• BigFig@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          We lease this mess now, for $0 down payment and 5.6% APR*

          *For 3 years, then APR subject to change on the whims of the owner

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            Real talk, I honestly don’t get the point in leasing, or even how it’s different from renting. Sounds more like renting with a different name.

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              Typically, leasing is long term and renting is short term (contract length I mean)

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              You’re correct. They are the same. Loan may also apply.

              However, depending on where you are, there are regional differences in where the terms get used. Locally, you rent an apartment but lease a warehouse (why?). Also, if you rent an apartment and turn over your lease agreement to another person, you are sub-letting the apartment. And “let” also means lease in this context. Err rent. Fuck, I’ve gone cross-eyed

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      mandkind knew they could not change society, so instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the boomers

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    Boomers are all bigoted, sexist, climate change denying pieces of shit?

    … kinda a shitty take there mate. Lots of them are terrible, but so aye lots of people from other generations too, and tarring them all with the same brush is only going to alienate the good ones and make them quite reasonably dislike you.

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      The term boomer refers to a mentality, not to the generation anymore.

      By the current use of the term, yes, they all are, as this use refers to people who refuse change out of irrational belief that old times were better, glorify a violent and fascist past, and deny the existence of modern science because they refuse to adapt their obsolete lifestyle.

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          It seems to mostly just mean “an imaginary person who I don’t like” or “someone older than me”. Or both.

          40+? Boomer. Racist? Boomer. Etc.

          But they’ll also still say it’s a generation. At least in my experience. It’s really lazy.