in software, politics, games

attempts anticapitalist, antiracist, antifascist. anxiously shitposting

previously smitten@snowdin.town

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2023-12-25 16:04:40

PSA Gleason is bypassing authorized fetch. on the one hand, that's a shitty thing to do. on the other hand, please be aware how little authorized fetch really does to protect your content. I support creative solutions to blocking and detecting manipulated requests @npub1y06…4jn4 .
https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/rebased/-/snippets/3634512
#note1pyu…2nk7

2023-08-06 18:49:54

how did Threads go? is it dead yet

2023-08-05 23:24:05

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@npub13w6…479m It would really simplify things. There are definitely legitimate reasons to rent out a space. sometimes people need to travel for work for a year or two but plan to come back. sometimes people rent to family or friends because they want to keep a place that has emotional weight. whatever. I'm not against renting in general, but the idea of people being a landlord for their job, purposely taking out loans they can't pay back with the intention of exploiting people looking for housing, that is disgusting.

2023-08-05 23:20:12

it's a myth that tenants create maintenance costs. anyone living in a space creates maintenance needs. that's called wear and tear. there are also some kinds of maintenance that happen even if no one is living there, like roof repair or replacing a furnace.
owning property means needing to cover the costs of the property, whether you personally live there or not.
so landlords are really only giving up one thing, which is their own ability to stay in the property. many of them don't even want to stay in their properties anyway. so why do they have the property at all?

2023-08-05 18:18:17

if your MPs choose the PM then you also don't have a popular vote. just sayin

2023-08-05 17:47:40

60% tax on rental income and all rent is tax deductible for tenants. and if you own more than one rental property it goes up to 85%
I am being reasonable, these numbers are far below 100%

2023-08-05 13:21:45

'channers' who wear masks but say a word people think is edgy
vs
liberals who practice saying the right words but don't wear masks to the grocery store
that's a tough one

2023-08-05 03:13:33

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@npub13w6…479m I've been following this series by you and I'm sad this is how it ends. maybe that's why I couldn't understand them