Probably the most true post in this entire community.
-sent from my ipohne
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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One man went to Mow, went to Mow a country.
Carl Mark sounds like the CEO of a cereal company
These people post things like that and look at it and go, yeah, I'm happy to put that out on the internet that's a coherent sentence, with correct punctuation and spelling.
What is wrong with them?
How do they ignore all the red squiggly lines?
This is definitely a joke. But also, I don't fuck with Facebook anymore because it's got way too much cringe content
The background is red it blended in
How do they ignore all the red squiggly lines?
I'm thinking these sort of people look at those lines like some sort of challenge. "No line is gonna tell me I spelled that word wrong!"
Next to their real name and face as well.
It's why I know the stats of 99% literacy rates are bullshit. I've been on Facebook. Half the people in my town seem to communicate online through the text equivalent of caveman grunts.
So the definition of literacy that they use for those stats is a super low bar. Like the bar is lying on the ground. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy defines literacy as "the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential." That's not a high bar to clear and the literacy rate, in the US at least, is still only about 80%.
Let's not confuse landlords and corporations. The former are people, the later are not. They're often horrible people, but they're still made of meat; corporations are made of ink, paper, and a stubborn refusal to accept reality.
"Renting" needs to die in a goddamn fire, and I know how to kill it: An Owner-occupant credit against property taxes. If you live in a home you own, you receive the credit, which holds or lowers your property taxes. Someone who owns a home but doesn't live in it is ineligible for the credit.
With that credit in place, we increase property taxes (and the credit) every year that the owner occupancy rate is less than 80%.
Now, every real estate investor is pushing for tenants to become "buyers", and offering land contracts, private mortgages, or converting the property to condominiums, in order to secure that credit.
"But they'll just pass on the tax increase to tenants!" They will try. But, with all the other landlords fighting to put occupants on deeds, who is going to insist on paying a premium for a rental instead of just buying outright?
but they’re still made of meat
Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!
This American Life did a radio read of it. Really great. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/greetings-people-of-earth/act-two-7
such a good story.
I love it. The author, Terry Bisson, used to have it on his own website, but his website seems to be gone unfortunately.
He died January 10th of this year. Too bad his website doesn't survive as a small bit of legacy.
I didn't know he passed! That's awful, but thanks for letting me know :-(
So that is why peolles are extinct now...Lisa has torn them apart (oh hi Mark).
Too obvious imo
Dumbasses. Carl Mark was the cartoonist. If she actually knew anything about socialism, she'd know how to spell Carl Barks.
I just got evicted after attempting to pay. Landlords are scum.
They like it when you succeed in paying.
I'm about 90% certain this is a satirical post.
I'd say 100% because while funny, the insane person not even knowing how to write the names but has learned enough to know about the landlord thing? Nah
Looks like InsanePeopleLemmy...
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