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  • Dalentines Vay
  • “Raising awareness”

  • Slumlords As A Service

    To squeeze every penny out of these inner-city goldmines, scammers have started outsourcing property management to ill-equipped call centres in the Philippines. The scammers call it “systemising”, a process of grabbing as many apartments as possible, filling them with identikit furniture, taking professional-looking photographs and then using every trick in the book to turn them into lucrative investments. Some of these tricks, though morally dubious, are perfectly legal. But others breach both Airbnb’s policies and local planning laws, while also putting the safety of guests at risk. As Vice found in October 2019, Airbnb is littered with fake and downright dodgy listings. But in London, where Airbnb enforces an annual 90-day limit on all “entire homes” listed on its platform, scammers have made a mockery of lax enforcement both by regulators and Airbnb itself, by turning entire new-build apartment blocks into de facto hotels designed for the short-term rental market.

    (I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London - WIRED UK)

  • The Bernard Discourse

  • Escabeche? More like Escabech-bae
    • Zanahoria
  • Andrew’s Powders
  • Residential Mio Expert
  • Apple-A-Day
  • Striver Theory applied: Municipal Peter & Hall-monitor Liz
    • S01:E09 “Big Dog and The Strivers”
    • Andrew’s theory of Strivers
      • A Striver is someone who fully buys into the Capitalist American Dream
      • They’re always going somewhere, never happy with where they are, always comparing themselves to everyone else
      • They have a tendency to make you feel bad, sometimes passively, because they need to know they’re better than someone
      • We love it

    • https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-progressive-millennials-cant-stand-pete-buttigieg

      But the truth is, the youthful, progressive left has long despised the man that TikTok teens ridicule as “Mayo Pete.” And while Gen Z has made a social media sport of seizing his bland centrism for meme fodder, the millennials closest in age to the 38-year-old presidential hopeful are wracked by a more visceral contempt, informed by both their experience of American adulthood and the memory of growing up with peers who embody Pete’s brand of white-collar smarm. He’s the ruthless climber who wants a promotion at any cost, the rat who will sell you out the second you stop being useful to him. He’s the guy with opinions that shift according to the room he’s in. He did well in debate club, because he had the knack for disingenuous rhetoric. For some reason, he prefers to rip up a cinnamon roll and gnaw on the pieces. What the fuck is his deal?

      https://twitter.com/adult_witch/status/1224841321191329793

      https://www.vox.com/2020/2/11/21129665/pete-buttigieg-2020-democratic-primary-millennials

    • The Lisa Simpson candidate
    • If I excel at the system, maybe I can change the system from within
    • We love it, folks.
  • A Just Transition for Spreadsheet Workers
    • We cannot simply abandon all of the consultant-class. We will retrain them to do janitorial work.

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