I’ve teleported to many a Waffle House after a long night.

The “gamble on news” site causing psychos to threaten journalists wasn’t something I expected, but I blame a lack of imagination on my part regarding human depravity.

I don’t know, I think you should be able to eat another thing. Maybe one other thing.

Yeah I just want to know what grocery store food Wall Street journal is going to call Gen Alpha privileged for eating. Store brand hummus? Whole wheat bread?

I… this reminds me of a time that a good samaritan actually helped me when I was in trouble. He had a Hispanic accent and fucked off before the cops came, but him stopping to help might have saved my life.

I of course had no way of knowing his legal status, but it doesn’t matter to me. That’s the kind of person you want in your country.

This kind of “trap” is antichrist behavior. As in against the Bible and against the words of Christ.

I’m greatly amused by the thought of a march that could not be more than 3,028 people.

How many frivolous lawsuits do we need to see tossed out before your ability to sue is at least put under stricter scrutiny?

Yeah Texas is crazy. Last I heard there were still sex shops there though. Can’t remember how they work around it.

They’re not attacking Bahrain. Or other countries where the US has military bases. Those are the places that the US attacks from.

Apparently they are concerned about soldiers stationed in other nations where sex toys are illegal getting in legal trouble. The original article is kinda funny.

Notepad now has copilot integrated, autosaves, and preserves formatting by default.

They even fucked up Notepad with Win11. Notepad!

I think it’s probably more the legal regime, but a higher than normal number of well kept but empty homes could also contribute.

You could search Zillow for off-market properties. Look for stuff that’s way below market for the area. Cross reference state property tax records. Title records. Maybe it’s boarded up and in obvious disrepair. Particular look for one that’s owned for a long time by an LLC. The owner there has enough business accumen to fix it up, but believes that he’ll profit more by waiting around until market conditions change. Look for the LLC owner, for one who doesn’t live nearby. Now you have someone whose distance and dereliction of social duty shows through in the condition of the property. He’s harming the neighborhood, keeping housing empty and off-market, and not even paying attention. That’s the one.

This is not legal advice, just a mental exercise.

The legality of house sitting ninjas probably varies state by state.

The time frame it takes to resolve this issue is the primary problem.

It should be fast and easy to determine if a rental agreement is invalid. I don’t know what that system needs to look like exactly, but we’ve been setting and improving standards for document validation for generations so it shouldn’t be that hard.

Oof. That bad?

Bourgeoisie for owning a house? A very petty kind of bourgeoisie if at all. Petit? Something like that.

And let’s be real, squatting isn’t labor either. This is a weird flex.

The kind of squatters that you have to fight in court to get rid of are downtroden in the sense that all petty criminals are downtrodden. In the sense that the guy that robs you at the bus stop is downtrodden even as he treads down on you.

Now I don’t much give a fuck about people’s return on investment and shit, but property, if you actually give a shit about it, is expensive to maintain and repair. That plus an arduous legal process highly incentivizes property owners to capitulate to unjust demands from squatters, much like any other robbery uses a threat of harm to coerce compliance.

Squatters don’t usually go for genuinely abandoned properties, but rather ones that are empty in the short term for normal reasons (vacations, sales, grandma got moved to a home). If they went into abandoned properties then there might be repairs that need to be done, some of the utilities might not be able to be activated immediately because of connection issues, it might not be safe, and certainly the owner might not notice and then come to ask them to leave and then they would never be able to ask the owner for money to make them leave.