• metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub
    69·
    2 months ago

    ℑ𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔰𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫 𝔫𝔬𝔴. 𝔓𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔡𝔬 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔱.

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    47·
    2 months ago

    I for one endorse September-Ween full throatedly, if I have to listen to Christmas music from November to January, everyone else can deal with an expanded spooky season.

  • InquisitiveApathy@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    This was legitimately my experience today during my run. The entire neighborhood was filled with giant Halloween decorations!

        • alekwithak@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          The holiday about spooky things and kids dressing up and getting candy is not religiously exclusionary no. Christmas’ origins were not, either, but we’re not talking about the origins of these holidays, we’re discussing them in their current form, so go be a pedant on some other thread. I’m sure there’s plenty where the pedantry could actually be relevant to the conversation taking place.

          • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
            3·
            2 months ago

            It sounds more like you’re just looking for reasons why your capitalist holiday is somehow more pickme acceptable than the other capitalist holiday.

            You’re not quirky and unique because you like candy more than presents.

            • alekwithak@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              Wtf are you talking about? Are you that hard up for an argument? Lemmy.ml is thataway. Anyway I’m Jewish and have been my whole life so the three months of Christmas in America made me feel extremely isolated and excluded as a kid, but I actually got to participate in Halloween. You can try and invalidate the experience of millions of non-christian non-white Americans but that doesn’t make you quirky and unique, either. No one is thinking “wow this dude is so smart!” for pointing out the capitalist undertone that’s shared by literally every holiday in western society. Now do kindly fuck off.

    • evidences@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      My sample size of this is very small but most the people I know that go hard decorating for Halloween are the same people putting up Christmas decorations in early November.

  • frickineh@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    I finally got a 12 foot skeleton but our stupid HOA doesn’t allow Halloween decorations before 10/1. I think I need a festive fall outfit for it so I can say it’s not Halloween, it’s just seasonal.

    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
      24·
      2 months ago

      You should try to play politics with your HOA so you can dismantle it form the inside.

      Side note to anyone reading this, don’t fucking buy a house with an HOA

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        Side note to anyone reading this, don’t fucking buy a house with an HOA

        Fun fact: lots of city and county governments either mandate or highly encourage HOAs for new subdivision developments. This is mostly because they love abdicating their responsibility to maintain infrastructure for low-density parcels that will never generate enough tax revenue to pay for it, but in some cases could also be for the traditional reason HOAs exist (to facilitate racism and classism).

        In other words, most homebuyers will essentially be forced into an HOA simply because most homes are encumbered by them.

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            What would help is zoning reform to increase density, both so that more housing would be allowed to exist in the places people want it, and so that the infrastructure serving it would be efficient enough for those local governments to remain financially solvent.

            • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              But I don’t wanna live in a densely populated area! I wanna live in a predominantly white suburb built on top of a large deforested area with an enormous grass lawn I will never use!

              • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                That’s “fine*,” if you’re willing (and able) to pay the full cost of the infrastructure to maintain it and the real fair market value of the land. But the entitled NIMBY welfare queens who whine about such things invariably aren’t capable, let alone willing, which is why they’re demanding the government subsidize their privilege in the first place.

                And the even more fucked-up part is that, because of how ubiquitous the automaker, oil industry, and racism-fueled “American dream” propaganda has been over the last century, they often don’t even realize how ridiculous their position actually is!

                (* except for the racist part)

          • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
            1·
            2 months ago

            The opposite may help, at least.

            A crash in home prices may motivate folks to go door to door to gather the votes needed to dissolve their HOA and raise their property values by the amount that the HOA reduces them.

            The reduction isn’t dramatic today, because while everyone hates HOAs few neighborhoods have disovled their HOA.

            But it could gain ground rapidly, with the folks in neighborhoods that don’t dissolve their HOAs stuck with properties that sell for substantially less money.

      • frickineh@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Hard no. My day job is in government and I cannot take one more meeting in my life. I’ve attended some of the HOA meetings and they were actually worse than pretty much every meeting I have at work, because they last forever and the stakes are so stupid.

    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 months ago

      You’d love the southern hemisphere of Mars then. After areoforming, of course.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    I’m confused, is there supposed to be some sort of problem with what he’s seeing?