RL Peeves
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The sinking realisation as an ageing Millennial that most of my childhood friends now have wrinkles.
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My pet peeve is endless webpages that extend themselves when you get near the bottom.
The scroll wheel on my mouse is fricked, maybe it needs a clean or something but I’m really not wanting to disassemble my mouse to clean it (especially since the screws are hidden under the mouse feet so I’d need to buy more mouse feet which are cheap but still). As such I can’t really use it for scrolling.
So what I normally do instead is just click and drag the scroll bar down as I read. And that works great. Up until I get near the bottom and then suddenly ZOOP the page loads a bunch of extra stuff, skips to the bottom of that, loads yet more stuff, skips to the bottom of that, and then I have to try find where I was.
I don’t know why the internet thinks this feature is a great idea. It makes me miserable. And honestly, even if I had a working scroll wheel, I’d still probably prefer having individual pages I could skip between. When you have separate pages and you want to go to the last one? You just click the button to go to the last page. If you have infinite scrolling, well, have fun wasting minutes of your life getting to the end.
PS: I just found the option in my forum settings for pagination, so don’t fret! It’s now only everywhere else on the internet driving me crazy
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The shelter I work for is all volunteer run. I foster, and fosters write the petfinder bios for the cats in our care.
Today the volunteer who runs our pet finder page mentioned she ‘edited’ my bios or ‘got permission’ to use pieces of it. This confused me, so I asked if there were guidelines I wasn’t aware of.
She responded with a list of nine things. I said ‘thanks’ but reached out to another volunteer to be like “Did you know about these?”
No. And they’re not guidelines. In fact, some of the things (like my bios are ‘too long’) are just down right wrong headed.
Everything is just what the pet finder volunteer decided ~she~ wanted to see on the site. I’ve decided it isn’t worth it to go to the shelter director about this. I’ll keep writing my bios how I like. All, but the four who went in Saturday, of my kittens have been adopted so… I guess it’s working.
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@junipersky The demographic of folks involved/volunteering in shelters is… very varied.
Most do mean well, don’t get me wrong, but some are just fucking weird. And many of them don’t agree at all about very basic things when it comes to animal care, or want to make it about themselves, etc.
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Today, an unopened soda can fell off the ‘dining room’ (it’s an apartment, y’all) table, rolled along like a little undetonated grenade until it hit the corner of the table. It gained a tiny little puncture and started spraying a fine spray of soda detritus up and into the world. PFFFFFFFFF. Ordinarily? Messy, but not a big deal. I wiped down the tables and chairs, and then noticed the wall.
Oh, the wall. It’s covered in soda streaks. I did a blot test with a microfiber cloth and plain water, applying only the pressure necessary to lightly dab one tiny area of the wall, and cloth came away covered in paint and visibly brought paint away with it.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
They didn’t use any primer, and used the most watery, cheapest paint imaginable.
Guess who has two thumbs and needs to beg the leasing center to “repaint” for the third time in a year?
I hate apartment life.
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@Solstice Never mind the fact that rent prices have increased so much this year that we’re more or less paying a mortgage at this point. We’re paying more for our apartment than my fiancé’s brother pays for his house.
And our landlord has the gall to say that a $200/month increase this year is better than other places. It took all my willpower to not to tell her what I thought of that.
I can’t wait to get out of this place after three years. The Google review that I write(after we get our deposit back)is going to be such scorched earth. It may not mean anything, but it’ll feel good to me.
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The situation doesn’t look much better for buying either. What a mortgage gets you rn is… frustrating.
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Yup. I planned to buy a house in 2020, then pressed pause because of Covid uncertainty. Now feel trapped and frustrated.
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I am gainfully employed. There is no way in hell I’ll be buying a house any time soon unless I’m moving to some area out in the middle of nowhere in the future.
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Housing crisis is in full swing right now pretty much the world over. Neither renting or buying right now is a reasonable prospect for the middle class; housing simply isn’t available, and what is is either garbage or being offered at a price point WAY above the actual value. This has roots in a lot of things; it was already a problem in many many places PRIOR to the pandemic due to Air BNB type stuff and corporations buying up properties in massive numbers for it and the wage value issues, and then the eviction moratoriums happened (without a plan in place for this very obvious consequence), and – it’s ugly and it’s going to get uglier before it’s over.
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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/every-zillow-listing-right-now
edit: changed from an insta repost to the original new yorker piece
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“But no, it’s going for $500,000 and will be sold to an Airbnb developer who’s going to rent it to completely normal people who nonetheless will manage to ruin this entire neighborhood.”
lol, yup.
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We spent the first half of the year, for various reasons, trying to find a house. We could afford places but nothing like what I believe we should be able to get with our financial situation. Ultimately, for various other reasons, we decided to keep renting in the city for at least another year. Prices have dropped some in the semi-rural target area we are looking at but have not really moved in the urban zone we currently live in despite talk about the mortgage rates dropping or other things that are supposedly going to fix the issue. We’re exceptionally lucky that we can both reliably WFH and expect to indefinitely, and that makes the more rural/exurban options available to us. If you have to work on-site and therefore live in a place where you can commute, I just don’t see a way forward unless the next decade of housing is constructed under completely different zoning laws than we have. (Narrator: It won’t be.)
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@shit-piss-love What bugs me is that while I suspect there’s a real estate bubble that’s going to burst in the future… lots of people thought that, and for many years.
The other thing is, if we’re headed into a depression then all bets are off. Sure, should things really go to hell and people start to default on their mortgages then yes, there will be more houses on the market (and probably at a lower price) but… is that something to really look forward to?
And even then, assuming one is enough of a cynic, all bets are off when society as a whole is under extreme duress. For example we have jobs today, but if things are bad enough are we still going to feel quite as secure about a 15 year mortgage even at better terms?
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The only reason why we have a house in the area we do is because we bought over 20 years ago, in the cheaper unincorporated area. If we were buying now even with current income I am not sure we could find something even within an hour of where we are, and it would probably be a fixer upper. It’s been hard seeing my kids realize that they won’t be able to even rent a single room apartment anywhere near here. Not that it’s bad to share housemates in your early adult life especially but I think that is likely how its going to be, even in family situations, for the foreseeable future. Not just bc of investors, though that’s taking away a lot of “old fixer uppers or starter homes” that people used to rely on. It’s really depressing.
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It’s still Internet based vs meatspace, but it’s not mu*-based or -adjacent so I’ll put the peeve here.
I made the mistake of joining a sub about a popular television show I’m watching and I’m peeved that I can still be remotely surprised by how fucking stupid people are, in general.
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@eye8urcake Having that issue with a band and also a show right now!
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Major DDOS attacks right as I’m trying to sign off for the night.
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Who would have thought that unhinged “we have the best nuclears” rant was actually a sales pitch.
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@shit-piss-love said in RL Peeves:
Who would have thought that unhinged “we have the best nuclears” rant was actually a sales pitch.
No. Stop. Don’t.
