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Like why some apartments allow no tenants with pets. Living in an apartment building, some tenants around me absolutely fucking suck with owning pets. Allowing them to bark, wrestle and play loudly, letting them take dumps everywhere and not picking it up. People actually running with their pets with no leashes when leashes are required.

Yeah I side more with apartment offices that have balls to say no pets. Nobody wants the noise.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

When I was a child I thought everything was run by grown ups, who had the answer to everything. Then I grew up and saw everything as run by children, who made everything up as they go. Now I see everything as run by animals with insatiable appetites.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

Kids who came to school in dirty clothes, hair messy, dirt on their hands and faces. I thought they were just gross pigpen types. Not till I was older and less sheltered did I meet families where the adults had other stuff going on and didn’t see to their kids’ well being. I was lucky enough to have had no idea what it meant to be neglected.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

Knowing why your parents told you not to turn the cabin lights on in the car while driving at night when I started driving myself. You can't fucking see shit outside the car!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

When I was am apprentice we were not allowed to use the leaf blower or workshop air to blow out the workshop.

Now I am ac workshop manager they are the most infuriating noises when you're trying to work in the office and get paperwork and phone calls done and someone is using a leaf blowerr

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Don't leaf blowers also have a sound decibel level that can cause hearing loss? Another good reason not to use it for that purpose

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

When the argument against an initiative says, "greedy developers" that is just a populist NIMBY smear spoken by even greedier, already-existing landlords.

I actually voted against a housing development one time because I got played by those words. I'm a little wiser now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Working fast food jobs versus working a professional job. There's a reason people work in fast food whether that be age, felony status, crap work history, education status (not always), or they are just shitty people.

There is a general unprofessional and childish mentality working at those places that I thought was normal when I worked them. When I moved into corporate culture it was difficult for me for like 3-4 years and it took a long time for me to understand that it's a different culture. You don't say off color shit or fuck around. Which I am okay with. I don't have to deal with casual sexual harassment, childish quitting displays, abuse, high school behavior, etc.

There is still some gossip but it's not hard to isolate yourself from it and people who do that shit typically don't last that long.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago

Stoically treating people well when they are terrible to you isn't going to bring them around. DON"T put effort into the problem people in life. "the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky" is a warning not a guide book. Those people will fuck you up and not remember .

[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

"Pets are noisy, apartments should allow no tenants with pets". A sincere question: what pet owners, desperately looking for a place to live, should do? Ditch their pets? Abandon them? Throw them out?

One could extrapolate and state that "babies are noisy". After all, they can cry loud. Lots of places don't allow tenants with babies. What a mother with her baby looking for a place to live is supposed to do in such a situation where every landlord denies renting a place to her? What should she do, put her baby into adoption? Throw them out?

Geez. This is one of the many reasons why the modern world is deadwalking towards the cliff nowadays...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Unpopular opinion maybe, but if your housing or financial situation is not stable enough where having a pet could put you in such a difficult position, then you shouldn't have a pet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

I have yet to hear a baby cry so loudly that I can hear it through my walls. So far in the 3 years I've lived here, not one instance can I recall or know of babies crying that loudly. Kids, who're able to talk and walk, they can be loud yes but they're manageable. It's lazy parenting that lets them be that way. Pets, generally, they're going to be loud and they're hard to control because nobody puts in the effort.

Now I have a question back at you - did you read the part where I said that some owners fucking suck at being owners or did you selectively skip that part to make the comment that you've made? Learn to read, it'd help you sometime.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago

Mostly myself. When I was a teenager, I was an insufferable, arrogant shit person. I got better during college and even better after getting my first job, I started to understand better why I was such an arrogant asshole and why people, especially women, really would not rather interact with me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

Quality was mentioned, but I'll add my view. Most everything is disposable now, whether you go with the upgraded option or not. Everyday items, cars, houses, tools, services...we're surrounded by junk.

At Boeing the bean counters took over, look at them now. Most other corporations are doing the same, just with lower stakes.

It's not just stuff--it's interaction too. People are so hooked on throwaway videos, social media, etc that our collective attention span has severely diminished since the internet took hold. I was reading a book recently, and one of the characters described using a tactic of keeping another character off balance in conversation to gain an advantage over them. I feel like this is being done to all of us on the grand scale, intentionally or not.

What I've learned is that these trends will continue until we do something about it. I try to bring what quality and value I can to those around me, pass on what wisdom I've gained, and be a good influence. Even to strangers when possible. It's up to us to carry and keep the torch lit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

I used to not understand how people could spend so much money on a single meal at a really fancy restaurant.

But then, on a special occasion my wife convinced me to go to a Michelin star restaurant. It was amazing, honestly the best "food experience" I've ever had, so many crazy flavours, etc etc.

So now, i can understand why someone might go to a very fancy restaurant once or twice a year. I probably still won't, but I do understand why someone would.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Why we're choosing to destroy ourselves due to catastrophic climate change. I just...I get it now, but there are too many facets of it for me to want to list them all right now.

But I understand it. It doesn't make it justifiable, just comprehensive.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

The apartments with pets thing, in my building currently there’s an owner who put their dog out in the balcony at night and it would just bark for hours. I sleep at around midnight with barking in the background. I don’t even know until how late it usually does it

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