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[–] CountMonte@lemmy.world 233 points 1 year ago (90 children)

Our mortgage is $2600 month. My wife has a much better paying job than me. I make $2200 a month after taxes/deductions. She is currently going through cancer treatments and although everything is looking positive it really got me thinking about what the hell does life look like for my family if something happens to my wife?

I've had the same bus driving job for 23 years. I'm undereducated. A 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment is $1600 month here. I don't know how I'd ever be able to take care of myself and two kids.

They want us to have 80k+ in school debt so you can be allowed to have mortgage debt or rent and own nothing. I don't know where I'm going with this but I'm just bummed out about life right now.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago (14 children)

That's what life insurance polices are for. Will be pretty hard to get one with her cancer diagnosis though.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 130 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And then you get bankrupted by the excorbitant creative cloud license costs.

[–] Pokethat@lemm.ee 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate! 🎶🎵🎶

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[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago (16 children)

it is FUCKING INSANE that apartments get to ask for all sorts of invasive shit like this and that's just fine. yeah god forbid you take on any risk, we're only committing to fucking thousands a month, fuck you.

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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 109 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Mandatory "use GIMP: is free and open source" comment

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They wanted to DNA test my dog and keep his biometric data on file as part of the terms of the last lease I was looking at.

I uhh, didn't fucking sign. The neofeudalist movement is for real.

[–] Zavasay@lemmy.fmhy.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

This so they can fine you when you leave your dog’s shit on the ground for other people to step in. I’m here for it. I lived in a place that did not enforce picking up after your animals and it was absolutely disgusting.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They don't do that at all anyway, but hey at least the professional landlord class gets to inflict upon you one more indignity for some imagined benefit.

The park adjacent to those buildings has so much dog turd in it you'd think they were purposely producing low quality fertilizer over there.

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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, they do that these days to identify who lets their dogs poop around the property and don't pick it up.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Nobody's DNA testing dog stool. They can't be bothered to even do routine move out cleanings in those apartments. The whole thing is a giant farcical pretendy power game played out by managers far away designing a system for the benefit of their rentier owners to simultaneously rob renters of their last scraps of dignity and every remaining dime they have in the form of bullshit fees.

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[–] CodingSquirrel@kbin.social 92 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You don't even need photoshop. Just use the inspect function in your browser and edit the values directly in the HTML. Free and much easier to not fuck up the formatting.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Works if your statements are in a web format. But most of this stuff is a PDF you download.

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Surprisingly enough PDF is a (mostly) plain-text format, so you can probably still change the values in Notepad, unless they just did the whole thing as an embedded image or whatever

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need adobe.

F12, and modify the html.

Slap a few extra zeroes and take a screenshot.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 91 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't work. It made my bank balance 00000 instead of 0.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me changing my checking account balance from -$14.33 to -$140000.33

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They don't check your credit? They checked my credit the last time I rented.

Also you don't need to photoshop when it's easier to edit the html.

[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can have good credit and a low salary.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I had 800 credit working fast food because l carried extremely little debt.

Twenty years later, my score is fighting to stay about 750 because I make 6 figures, a few credit cards with zero debt. Because they WANT me to hold onto debt to show my trustworthiness? Fuck that.

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[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Credit doesn't show income. It is just a score with income not factored in.

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[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

correction, and steal Adobe.

[–] jkjustjoshing@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Nah, no need for Adobe. Just use https://photopea.com

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[–] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Get pirated adobe or use gimp

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No one going to bring up the fact that adobe is an anagram of abode?

They got their abode with adobe! This is no coincidence! I'm inclined to say this goes all the way to the top!

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some armchair rental lawyers in this thread.

[–] Rodsterlings_cig@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You do have to be a lawyer to afford a chair with arms these days.

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[–] icedcoffee@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Renting is fucked. Some people probably know about this site but just fyi https://ratethelandlord.org/

[–] mayo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lol that place is something else

"Written Review WORST FUCKER AND PROPERTY MANAGER IN NW CALGARY. SHE IS A WHORE AND ASSHOLE LADY WHO FUCKS TANANT'S SOUL"

[–] runeko@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

... 4 stars.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile Adobe: "Hello, I like money!"

[–] kicksystem@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gimp or photopea will do the trick also

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