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  • I live in Japan, a white person, and some people will assume that I don’t speak Japanese. The reality is that there are a great number of international tourists and there aren’t that many non-Asian foreign residents, so sometimes people make bad assumptions.

    Usually it doesn’t much matter, isolated incidents meh, but occasionally when it happens on a regular basis over a few days or weeks, it can definitely get irritating as fuck.

    But look, if my response to “Konnichiwa” were delayed by five seconds, I would definitely expect them to say “Hello”. They tried Japanese, it failed, so they moved on… And if that’s what you’re experiencing, I sympathize, because probably it is going to stay that way for the rest of your life.



  • The short reply to that is that it’s turtles all the way down. The slightly longer reply is that you’re making assumptions about how energy works in a system that you’re recognizing is not the same as our system. The even longer to reply is that if you’re hypothesizing a system then neither looks nor functions, anything like our current system, then our current language simply cannot describe it properly and therefore we have no good way to speculate about how it would or wouldn’t work.











  • fodor@lemmy.ziptoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comlandlords
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    6 days ago

    I think it defies common sense, but it sounds good if you only think about it for 10 seconds.

    Your position seems to be such that many people, like me and probably some of the other commenters, should have to work until the day we die. We have been working full-time our entire adult lives. We’re somewhat educated. We’re doing the best we can, but there’s no way we could possibly afford to purchase property. So when we get old and gray, when we’re 85 years old, maybe you’re going to see us working the door at Walmart because there’s no other option under your system. And who’s benefiting from us paying rent our entire lives? Landlords, but more specifically very rich people who invest in real estate. In other words, they are stealing our retirement to get richer when they’re already filthy rich.

    And that’s not the kind of society I will ever support because I don’t think the filthy rich bastards deserve any more money than they already have. They only get it by taking it from us and we need it more.

    Class warfare.


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    6 days ago

    People love to say that we have to have landlords because otherwise no one could rent. Great! So then, let’s have not-for-profit landlords or public housing.

    Also, here is a basic refresher on “what something is worth”. If you’re drowning and someone offers to sell you a life vest for your life savings, then you might pay it so that you don’t die. Immediately after that you would pass laws to prevent them from ever doing that kind of horrible shit again. At least, you would do that if you had an ounce of empathy… Do you?