FluffyPotato
@FluffyPotato@lemmy.world
- Comment on Headlines be like 10 months ago:
Even if you got money for jewelry why pick the boring pointy piece of glass? There are gems and materials so much cooler than diamonds. My personal favourite is jade.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
Google still works in languages other than English, like my workaround has been to just search in Estonian and I’ll usually actually get better results and like zero AI content (AI sucks at Estonian, can’t even get grammar right). So if you wanna use Google learn an obscure language.
- Comment on UK firm develops jet fuel made from human poo | The starting material is generated in excess and available in plenty. It is a win-win for everyone that the waste is repurposed. 10 months ago:
Stop subsidising air travel and people are gonna prefer trains and boats real fast.
- Comment on I feel the actual inflation 1 year ago:
Why did you ignore the part where I said that the profits for grocery stores soared? Producing food has not become more expensive, that’s all public info here.
- Comment on I feel the actual inflation 1 year ago:
Yea, price capping is as much communism as having public healthcare and when the price of electricity was capped it lowered the prices massively.
What was going on was the local power companies made deals with other countries and basically acted as middle men for reselling that power for a massive markup. Our government made a mandatory power plan that forces power companies to produce electricity locally for local supply at a fixed price and that pretty much fixed that. Those companies couldn’t sell power at a massive markup anymore because everyone would just switch to the government power plan then.
- Comment on I feel the actual inflation 1 year ago:
The government capped the price of electricity here a short while ago and that lowered the price of power massively.
Seems the solution would be to cap the price of all food then.
- Comment on I feel the actual inflation 1 year ago:
Farmers yes, grocery stores not anymore. Profits of companies is public info here and they started racking it in the moment the massive ‘inflation’ started. My parents live near a farm and they just buy veggies directly from them for like a fraction of the price, I unfortunately live in a city though. Prices are better at local markets but there arent many of those.
- Comment on I feel the actual inflation 1 year ago:
Yea we have a food inflation pretty close to those measured numbers though in reality its a lot higher and that’s without any caps. Also how could a food price cap cause inflation in food prices? That’s literally the thing you are capping.
- Comment on I feel the actual inflation 1 year ago:
Most food here is locally produced, I don’t see how that would create a shortage. Like people aren’t going to sell their grocery stores cuz their margins are thin again and farming is so heavily subsidised that I don’t see it effecting farmers.
- Comment on I feel the actual inflation 1 year ago:
I wish my country’s government had the testacles to cap prices on food. I order food mostly online and I compared prices from 2 years ago and most things are at least 200% more expensive, cheese for example is like 600% though.
- Comment on Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp? 1 year ago:
Estonian here.
I use WhatsApp to talk to my mom and we aren’t allowed to use it for work. Only our locally hosted Skype instance for business talk, even teams is off limits for more secret stuff since its not fully locally hosted.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [1] 1 year ago:
I’m in the exact same situation. Got 2 weeks off scheduled for Baldur’s Gate 3 release and I’m currently just replaying Outer Worlds and Tyranny to pass the time while I wait.