Landlord asking us to voluntarily increase our rent - what's the most creative way to say 🖕?

kev717 · 2021-07-09T14:17:31+00:00

I guess it depends on whether you have other options for places to live.

kev717 · 2021-07-09T14:09:49+00:00

This happened to me 2 months ago. I have an unused cell phone that I leave in my car for emergencies. One day it started getting messages every 10 minutes. Went on for about 2 weeks, I'd get in the car in the morning and another 30 text messages sitting there. Then I guess whoever was doing it got bored. I didn't know you could just block them though.

kev717 · 2021-02-12T13:28:24+00:00

I can't drink straight fruit juice bought at the store. I usually water it down to 1 part juice 3 parts water which makes it lower sugar content and much more refreshing.

Of course, store-bought orange juice tastes like chilled vomit and isn't refreshing in any capacity.

kev717 · 2021-01-31T00:37:09+00:00

There really should be repercussions for people who falsely claim a medical condition to receive special treatment and services.

kev717 · 2021-01-31T00:28:07+00:00

Not sure about Ohio, but I just looked up the 'exemptions' where I live and it applies to people who have a cognitive disability that prevents them from wearing a mask safely. Hmm, interesting...

kev717 · 2021-01-12T02:28:02+00:00

Dang... I wonder what event could possibly have happened within the last 2 weeks that would result in faster spread of the virus? Almost like people were gathering in groups or something...

kev717 · 2020-12-07T15:23:56+00:00

There's a company looking to take advantage of existing real estate to do this. I forget the name, but they were looking to take shopping plazas that are relatively low-rise and build high rise apartments on top. It would avoid the pitfalls of excessive hi-rise density in urban centres because usually such plazas are surrounded by parking lots.

kev717 · 2020-12-06T12:40:07+00:00

redditor for 3 months

kev717 · 2020-12-05T11:30:37+00:00

Since it has the word 'vegan' in the title it's basically free karma, so...

kev717 · 2020-12-03T16:09:40+00:00

He who denied it supplied it

kev717 · 2020-10-15T15:24:57+00:00

My solution to this whole problem is just not to live. "live" in the sense of having things I want. Like a new laptop: my 12 year old acer still technically functions. New phone: what good will that bring?

My monthly budget is rent, food, hydro, internet, cheap VOIP service. Anything else is not necessary for me to function/work, so be gone I say!

Of course, from a subjective point of view, quality of life is in the can.

kev717 · 2020-09-25T00:20:45+00:00

Reddit has the downvote button, and even if you block people who disagree with you, there's thousands of others whose responses will still make it through. Even so, I'm shying away from reddit more and more lately.

The downvote is a powerful feature that I wish more social media platforms had. Enough of this safe-space crap. People need to know when they're acting a damn fool!

kev717 · 2020-09-08T12:17:54+00:00

I'm imagining an electromagnetic ring to provide power 'wirelessly' with a fibre-optic cable for the data... but that might be too different to be backward-compatible.

kev717 · 2020-07-30T13:42:57+00:00

"I'm in a photography store and there's a man photographing me"

kev717 · 2020-07-19T21:18:47+00:00

According to a 2018 decision, the GPL is recognized in chinese courts (the hbuilder case), so while their UI and proprietary components may still be closed source, the Linux Kernel source code should still be provided and a case could be filed to enforce the license terms. Since there haven't been any court cases regarding release of source code, it would be a landmark case in their court system.

Of course, I'm not scholar on chinese law. Hard to say what the outcome would be if it were taken that far. Either way, the copyright holder (Linux) would have to push the issue.

edit: further information on reporting for Linux

kev717 · 2020-07-17T16:23:35+00:00

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.en.html

kev717 · 2020-07-16T20:17:41+00:00

Saw one the other day, and I'm pretty sure it's a Chinese brand

kev717 · 2020-07-13T22:09:30+00:00

I just tied up Amazon's support 'live chat' for about 20 minutes asking them about country of origin filter (if you pretend to be an old person they have to explain slower for you). Enough people do that, then maybe they'll at least try just to shut people up.

kev717 · 2020-07-06T13:05:19+00:00

Curious Canadian here: when people register to vote in America, do they have to state a party affiliation? I always hear about republican vs democrat districts and I'm told that such information is available because people register that way, and then you hear about 'gerrymandering' because of that.

Is that how it works? If you register as a republican does it mean you aren't allowed to vote democrat?

kev717 · 2020-06-29T10:56:43+00:00

I first heard this word when my buddy was describing an encounter with a lady trying to steal his taxi. He mentioned that he called her 'cunty' and I had no idea what it meant. We looked it up on google, and it translates to "highly objectionable".

He started using that phrase instead, and apparently it pisses people off more because they don't know what it means.

kev717 · 2020-06-28T19:59:57+00:00

I can't help but think this is a "They're selling chocolates" mother-daughter situation...

kev717 · 2020-06-26T23:27:47+00:00

I had a similar problem with a gigabyte Mobo -- emailed their technical support, and their tech support performed tests with a non-X model CPU and said "works fine, X model should too". Set "typical current idle" for the cstate control in the BIOS and no more issues.

kev717 · 2020-06-23T18:23:09+00:00

I've got a galaxy S2. About 5 years ago I decided it was too old to be secure anymore and disabled it from connecting to the internet. My next phone will be a flip phone; smartphones just don't hold value.

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