Wages have stagnated. I was lucky to get any raise, but it was significantly less than the cost of living.
Meanwhile, eggs are $4 a dozen. Other staples are $$.
Food overall is much more expensive and we're not even talking about discretionary items or entertainment.
Used cars are almost unobtainable, housing and rent are through the roof.
By what metric is the economy doing well? Stonks?
Love this story.
Zydot. I’ve personally used it to pass tests. You have to follow the directions exactly, but it works.
Some real axis of evil shit going down. Anyone who questions if they’re the baddies at this point is intentionally being obtuse.
Yeah, that part is super fucked up. I have IoT in my ceiling fans. I had to call their support line to have them remotely turn off the beeping that accompanies a button press.
The feature can’t be deactivated locally. I literally had to have my ceiling fan join my Wi-Fi network so that support could remote in and disable a beep that no one could possibly want.
Oh yeah, my oven has Wi-Fi. What possible reason could there be for my oven to have network access? It’s beyond ridiculous.
And then there’s the subscription model. Where you don’t own or even license software. You just continually pay rent.
Well, you're on the internet. And it's pretty much just a series of tubes.
I went to Germany in '96, and was amazed how on time the trains were. If the schedule said "7:52 arrival" then set your watch by it.
Now? Not so much.
At this point, it's startlingly clear that de-industrialization is wide scale corporate raiding.
Can anyone point to a country that de-industrialized and maintained infrastructure?
My whole family is lactose intolerant or milk allergic. My son is too.
Having to navigate a no dairy diet at daycare or school is difficult.
It’s awful newspeak to say “southern Lebanon”. I’m originally from there and have family there. The entire country is less than 150 miles from tip to tip.
It’s a way of segmenting the country to not sound bad. Israel is again bombing Lebanon. There is no country called “southern Lebanon”.
I’ve seen this language used for years to justify bombing and occupation.
Great read! Drives home just how bad it is when companies design things to be disposable.
There’s also a “I’m not going to get some bullshit masquerading as the movie I was looking for.” thing in place.
I belong to a couple private trackers. I use them nearly exclusively and have never once downloaded a bullshit file/virus/whatever. It’s happened a couple times on public ones.
I know who the good uploaders are and know that seeding on the private isn’t going to get me flagged to my ISP, which happened twice before going off public.
I guess what I’m wondering is: why wouldn’t you use one if you can find what you’re looking for?