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- Comment on A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit. 14 hours ago:
Where did you get the extra $200?
They get 2,300 and spend 1600 by living in the apartment and renting.
$700/month and equity.
But obviously it’s more of an issue when it scales up
- Comment on A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit. 15 hours ago:
Their mortgage is $1,400 a month, and they rent out the home for $2,300. Their apartment costs $1,600,
They just kind of glazed by the root of the issue…
Rent shouldn’t be more than mortgages.
They can do this shell game, because they’re still making $700/month and building equity. Someone without a house to rent is absolutely fucked.
- Comment on How to avoid a kid who really likes you? 19 hours ago:
It’s what they want more than anything too.
Like, all the tools are baked in, but kids who don’t run into limits grow up to be adults who can’t recognize limits.
- Comment on How to avoid a kid who really likes you? 20 hours ago:
Treat him like a grown up.
Be honest that some people need peace and quiet and while you enjoy spending time with him you can’t handle it all the time.
He’s old enough to understand it, and you’ll do a better job explaining it than some 10 year old he knows from school.
Kids are sponges and learn social cues like that really quickly, but someone has to tell them what’s going on. There is absolutely nothing wrong with telling a kid that age to chill out
- Comment on The gender pay gap is at average 15% in North America. When shopping though, items that are marketed for Men or Women specifically seem to be on average priced the same. 1 day ago:
I was referencing the first sentence.
I think you’re talking about the second
- Comment on The gender pay gap is at average 15% in North America. When shopping though, items that are marketed for Men or Women specifically seem to be on average priced the same. 1 day ago:
“at average” is waaaaay to vauge and can mean so many different things…
Something that large I’m assuming you’re using something like comparing 50 year old men to 50 year old women. Where some women that have spent a decade or two out of the workforce raising children. Or even something that ignores industry/position.
If corporations could pay 15% less to a woman than a man with the same experience and qualifications…
They’d only hire women.
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 2 days ago:
People think 2,000 years is a long time, but evolutionary that was like, last Tuesday.
We’re not built for modern society.
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 2 days ago:
Humans didn’t evolve for everyone to have the sleep schedule, because that would have been an incredibly dangerous arrangement for the vast majority of our existence.
We stay up late when young, “normal” in middle aged, and asleep at 4pm but awake when the teens are just going to bed when elderly
Obviously there’s variation, but almost no one keeps the same schedule their whole lives.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 2 days ago:
Yeah. I think someone used the term “historic” appropriately, that it’s old
And people are assuming it was used as an exaggeration like “this is a big deal”.
- Comment on Law&Crime creates exclusive 'video' recreation of Diddy trial powered by AI 3 days ago:
I really don’t think that getting people to trust AI videos of court proceedings is a good idea long term…
Anyone can make AI say anything, but even something like making the AI use body language of a guilty/innocent person would I fluence people.
Like, this just seems to be opening the door to some real dystopian shit, especially if the current administration embraces it for things like deportations. They could just throw an AI “thug” filter on anyone they don’t like and their followers would eat up.
It seems like a boring use of AI, but the ramifications are dystopian as fuck.
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Just spreading the gospel
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yeah, he’s kind of an American icon, but I don’t think he’s big worldwide
Here’s a quick interview and not just a joke:
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- Comment on Welcome to a community representative of the global south. 4 days ago:
Thanks!
That’s enough to keep rational people from wandering in from this thread
- Comment on Welcome to a community representative of the global south. 4 days ago:
Pick any of the three and say it’s not an authoritarian dictatorship in 2025.
To clarify, you are saying that Modi’s India isn’t an authoritarian dictatorship in your eyes?
- Comment on Welcome to a community representative of the global south. 4 days ago:
Brazil is the odd man out,
I thought the context made it clear that the rest are authoritarian dictatorships…
Let’s start with the three big ones though:
Russia, India, China
Pick any of the three and say it’s not an authoritarian dictatorship in 2025.
That will help steer rational people away from your community and instance in general.
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Welcome to a community representative of the global south. 4 days ago:
BRICS+
For when you don’t want to say “coalition of authoritarian dictatorships”…
BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Brazil is the odd man out, but they’re actively fighting against expanding BRICS and honestly I think the only reason they haven’t left is it’s essentially free for them.
- Comment on Welcome to a community representative of the global south. 4 days ago:
The idea of categorizing countries by their economic and developmental status began during the Cold War with the classifications of East and West. The Soviet Union and China represented the East, and the United States and their allies represented the West. The term Third World came into parlance in the second half of the twentieth century. It originated in a 1952 article by Alfred Sauvy entitled “Trois Mondes, Une Planète”.[22] Early definitions of the Third World emphasized its exclusion from the east–west conflict of the Cold War as well as the ex-colonial status and poverty of the peoples it comprised.[22]
So…
They wanted to replace 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world to segregate countries based on economys…
But didn’t want to say that’s what they were doing, so picked a random name that doesn’t make logical sense?
Yeah, this is definitely a .ml thing
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Because Trump is president, and Republicans have the Senate, House, and SC…
Like, they have all the “checks and balances” that are supposed to save us from a president like trump. But they’re not using them.
Do you want to see more articles about what the left is doing?
Post them.
It’s that easy
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Not to mention almost everything is political these days…
Like, the root cause of most our issues are political and there’s a lot of issues. So it shouldn’t be surprising most topics are tied back to it.
- Comment on Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying 5 days ago:
People constantly told OP that, but they just won’t stop making posts about it
- Comment on Cursed Dora The Explorer clip explaining "sigma" taken down after backlash 1 week ago:
Did you try a play a video in a screen shot of a screenshot about a video that’s no longer up?
Like…
That’s the entire point, the video was taken down, but there’s just so much more.
- Comment on OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation 1 week ago:
Ignorance is bliss homie…
afresearchlab.com/…/department-of-the-air-force-l…
People really don’t want to know how much AI is being shoved down the government’s and military’s throats these days.
It ain’t even just a musk/trump thing, most of it was put in motion under Biden, but now idiots are running with it.
Like, who the fuck really wants the space force using a closeted version of the same consumer level chatbot coding shit?
Fucking no one who understands anything about any of this, but the people calling the shots believe the hype.
So ignorance is bliss.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 1 week ago:
As of a year ago, GTA 5 had made over $9,000,000,000.
That’s a billion with a B.
Mostly off micro transactions to children.
They don’t need to charge $90, but if people will pay it, they’ll charge it.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 1 week ago:
They could just make media that people actually enjoy with that advertising budget…
Like, you get that’s an option, right? I don’t think anyone wants their creative visions to be used to sell beer to college kids with burping frogs.
We don’t all have to like the same 10 movies a year the big studios decide we have to like.
Those resources could be spread around to more people making a much higher quantity of media that doesn’t have to try to appeal to everyone.
Prioritizing profits over everything doesn’t lead to a better life except for a very very small percentage of us, so why do we all go along with it?
We can literally just stop putting profits over everything and 99.99% of our lives would improve immediately
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 1 week ago:
Advertising doesn’t have to exist.
Like, we could just pass laws restricting or outright banning certain kinds.
I think people just forget that we can tell corporations they can’t do whatever the fuck they want.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 1 week ago:
I mean, it’s weird I stopped responding to you five hours ago, but you apparently saw that immediately and felt the need to comment on it. It’s not like this thread is even still active.
Nothing you said was uncivil, but if I wanted to keep discussing this with you. I wouldnt have stopped replying to you five hours ago.
Have a nice life though.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 1 week ago:
Dude just forgot an oxford comma…
/s