u/rothmal

So I rent a room in this slum house where the landlord lives. My rent is going from $969 to $1065. I also live in Orange County, California, and when I look up the max caps, it says 5% +CPI or 10%, whichever is lower. I believe the max is 8.7%, but I want to be sure before I bring this up.

So I rent a room in this slum house where the landlord lives. My rent is going from $969 to $1065. I also live in Orange County, California, and when I look up the max caps, it says 5% +CPI or 10%, whichever is lower. I believe the max is 8.7%, but I want to be sure before I bring this up.

So every month you'll get 1 million dollars deposited into your bank account tax-free, in addition to that you're body is now immune to diseases and chronic conditions. And you also age at half the normal rate, de-age from any pre-aging damage like drugs, stress, diet, lack of sleep, etc. Also, your max lifespan is now 145 years old.

In exchange for all of this, 6 random people per month will receive the following effects.

• After being selected, they will gradually become obese within the year. 300-550 pounds depending on their height.
• They'll also be in perfect health from now on and are immune to any obesity related condtions like loose skin and stretch marks. And now age 30% slower.
• Food tastes 10x better, and some might find it orgasmic.
• They now get a non-transferable monthly $2,000 credit food budget and a $1,000 travel stipend.
• Once a month, at random, they will know within 100 miles of where you are currently located. And will know you as the source behind why people are getting fatter.
• If they get within 10 feet of you, they'll instantly know it's you.
• After the first year, they can lose the weight, but only through diet and exercise. Drugs like Ozempic no longer have any effect on them.
• The random people who get selected are mostly within 500 miles of the area you spent the most time in that month.

Some of these people might consider what happened to them a blessing, like a father with stage 4 cancer who now gets to watch his kids grow up. On the other hand, some of these people will hate your guts and feel you ruined their lives, like some guy who was about to go pro and is now so fat that he struggles fitting through doors, and all he can now think about is cheesecake and REVENGE!!!

One guy pinging you a month might not be able to find you, but if they ever get enough people together, like them finding each other on a support group or something. They could triangulate your location more accurately.

Also, all laws still apply, and most people will just think they're a crazy conspiracy fat group blaming some rich guy if they ever find out who you really are. You can live in a 6-story building with no elevator, and tell them to fuck off as your bodyguards escort them off the property.

Are you taking the deal?

[Reposting my rant from r/enshittification]

I used to like Wendy's, especially their spicy chicken sandwiches. I've always felt that their two biggest flaws were franchise quality control and weak value items. Like, the Wendy's by my house is amazing, yet some of the Wendy's on my way to work have given me stale bread and food poisoning, and I would much rather have a McChicken vs their pale budget sandwich.

Most of the problems can be blamed on Ken Cook, the interim CEO. The guy used to be the CFO, and bean counters are like the worst people to have running a business, in terms of customer satisfaction. They don't see the added value that an extra 10 cents can have.

Here's my list of how Wendy's has been enshittified.

• The Lettuce: They used to give you whole leaf lettuce, and that really made you feel like you were eating a higher-class sandwich. It was fresh, crisp, and had an added crunch when you bit in. Now they put on shredded lettuce that gets instantly wilted from the heat, and just gets everywhere when you're eating.
• The chicken sandwich: The old sandwich used to be thick and moist. Now it's flattened, panko coverd cardbored.
• The Bread: It's not like I was raving about their old buns, but these new ones are so fucking dry!
• The Pickles: I just don't like them. I know these are new, but they just make the sandwiches worse.
• The Chili: I'm not sure if this is only my Wendy's, but every time I get their chili, there will be like only 3 beans in the cup. I know some people might like this, but my stomach needs something to balance out the grease.
• The nuggets: Feels like they're putting more air in these, they're getting pretty hollow.

I feel like the only thing they haven't enshittified yet is the burger patties, but it's only a matter of time with these beef prices.

Update: Ken Cook has been replaced, so here's hoping that we get back the whole lettuce and chicken sandwich.

Like, I just saw in the news these conservative drifters were building a bunker with the #1 rule being no girls allowed. These alpha bros are always talking about how drinking out of a straw makes you gay or whatever.

I propose that rather than trying to get these people into therapy, we just all collectively embrace it and change some common terms so these people can live fulfilling lives.

Here's what I would change:

• If you're a gay progressive, you're now double gay
• If you're a straight progressive, you're now gay
• If you're a straight conservative, you're now straight
• If you're a gay conservative, you're now Ultra Straight Plus+

And we all agree to go along with this. We'll be like, that's so awesome that you have sex with other people who are Ultra Straight Plus+. And I totally agree that it's gay to wipe your ass, good thing you're not gay, and Ultra Straight Plus+ people wipes thier asses and aren't afraid to eat bananas.

When I say quality-of-life powers, I'm talking about minor powers or powers with a limitation to balance them out. These powers are meant to improve your current life and not something to drastically change your lifestyle.

I work a nightshift warehouse job, I'm broke AF, sore, and live in a slumhouse with a slumlord and 8 other roommates. My five powers would be:

1. 100% healing: I still heal at my current rate, but I can fully heal from anything, sort of losing limbs. I can burn myself in a fire or have a heart attack from too much fried chicken and be able to 100% recover with the right amount of PT, time, and dieting. Also, I de-age a little bit from premature ageing, like lack of sleep, stress, diet, etc.
2. Cleaning Aura: A 5x5ft aura around me that slowly cleans. Never have to take a shower after an 8-hour shift working in a warehouse, and walking out with my clothes smelling fresh. Takes about 30 minutes to an hour to clean something lightly dirty, and 4+ hours to clean something extremely dirty.
3. Touch Repair: But only a maximum equivalent of $10 in repairs per day. Just enough to repair a broken phone screen, fix something around the home, or keep your junk car running. Can also upgrade something by $5 instead. Probably take forever to upgrade your car to the next trim package, but for smaller things like a CPU upgrade or a stand mixer, it's very feasible.
4. Everything under $15 is FREE: No securities, stocks, currencies, etc. Soft cap of 3x per item. Like buying 10 apples is fine, but you might have to get gas every day. And power shuts off for 30 days if you're abusing it. For example, helping yourself out and throwing a house party once in a while is fine. But using the power to throw a house party, with you charging money to get in so people can drink the beer and food you got for free, is a big no-no.
5. Pocket Dimension[Kitchen]: I love cooking, but my asshole landlord hates when people cook inside. Any time I want, I can open up this dimension and step inside and cook. Starts small with a minifridge and a cheap stove, but I can upgrade it by throwing kitchen-related items in it, and they will integrate themselves into the PD. Can only use it for cooking, but you can set the kitchen up so that you're looking at the ocean(or any view) while you're cooking.

What powers would improve your life?

I've been building my own gaming PC's since I was 13 years old. And when I build new PC's, I like to use the old card, and buy a new card halfway through my current build's lifetime, before building a new pc and repeating the cycle.

So the last card I bought was in 2018, an AMD RX 580 that I picked up for $180. Also, I built a new pc in 2023 and put the 580 into it.

In all this time, I've seen this card spike to $500(had to explain to my coworker why aging hardware going up in price was not a good thing) in 2023. And now I'm just looking for a decent budget card to play games like PowerWash Simulator 2 and House Flipper 2 on max. I mostly play indie games, so I'm not looking for a high-end card to play the latest AAA game.

So anyways, I'm looking at new cards. The RTX 5050 goes for around $300 and is only like 2x-2.5x faster than my RX 580 I bought 8 years ago for $120 less! I might get something like the RX 9060 XT 16GB, but even then, that card is going for around $450-$500, and it's supposed to be the mid-range budget card.

I understand that it's all bitcoin, AI, supply chains, etc. The whole hardware market is just ridiculous! A graphics card should age like milk, not fine wine, and when someone wants to drop the same amount of money they did almost a decade ago, they should get at least 4x-6x the performance.

I'm going to be honest, I've probably read/listened to everything that's going to be recommended here, but give them to me anyway, I seriously can't find anything that's catching my interest.

I used to like Wendy's, especially their spicy chicken sandwiches. I've always felt that their two biggest flaws were franchise quality control and weak value items. Like, the Wendy's by my house is amazing, yet some of the Wendy's on my way to work have given me stale bread and food poisoning, and I would much rather have a McChicken vs their pale budget sandwich.

Most of the problems can be blamed on Ken Cook, the interim CEO. The guy used to be the CFO, and bean counters are like the worst people to have running a business, in terms of customer satisfaction. They don't see the added value that an extra 10 cents can have.

Here's my list of how Wendy's has been enshittified.

• The Lettuce: They used to give you whole leaf lettuce, and that really made you feel like you were eating a higher-class sandwich. It was fresh, crisp, and added crunch when you bit in. Now they put on shredded lettuce that gets instantly wilted from the heat, and just gets everywhere when you're eating.
• The chicken sandwich: Old sandwich used to be thick and moist. Now it's flattened, panko coverd cardbored.
• The Bread: It's not like I was raving about their old buns, but these new ones are so fucking dry!
• The Pickles: I just don't like them. I know these are new, but they just make the sandwiches worse.
• The Chili: I'm not sure if this is only my Wendy's, but every time I get their chili, there will be like only 3 beans in the cup. I know some people might like this, but my stomach needs something to balance out the grease.
• The nuggets: Feels like they're putting more air in these, they're getting pretty hollow.

I feel like the only thing they haven't enshittified yet is the burger patties, but it's only a matter of time with these beef prices.

Johnny was always the shy kid until he met a group of rebellious teens who taught him that punk is about standing up for corporate rights and seeing how many BK Chick Fries™ you can consume. See if Johnny can stop the poser unions in Disney's Punk High School!