@arrow74@lemmy.zip was this not the response you were looking for?
Edit: just more down voting! It’s almost as if you weren’t interested in dialogue to begin with!
I think there are lots of fair solutions whereby people don’t get to profit endlessly off people’s fundamental needs for shelter.
Do I think any of them are attainable without any kind of reform that landlords and their apologists would hyperbolise as a “revolution”?
No, I do not.
Pick your poison, but unfettered rentier capitalism is a cancer and it has to stop.
Good point. Many people know a landlord personally would be my guess. “But my uncle John is a landlord and he’s nice”.
Landlords are by definition a bad thing. Everyone needs a place to live. People who hoard the necessities of life and loan them back to you are cunts, and need to be regulated into oblivion.
Whoever they are, I doubt they like themselves very much.
It is. They tend to hide this until the hard sell, but here’s a little bit of info that I could find: https://www.bootshearingcare.com/hearing-aids/hearing-aid-prices/
There’s more info that’s only revealed after your second hearing test, when they put the “platinum plus” software driven device on your ears, then reveal the pricing in a handily confusing leaflet. It’s similar at Specsavers where I went after, thinking “is this real? Surely they’re not all like this”
I’ve lost hearing young due to a health condition. The sales model for hearing aids is depressingly close to the Black Mirror episode with Rashida Jones.
The hearing aid costs 15 per month on “basic”, rising through eight different tiers, to “platinum plus” at 120 per month. The hardware doesn’t change, only the software. So if you want to be able to hear nature sounds, that’s an extra 10 per month. An extra 20 to hear conversations in the car. It’s 50 if you want to be able to go to a concert, and so on.
The hearing aid itself is capable of doing all of that, all the time, but the functionality is just switched off.
The term is 4 years and then it becomes obsolete and receives no further updates; you have to get a new one.
This is in the UK.
when I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse/out of the corner of my eye/I turned to look but it was gone/I cannot put my finger on it now/the child has grown, the dream is gone/and I have become comfortably numb
I chose a simple standard candle for a quick explanation, but yes, these are all independently verified by other methods, which in turn verify each other etc. Parallax is a good one: at one side of the earth’s orbit and the other, you measure the relative position of the thing you want to know the distance to, which is just like closing one eye then the other. Distant objects move less in your vision/against the background stars than close objects do.
Thank you, digital workers, for your dutiful work which allows me to not log in to Reddit, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and still stay in the loop.
Your payment shall be in upvotes and well-written comments.
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We make the following assumptions:
Therefore, we can map out and count the galaxies in our local area, and, using assumption 1, we know that the number of galaxies in our volume of space is the same as in every volume of space. Multiply the one by the other and you’ve got your answer.
No one should get their political opinions from celebrities, but so many do.
I think it’s more about shining a light on the stupidity of it all?
This is one of the posts of all time
No, it doesn’t, and I resent that implication. There is no line of reasoning between your not-even-wrong claim that all humans are capable of these unspecified kinds of cruelty and the conclusion that claiming otherwise leads to logical inversions like the one you have chosen.
Fascists aren’t human, though.
Arlarse this helmet lad
Normal chess and tri-dimensional chess. The chess purists hold their tournament at the same time as a protest against the abomination.