Used to do that, but people just shut me out, so I adapted and now I just recommend my [intro Marxist-Leninist reading list]
My instance has a community that dedicates a thread to just about every post you make without reading anything you've written, so this meme does have a little bit of extra context.
A large portion of my career has been in septic systems and wastewater management actually.
It would be nice if bidets were more widespread, but fats, oils, greases, and unflushable materials like qtips, sanitary pads, condoms, and 'flushable' wipes are the primary concern for sanitary sewers and on-site septic systems alike.
Toilet paper is fine. But yes, I can attest from professional experience if you and your neighbors do not have plumbed water or you're using privies or holding tanks, limiting toilet paper usage can be beneficial.
Yep. It's the only real option in my opinion. My spouse's student loans weren't fixed and they'd fluctuate so much in payments and started accruing balance randomly. Our homeownership allowed us to leverage another fixed loan to pay off her variable loans. Now it's just a steady small payment for 15 years.
That's also looking at just pure numbers.
I was forced to move every year I was a tenant. I hated it. And the fees and expenses of moving weren't insignificant, not to mention the time. Some places I lived I never unpacked.
But now I have kids. Things like school districts matter.
Stability matters beyond the strict dollar amount sometimes, if not most times.
Toilet paper is fine.
But you see, I have just now skimmed the wikipedia article. If you disagree, I'll scroll down to the 'criticisms' section. Checkmate, sweaty.
I did the math. I bought in 2019 and all those costs and expenses were nothing compared to ballooning rent. My monthly housing expenses went down across the board. The equivalent cost of rent since purchasing dwarfs closing costs and even all the maintenance that's gone into the place. Rent (in America) is calculated to cover all possible homeownership costs so I'm paying for the new fridge or hot water heater one way or another.
Plus I haven't had to move legislative districts since.
Not to mention it was amid a crashout with Nintendo where Square struck a deal with Sony making the Playstation a sudden major contender.
I mean we did all witness how maintaining support for Israel was deemed more important.
Homeowning and paying a mortgage, especially now, is the single most important thing maintaining my quality of life.
A neighbor recently sold and it is now a rental. Paying that rent would effectively raise my housing costs about $20k a year.
It's almost exactly the same house and lot. It's insane.
Here I distinctly recall a user calling the execution of Julius Streicher an inhumane act and that we lost our humanity executing unrepentant Nazis.
So that's fun.
The effort to remove the devs from Lemmy pre-exists this DM from nutomic. It doesn't justify his statement, and I think he didn't really apologize in the many port mortem discussions about the DM that have taken place since.
Now I don't know about OP here but for a while the same people trying to take down the Lemmy devs kept finding themselves banned from trans spaces and communities.
So I am always a little skeptical about these kinds of threads and efforts to boycott, etc, especially when theres piefed and the fact we're in the Fediverse and not a reddit or meta-owned system.