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Cake day: February 13th, 2025

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  • The pros and cons between either is entirely up to preference.

    Apartment

    Pros:

    • Not having to worry too much about maintenance, as there are teams of maintenance people to call to have them handle problems.
    • If you live small and do not see the point of a home, apartments are for you.
    • Designated parking lots or areas
    • Some places can be affordable
    • Some cool things can be offered like pools, some community related things .etc
    • You may have some leniency for when you’re billed for rent/utilities

    The Depends:

    • Bad or Good landowners determine how well you’re going to live in an apartment. There’s really no strong pro or con because it can vary. You could live in an apartment atmosphere and the landowner doesn’t give two shits about you or anyone else except themselves. But you could also live in an apartment atmosphere where the landowner does care about everyone.

    • Bad or Good Tenants can also be a dealbreaker. Good tenants are the ones who leave you the hell alone and actually do not try breaking the lease agreements, they’re nice and can be approached without conflict. Bad tenants, everyone knows these types. Blasting music for all to hear, having barking/needy dogs that whine and whimper so you can hear them. Vandalizing the building or in general. Having maintenance tied up because they can’t stop being a problem. Having to have police called multiple times.

    • Lease agreements can vary, some may make you feel like you’re more restricted than usual, like I know my apartment management don’t really like the idea of holes in walls, including ones made by pushpins. They sometimes will do random check arounds of the apartment. It really depends on the agreement.

    Cons:

    • Finding affordable apartments
    • Finding apartments that have accessibility, like places to go, jobs to work at .etc
    • Not enough tenant protections
    • Sometimes you don’t really feel like you’re at home
    • Options like finding different ISPs may be limited

    House

    Pros

    • You are entitled to do with as you wish, no neighbors except neighborhoods, you have your own rules
    • Your property applies to above
    • You build equity
    • Family expansion is far safer

    Cons

    • Good luck finding an affordable home
    • You are subjected to higher rates/bills for utilities
    • You are paying for EVERYTHING that happens either on the property or with the home





  • The breaking point for me is when I am truly stuck with where I’m living. I do not currently mind where I live, I plan to maybe stay where I am for another 2 years at most. But, I do worry of there being a time where I will not find a place that is affordable and not in a dumpy spot with insane tenants. I feel like I’m not even really living my life, I just feel like I’m living a life because everything around me right now is just always picking and testing my patience. The tenants here suck ass with loud barking dogs, occasional thumping music, loud kids, idiots running through hallways. The apartment management is a fucking joke, I’ve gotten my vehicle towed once and was given absolutely no heads up by management over it so I could prevent it. Where I live, predatory towing is a thing and there’s no protection against it, it just happens and you have to eat the costs.

    I’ve already accepted the reality that I do not think I’ll ever come back to my home state, where I do actually prefer to live, as I am locked out because their affordability rates is stupid high for no reason even in shit-hole towns.

    As for other things…

    The day I walk into the grocery store and I see even canned soups standard price become $1.50. Now I know in some grocery stores, this is a thing, but you avoid them because they are just idiots. You knew where else to shop with better prices. But imagine that affordability has been ripped away. All of the cheap meals we’ve been able to craft and make for years, unchallenged by capitalism, now become premium luxuries that decide whether we starve or become fed. Rice, Vegetables, Fruits .etc

    I thrift, I pirate, I budget and I live modestly. I sink or swim that is decided by my own choices and I much rather prefer that, than knowing a system will make it unbearable for me to even rebuild a life should I decide to move one place to another. I don’t indulge a lot in what people would consider luxurious living, because I find it all overrated.

    I don’t make it loud about everything I stand for because I don’t wish to upset what is currently going for me. I need something bigger and greater that calls upon me to get involved and it has to be a collective group effort. Right now, nothing is worth it to do that because everyone I see around me, are shuttering away from negativity, ignoring the bad to focus on the personal goods going on and just bracing what’s already happening. The day someone leads a group of people who are unified, strong, informed, are many and have a great resolve to fight and take back what is ours - you count me in. Until then, I am with my circle and looking out for myself.












  • For me in a way, yes. When I used to read books on a regular basis, I found it more easier to digest if I had nobody or nothing around to make noise. I can deal with small noises like random cracks or a pop here and there. Long as it wasn’t amplified or anything. When I listen to things such as music or take in sound in general, my mind goes everywhere and it can’t focus on the pages of a book.

    I always hated it when people try talking to me when louder noise is present and expect me to hear them perfectly. My mind is not focusing on your words, it’s focusing on that obnoxious noise that’s disrupting things.



  • There aren’t a lot of legal ramifications for simply discussing piracy online, other than attracting annoying moralistically conflicted people who’re going to challenge you on the grounds of how acceptable piracy is. I would stick to piracy communities to avoid that.

    Don’t be an e-beggar. I wish sometimes pirates would stop catering to these people who beg and beg all of the time and not even give much of a thank you. They have a good chance of coming back and just asking for more things because they’re too lazy to do the work themselves, subtracting all of the inability to do so for whatever reason.

    Make your pirating patterns inconsistent on purpose, don’t download massive amounts of data that will make you a blip on the radar and of course a VPN.