Ah, I think I got the source of misunderstanding: these mechanisms are not automated, but implemented as moderation guidelines and rules.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/policy-generative-ai-e-g-chatgpt-is-banned

SO has mechanisms in place to filter out AI-generated content.

Editing any content to reduce its quality is considered vandalism and gets reverted on SO.

The OneBlade has a transformer in the wall plug part, the actual cable going to the handheld unit is only carrying low voltage.

I’m all for setting a precedent if it’s about banning chinese spyware and propaganda weapons.

https://xkcd.com/1810/

The source is in the lower right corner. Population was in the high one-digit million scale. But none of this matters when one can clearly see how the economy skyrocketed after the soviets left.

What relevance does it have? A country in Europe that was under soviet oppression between WW2 and the fall of the soviet union. There are several like it and it matters little which one did I happen to born in - all suffered a similar fate.

You said yourself that a penny is too much. What’s lower than a penny and not free?

Then the problem is not that the practice of renting exists, but wealth inequality. Which we fully agree on, especially since several mechanisms are at work that further the gap between the rich and the poor. These all should be addressed.

What’s holding you back from taking a loan and paying mortgage instead of rent? Risk aversion?

I don’t see what I could do to increase the chances of you believing me - thankfully nothing at all depends on it happening.

Oh wait, for the last one I can actually cite some sources:

Now you got me interested: how exactly could this be anything but serious?

Fuck the soviet union - harder than how the soviet troops fucked both my grandmothers when they “liberated” my birth country, and harder than how the soviet rule fucked the economy afterwards.

To use it later when his children would need it.

None of these points have applied to them. I get the feeling it might be a case of culture differences, maybe the toxic landlording mentioned in the meme is more prevalent in the US?

I’d say it depends on the scale and the intentions.

My previous one hasn’t raised rent for five years, and even then he asked if it would be okay with us. Which it was, for even the raised rent was significantly below the market rate and he always responded quickly to any issues we have raised. He was a blue-collar worker who inherited a flat he didn’t want to sell, so rented it out to those who couldn’t afford to buy a property on their own.

I’m sorry for your negative experiences, but please be mindful that not only your subjective world exists. I might have been extremely lucky, but all my previous rental places were maintained by nice folks.