Can i also interest you in the Southwest? Tolkien based the Shire on it you know :) x

Cornwall can drift into the Atlantic for all I care but Devon/Somerset are surely worth hanging onto!

Fight me and my bad dentistry you overweight, stetson wearing, language butchering, gun touting redneck.

The UK has a Michelin star restaurant for every 360k people, the US has one for every 1.5million people.

Dammit, I thought we were joining up with the Arctic.

I don’t do well in the heat :(

Not in the way it used to be though. I guess what I really miss is finding matches for counterstrike and stuff using IRC, it felt properly community based instead of designed to extract maximum money.

I miss IRC

Summoning Salt.

Not many people can make a 2 hr video about the world record progression of a game I’ve never heard of and have me absolutely invested in it all the way through.

Dude makes a video every 3-6months but god I love them. If anything they’ve improved over the years as his style has been refined and the videos got longer.

Sounds like something a fat stupid American would say.

My 10month old son has always just shut up and listened whenever sound of silence comes on (the disturbed version, he doesn’t care for S+G it seems) and that was my number 1 by a distance I think.

367 listens, so more than daily, I don’t mind though as it’s a proper banger and I could listen to David Draimans voice forever.

I guess everyone is on the right when you’re on the absolute most extreme left.

You summarised my feelings far more eloquently than I managed here yesterday.

Downvote for you!!

But seriously, lemmy feels like more of an echo chamber than reddit ever did to me (which is saying a lot), maybe that’s because it’s an echo chamber for views i don’t agree with and reddit was more aligned to my thinking so I notice it more here, but dear god it’s getting harder and harder to stick around.

Welcome to lemmy.

Honestly, no I’m far from an expert in political or economic matters. I’m just yet to see a system proposed that could work in reality given how complex humans are and how “value” is almost impossible to define when everyone sees it differently.

Plenty of countries have tried though and none have made it work from what I’ve seen. This is possibly (probably) a gross oversimplification but ultimately someone (or some group) ends up at the top of the tree and unless that group is uncorruptable forever it ends with imbalance.

Asking everyone to share as needed and own nothing would be great if everyone wanted everyone else to be equally happy and nobody was trying to take more for themselves (and if everyone had the same idea of what everything is worth). I think at the very least we can agree that some people are more selfless than others and other people will always exploit that given an opportunity.

I honestly wasn’t sure if the communist stuff was being said ironically or not initially.

Are people really convinced that a communist solution will ever work in reality? In principle it sounds great but it relies on EVERYONE being a perfect unselfish person which is obviously never going to happen.

I feel less and less able to sympathise with typical lemmy users tbh, there’s a bigger feeling of exclusion in the communities than reddit ever seemed to have.

It seems like if I don’t agree with all of the following that I’m a dick and represent everything that’s wrong in the world:

• all landlords are scumbags
• cars are the worst possible solution for travel in every situation
• communism is the answer to all of societies problems
• Linux is the only reasonable option and anything else makes me a demon who supports every aspect of capitalism.

Anyway, bring on the pitchforks, happy to discuss any of the points mentioned :) x

Interesting that you deleted the explanation of the post where you got annoyed with your “friend” for choosing to sell their house for a good price in an aconomic downturn…

What a douche eh!?

I’m just smiling at the entitlement, have a nice day :) x

Sounds like a decent investment decision! And sounds like they have stupid neighbours, I’d want to move too!

And obviously they own a portfolio of properties and is just looking to fuck over their friend, as opposed to getting a good price and upgrading the house they own?

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Why is your friend selling bud? Seems like a key piece of info, and if they’re your friend I presume they’re not simply a leech landlord, because then you’d be friends with an evil scumbag and your argument would be ridiculous.

I fully understand the root of hatred. This post isn’t that though it’s someone bitching about their friend selling their house.

People get fucked through no fault of their own all the time, that doesn’t make it the landlords fault either. Is it the landlords fault if they get relocated in their job and have tj sell up and move?

This post sounds like a shit load of entitlement to me. OP is being fucked because they rented a place and expected that to last forever.

As I said, I’ve rented for 15 years, I have every sympathy when people are fucked over by bellend landlords. But this isn’t that is it…?

Fuck your friend for selling the thing they own…?

I get the hate towards landlord leeches, but selling a house that you own is not being that. It’s unlucky for you, but not some horrifically dickish thing to do.

If your friend decided to sell during a downturn they probably have a very good reason and are either embarrassed or simply don’t want to share the reason (or have a very valid reason which they are sharing that you’ve chosen not to mention)

Honestly after 5 months in lemmy my mentality is leaning towards “fuck entitled renters” more than “fuck landlords”. That’s speaking as someone who’s rented for 15 years and counting.