Created by a gay indigenous man in what appears to be a sincere effort to draw attention to our reliance on Saudi oil, and their human rights record towards the LGBTQ+ community.

Misguided on multiple levels, imho, but not quite the hate or callousness you might expect behind it.

As a guy who had a hard time finding a video game loving girlfriend, I understand the sentiment.

No house flipper is buying bottom of the barrel derelict homes that no one would ever want because those are hard to flip.

If you’re truly saving a property that’s literally sitting abandoned and unused and falling apart without you being there and restoring it, then yes, you are providing a service. If you’re instead just buying a fixer upper that literally any starting couple might want, then no, you’re not.

i.e. house flippers do not increase supply because by and large they do not buy out-of-market assets and restore them to in-market assets, they buy low in the market assets and try and flip them as cheaply as possible into slightly higher in the market assets.

You’re providing the service of doing all that installation and restoration. You should be compensated for your efforts. You can do that work a lot more efficiently when you’re not beholden to a specific client’s needs or wants, you just want to get another affordable home onto the market.

Providing a shittier product that fits a clients’ needs worse so that you can profit is not efficiency.

We have a severe lack of homes that are affordable for people who work most of the time and don’t have the time or the savings to restore a home themselves, but might have the savings to make a down payment on a completed restored home. Not everyone has the same means, and we should be using our side hustle to help the world we live in, not hurt it.

Again, no. You are not helping anyone when you invest in the housing market and try and make a profit off a limited commodity. All you are doing is driving up the prices with your profit seeking and making it harder for people to afford a down payment.

While technically correct, saying it’s a category of exclusion kind of makes it sound negative, when it’s exclusive quality is basically defined by privilege. Whether Italians, Spaniards, Irish, Greeks, or Poles counts basically entirely depends on how normalized and privileged they are in any given greater subsect.

Quite frankly, you shouldn’t be doing that either.

If someone wants a building a certain way, they can pay to make it that way. If you pay to make it that way and then sell it to them at a profit, you are not really providing them with anything, you’re just taking a profit and giving them a not-quite-right renovation they now have to deal with.

In the grand scheme of the system, it would be far better if your profit ended up going to other people who could instead use it to pay for a better renovation that they actually want.

People who think you can solve the housing crisis without removing or greatly diminishing landlords, house flipping, investors, and people profiting off of a necessary and inherently limited necessity, do not understand economics.

Me: “oh ha. ha. /S”

Me 5 min later: *tap* *tap* *tap* *giggle* *tap*

I’ve been on multiple teams that do and it’s so much better than the teams that don’t.

Ideal standup (cameras off):

• -2:00 - 0:00 mark: light chit chat if earlybirds want while waiting for standup to start

• 15s-45s / per person: what did you work on yesterday, what are you working on today.

  • An extra 45s if you have a blocker. The resolution during the meeting is always either:
    • ‘blocked, nothing I can do, moving onto X ticket’,
    • ‘someone tells me who to talk to to unblock’
    • ‘me and a team member agree to meet after the standup to discuss how to unblock’

• 0-2min total for offboard updates: who has a doctor’s appointment, needs to take time off, happy anniversary, etc.

Trust me, it provides value. For those of us with problems leaving everything to the last minute, having a little biweekly accountability and structure can really help prevent problems from getting too big.

I heard there are no rules

In .NET to make a controller you just make a class that extends controller and then a public function that returns a ViewResult, JsonResult, etc.

No black box dependency injection required.

And Canada as a whole has a massive real estate affordability crisis, with Toronto housing being exceptionally unaffordable relative to real wages.

Pancake keggers happened before all the big football games at university.

But in the scenario of lemmy / mastodon, you only ever interact with your chosen frontend / instance and it only communivates to facebook through activitypub not through the general web standards. Even if facebook were to just embed a bunch of js code as an activitypub text feed, your chosen instance would still have to choose whether or not to render it by default, or to give you the option, or to block it entirely.

Don’t forget the less sexy stuff like watchman

Waving a pithy saying around in place of an actual argument, doesn’t make it any less of a FUD argument. I mean can you even name 14 open source projects that facebook has destroyed? Or just 14 bad vibes you’ve gotten?

I thought your second point was ~ ‘Lemmy instances shouldn’t federate with meta because you don’t want them getting your data’, not, ‘it doesn’t matter whether or not we federate because they can scrape that data off Lemmy anyways’.

And I don’t like meta as a company, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that many people do not want to provide any data whatsoever to them via threads etc.

Except that you’re posting publicly and there is absolutely nothing that prevents Meta from scraping all of your lemmy activity as it is.