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OwlFancier posted:I don't think I've read a book in like, five years, maybe ten? Do you order books by the yard to fill it? 135: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGD2z9X_7NE
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think I've read a book in like, five years, maybe ten? I'm assuming in a fantasy where I can afford a place with 2 rooms (or more) I'm wealthy. Coz I'm not sure I've bought more than 5 ebooks in a decade. Maybe 10. If not for certain Russian websites I'd have deleted the Kindle app off my phone donkeys years ago. I'd definitely always pick physical media where money isn't an issue.
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OwlFancier posted:Even in a more decentralized setup it's nice to live next to the shops. Not really sure what I'd do with a full size house honestly, other than fill it with poo poo I don't really need. Suppose it depends on how far we're going. Going Full Pol Pot and evacuating all the cities at gunpoint? Setting everyone up in crofter's houses on the Shetlands? Or just moving things more towards small towns and small cities so more people live in places of like 30,000-100,000 and fewer in multi-million-people metropolises? Plus it's gonna depend on where you are. The yanks have plenty of room for something like that. The Japanese... less so. Pound_Coin posted:knowing this thread? there'd at least be a warhams room and a BDSM dungeon You were replying to OwlFancier not me 
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It's full of the books I used to read when I read books, most of which are extremely yellow at this point and about 2/3rds of which are the complete discworld series except for eric because I lost that one.
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Le Corbusier! That's the guy I was thinking of. When I learned about that style/era of architecture I think I saw the concept for the buildings through my socialist goggles and I didnt pick up on any capitalist undercurrents of the man himself! to be fair i was an art student and the focus was more on the design. I'm the kind of weirdo who goes to the metro centre and thinks it could be improved by building apartments on top of it. I also realise that this can easily be dystopian as gently caress in reality. Why does my brain want me to live in mega city one?
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My landlord owns 2 houses and rents me the second at a fraction of the market rate. I currently don't earn enough to pay a mortgage so can use this cheap house to save up. Is he bad?
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OwlFancier posted:Even in a more decentralized setup it's nice to live next to the shops. Not really sure what I'd do with a full size house honestly, other than fill it with poo poo I don't really need. I know what you mean, I'm perfectly happy living in a tiny flat in a big city centre, but a lot of people aren't. Takes all kinds, so I think if you make housing accessible and jobs not so centralised, population will distribute itself.
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freddiestarfish posted:My landlord owns 2 houses and rents me the second at a fraction of the market rate. I currently don't earn enough to pay a mortgage so can use this cheap house to save up. Is he bad? I like that this is meant to be a gotcha but yes. I could go into it more, like how he came to own the house and so on, so forth, but eh, why bother? He's bad.
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Ms Adequate posted:Suppose it depends on how far we're going. Going Full Pol Pot and evacuating all the cities at gunpoint? Setting everyone up in crofter's houses on the Shetlands? Or just moving things more towards small towns and small cities so more people live in places of like 30,000-100,000 and fewer in multi-million-people metropolises? I mean I live in a medium sized town and spend most of my free time in what I guess are small towns. I am unused to buildings taller than three stories and two most of the time. Even in that sort of scale there's a lot of terracing and putting people close together because it's actually kind of nice, and as said it puts more people as close as possible to the facilities. Plus you get a fairly sharp divide between the town and the surrounding countryside, which I think is a really important thing, being able to go from your house to somewhere natural on foot in a few minutes is deeply enjoyable. This is the pattern you see in a lot of older towns and it's one I think makes for a nice way to live. It's not a big stretch to extend that to the odd little housing block or more decent terraces with walls not made of tissue paper. Not everywhere needs to be separate houses with gardens that mostly go unused.
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Igotadigbick posted:Le Corbusier! That's the guy I was thinking of. When I learned about that style/era of architecture I think I saw the concept for the buildings through my socialist goggles and I didnt pick up on any capitalist undercurrents of the man himself! to be fair i was an art student and the focus was more on the design. Corbusier wasn't so bad really- he was keen on the idea that you use the high density housing to create open communal spaces between, which if done well means you don't get urban sprawl- the parkland is for everyone. He was an 'urban planner' more than just an architect. The problem is that to a property developer this kind of housing was seen as a way to pack more money in per square meter of ground space, and the parks didn't get a look in. I'd be all for high density housing if it meant you could surround each building with fields, parkland and public spaces. That's the luxury communism bit.
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Ms Adequate posted:Or just moving things more towards small towns and small cities so more people live in places of like 30,000-100,000 and fewer in multi-million-people metropolises? StarkingBarfish posted:Corbusier wasn't so bad really- he was keen on the idea that you use the high density housing to create open communal spaces between, which if done well means you don't get urban sprawl- the parkland is for everyone. He was an 'urban planner' more than just an architect. The problem is that to a property developer this kind of housing was seen as a way to pack more money in per square meter of ground space, and the parks didn't get a look in. A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:We'd probably destroy the last remaining wilderness doing that. The more centralized humanity is, the more chances all the species we share the world have to thrive. We could saw off the south of england with a big angle grinder and then tell everyone in the north to stop having kids.
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Julio Cruz posted:just spent a week in a holiday let and forget lockpicking, the box the keys were in didn’t look like it’d stand up to even a moderate blow with a medium hammer the point of lockpicking isn't getting through doors you can't destroy (there are very few doors you can't destroy), it's to get through doors without making enough noise to attract witnesses or leaving a conspicuous pile of door debris
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It was the surrounding the high density buildings with greenery and parkland, connecting joining buildings and reducing the amount of land used for roads and such that really helped sell the idea to me like, self contained buildings with all the facilities in the middle of seas of fields and nature. It just speaks to me! I did also like earthships, small individual housing out in nature, all off grid and made out of reclaimed materials like rammed earth tires full of clever engineering solutions to recycle water and regulate temperature.
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No again I've been replaying deus ex and the point of lockpicking is to get through doors you can't open with the gep gun.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:We'd probably destroy the last remaining wilderness doing that. The more centralized humanity is, the more chances all the species we share the world have to thrive. Decentralisation sucks unless you somehow drop world population by 2/3. No, you don't get to use the nukes.
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StarkingBarfish posted:Corbusier wasn't so bad really- he was keen on the idea that you use the high density housing to create open communal spaces between, which if done well means you don't get urban sprawl- the parkland is for everyone. He was an 'urban planner' more than just an architect. The problem is that to a property developer this kind of housing was seen as a way to pack more money in per square meter of ground space, and the parks didn't get a look in. Well, and - from memory - he was also keen on the idea of housing design being a 'waste no space' kind of deal. If everything you need is within easy reach, why do you need such luxury as 'room to move'.
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suck my woke dick posted:the point of lockpicking isn't getting through doors you can't destroy (there are very few doors you can't destroy), it's to get through doors without making enough noise to attract witnesses or leaving a conspicuous pile of door debris you could probably get away with one hammer swing under the guise of pretending to knock if you were canny
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CGI Stardust posted:do it! it's fun and relaxing. if you want any locks to start out with, I've got a box full of spare euro cylinders (offer stands to anyone interested btw) quote:common problem with security measures, you really get what you pay for. no-one wants to cash out for something actually sturdy and hard to pick
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kingturnip posted:If everything you need is within easy reach, why do you need such luxury as 'room to move'. Room to move is bourgeois propaganda comrade
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freddiestarfish posted:My landlord owns 2 houses and rents me the second at a fraction of the market rate. I currently don't earn enough to pay a mortgage so can use this cheap house to save up. Is he bad? He's probably less bad than the average landlord, but he's still bad. To wit: Why, after you pay him significant amounts of money to live there, do you continue not to own the house, and he pockets the cash?
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Most of the available space in my home is taken up by books.
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notaspy posted:Word up fellow lpl liker. I love that dudes voice and he makes me want to take up lock picking as a hobby. It's good fun and I recommend it, but I'm real poo poo at it. Raking is so stupid easy on cheap locks though. I have like half a dozen padlocks that I mess around with and almost all of them can be raked in under two seconds. Single pin picking is a different game though, and I can't seem to get it even on crappy locks. I must have ham hands or something.
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My city introduced a 4% rent increase cap after some landlords raised rent 50% and pretended it was common city wide. It was a group of apartments, and a street of houses nearby. They sent a letter to each saying it was going to increase by 50% and here are some other houses that had the same, listing each other What they didn't know, some of the tenants of both places worked in the same place, and went straight to the media.
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The only landlords I know that I'd not call bad are a bunch of Quakers who restore lovely buildings and rent them at affordable rates to people who really ought to be in council housing, then use any profit to repeat the process. It's not perfect, because they had to raise money through community investment, which means that someone's expecting a return on investment at some point, but if the council can't/won't do it...
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thespaceinvader posted:He's probably less bad than the average landlord, but he's still bad. I could either get a mortgage I can't physically afford, or rent a house at twice the price. He could sell the house to someone who can afford a mortgage, or what? Give it away, or my rent slowly buys it off him? Ideally we'd all love a free house but on a personal level how could he do better realistically as buying a house off him slowly in rent wouldn't work as I'll only be here for a fraction of the time it would take to pay off the house. Hate the system, not ones trying to do a little better.
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Commercial / business landlords seem like an exception. i mean, they're still making money off of a monopoly rent, but otoh, it's a business cost, not homelessness.
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Ms Adequate posted:
Oh I know I was just thinking of the thread collectively (and you)
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freddiestarfish posted:I could either get a mortgage I can't physically afford, or rent a house at twice the price. The key thing is the house shouldn't cost as much as it does in the first place, which would solve basically every one of those angles.
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freddiestarfish posted:Hate the system, not ones trying to do a little better. ¿Por que no los dos?
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freddiestarfish posted:I could either get a mortgage I can't physically afford, or rent a house at twice the price. He could put you on a rent to buy arrangement, or just give it to you outright, or sell it to you for a cheap enough rate that you could afford a mortgage. WHy does he get to do a little better, when you don't? He has no need for a second house, you have need for a first. Why the inequality?
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communism bitch posted:It's good fun and I recommend it, but I'm real poo poo at it. Raking is so stupid easy on cheap locks though. I have like half a dozen padlocks that I mess around with and almost all of them can be raked in under two seconds. Single pin picking is a different game though, and I can't seem to get it even on crappy locks. I must have ham hands or something. Get one of those transparent practice locks - some people just can't "see" with their hands, so being able to actually see what you're doing helps a lot.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Commercial / business landlords seem like an exception. They're still making unearned profits off other people's work though. Also commercial landlords thinking they deserve the same ROI as residential is why all the good pubs and shops are long loving gone.
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njsykora posted:I love when assholes trying to exploit people are rumbled because they never consider that the people they're trying to gently caress over will actually talk to each other. This is why it's considered impolite to talk about how much you earn.
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freddiestarfish posted:I could either get a mortgage I can't physically afford, or rent a house at twice the price. Like I'm not saying we have to guillotine them all right away, but we could at least fling a little bit of dog poo poo at them or something?
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Yeah, commercial landlords are one of the reasons we don't have independent businesses any more, because they charge such exorbitant rates that only fellow exploitative shitbags can afford them.
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suck my woke dick posted:Decentralisation sucks unless you somehow drop world population by 2/3. No, you don't get to use the nukes. Why, what're you gonna do if I do? Call the nuke police? Good luck, I nuked them 
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suck my woke dick posted:*raises hands* communism bitch posted:It's good fun and I recommend it, but I'm real poo poo at it. Raking is so stupid easy on cheap locks though. I have like half a dozen padlocks that I mess around with and almost all of them can be raked in under two seconds. Single pin picking is a different game though, and I can't seem to get it even on crappy locks. I must have ham hands or something. goddamnedtwisto posted:Get one of those transparent practice locks - some people just can't "see" with their hands, so being able to actually see what you're doing helps a lot.
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