Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@platypus my previous landlord was corporate but old school, so they let you drop off a check (or mail, tho it was close enough i doubt anyone did besides prepaying first months rent) and i am annoyed by the change for sure

@platypus in theory yes but the way they have bank deposit set up is sus af (it is asking for details you should not need to ACH) so i’ve been paying the flat $3 debit card fee

@platypus we literally can’t pay rent by check, it’s incredibly annoying

@pagrus @titania yeah i am strongly invested in not getting covid bc it could v well kill me so i take more precautions than most people i know, and its frustrating at times because i know that if everyone was willing to take some small steps i wouldnt have to be nearly as extreme about it

but 1) if you want everyone to do a thing thats a public policy issue and your ire should primarily lie with the people deciding policy & 2) picking on people for making decisions about their own personal risk that have zero impact on risk at scale is just pure smug superiority to no benefit

@titania @pagrus as someone who got long covid over a decade before it was cool, i am proclaiming “ugh those bastards”

@titania @pagrus yeah considering how instacart works i dont think that’s actually reducing community risk at all, especially not in 2024 so it’s just 100% an inequity vector

@titania @pagrus i dont think anyone deserves to get covid but i kind of understand the logic of saying that about eg. someone who is refusing to mask. Like, okay, they are making society more dangerous for everyone so i can see why you’d want them to feel the costs of that risk. But using instacart is just…offloading your own personal risk onto a poor person?? How the hell is that the morally superior position???

@ljwrites since i know you i’d assumed the latter context, but people voting based on this getting boosted into their feeds probably don’t tbf

@ljwrites i think it really depends on the context the categories are used in — like if a blog is primarily a review blog then i’d assume fiction / non-fiction / commentary were the categories of what the blog was reviewing (and blog was for misc non-review stuff) but if this was someone i knew to write and publish their own fiction regularly, i’d expect that category to be reserved for actual works of fiction

@titania ughhh 😬