Notices by Alexander The 1st (at1st@mstdn.ca)

@Impossible_PhD @shaggyzed I don't think I've ever seen Pleasers shoes, but the way you've described them in that post, I'm guessing they turn the "annoying repetitive jokes" from one end of the spectrum to the other end of the spectrum.

Which is hard to resolve because there's just the one brand trying to be the Spinal Tap of shoe making.

@FeralRobots @thomasfuchs @grumpasaurus @molly0xfff It probably has to do with messaging in the apps.

@thomasfuchs @grumpasaurus @molly0xfff Fair enough, but that as I understand means that "mentions only" posts between two federated servers shares the reading capabilities to the administrators of both servers for posts in both directions?

@grumpasaurus @molly0xfff @thomasfuchs The same issue with Threads - all of a sudden, Facebook can do more than shadow-profile people who have accounts on Mastodon because of the federation with Threads.

@grumpasaurus @molly0xfff @thomasfuchs So I remembered on Twitter back in the day the claim that federating with another server means that users on both servers technically had access to each other's DMs, and while I'm not 100% of the validity of that, it could be that their user profile information is shared with another entity.

And had they wanted Bluesky to have it, they would've...made an account there.

And vice versa for Bluesky accounts not making a Mastodon account.

@thomasfuchs Even Nintendo has done it.

More than once.

Sony has too.

@CloudyMrs @NAB Ah, fair. If you're considering it compared to Scotland, yeah - ideally, post secondary education should be free for tuition.

I was mainly mentioning that the British locals certainly may pay a lot, but international students will likely be paying well past those fees.

@CloudyMrs @NAB I'm not thinking Scotland when I'm saying "International Students".

I'm thinking, like Brazil, Germany, France, and Japan.

They end up paying more tuition fees here in B.C.

@CloudyMrs @NAB If it's like British Columbia here, typically "International Students" pay 3x as much for the exact same tuition as the "Local Citizenry Students". Plus, you know, they essentially *have* to pay for housing, food, and the visa application to even come here as I understand.

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 I mean, the problem is the qty that are kept open for rent.

There's a supply issue, not a demand issue. Landlords hold on to places and do not let go.

The economy in general is starting to receed a bit, but it's always been bad for rent here.

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 Well apparently Toronto is much cheaper than where I live - ( https://www.zumper.com/apartments-for-rent/vancouver-bc/under-600 ) - there's literally one example listed at $750...and it turns out to not be there, but at the *far* end of the GVRD.

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 I did a check online, and...I'm only seeing one that was $275 for a one room shared in a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom place, and the address is "Undisclosed".

Everything else is still $900/month, for a room.

( https://www.zillow.com/manhattan-new-york-ny/cheap-apartments/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-74.047237%2C%22east%22%3A-73.910408%2C%22south%22%3A40.683935%2C%22north%22%3A40.877483%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A12530%2C%22regionType%22%3A17%7D%5D%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22sort%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22paymenta%22%7D%2C%22fr%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22fsba%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fsbo%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22nc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22cmsn%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22auc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fore%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22sf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22tow%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22mf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22land%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22manu%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22r4r%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%7D%7D )

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 ...Out of curiosity, what do you mean in price range in Manhattan?

In Vancouver here, the $1100 I pay per month is considered cheap, and at the far end of the transit system, around Langley, rent goes for $650, if you can get a grandfathered discount from a previous tenant from like a decade ago.

(CDN prices there.)

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 I admitted I was wrong about the numbers - but I was also intentionally inflating the numbers in the calculation to make my point. $10 is not the unit cost of cereal and milk for breakfast for a meal. It's near restaurant cost.

I recognize it's not anywhere near as strong a point as I originally thought, but regardless - food is a thing that if you don't have, you die. It *should* cost more than rent on that basis alone.

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 It's 0 bedrooms - the place I put my bed is in the same room as my kitchen, the same room as the entranceway, the same room has direct access to the building's hallway.

Literally the only separated room I have is the bathroom. And my landlord is in a different country most of the time, and has her own apartment. And another one she rents out. So...I'm not taking up space she didn't already have more than enough of.
And there aren't many variable sized places.

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 Ah, I'll admit I forgot it was times 3 initially, but that's still $10 a meal, which is a lot on its own.

That's expensive, even for something you need to eat to live.

1/3 the total cost is still really expensive for food (Most meals aren't anywhere near as expensive as $10 in my experience.).

And again - this is for "Roof and walls, and access to plumbing.".

That's still really expensive for the utility it provides, considering it's idle otherwise.

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 "Look how big your house is" - I can stand from one end of it and look at the other end, and see all of it. It's not a multi-story studio apartment. And I'm *missing a bedroom*.

Oh, and this doesn't include utilities, so this is before resources I consume.

And it's not like I can't use some of the space to "Cheapen it out" - this is how it came.

And yet I pay monthly for...a thing that was going to be there anyways. There no manufacturing cost anymore.

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 Food has utility that you also need every day, but even at $10 a meal, that only comes up to ~310 a month.

To reach the amount I'm paying for rent, every meal I'd be eating would be more than* $30. That's ~5 avocado toasts...per meal, every meal.

That's a cost that would indicate that the "Thing you need" is being charged at luxury pricing, despite not being a luxury, but a thing people need.

There's no reason rent needs to be so high, anywhere.

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 I'm saying that the sheer cost of the renting of an apartment is really, really high, relative to any other thing one could reasonably buy to get to the amount one spends on rent.

And it's a monthly expenditure.

Hypothetically we can add it up and find that, in a year and 3 months, and...that money is enough to buy a small used sailing yacht (Apparently they can sell for $15K...or less.).

@freemo @MisuseCase @knittingknots2 It would be stupid, I agree - but it's luxury to be able to *afford* them.

I'm paying my landlord, in rent, enough for her to buy 2 PS5s a month...for being able to live in a 0 bedroom place. How does that not seem wasteful luxury to be able to afford that place, because quite literally that is what my landlord can charge for my place.

I'm saying that living with my parents rent free and then doing that is equivalent in cost. Per month. To live in a room.