It’s going to impact initial emotions, which filters how they see it after even as they imagine it different

You get used to it as an eternal renter

We don’t use checks except very rarely and we have manufactured houses (called mobile homes here). They just don’t come with the land under them so they constantly lose value and cost rent for the lot, are generally smaller and worse than in situ buildings, and are stigmatized as “for poor people” because of the fact that they’re cheap in the moment and expensive long term, which is the opposite of normal housing.

To clarify what others are saying, the design and layouts are repeated, but done in situ. So especially in a new house/neighborhood you’ll have a neighborhood with maybe 1-4 variations (possibly also mirrored versions of them), but each was made on the spot with a mostly standardized lot. Then over time some will slowly be modified and they’ll all get their owners’ touches to them.

It’s very much an industrial process in the suburbs starting after the world wars.

I think the happy medium is modernism. A handful of colors that look good together, maybe a simple pattern or two. Idk i think the 60s and 70s both had great home aesthetics

It’s a separate charge, with a distinct meaning, but yes it’s usually used because people are afraid to call it slavery. Human trafficking also includes coyotes (people who clients hire to smuggle them across borders).

The Tates (allegedly but blatantly) trafficked people for the purpose of enslavement.

The more I think about this the more I think we need to bring back calling a slaver a slaver. Not just for the blunt acknowledgement, but also for the distinctions between someone operating an unlicensed brothel where the workers are free to leave vs one where they aren’t, or between a farmer who hires undocumented labor without threatening deportation vs one who will call immigration enforcement when a laborer demands safe working conditions or leaves for a competitor, or between a coyote who leaves you once you’re in and a trafficker who keeps your passport.

Fair enough, though her degree does counter the “just a bartender” narrative

The thing that’s been striking me about Mamdani is that he’s reminding me of FDR, in that he’s so frequently talking to his constituents. The only other American politician I can think of that does that so much is trump. And the difference is Mamdani and Roosevelt maintain professionalism and focus on how they’re helping and acknowledging shared experience. Trump by contrast is totally unprofessional and has an incoherent message generally revolving around him being the best and people who dislike him being the worst.

I really think that Mamdani’s communication game is a vital lesson to learn for the dems. The policies are also important, you actually do have to help people. But you need to take credit, you need to keep them in the loop, and you need to give frequent updates.

She obviously doesn’t know anything about governing. A degree in international relations and economics is totally useless to governing. And why would she have bothered with an internship with Senator Ted Kennedy when she was going into the House of Representatives‽ Total idiot

Full agreement. Part of the problem is that the blocklist was kinda bonkers in who was included

We need a hobbydrama community lol

Lemmy needs more rat pics

It’s a regular solid consisting of equal length vertices at 90 degree angles across 4 dimensions

Also a lemmy front-end that got too big for its britches

If it makes you feel better I honestly don’t know why I am. The only violence I really call for is for the execution of fascists following a fair trial or the occasional self defense. I’m a political extremist in that I’m somewhere between syndicalism and mutualism. And maybe it’s because I occasionally talk about being kinky when it’s relevant…

What did the first person in space do to deserve a ban?

Aww hell yeah I’m in the cool people list!

Puritans still trying to stop us from having a merry Christmas!

Fr though, I’ve never bothered trying to go to a store on Christmas I just assume most are closed

We continue to try because it is our duty to humanity. We struggle because it is right to struggle for goodness. And together we hope that by our struggles we can impact the world for the better and move towards an international community of those who struggle for goodness.

The evil wish us to despair and stop.

Being in a bad place has absolutely resulted in plenty of people turning to sex work and sleeping outside. I’ve had to do the latter completely sober.

Yeah drugs can make the situation worse, but it’s really easy to be in a financially desperate position and turn to drugs to cope with what you’re having to do to get through it.

The reality is that drug addiction, financial destitution, and homelessness are complicated and there are multiple categories of people in these positions. Drugs will often make the situation worse, and can be the incitement to the downward spiral, but for plenty the drugs are more of a symptom than a cause.

I may have to try that. My curls are never happy