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Umlaut Schwa@umlautschwa.bsky.social |
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Anonymous Minneapolis(ish) crank. Lefty loud music listener, sff reader, rpg player, Jared Keeso fanboy. If the acronym WMYBSALB means anything to you, let's be mutuals and I'll share my old handle.
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David M. Perry
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Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed.
www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...
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Umlaut Schwa
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+ Expanding the House so districts represent the same(ish) number of people in every state.
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Umlaut Schwa
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And this is why Virginia is never getting their traitor's flag back, no matter how much they whine and moan.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Ugh. Well, here's hoping she figures her shit out and doesn't do any more harm. Thanks for taking the time to fill me in.
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Umlaut Schwa
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I mean, I saw all the horny on main stuff, but it all seemed consensual. It bothered me a bit, but I didn't figure it was the middle-aged cis guy's job to police behavior. I wasn't around during the final blowup, IRL had me busy.
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Umlaut Schwa
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She what!?! FFS. Gross.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Came here to say this. Specialty terms of art get grammatically weird. Last year I spent a week discussing "single points of failure" vs. "single point of failures," where in the context of the ability to identify and address computer security threats the latter was correct.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Why would they? I'm sure they get a cut of every AXS resale.
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I fucking hate scalpers so much.
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Umlaut Schwa
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I know we love Soul Coughing in the Twin Cities, but I can literally fly to another city, pay scalper prices there, pay for a hotel, and still come out ahead over what scalpers are charging for tix at the Palace (sometimes they dip, but I am commonly seeing $600+ a ticket here).
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Umlaut Schwa
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I think I hate mimes even more than I hate historical recreationists who expect you to interact with them in character.
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Umlaut Schwa
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I guess they weren't completely red.
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I can see the red glass chandeliers and checkered tablecloths through the walls.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Wildly wrong unless you average where I grew up, where my folks grew up, and where I moved for college and have spent most of my adult life. I wonder how different it would be if I had answered another way when it was a coin toss between options. Yard sale, garage sale, and rummage sale are =.
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Umlaut Schwa
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I loved Scaramouche after stumbling across it in a used bookstore in college. In the 30 years since, it has never occurred to me to find other books by the author. I know what I'm doing tonight!
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Umlaut Schwa
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"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman." Steel Beach by John Varley.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Not saying you try! But you know about a lot of shit and sometimes your mind works sideways.
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Umlaut Schwa
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I never get these off the bat if ever. I don't know if I'm having a good day or you're slipping.
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Umlaut Schwa
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One is a bunch of reindeers, the other is a bunch of Dane rears.
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Umlaut Schwa
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"With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship."
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Katie Mack
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Amongst the most bougie things I have ever posted on social media: if you, a winery, offer a special deal with $20 shipping on orders of 12+ bottles, perhaps you shouldn't do it at a time of year where your shipping person doesn't have to offer to hold til the fall or upcharge you $30 for overnight.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Since you said that, I had to go look it up: A marquess traditionally holds a border territory (a march). A viscount's duties vary by country but one doesn't typically hold a border territory. The Brits use viscount as a courtesy title for the heir of a marquess.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Some of us were just commenters, thanks.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Picturing a Wolf fursona shaking fo(/u)r a soaking rabbit and fox. Hate that this image is in my head.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Is the Hotdish Contest no more? Was the sacred tradition broken when Klobuchar wouldn't commit to the simple fact that the MN State Fair beats all others, even Iowa's?
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Umlaut Schwa
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Isn't this the start of how Cobra Commander created Serpentor?
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Umlaut Schwa
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There's a man goin' 'round assigning labels, And they decide who to free and who to blame Everybody won't be treated all the same...
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Umlaut Schwa
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Well, that and Gary Anderson.
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Umlaut Schwa
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I think that was when I started to fall out of love with football. I still watch, but I try not to invest.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Omar also completely blew off the primary last cycle thinking she was safe. A lot of folks gave her an earful afterwards and she is actively campaigning this cycle. I'm a constituent and was really pissed at her for fucking around last time and I'm not particularly worried this year.
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Umlaut Schwa
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3 limped a bit for me, but still worth watching. 4 ruled so hard.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Let's talk about your body hair there Big Shoots. Your aesthetician coife that for you?
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Umlaut Schwa
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I had my mom clocked as ADHD for years, but it wasn't until her recent death when I started going through my dad's desk (untouched since his passing in the late 90s) that I realized he was definitely neurospicy of some sort himself.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Tiny quibble: West Lake doesn't meet Hwy 7. They get close, but not that close, and given the age of the surrounding buildings I don't think the two roads connected back then, either. Source: am half a mile away at the moment.
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Umlaut Schwa
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So only shitty landlords are left. I don't know what the solution is.
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Umlaut Schwa
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I honestly fear that decades of neglect paired with skyrocketing property prices make ethical small landlording impossible. Slight bummer for my plans, but *huge* bummer for renters--anyone who wants to be a "good" landlord is priced out because they can't provide value while breaking even. 8/
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Umlaut Schwa
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To me, landlording *could* be ethical. Value for money, both in quality of property & service. I have yet to find a place I could afford to buy (I have a decent budget thanks to an inheritance) where I would feel OK renting it out without sinking $100k into repairs. Which I can't afford to do. 7/
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Umlaut Schwa
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Rodent waste everywhere. Peeling (likely lead) paint. So much sloppily (or un-) repaired water-damaged plaster from plumbing leaks. Exposed asbestos with unwrapped tears. Rotted out basement support beams hanging from the ceiling while the floors above sag to the center of the house.... 6/
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Umlaut Schwa
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Windows so gappy (in MN!) the tenants report having winter gas bills over $500 for a 2br where they used a fireplace for supplemental heating. Foundations with cracks so big there's visible daylight. So much basement water damage--poor roof drainage/no grading away from the foundation, and so on. 5/
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A complete absence of any sort of kitchen design knowledge--fridges in another room, stoves under a sloped ceiling with no vent, insufficient cabinetry/counter space, etc. Just the absolute cheapest solution to check a box, unthinking of how the space will be used. 4/
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Umlaut Schwa
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But the sheer short-sighted cheapness and lack of care for renters (the customers in this transaction) I've seen is stunning. Simply unsafe buildings with an extra unit crammed in (legally or otherwise), ignored electrical fires that render light switches nonfunctional and are never repaired, 3/
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Umlaut Schwa
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The insane spiral of increasing rents has been an ongoing trend at the macro level, partly connected to AirBnB etc., and the acquisition of single family homes as rental properties by large corporations (not saying small individual landlords don't jack rent, but they aren't doing it in a vacuum) 2/
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Umlaut Schwa
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This is a worthwhile jumping off point for saying I've learned why landlords are such a despised class, especially among the young/left. I've basically always felt ok with my landlords since my college years (where we were disgusting slobs focused on finding the cheapest lodging we could). 1/
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Umlaut Schwa
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I've been touring triplexes with an eye on providing my kids with reasonably-priced post-college lodging and an eventual pied-à-terre for myself. Of the ~12 individual apartments I've been inside, mostly featuring tenants in their 20s, 4 have had extensive manga collections. Anecdata, but aligns.
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Umlaut Schwa
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It's so good.
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I like to avoid existential horror whilst high, but I suppose other folks' MMV.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Being willing/able to troll Craigslist/FB marketplace for bargains helps. I have all the major tools now and spent maybe $2k plus gas. Wood and consumables are still damn expensive, although if you're not picky on wood variety you can sometimes pick up large lots cheap the same way.
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Umlaut Schwa
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Plus a regulatory/governmental body capture problem. But yeah.
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Umlaut Schwa
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See, I would Kill the Joker if I got to pick the De Niro Godfather for Fuck.
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