I mean, dude had tons of feelings. They just got channeled into fury, because he was a Furyan (and had a ton of trauma).

Also, it’s easy to be a serial killer when you’re constantly surrounded by absolute assholes trying to kill you. The guy wasn’t out there sacrificing babies and families for “line must go up.”

An “in-law suite” is different from renting a room. It generally has its own entrance, and a devoted kitchen and bathroom. It’s an entire 1-bedroom apartment built into the house or property (often above a garage, for example).

And it’s not slang, it’s a term that’s been used since the early 1900s, and as the term suggests, it has historically been used to be able to care for elderly parents (so they can maintain their independence while still living with family). It’s not like you can sell an in-law suite separately, and selling one’s house while a parent doesn’t need that and expecting to not only buy another house and having one available with an in-law suite when a parent does need it is a pretty extreme expectation. So it really does come down to rent the room or leave it empty.

And plenty of people want that kind of temporary rental, if they don’t want to be tied to a particular spot for long or don’t want the responsibility of owning.

a lot of older people downsize when their kids move out,

And we plan to, when both kids move out. But just one kid, with one five years behind the other? But anyway, isn’t moving the guest space to the main house section and renting out the apartment essentially “downsizing” to a three-bedroom anyway? Either way, the house remains a two-unit house. If somebody wants a temporary living situation by themselves or with one partner, what is wrong with them renting an apartment from me?

Look, I get it, the system is set up to screw people over to get big corpos big money. If somebody is living in apartment for a decade, that is a fucked up situation. But where I live there are military single young’uns wanting to get out of barracks for a year or two before their tour is done and they transfer, or regularly traveling nurses or others who come seasonally for work who aren’t in a position to buy a house and wouldn’t want to.

This whole “no good landlords” reeks of the same mentality as “no good lawyers.” Yes, there are a lot of greedy, unscrupulous (or overly adversarial) lawyers, but there are situations where having a lawyer is really important and there are plenty of good ones for those situations. The problem is a system that allows and encourages the profession to be abused.

First, that doesn’t solve the problem because then somebody else has two units in one building.

Second, downsize… from a four bed to a three bed? Not sure what sense that makes. Our needs won’t have changed dramatically.

Another piece that I didn’t mention is that I’m in the military, in a place with 3-year tours (so fairly temporary), and the young single people who arrive usually don’t wany anything too permanent, and are not in a position to buy. But I do know what their allowance for housing it, so I would be able to charge less than their allowance for housing, meaning they would get money out of the deal (and stuff is expensive here, so I’m not sure how they live anyway), and I get a respectful, reliable tenant (and we could offer home-cooked meals to whoever stays).

I know it’s a unique circumstance, and an exception hardly disproves the rule, but I don’t think “there’s no such thing as a good landlord” is a true blanket statement.

there is no such thing as a good landlord.

Okay, I’ll bite. I just bought a 4-bed/3-bath (actually 4 bathrooms, but bathroom math made it “3-bath”) because we are a family of four in an expensive tourist spot and wanted a guest bedroom for family and visitors. It just so happened one bed and a 3/4 bathroom is in an attached 1-bedroom apartment with its own kitchen and living room.

So when I retire, and my oldest is out of the house to college, we are thinking we could rent that particular part (at a very reasonable rate to people we know). It is part of the house, so I can’t sell it separately. So the choice is be a landlord, or don’t offer housing (I suppose I could make it an AirBnB and make even more money, but this area is already fucked for housing for that reason).

So if there is no such thing as a good landlord, what would you recommend in a situation like this? Let someone live there for free? Then they’d be costing me money. Don’t rent it out? AirBnB?

Diaphragms are a form of birth control. They are making a joke by deliberating misinterpreting the specific meaning of the word used in an absurdist way, in the Mad Hatter style.

I’m on Voyager. How do I do that?

You don’t conjure cockroaches into existence by shining the light on them.

Yeah, so you set your standards higher because you’re not on your own anymore, and you realize living in filth is unacceptable.

(My brother is like that. A mess by himself, but remarkably clean and responsible whenever he’s in a relationship)

Probably the same types who don’t get how a promiscuous person can be raped, or that their promiscuity somehow invalidates it.

It’s like “if some people want it, it’s okay to force it on others. If some people want it under certain conditions of their choosing, it’s okay to force it on them in other circumstances.”

Just deliberately ignorant of the autonomy involved.

“I need to improve myself” or “I’m just not his/her type I’ll find someone.”

Hm… the only thing I can remember thinking after having been rejected was “phew, that didn’t work out, but glad I tried!” and moved on with my life. That… might be more to do with the general dissociation that I’m starting to realize has been a major theme in my life.

Yeah, but then individuals will have to vote for it, so they can’t pretend they don’t support the tariffs.

Cigarettes and coffee, man. The diner I used to go to (20+ years ago) had a single “non-smoking” table in the middle of the restaurant, the tar turned the walls yellowish (it was a 24 hour diner and closed once a year for a few days to deep clean the place), and there was always a haze. I didn’t smoke personally, but I spent a lot of time there.

When the smoking ban hit, it hit that place hard. A few weeks after it went into effect, I went there and thought they had changed the coffee they used because it wasn’t nearly as good. I asked the waitress, and she said it was the same, you just didn’t have all the cigarette smoke to go with it anymore. Turns out they used the exact same coffee as every other diner in town, they just had a constant nicotine-laced aromatics to go with it.

I (also military) used to grab a cup of coffee and bring it out whenever the smokers went out (though I had to start doing half a cup, because the smokers took a lot of breaks).

Then one chief established there would be no more “smoke breaks” for the smokers, but everyone would get regular breaks (and the smokers could take theirs outside). People (including the smokers who had been taking breaks all along) started making jokes about taking their “union mandated” breaks. And the smokers just went out twice as often.

I was a bit disappointed when I saw Abby in the show version. I was hoping for some serious Cherlize Theron level body change in the show between flashback Abby and current Abby. I figured that’d be the hardest casting in the series, and instead they just… didn’t. It was supposed to be this swole vs. survivor battle between Ellie and Abby, and instead… i think Bella could take her, honestly.

Seriously, that switch over in the game was such a trip. I think they really missed out having that.

For what it’s worth, I see a screenshot of a post on X from a guy about a highly contraversial subject, and I am immediately skeptical. Somebody asking for a source, and not just another person talking about the source, is very reasonable.

Getting immediately defensive about being asked for the source material makes me immediately question the integrity of the OP and much more inclined to believe it’s misinformation. Any reasonable person these days knows that even without lying, polling information can be distorted to say the exact opposite of what the poll actually suggests. “Do your own research” is also the motto of misinformation distributors.

I’m very much against the Zionists, and am fully in support of Palestine against genocide, to be clear. But this whole interaction makes you seem disingenuous.

That’s a short conversation for me:

Anything medium/large-dog size and larger, no.

Below that it can certainly depend (like a venomous snake? We’ll both lose. Eagle? Honestly no fucking clue. If I got a hit in, it would be done, but I’m not sure I’d get a strike in).

I feel like if he left Dr. Biden’s name out of it and just quoted that and said something to the effect of “The most powerful politician in the United States has some of the best medical care available in the world. If this cancer is at this point, now, they must have known through his presidency. The American People deserve to know if their President is terminally ill!” it would have made some sense.

I mean, it would still be wrong, but it wouldn’t be idiotically wrong.

Or better yet:

“It’s 1234. If that doesn’t work, press C then 1234.”