smitten / is on Nostr

queer, interested in software, politics, games

attempts anticapitalist, antiracist, antifascist. anxiously shitposting

previously smitten@snowdin.town

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2023-12-11 17:36:51

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@npub1upk…tcwy one thing that confuses me is how you can't rearrange commits on their own. even if you rebase to remove (B) from D-C-B-A, you aren't left with D-C-A like you'd expect, you instead have a new sequence of G-F-E. I think I understand why (the identity of a commit is intrinsically tied to its parent) but it still feels wrong

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 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