I had leftovers for dinner tonight. My wife and I had planned on having salmon and oven-roasted potatoes and peppers, but we still had a lot of leftovers from cooking during the week.

Sorry, ‘flue’ is just my incompetence at using the English language

No, don’t apologize; your command of English is far superior to my grasp of German!

(about all I can say is: “Ich spreche nicht Deutsch” and “Sprechen sie Englisch?” – and when I put those phrases into Google Translate to check myself, I found that I had the wrong word for ‘Englisch’ – I thought it was something like Anglit!)

What does Puerto Rico have to do with this?

really fucking pedantic

I guess I am. Reading is reading. Listening is listening. I’m not a fan of “reading means reading or listening, depending on whether the thing you’re listening to is labeled ‘audiobook’”.

Communication is easier when we agree on what the words actually mean.

People who listen to audiobooks usually call it reading, IME.

I’ll take some cleaning house vs 0 cleaning house.

This is like dusting the china cabinet while ignoring a giant hole in the wall from someone crashing their car through it.

I thought OP meant that the clothes smell LIKE us in this one.

I was remembering “slashdotted”

I bet you could get a lot of users if you reached out to some choirs. They might split between signing up for your instance and yellowlemmy.com, though 😂

I am not sure arguing all the edge cases does anything but muddy the water.

Eh, fair. Still, I was curious what you’d say about some of those edge cases.

I would argue that the way housing is working right now

Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it? Housing isn’t working right now for way too many people. :(

Personally, I have very different opinions on “in an ideal world, here’s a sketch of how humane housing might look” and “in today’s dystopian hellscape, these are the worst of the worst”

difference between a hotel and a home. They are prima facie not the same thing

Hey, not so fast. It’s easy to say that glibly, but the lines get kinda blurry when you consider long-term hotel stays and short-term rentals. What’s really the key difference between the apartment and the hotel when you’re staying at the former for a week at a time or the latter for a 3-month stint?

I’m not saying the Venn diagram is a circle, mind you, just that there’s definitely some overlap.

What about condos? Is there something that prevents converting all apartment buildings and having owner-occupants instead of tenants?

As noted above, this isn’t completely true. You can also buy stocks for dividends.

I’m just speculating that someone else will want to buy

No, not entirely. Lots of companies pay dividends. Buy stock in those, and you’re speculating that they’ll continue to be profitable enough to pay dividends.

don’t have the time and skills

I’m not sure I can agree on this point, either. The time, maybe. The skill? If you’re skilled enough to use Lemmy, you’re skilled enough to set up a brokerage account and click “buy” on whichever companies meet your criteria. It’s not actually any more complicated than online banking IMO.

Four legs good,

Two legs better!

Ah, that makes sense.

Thanks for clarifying!

Magazines?

We can’t even keep knives out of prisons. How tf are we supposed to keep kids off the Internet?

This is a good point. Intelligent sociopaths do exist. “stupid” and “evil” are not synonyms.

Ugh, I hate that you’re right about this. It used to mean a topic of study in computer science. Now it means…I don’t even know what it’s supposed to mean.