I wonder how much longer we'll see these bad boys in FDR before they get back to clearcutting it

Geez I'm glad someone gets my very modest proposal

Why? It's fundamentally no different from what anyone else here has said.

I'm mostly just restating and clarifying what's already being said by y'all. Idk why I'm getting downvotes

Idk why people think I'm disagreeing with anyone here. I fully agree. You should be able to kill anyone trying to take something from you.

I also agree with you. You should be able to kill people based on vibes.

Haha yeah I should have couched my desire to kill people over property behind something more innocuous like "i hate duty to flee laws"

Yeah that's what I said. You should be able to kill anyone getting violent against you.

Yeah I should be able to kill anyone that tries to take something from me. My car? Blast em. My phone? Blast em. My blood? Blast em. My number? Blast em.

> The landlord should have taken care of it the whole next day.

Ok, but they clearly didn't do that.

> Most tenants don't have extension ladders to climb up the roof to seal entrances, or traps.

Yes, but if they owned the home they'd be more likely to have those things since it's their responsibility to maintain it.

> You can cut the ceiling out and then what? Beat the shit out of raccoon with a swiffer?

Not sure but considering the going solution is "wait for the landlord" and "let the animal die of starvation and then rot in the ceiling" your suggestions seem more likely to actually solve the problem (though maybe without the animal abuse)

Sure! But I have also seen wealthier landlords threaten people with court over things tenants are perfectly within their legal rights to do and tenants back down because the protracted stress of navigating the legal system is not worth the otherwise temporary inconvenience of skipping meals or asking friends and family to cover for them. The whole point is people shouldn't have to choose between the two.

What do you expect them to do? Live in a house with a mysterious scratching noise in their ceiling and then the wretched stink of a dead animal lingering around for weeks because the possibility of handling the problem and the landlord sticking them with the bill bc they couldn't be bothered to deal with it in a timely manner or pay for pest removal?

Or would you rather they pay for the pest removal themselves with money they likely don't have and hope they don't have to take their landlord to court to recoup the costs of a service that's likely covered in their lease?

Damn, crazy to think about how you, as the person who lives in the home, couldn't take measures to prevent this from happening which caused it to be a bigger and more inconvenient problem for both you and your landlord

I don't have a job that allows me to do this currently. But I'd imagine that any shift in society that would allow for more work-from-home hours and more time off would also shift administrative responsibilities from managerial roles since it requires more cooperation and autonomy within the work unit to achieve. There are lots of process documentation tasks that my department needs to do right now but simply doesn't have the time or incentive to focus on.

I just don't believe this is true. There is no reason to have intracontinental air travel when we have miles and miles of underutilized rail. Nevermind the fact that since the pandemic we don't necessarily need to be tied to the desk or home to get work done. I'd love to take a week to cross the country by slower, less energy-intensive forms of travel. Reducing working hours with a more equitable system of employment can easily accommodate that.

Edit: I don't understand the downvotes. Infinite growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

"We must move away from fossil fuels, but we can only do so completely once we can produce abundant, affordable, and secure energy from carbon-free sources."

Do we need to maintain current energy consumption? We can reduce energy usage, carbon emissions, and microplastics by not continuing to churn out cheap, flimsy consumer goods made out of plastic. An enormous amount of energy is devoted to this future garbage. That's not even taking into account the amount of unnecessary air travel people take.

Do you think McDermott says the same thing about non-cop murderers? Or is this sentiment only reserved for cops?

Tbh I was being a little disingenuous because I know what's happening, and has been happening for decades: police/crime reporters employ passive voice to diminish police culpability for their actions so they have sympathetic contacts within the force in order to break news earlier than their competitors.

We saw this in Virginia last week when a sheriff's deputy catfished some teen and killed her whole family and the news outlet referred to him as an "ex-police worker" and then an "ex-trooper" despite having only acquired the "ex-" distinction after he was killed in a shootout with police.

This article is so weird. It doesn't actually mention anything about the murder, just that someone was killed after a high speed chase. Why was Ruch chasing him? What did he do that warranted Ruch shooting him? Baffling reporting.

It's not a "thoughlessly making babies" problem. People need more time during the day/week. There is literally no reason anyone needs to be working more than 40 hrs a week, much less 20 hrs a week.

Not with that attitude

Respect the hustle