Actually at the time of this tweet, Joe Biden is president of the US

More builders. More homes being given the “contractor special” no renter asked for to justify raising the price. I added a Ring doorbell and Nest thermostats so it’s a SMART home now, please up!

Yes agreed. I make about 2% less than what I was hired at adjusted for inflation after 3 years despite doing a lot more work. If I don’t get a 10% raise, I’ll be calling back the recruiter who has been trying to poach me for 3 years.

What kind of mental gymnastics are you doing to come to the conclusion that higher prices are good for renters lol

I respond to all of them with brutal honestly. My most recent one was along the lines of

“A major topic of the town hall meeting was the push to get [sales number] by the end of the year. We did the same thing last year and I got a 2% raise. What is my incentive to make you money if my raises don’t even match inflation?”

Even if it’s anonymous, my boss knows it’s me. This way I can bring it up in my review as a callback as opposed to trying to awkwardly work it in to the conversation

Landlords who live on the property they rent out are fine.

Is this community for shitposts now? Stupid question (it’s a comic), 6 hours, no replies from OP.

This community isn’t for asking people’s opinions

I’m not into dirty comic but I have to admit, oglaf is really funny from what I’ve seen

Is that flag upside down?

Yes, I’m aware. I’m referring to OC’s comment and the response I got when I said something similar (that I was struggling to talk to my dad after the election but I didn’t want to disown him over it). The same hyperbole I’ve seen dozens of times here.

It’s the political version of the awful relationship advice from reddit.

Noooo if you don’t disown him, you’re letting Trump win! You have to cut every loved one who voted Trump out of your life RIGHT NOW!..

…at least if you want to follow the advice that was repeatedly thrown my way when I expressed a similar sentiment about not abandoning my elderly father

This is a question about a subjective opinion and should probably be on asklemmy

There’s karma farm bots to sell to companies for astroturfing but yes, Reddit absolutely runs their own bots to fluff engagement metrics

I mentioned I had several replied to years-old comments I made when I landed in a tech support thread after not using reddit for a year. Someone replied (to the Lemmy comment) saying Reddit changed the way comment threads are viewed. Logging out, I could see they were right…

Reddit will now only show about half the thread without clicking the expand button. Instead, it fills that space with “related posts” using the world’s worst algorithm. Post age doesn’t matter - in my case, a post about the patch notes for a game I don’t play anymore had recommended a post about the state of the game 6 years ago in which I commented

[EDIT] My anecdote is NOT saying Reddit bots aren’t real.

As dumb as the general public is, I feel like very few people would be cheering. Pretty much just the doomers who genuinely want the world to end

It isn’t legal to own hand grenades in the US so I would imagine the self defense part would be irrelevant.

Though I’d imagine it they might be allowed if they were legal because you can use, say, your car as a weapon in self defense…

Another user who thinks this is asklemmy

He is up by FIVE MILLION votes as of this comment. Fuck the red states

The other reply is true but also: Phish fans are willing to travel. A 4+ hour trip to see them play is normal for a lot of them