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That’s how it all started for me: I had Netflix and Spotify from ages before, and then Netflix did their, “ads or double the price” thing and Spotify gave me more and more corporate music instead of what I wanted, so I dropped them both and switched to YouTube Premium for both music and video content.

I think the key here is to get used to react immediately, because the immediate reaction causes a reversal of the action. We don’t have to live with the increased cost and decreased service forever, because an immediate negative reaction means the service is restored to what it was before, with any luck. So everybody skips a downgrade or price increase at the same time, and until CEOs figure out the trick, it’s bye bye enshittification.

Okay, fine, I am ready to come out of the closet: I’ve been a YouTube Premium subscriber for two years. Lynch me if you like. I thought it hypocritical to crucify YouTube and have a Spotify or Netflix or Hulu subscription, and I found the cost acceptable.

Three price increases and a worsening of service later, I cancelled my subscription as soon as I received the email about a price increase.

Incidentally, I think that’s the thing to do: you get a price increase, there is no tangible benefit to the increase, you immediately drop the service. None of that “Whatchagonnado?” stuff. The only thing these services react to is an instant drop of revenue. You can live for a month without Spotify (or YouTube Premium), they can’t live for a quarter without subscribers.

We always have to remember that the short-term focus of modern capitalism is their weakness: a stupid mistake, a sudden drop in revenue, and the CEOs are flying out the window faster than Putin’s generals.

A’right, this is disgusting, but it’s really not Reddit’s fault if a Grand Jury requests evidence.

You are so mean! I had just stopped crying over not getting the new version of OS/2 the other week!

OP, I tried out one of those guaranteed offers. it’s a giant scam: they told me amount X, but they’d send an inspector to adjust in minor details. The inspector came, they made me wait another week, and then offered “guaranteed” 60% of X. The whole thing wasted two weeks of my time that I could have spent finding a buyer.

Note: when you sign a contract as a seller with a realtor, you are generally on the hook for the commission even if you don’t sell through the realtor. You could force a clause into the contract that makes that exception, but the realtor is realistically going to wait with marketing until that’s sorted out. You’d still lose time, basically.

Now, if you are not currently talking with a realtor, you might as well invite as many of the cash offers into your place to give you a binding offer. I’d make sure they are still reputable firms that aren’t just there to scope your place or to sell your information, but if you are not actively thinking of contacting a realtor, you might as well talk to these people and see if they are for real. Do not sign anything, of course, until the final number is there.

You are absolutely right, but the time frame for a traditional house sale is still in the month range, at least. The only way around it is a cash buyer that voids all inspections, because just coordinating a mortgage, appraisal, inspection, and mandatory repairs takes some time.

If you are lucky, you’ll find a cash buyer with no contingencies, but it’s rather rare, depending on how (little) desirable the property and the location are.

Very, very fair points. I wondered sometimes why no enterprising manufacturer simply took an existing ICE car and made an EV conversion kit. Like a conversion kit for a 2010 Honda Civic, take out the ICE engine etc. and replace it all with electric. That’s the car we want.

The high gas prices may have added fuel to the fire, but the best news here is that used EVs are growing in popularity. That is a consequence of us finding out batteries don’t degrade as fast as we first imagined, which makes used EVs a lot more interesting.

In the short term, that kills the market for new EVs, since used ones were so dirt cheap. In the long run, the resale value of new EVs will be much more stable, eliminating the last downside they had.

(Obviously, many car makers saw the short term pain and gave up on the entire market. That is of course because car maker CEOs are absolutely brilliant people with foresight and strategic thinking. Just kidding: they occupy the only category of jobs that should absolutely be replaced by AI.)

Just stopping by to add that it’s not just old men that behave that way. A lot of the Silicon powerful are actually relatively young. Money is a universal distorter of brains, the one ring to rule them all that actually ends up ruling you.

That does not prove he is not a genius!!! /s

Remember when he told his advertisers to fuck off, and then two weeks later sued them because they fucked off? That’s the depth of this man’s genius!!!

Yeah, I found that pretty weird, too. Not only that, but you can’t get that yeast for the next two years. Your method works yesterday haha.

Get outta here with your sensible, practical solutions! ;-)

Look like good changes to me. There was nothing wrong with Mastodon, but sometimes you really had to have been a Mastodon user already to know how it works.

The world was always fucked up, but we had a sense it was improving. That’s what has changed, majorly. We started having the feeling that as bad as it is, it is only going to get worse.

I know the feeling. I had a rental car once for two weeks and I was more than once road-raged because of the lights. Everyone thought I was high-beaming it, but nope.

I would second the motion to a 13 month calendar of all 28-day months (despite the fact you KNOW my birthday is going to end up on a forever Monday). The days of the week are named after scientists of seven different disciplines, the months after artists. There is a theme with the artists, so that 1/4 is musicians, 1/4 visual artists, 1/4 writers, 1/4 builders.

Whenever I see a street or city named after a politician or military officer, I always wish there were more things named after people that are actually useful for the world.

For reference, I was born on the 12th day of the month of Lady Gaga, of course an Einsteinday.

Is that where my friend wanted me to buy “real estate” a few years ago? He said he had gotten $200,000 invested and was going to retire once he sold… I suppose we are back to the original plan now, “Chick-Fil-A Chef Until 75”

You don’t mention whether that body type insecurity is justified or not. I know plenty people that think themselves ugly, or too this and too that, and it’s really just in their mind. In fact, for some reason some of the best-looking people I know have a hard time accepting they are not ugly or worthless. I wish I knew how to approach that, because I am striking out trying to help.

When it comes to insecurities that are justified, I was obese, so I do have some experience. Words wouldn’t have helped much, but actions would. When you have some kind of unappealing trait, people recoil from you. They won’t look at you, they won’t touch you, they just try to disappear from your general vicinity. Just being there and giving off the vibe that you are comfortable and happy being with me would have made all the difference.

Touch in particular. I would float on air all day if someone touched me voluntarily - shook my hand or held my shoulder, because it happened so rarely and it implied comfort with my existence.