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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • You do not need an account at all, the apps the do are shit. RSS feeds are just publicly available text files that get updated whenever the content of the website changes. An RSS reader is basically just a very fancy text file viewer that automatically downloads all those text files and presents them in a sorted feed.

    There are lots of open source and accountless RSS readers. Personally i use “RSS Guard” on Linux but there are many others. Ive used “Feeder” on android before but there are many others there too.














  • In Germany they are called “Heuschrecken” which translates to “Locusts” because thats how they operate.

    Only in german: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuschreckendebatte

    This is what librewolf translated the first section to:

    A locust debate in Germany in April and May 2005 over a statement by the then SPD chairman Franz Müntefering is referred to as a locust debate. This compared the economic action of some “anonymous investors” with locust plagues.

    The term “locust” has since been regarded in German political parlance as a derogatory animal metaphor for private equity companies and other forms of equity participation, such as in the public-private partnership model, with allegedly short-term or excessive return expectations, such as hedge funds or so-called vulture funds.

    The term and debate have been criticized variously, including as in parts anti-Semitic and anti-American.

    The last part is super funny to me, because it just speaks to the way that the defenders of these investment tactics think.

    I went and looked at the referenced “vulture fund” phrase and was not disappointed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_fund


  • Yeah no. Last i checked there are 4 times as many empty apartments than homeless people in Germany. The housing market here is completely fucked and corporate housing ownership needs to be disincentivized or outright banned for this to be solved. Whenever people try to buy housing they will be outbid by companies that already have plenty of capital. This leads to an everlasting spiral where the rich people will always have more buying power and normal people are perpetually stuck paying absurd rents to those same rich people making them even richer.