• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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        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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          My tenants wouldn’t pick up their dog shit until I asked them to. They thought I was going to clean it up.

          Then they threw unbagged dog shit in the garbage can. That was a nice surprise.

          Some people are entitled human garbage. They exist at all income levels. Yea, renters have it tough. You still have to pick up your dog shit.

          The imagined benefit of picking up your dog shit is that the lawn gets mowed and people don’t step in dog shit. Imagine that.

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            For the record I’m not actually pro “leave your dog shit everywhere” I just question both the imposition of the indignity of subjecting your tenants to pet DNA screening, and the effectiveness of it as a mechanism for preventing that.

            I actually am pro throw unbagged dog shit in a bag-containing garbage can though, and don’t really understand why anyone would care about that.

            I tend to see more of the leaving it on the ground, not even the throwing it in a can.

            Edit: Alright, you guys are right, you need at least 2 layers of bags for dog shit. But then I guess triples might be safer, or even quads. Fuck it, every piece of dog shit must be wrapped in at least twenty layers of plastic before it hits the landfill! We need to preserve the remains of this dog shit forever!! It’ll be our mummies!!! Inject it with formaldehyde!!!

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            Guess your tenants don’t have a working dishwasher and a window that’s been broken since before they moved in that is totally gonna be fixed before they move in?

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        Nobody is getting dog shit DNA tested, id bet they do for bites though so the building can say they’re not liable.

        I lived in a building where the super would go around and get as many complaints as he could from people who let their dogs go in the lobby. He was great, the building got rid of him because he wanted the building owners to actually keep up the amenities promised to residents.

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          https://www.pooprints.com/

          Hate to break it to you dude

          "We are the DNA dog waste management company offering a solution to pet pollution in 7,000+ communities across the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. It isn’t just a problem in your community—it’s everywhere. "

          And here I thought it was pretty common to have your children and pets DNA tested by your apartment manager. Hasn’t this always been the case?

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        It’s also so they can charge you more money because your dog has pit bull DNA and which results in higher insurance premiums or similar bullshit.

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

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        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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            I’m aware that the apartment people aren’t running the DNA database themselves. They have some weirdo company that does it. I’m also aware that that weirdo company (or companies) is capable of putting together a website.

            I’m saying I live in the same neighborhood (I bought a place). Nobody is going through that park and picking up the dozens of available dog stool and sending it off to some lab to be tested. They just aren’t. The whole fucking thing is a wet dream had by some awful corporate bureaucrat that only succeeds in making renters lives a little more miserable and pads the pockets of some other random, doggy DNA database building weirdo somewhere else.

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              I’m going to briefly go on a related rant here that you can feel free to ignore.

              rant

              People in America have this perspective that if somehow you devise a theoretical solution to a problem (especially if it’s fancy and requires “tech” and “DNA” and labcoats) that you will magically have solved the problem. This isn’t actually the case, and it’s shown to not be the case over and over and over again in this country and everyone still seems purposely ignorant to that simple concept.

              Things have unintended effects. Systems can have effectiveness issues. System costs (of all types, not just monetary) on all parties involved in the administration of those systems are often left unconsidered because it’s not part of the problem solver’s business model. Convoluted systems will not be fully understood by the agents who are supposed to implement them. Modern, technical solutions to problems are not magically better or more effective than the alternatives that are very often never even considered, simply because it wouldn’t give you a reason to strap on a lab coat, or start up a new SaSS company.

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                  I dunno maybe it isn’t entirely but it’s a very pervasive attitude here.

                  Look at the COVID death numbers in the US versus some places that had the common sense to just use masks.

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              Well I don’t know what to tell you. We had a guy two months ago who was arrested because his dog was pooping on the premises and he did not clean it up.

              This is a half a billion dollar a year industry.

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                Arrested? Lol

                In my area you can’t even get anyone to care at all.

                Maybe if someone’s dog pooped directly in the property manager’s mouth… Otherwise, forget it.

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              Your experience is an anecdote.

              I’m aware that the apartment people aren’t running the DNA database themselves. They have some weirdo company that does it. I’m also aware that that weirdo company (or companies) is capable of putting together a website.

              Your conspiracy theory is so stupid it is comical.

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                You think they have a lab in the apartment complex and they’re doing the testing themselves? 😆

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                You’re saying the business that the other commenter provided a link to is a “conspiracy theory”?

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            You caught me, I’m complaining about DNA testing of dogs because it’s actually me sneaking out at night and pooping (not even the dog, but me). I shit out there just for you, bud.

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              You don’t understand, PooPrints has got your number. They ship dog poop around SIX countries, didn’t you read the site!?

              It’s frustrating out there, but keep up the critical thinking fight. The ones you reach usually won’t be ones replying.

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        Or…They threaten to do this and just keep your $600

        It’s really the threat that motivates people, and it’s the free $600 non-refundable deposit that motivates the landlords.