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11 months agoThey’ll get more votes but people are still going to vote strategically because what choice do they have.
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1·1 year agoThere are more useful web apps than before but blog/affiliate sites are a plague.
That said if I could make a ton of money by clogging up the internet with garbage content then I would. There is nothing holy about this place.
61·1 year agoI don’t think it’s about being doomed and giving up. For me it’s just accepting the fact that a change of course is going to happen at whatever rate it is going to happen because the people who are driving it will do whatever they are compelled to do or want to do. Whether that is fast, or slow, or not at all barely feels like any of my business. I do what I can individually.
I went to a climate protest in Canada last week and it was way to tame to actually get anything accomplished.
The main part of the protest was walking down a main artery. For protesters, there is incentive to walk slowly and spread out to make the walk longer and disrupt status-quo longer, but the organizers clearly only had permission to march for a specific duration so they were in the back hurrying people forward so we’d stay within our allotted time window. Maybe 30 minutes. Once a year. It was pointless.
Add to that that 90% of the people there were exactly the people you’d expect to be there and it just felt like a waste of time.
14·1 year agoSome actual low-res examples:
I feel the same way about durability but apparently usb-c is rated to 10,000 insertions. Idk though. The lightning port has been very solid in regular use but I can’t say the same about the usb-c ports I’ve known.
Eventually wireless charging will be the standard so it might not matter as much for phones.
Overrated. The real perk is learning how to not eat it all at once
Bussing during rush hour sucks no matter what city it is. I’d rather bike, or if I could, I’d drive.
Well actually… driving during rush hour also sucks so I’m not sure between the two. During non-peak hours it’s not bad, kind of expensive though.
I feel like we shouldn’t be arguing with each other about this stuff? It’s like class conflict, wrong enemy.
Throughout all this I haven’t understood why the only thing central authorities seem able to do is raise interest rates. Why can’t the federal or provincial/state government introduce legislation to do exactly what you propose. It’s so damn obvious.
It really feels like everyone is observing the ultra rich and profiteering companies make record profits and then turning around and being like ‘welp, nothing we could possibly do about that’ and then the bank does what it is supposed to do raises interest rates.
I know it’s more complicated than I’m aware, for example if you tax the wealthy they might just leave. Well, they would certainly leave because that is what they do.
It’s probably a tricky line to pull because you can’t just take money from private companies and wealthy families. If we had legislation that allowed that I feel like that would be quite intense or radical, like a course of action not available in the current paradigm. It’s probably that our current system is designed to protect wealthy companies and families, maybe that’s how they exist in the first place and certainly how they continue to exist and get bigger at our expense.
Groceries is that area in a budget that you can adjust to ‘scrape by’ so it can feel sensitive to price fluctuations more than other things. It’s also a $2400+ a year, which is not nothing and is in fact quite a lot for a lot of people. Psychologically it feels like getting kicked in the dick by the economy when I go grocery shopping. I adapt, but it hurts.
Groceries are 6.5-8% of my net income. If I spent the same amount on monthly food that my friends spend it’d be around 15%-20% which would put me in the negative each month. So I also think there is something in here about lifestyle or socioeconomic status which translates into grocery spend.
But not to be totally discouraging… I might not be able to eat well every day, but I can eat well periodically and still hit my budget.
Nothing wrong with simple recipes!
I think this would just nurture that particular type of anxiety.
Some damning stuff in that report.
1·1 year agoI keep making the mistake of commenting on things that I have no desire to dig into. Apologies if I was rude. It really is an interesting area if you find yourself curious about it one day.
2·1 year agoOh dude you’re missing out.
Join .today or something, then use a tool to copy your subscriptions from ediblefriend@world to the new instance. You don’t get to see the Local feed from world, but All and Subscribed are the same. That’s it.
I’d say .world has been the most reddit-like for me. Overall it’s still good here but I’m also looking forward to it simmering down for a while.
I haven’t actually noticed hexbear at all and I’m on an instance that isn’t defed
You’ll have to go and learn to find out! Can’t do any harm.
You can also ask pi for an introduction https://pi.ai/talk
Villeneuve has been really disappointing. He was good with smaller, more gritty stuff but isn’t a good epic director.