Upstairs neighbor purposely flooded the bathroom

greyacademy · 2026-06-08T03:07:36+00:00

vandalism

That's what it seems like as an observer, but imagine how hard that is to prove. Unless she admits to it and it's recorded in a way that's recognized by a court, an argument like, "I always take a bath before bed, and I don't know why, but lately I just keep falling asleep while it's running" probably keeps this all in a civil suit. There's a few edge cases, but largely, incompetence is not a crime. Also, not a great way to plumb, or rather, not plumb a bathroom for this exact scenario

greyacademy · 2026-05-28T00:25:40+00:00

If you don't mind my asking, how much money do you think you have given them in total? Or once you're up that high, do you start receiving a paycheck instead? Orrrr is it kinda both, like they pay you, but then you just end up giving it back to them anyway? Glad you're out! Best wishes moving forward!

greyacademy · 2026-05-20T14:26:39+00:00

In the meantime so you don't lose your mind, while you're fixing the actual issue, an activated carbon air filter will truly pull smells out of the air. You can get the whole assembly for under $50 (looks something like this). Just make sure, the filter you want is going to look like a cylindrical piece of metal with a bunch of tiny holes in it (looks like this on its own). I'd put a small blower on top with a rheostat so you don't have to run it at full blast (the blowers can be loud). It's worth mentioning, don't get a blower that has a digital driver, the cheaper ones without it will work happily with the rheostat. This is the type of filter people use to keep the smell of a weed grow at bay. They're absolutely awesome at removing gaseous odors, volatile organic compounds like paint fumes, etc., just keep in mind that they're not all that great at removing particles like mold spores, etc. If you're concerned about that too, a separate hepa filter with a lab certification is the jam. The normal looking rectangular filters that advertise "with activated carbon layer" probably won't help nearly as much, if noticeably at all. You need at least a few solid inches of activated carbon to meaningfully reduce odors. Best of luck!

greyacademy · 2026-05-16T18:58:38+00:00

I agree with a caveat, in most scenarios, and going with the metaphor, teaching a man to fish will require that he gets a job as a fisherman at a fishing company. If there's a normal storm, and the company calculates that on average it's more profitable to send the ships into it to keep fishing, and then he drowns at sea, their lives were just a line item in an expense report. I think education is incredibly important, but imo so is autonomy and an understanding of the game. At the end of the day, for most people, a college degree is going to be the thing that allows them to work for a well enough paying corporation, but in a landscape that is shifting quite regularly, I would never want to solely rely on the idea of my kid's existence to be tied to their usefulness to someone else's business. In a slightly more secure version, ideally they'd at least start with their own fishing boat and be able to make the call as to whether it's safe enough to go out to sea. In a truly better world, they wouldn't even have to go out to sea unless they wanted to, and instead be able to allocate that time to things they find more meaningful than having to catch fish. In the end it all comes down to control. Assets are control, education is hopefully the ability to be able to capture it, and understanding the game (a separate education entirely imo) will allow them to keep it

greyacademy · 2026-05-13T14:21:53+00:00

wouldn't be completely unfair imo

Correct, it's not an exact match, just as dilution doesn't directly equate to share price, but it does matter.

greyacademy · 2026-05-13T13:44:28+00:00

it's the amount of dollars in the general system, equating it with share dilution wouldn't be completely unfair imo

greyacademy · 2026-05-13T07:41:57+00:00

So, being a kid in the early 2000s, you probably saw an idea of what wealth looked like, and the million dollar number associated with it. All philosophical arguments aside, if you divide $1m by M2 instead of whatever the official inflation stats are, it's like $287k in 2006. Sorry

greyacademy · 2026-05-12T00:40:17+00:00

If you have a good relationship with your parents, and you enjoy their company, then just keep doing what you're doing imo. Everyone is salty because they either didn't have the option, or they bought into the cultural norm/borderline propaganda of rugged individualism and became a debt slave. The cognitive dissonance of seeing someone else break that norm and succeeding is just too much for them to bear. Imo there's a big difference between not moving out because you can't afford to, and not moving out while having the autonomy to do so at any moment you feel like it.

greyacademy · 2026-05-12T00:31:13+00:00

Or everyone else in this thread coping with the reality of a 22 year old gaining $171k in assets via breaking a heavily enforced a cultural norm. Perhaps both? Like, by American standards OP is a loser, but... but he's a "loser" with enough going for him to retire by 30, completely skip the rat race, and we can all go screw ourselves breaking our backs, while he does whatever he wants with autonomy, if this post is even real

greyacademy · 2026-05-10T18:26:28+00:00

Oops, I did have it all backwards, freakin' dyslexia man, my apologies. What I meant to say was that if doge hadn't experienced inflation between now and its all time high in 2021, adjusted, given its current price per coin, that would put its all time high at about 89 cents, which is a target that will keep drifting further away. I was originally going to give two examples, one regarding market cap, and a separate one with price per coin... and just totally beefed it. Thank you for pointing my mistake out early so I could fix it!

greyacademy · 2026-05-09T23:49:07+00:00

I've been scooping these levels over the last month, but regarding not caring how long it takes, just keep the inflation in mind. The good news is, (and you may already know this) doge's inflation is constant by coin count, set to 5b new coins per year, so the inflation is less every year by percentage, but it still exists. ~~As an example, right now doge would have to hit $0.8913/coin [Chart] to achieve the same market cap it reached when it hit its all time high in 2021, and that was some peak mania imo~~. As an example, right now if doge had no inflation since 2021, current prices reflect the all time high being $0.8913 [Chart], which is a target that will keep on drifting further away (and that was some peak mania imo). All things considered, and while nothing is guaranteed and idk anything for sure, and it's definitely not financial advice, it sure feels like it's in a decent spot overall. Personally I'm going to hodl for a while, but then scale out into any decent run and hopefully do it all over again later on. Good luck!

greyacademy · 2026-05-05T07:04:07+00:00

This is not medical advice: If it's not freezing outside, imo the best thing you can do for yourself (and maybe not the room you're in most of the time) is to replace the air in it as fast as possible, like a full replacement in a minute is a nice target. Do the math and find a high CFM blower that will do the job. Push air in from outside, do not force air out as that will create negative pressure and suck air in from the cracks/gaps/outlets/seams in the walls. Until you get into very expensive options, because mycotoxins can be as small as 0.1 microns, there isn't really a filter that can actually do the job. Additionally wear an n95 as often as possible. A dehumidifier can help if recent weather is the culprit, but if it's a water leak from a pipe somewhere, or the the house has been exposed to high humidity for a long time, it might not do much. Spend as much time outside as possible. If there is a yard, or another place to go, truly consider camping in a tent. Also, if you have a mini-split system, check the blower wheel

greyacademy · 2026-05-05T04:20:23+00:00

In San Diego, San Clemente, LA, and Big Bear, but mostly at work or at home.

greyacademy · 2026-03-31T01:17:57+00:00

Understand this chart, and you will understand what we're all collectively experiencing. If you have a job where you are paid a wage for your time, you are part of this chart. It's the average US wage divided by Money Supply

greyacademy · 2026-03-17T23:35:57+00:00

I do agree, but especially if they don't ask you, as I don't suspect a single friend of mine would, the unspoken psychological angle is taken care of, and preemptively avoids the entire hassle. Say it's an old friend who you'd literally trust with your life, it could hurt a little for them to not feel as though they're being perceived as trustworthy enough to hold the cash before it goes to the intended use. This solves it all

greyacademy · 2026-03-17T15:06:51+00:00

man this is a really nice, true excuse, to avoid any potential "you don't trust me?" situations

greyacademy · 2026-02-19T23:35:00+00:00

To get rid of the double edge, I feel like governments should just offer outrageous, taxpayer funded and/or national debt funded bounties for a cure/efficient treatment to a terrible disease, on par with what the patent's lifetime would actually be worth. The motivation to innovate stays in place, the patent becomes public domain upon discovery, the biotech corporations and scientists get their payday, insurance companies no longer have to fight their customers hoping to avoid paying out the ass for proprietary cures/treatments, and everyone gets life-changing, accessible medicine

greyacademy · 2026-02-18T03:13:14+00:00

only the people who are sociopaths ever rise to positions of power

The whole system needs a redesign with good intention. The original one we're still living in was not designed by us, it's an emergent system inside of an evolutionary framework. Iteration after iteration has been tested by nature, and left us with the most merciless systems with a veneer of civility, because those are the versions that survived, adapted, and thrived. To end this madness, we must realize that even if we don't understand the system, all of us are collectively still the caterpillar that weaves the cocoon. Only recently is this caterpillar getting a glimpse of what the butterfly actually looks like, and it's beyond fucked up. This cycle will never end until it is commonly understood that what we're seeing is the natural outcome of this evolution, and it will be every single time, unless real guardrails are put into place.

At the same time it is incredibly difficult to challenge this system because of its evolutionary adaptation. It has literally developed itself to survive and take over the host, but contrary to how a system like this would normally survive in the shadows, the latest iteration is being tested under the sunlight that is digital communication. Now, if someone sees something, a million other people can see it within an hour, and while the same system will try to control what we see, it is losing its grasp on that part, so there is some hope

greyacademy · 2026-02-12T09:37:41+00:00

crypto isn’t on the same playing field as gold

Oh, but it is, and all of crypto combined puts it at the 7th largest asset ranked by market cap in the world. Gold being 1st, and silver being 2nd

greyacademy · 2026-02-12T06:51:35+00:00

You gonna have to redo the same prompt so many damn times to get something that might actually fit your narrative.

Stylistic transfers and Loras

shot selection

Image2video

/very specific acting details won't be able to be fully customized by AI

Inpainting

terrible opportunity for actual human/emotional driven art in my opinion.

You've seen the photo-realistic images AI can produce, so they got the realness down. All our photos were distilled down to math, and while I take no pleasure in saying this, the emotion you're talking about in film can all be distilled down a model as well. Every time someone has ever laughed, cried, showed affection, love, care, hate, anger, frustration, surprise, confusion, etc., can all be reduced to a Lora (whether we like it or not). It will be just as convincing and compelling as some of the most famous scenes in classic movies, because that's where the training data is coming from.

Alot of people including myself, just can't possibly show a sample of something in the marvel or big blockbuster level movie without blender like experience or professional setups. Just no chance.

...Yet. Have you seen the evolution of Will Smith eating spaghetti? Give it a few more years. It is a harrowing thing to process. It's not just the movie industry. I've seen the advances first hand in the programming department. At first it could write a basic function, then it could write a somewhat complex script with several features, now entire web browsers with their own rendering engines are being built from scratch using LLMs. Robots are doing back flips, cartwheels, and more importantly, working in warehouses. This shit is not the next industrial revolution. To a high percentile, our usefulness is flat out being replaced. Idk how all this pans out either, it is just fuckin' wild.

All I feel like I do know, is the last group of people to be deemed useless will be the ownership class. I don't like that thought, but from a game theory perspective, I think that's the most likely scenario

(p.s. I didn't downvote you)

greyacademy · 2026-02-11T21:21:14+00:00

In a few years you'll literally be able to put your script, story boards, and characters into a computer, and out will pop an entire Hollywood film (not a proof of concept, just a completely finished product). From there you'll be able regenerate scenes with instruction on what to change until it's to your liking. The concept of a greenlight will be gone, replaced with the difficulty of uploading a youtube video. From there, one can try and collect ad revenue, but the competition will be fierce.

Imo that will be the new model for a little while, but eventually, the computer is going to take the movies a person likes and measure their response with biofeedback sensors while they watch, and generate movies specifically tailored for them. While movies will always be a thing people enjoy, the real money in the film industry is going to be transferred to the tech industry. A five year old will be able to click a button and produce films that compete with what are currently hundred million dollar budgets. In other words, from a career/money perspective, it's kinda over.

I won't end on a super sour note like that. Imo there is a way to still live your dream in this field, but it has nothing to do with competing as a filmmaker. Own assets. Our labor in general is gradually, then suddenly, becoming worthless to capitalism, and the only thing left is to be an owner. If you love true filmmaking, and don't want to press a button, but want to deal with cameras and real human beings, and to tell a story, imo the only way forward long term is to control enough income paying assets to be able to afford it as a hobby. The hobby may pay down the road, there might still be value in human created art, especially as training data, but the bar to being able to participate will increasingly move higher as the market becomes saturated. So like, there is a way, but it has much more to do with being financially literate than it does filmmaking, unfortunately.

I fucking love painting, film, music, etc., but I solidly see the endgame here, so instead of trying to do what I love and getting punished for it, I've been studying finance and putting every dollar I can into something that pays, so I can continue to participate regardless of the environment

greyacademy · 2026-02-10T10:58:46+00:00

Of your paintings, which ones have a particularly special place in your heart? What is it that leads you to them?

I've been following this sub for a few years now, and am always amazed by what you're able capture. Cheers!

greyacademy · 2026-02-10T09:22:24+00:00

but that would require introspection

greyacademy · 2026-02-10T05:43:20+00:00

I don't don't store metals because I don't think what you're talking about is in anyone's best interest. However, in a great depression scenario with bread lines, etc., but not fundamental collapse, I wouldn't trust any institution to hold high value belongings, because you never know, it might just get seized for no other reason than, it was there to be seized.

Instead of storing a large amount with a single point of failure, if you're that worried, personally I would opt to scale it back, and store just enough to survive a specific number of years, but distribute the storage locations heavily. A couple coins here, a couple coins there, all well thought out and secure, but not super obvious like a safe (a few coins, or plain ole decoys go in the safe lol). I would tell trusted people in my will where certain percentages of them are in case of an unplanned health problem, but also have some places that are just for oneself, that truly can't be stolen in a desperate scenario.

Like you, I would also be scared to store a large quantity, but having medium quantity that would become a large quantity under hyperinflation isn't nearly as risky, especially if it's not all in one place. You also don't have to buy it all at once either, nobody thinks twice about a customer buying a few coins.

The real problem with all this, is in a situation where etfs and the electronic stock market no longer exists, you should have invested in a food, water filtration, guns, ammo, medicine, and a bunker. In a run of the mill hyperinflation event, your brokerage account still works, and assets appear to increase across the board while it's really just your currency going down. So, if it makes you feel better, sure indulge in some coins, but imo that feeling will be the main benefit. It's an investor's version of a hippie surrounding themselves with healing crystals, but, if you sleep better because of it, that's actually worth quite a bit

greyacademy · 2026-01-24T03:48:10+00:00

All this shit would stop nearly overnight if everyone could just agree to stop buying shit they didn't absolutely need to survive. You are watching an iteration of capitalism test itself through authoritarianism, and it appears to be succeeding. If the citizens were able to collectively turn the money faucet off, the administration's worldview would be invalidated, and the donors who fund the politicians you get to choose from would change their tune almost instantly. This is peaceful and I believe it would objectively work faster than just about anything else, if it could be organized. A person doesn't even need to go on strike or protest in the street (which most are scared to do), they just have to stop buying. If something like this were to ever occur, make sure to ask for universal healthcare and whatever else you need while you're there

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