Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2025, 08:22:58 PMI can't speak authoritatively specifically about how landlords work, but I have quite a lot of professional experience with information vendors in general. Aggregating the information and selling it is big business, and it tends to be a monopoly or oligopoly because the network effect is in play (usually you have to give data to get data, although everyone can scrape the public records). Credit bureaus were the first ones to the game, but now there are vendors for almost anything you can think of. It makes much more sense for employers, or landlords, or anything else, to pay a small fee to someone else to do the background check, rather than do it themselves.Quote from: Zoupa on October 08, 2025, 07:57:52 PMIt can. A vindictive landlord could start the snowball effect. "The app" is not an omniscient impartial AI.
Perhaps we should ask DGuller for some info on how it works. Do landlords rate their tenants or does it record evictions?
Quote from: Zoupa on October 08, 2025, 07:57:52 PMIt can. A vindictive landlord could start the snowball effect. "The app" is not an omniscient impartial AI.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2025, 07:46:23 PMLet's rewind and follow the whole sequence of events. Let's also allow for the possibility that every time you take an analogy somewhere else, it sometimes helps to give local reasoning, which may not carry back three steps back to the origin.Quote from: DGuller on October 08, 2025, 07:19:34 PMOne can have many objections to coordinated economic actions. The don't all have to apply to every example of them.
Sure, but you're basing your argument on the basis of analogy. "We object to this, therefore we must object to this." If there are fundamental differences between the things being analogized then it doesn't work.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2025, 07:14:31 PMQuote from: DGuller on October 08, 2025, 07:09:02 PMI don't get your point.
You object to bad references because they have the potential to be based on vindictiveness. This objection can not apply to the rental app.
Quote from: Tamas on October 08, 2025, 05:10:13 PMThis is absolutely dystopian shit:Also the Chicago video. I've said before I think that ICE is lawless and that's not an accident or bad apples. It is the policy. I'd add again that I think this is "American" in the broadest sense - masked paramilitary agents of the state pulling people off the streets, acting on dubious legality etc. I can't help but think of this happening in the rest of the America's in the 20th century fight against Communism and the left and Aime Cesaire's line about how the violence of imperial powers returns to the metropole. How the fascist regimes turned violence and mechanisms of repression onto Europeans that had previously been used by Europeans only on non-Europeans, discretely, imperially. I think Orwell made similar points.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/s/PNokJGs7RN
A bunch of armed and masked men with no convincing identification thst they are police, put a child into an unmarked civilian car.
Like, the fuck?!
Edit: maybe it's an adult not a child but it only makes marginally less terrifying.
Quote from: DGuller on October 08, 2025, 07:19:34 PMOne can have many objections to coordinated economic actions. The don't all have to apply to every example of them.
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