people have literally told me renters have too many rights these days and it’s soooo hard to rent out property now because of all these tenant protection laws. you mean the laws that don’t protect me at all from things happening before they happen? the laws that have a billion loopholes? the laws that “only” allow landlords to raise rent by 7% a year PLUS INFLATION??? and i’m a person who can read/semi-interpret laws and show up to eviction court if needed. most people do not have the time and/or ability to do that! cry me a fucking river about landlords being held to what are in reality completely inadequate standards. and again they aren’t actually held to them by anyone. get real!!!!
okay it’s just become apparent i possibly have to move out before monday. how does one even do that. like. it takes me hours just to pack a suitcase.
currently drafting an email to my property manager asking him to pwetty pwease wait to release known health hazard asbestos into my environment until i have time to move out, while knowing he has absolutely no legal requirement to comply and can enter my unit at any time as long as he gives me 72 hours of notice (which he has already done), and waiting for my friend the environmental engineer to tell me what the oregon deq told her when she called them just now. fun times
in the last hour and a half i have 1) talked to my friend the environmental engineer 2) talked to a deq inspector 3) denied entry to a guy who showed up and knocked on my door and 4) emailed my property manager yet again AND FINALLY he has agreed to postpone the work!!! 🙌🎉🥳
the deq inspector was awesome by the way. not only was he super knowledgeable and answered all my questions in a way i could understand, he was also super cognizant of and respectful of my tenuous position as a renter who could definitely be retaliated against by my landlord if i do anything to protect myself. he was clear with me about the fact that if i actually give him my address he will be there within the hour and he will make them follow the law but that could lead to retaliation where my landlord finds some excuse to evict me even though it would be illegal. it was really refreshing because i feel like no one else i talk to is taking that seriously. they’re like, have you thought about getting a lawyer? dude, lawyering up is going to antagonize the people who control whether or not i have a roof over my head. i have to be really careful about how i interact with them! all the time! they can fuck up my rental history! they have a key to my unit! if my landlord hates me my life is so much harder and like, less safe in many ways? yeah it’s illegal but did you know landlords don’t give a shit?? it was really nice to not have to explain that to someone for once.
bad idea: A mouse cursor that’s not just a simple floating pointer, it’s a cat/dog paw… but it stretches all the way to an edge of the screen like it’s a really long leg
It exists now! I didn’t make it, but someone else did:
You will get farther in one week paying close, nonjudgmental attention to the unmet needs underlying your “bad” behavior than you will in a year of punishing yourself and demanding you become a different person. I’m right shut up.
okay it’s just become apparent i possibly have to move out before monday. how does one even do that. like. it takes me hours just to pack a suitcase.
currently drafting an email to my property manager asking him to pwetty pwease wait to release known health hazard asbestos into my environment until i have time to move out, while knowing he has absolutely no legal requirement to comply and can enter my unit at any time as long as he gives me 72 hours of notice (which he has already done), and waiting for my friend the environmental engineer to tell me what the oregon deq told her when she called them just now. fun times
in the last hour and a half i have 1) talked to my friend the environmental engineer 2) talked to a deq inspector 3) denied entry to a guy who showed up and knocked on my door and 4) emailed my property manager yet again AND FINALLY he has agreed to postpone the work!!! 🙌🎉🥳
the philosophical razors section on wiki is fascinating …. i’ve known Occam’s razor but it’s the first time I’ve heard of the other razors today ….
Occam’s razor: Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions.
Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Hume’s guillotine: What ought to be cannot be deduced from what is. “If the cause, assigned for any effect, be not sufficient to produce it, we must either reject that cause, or add to it such qualities as will give it a just proportion to the effect.”
Alder’s razor (also known as Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword): If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate.
like ok yeah you gave the state the power to “protect abuse survivors” so now the rich and powerful are working to make sure “abuse survivor” is defined in a way that only benefits them. the same thing as relying on the law to “protect women,” the state will make damn sure that only certain women qualify. you are a fool if you think the law can be consistently relied on to bring justice to marginalized people
the state is a FACTION. the state is a GANG. it is, by definition, a powerful group of powerful people and they maintain a nationwide army of increasingly militarized mercenaries that serve their own interests above all else. they are not here to protect you. they are here to uphold the law and to do so selectively in order to protect the interests of the wealthy.
okay it’s just become apparent i possibly have to move out before monday. how does one even do that. like. it takes me hours just to pack a suitcase.
currently drafting an email to my property manager asking him to pwetty pwease wait to release known health hazard asbestos into my environment until i have time to move out, while knowing he has absolutely no legal requirement to comply and can enter my unit at any time as long as he gives me 72 hours of notice (which he has already done), and waiting for my friend the environmental engineer to tell me what the oregon deq told her when she called them just now. fun times
okay it’s just become apparent i possibly have to move out before monday. how does one even do that. like. it takes me hours just to pack a suitcase.
