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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Even with the added costs of owning the home and upkeep, it’s only equivalent or just above rent, and that’s with the condo association fees and insurance. Even while renting I was stuck paying for utilities. And I’m highly aware that the roof needs replacing, given that we’ve got to replace ours within 5 years.

    But if your point is “owning a home is more expensive than renting when you factor in all extra costs,” I want to again point out that most people are barely able to stay afloat. His point was that anyone can buy a house. Mine is that the money he thinks grows on trees literally does not exist for the majority of people.


  • I’m lucky enough to have been financially able to buy a home. I had help making the down payment, but we’ve now got a 30 year mortgage. My monthly payments are less than what I was paying for rent, less than the average rent in the city by almost a third. I got this place with two above-average incomes, and had the good fortune to get it during the COVID housing and interest rate dip, and I still needed extra help.

    If someone is stuck with renting, they’re likely paying more than they would for a mortgage. They can’t save up the money because they’re already lagging behind, and the housing market isn’t coming down in price, and wages absolutely aren’t keeping pace. No one is saying a house would “lock them down,” they’re pointing out they can never afford it because they can’t even come up with the money to show the bank they can save because they’re already paying above the potential mortgage payments every month.

    But you’re saying they won’t, not can’t, so what should they do to come up with the money? Start selling kidneys? 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and that same link shows 71% have less than $2000 in their savings. So where exactly are people supposed to shit out your hypothetical $30,000?





  • I absolutely appreciate all the work done recently, but I was wondering if there was any chance we could get thumbnails that, when clicked, don’t have ?thumbnail=1500&format=webp appended to them. For some posts, it doesn’t make a difference, but for longer posts, or posts with smaller text, it makes the image blurry unless you click into the post comments, and select the image there. It feels like a needless extra step when trying to open an image.









  • After clearing the cache, this works. However, while I did mess around with the settings, I didn’t for this specific post because I had done so before, and just didn’t have time to submit a bug report on it. This means that even if you have the correct settings, it may decide to serve you the compressed version anyway, and the only way to get the uncompressed is to manually clear the cache, restart the app, hope you can find the post again, and roll the dice on the settings taking again. I don’t have this issue with every long image, just enough to make me report it.

    Edit: On closer look, clicking on an image from your feed gives you the pixelated version. Clicking from inside the post, aka the link I gave everyone, gives you the uncompressed image. You can test this by clearing your cache, restarting the app, going to Greentext@lemmy.ml, and then clicking the image, not the post. Then click in the post, then the image, and magically it will be uncompressed.