qwertyWarlord
@qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
If someone doesn’t have that little money for food then they have real budget issues to work out. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but finding a solution to that for them is far better than turning to thieving or rioting
Moving is different for everyone but obviously it can be done. Look at the people trying to come here from South America with nothing but the clothes on their back. They’re not angry thieves or rioters, they’re not mad at corporations or rich people or anything else, they just want an opportunity to work and live a modest life and they’re leaving everything behind for the chance at it
Here in America you probably have a car already, some basic essentials and maybe some money to your name. That’s more than those migrants have so I know it’s possible. My grandparents immigrated to Canada from Austria to flee the war, built their own farm by hand and scratched out a living. My parents moved us every few years for work to make sure we were fine. I moved myself from East Coast to West Coast to escape a bad social life and restarted completely with an unpaid internship, working my way back up. None of it is easy, of course not, I can’t give an answer on where to go or what to do for work but at least try because all this other nonsense people are saying is just not helpful and at worst will land people in trouble
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Wow, some terrible answers in here. Look, dumb answers like steal, riot or “eat the rich” don’t do anything. You all sitting there acting like internet keyboard warriors literally does nothing to solve this issue so wake up and get a grip.
To answer op’s question, the only thing one can do is not engage with it. Price increases or not it’s still a free market and you do have choices on what you buy. You don’t need a new truck, or phones or organic eggs or whatever they want to sell you. Take care of yourself, learn to be budget conscious, work on your career and your own journey and ignore the rest, it’s noise. Truly if you’re underwater and can’t afford to live where you are, move. There are places in every state that remain cheap. Food should not be a problem in this country. Everyone can afford $50-100 a week for food and you can stay in that budget if you learn what to buy and what to make with it. If everyone did that it’d be far more effective than rioting or stealing or any other dumb response.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
And maybe if he’d done a better job with COVID we’d still not have this problem
- Comment on Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist. 11 months ago:
Cash money, son
- Comment on Starfield will get city maps and "new ways of traveling" next year 11 months ago:
Great, that’s FAR from what they need to do to this game though. I actually like the game so I’m going to be optimistic here. The number 1 biggest thing they can do to instantly improve it is change the way exploration works. Beef up the number of locations significantly, spread them out, make it so you need to ‘find’, or scan them and add unique rewards or more interesting lore to find. Next they need to totally overhaul the planets so they’re more extreme and conditions do something to you. I have never ever used a single condition clearing item in the game because there’s literally no need. Another thing would be to change the way fast travel works so you can’t just instantly go places, at the very least make fuel cost credits or something but adding actual fuel you need to get at ports or encounters along the way like solar storms or something would vastly improve it
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
Society isn’t created for everybody. That’s by design. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, not saying I agree or disagree, just calling it how it is. If we want it to change, we have to be the ones to do it.
- Comment on Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin Flops, Frontier Shares Tank Nearly 20% - IGN 11 months ago:
Seems like an ‘ok’ game and is generally liked by the community but therein lies the problem. Ok isn’t good enough anymore and the community interested in a game like this is small and ever shrinking. This wasn’t the game to explode and draw people to the genre so it was never going to meet corporate expectations. Shame because I quite like AoS and think it has a ton of potential as an IP
- Comment on A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month 11 months ago:
I’m pretty sure that audience doesn’t care if it’s a little off …
- Comment on No one can escape this housing crisis — it's coming for homeowners too 11 months ago:
Yeah we’re at an inflection point. I’m not really sure where we’ll go next, housing crash? Move to small homes or mobile homes? Migration to smaller towns?
Personally I might move to a smaller town myself, somewhere I can afford a simpler lifestyle and either work for myself or a remote online job. Big cities are for visiting, not for living in.
- Comment on OpenAI investors push to bring Altman back as CEO one day after he was ousted by board 11 months ago:
I’d put money on it being about money
- Comment on At SpaceX, worker injuries soar — Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds, and on... 1 year ago:
He’s a man baby, he doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself and his own ambition. He thinks paying people means you own them, he’ll just lie and bs his was to more VC money over and over and get what he wants because no matter what, he’s regarded as some kind of ‘genius’
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
He isn’t doing it for profit, he wants control
- Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success 1 year ago:
That’s not a bad thing, actually I’d call that a success minus the financial struggles.
- Comment on The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X 1 year ago:
Lol, anyone who uses Twitter doesn’t do it for morality. The mouth breathers are addicted to the drama and that’s all there is to it
- Comment on Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. 1 year ago:
~10% is absolutely nothing in the big picture. I’m much more interested in seeing who stays around when the platform starts charging a subscription
- Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only 1 year ago:
I wouldn’t hold my breath, 42k out of 528M is nothing
- Comment on Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job! — As office occupancy rates stagnate, employers are giving up on perks and turning to threats 1 year ago:
And they’ll win, eventually. They’ll take the L, replace employees over time and suffer for it but in the end they will win and we’ll all be back in office
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
Crypto is 100% a bubble. It’s not an investment so much as a ponzi, sure you can dump money into it and maybe even make money, doesn’t mean it doesn’t collapse on a whim when someone else decides to dip out or the government shuts it down. Its value is exactly that of NFT’s because it’s basically identical, just a string of characters showing “ownership” of something intangible
- Comment on ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day 1 year ago:
Whatever, it was always some fly by night operation anyway. It’s a cool toy but all this revolutionary crap talk was just like when NFT’s showed up.
- Comment on The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. 1 year ago:
Imagine willingly installing a keylogger, lol