Fredthefishlord
@Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on while we were watching for threat from China, here comes Philippines with a steel chair! 20 hours ago:
I’m not asking you to support usa. I’m saying Don’t glaze the hell out of china. Just because you don’t support one country doesn’t mean you should prop up their rival as somehow being good.
- Comment on while we were watching for threat from China, here comes Philippines with a steel chair! 21 hours ago:
Whoop tankie alert
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 22 hours ago:
Tf else would you you even use
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 day ago:
Add these factors together and you can see why people are forced to move to where the rich are, because that’s where the business is, because they’re the only people with enough money to constitute a customer,
This part specifically is the what I was referring to. Basically, I feel as though you’re overemphasizing the “rich” aspect of why people live in cities. Tons of people just like being around other people.
The faster money flows, the more expensive jobs can be provided, and in the country side money moves slower. Wages being higher in cities isn’t because that’s where the rich are; it’s because there’s more places to spend money, so everything changes hands quicker and “creates” more money.(While I do think that plenty of modern econ is bunk bullshit, that’s one concept that rings true).
While I do agree that the rich kills small towns, I think it’s primarily a different reason—big box stores like walmart and medium boxes like dollar general using abusive price practices like undercutting using their wealth to push out the smaller competition, and make it nigh impossible for new places to get going.
Wealth inequality is quite meaningful, but I think it’s far from everything. There’s a lot of smaller reasons why cities tend to be better places to live, that don’t have to do with the rich.
One good example is that higher density means more gov $ per sqrmile, even if the people are poorer, and more infrastructure can be shared, making it cheaper to build. That results in cities inevitably having better infrastructure than the countryside
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 day ago:
Seniors who show they deserve respect should be given it. But plenty do not.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 day ago:
You’re being incredibly over dramatic. Plenty of businesses thrive off of mostly middle or lower income customers.
Cities are just better. Rich or no rich, larger amounts of people means more restaurants and things to do.
- Comment on A PUBG dating sim has been released for April Fool’s, portraying each of its guns as schoolgirls 2 days ago:
No it’s fuckin hilarious
- Comment on 4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer 3 days ago:
Imo, 4 10s is a great schedule. The talks about 4 day work weeks focus all on salary workers, and leaves how the hourly working stiffs who deserve it just as much. Everyone I know thinks 4 10s are the dream. Since with manufacturing and warehouse work, it needs to get done. And there’s barely any downtime to cut out. 4 10s are a great compromise.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 4 days ago:
Got elected with a promise of being a dictator on the side. Not on the promise of being it. He got elected on the promise of abusing immigrants.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 4 days ago:
He’s the president of the most powerful country on earth. When his words are “I’m seeking a dictatorship” they are news.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 4 days ago:
This isn’t a boring dystopia thing. It’s many things, but it’s certainly not boring ):
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
That’s… Impressively braindead
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
I didn’t realize there was patrons for lemmy instances
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
I would assume “,being late on rent from mastodon server costs” is not an acceptable reason
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
Pretty sure both 1 and 2 are jp and good
- Comment on Terrorists 1 week ago:
I think you’re missing the point I’m trying to make. I’m trying to say, the fbi agents are on their side. Not ours.
- Comment on Terrorists 1 week ago:
They’re fbi agents. Fascist lackies for the most part lmfao
- Comment on Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’s a single common interpretation of the second amendment in which that would be true.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 1 week ago:
Working class does not mean poor. It means people who work for their living. You have frontline manual labor workers who make over 100k and you dare suggest that just because they put in the work to unionize, that they aren’t working class? Ridiculous.
- Comment on Divided and conquered 1 week ago:
Much of the public also voted for trump. I’m not so sure we should be thinking very highly of much of the public’s eye.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 weeks ago:
A tesla is well within the range of affordable for a working class person. Someone with a decent job will be making 100k, and it’s not hard to get a Tesla on that budget. And no, they aren’t the “petty bourgeois” or what have you
- Comment on To boost Bookwyrm, there should be a tool to scrape book data from Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. There’s, quite frankly, no real risk of censorship on such a platform to begin with. Kinda takes out the whole point of federation for it
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 2 weeks ago:
Allowing your local industries to be dominate is common sense. As much as china is smart to subsidize theirs so heavily, the united states isn’t wrong to tariff them
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 2 weeks ago:
Yes, usa car companies are bitches. But it is laughable that you think the reason it isn’t more expensive has nothing to do with being subsidized
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 2 weeks ago:
There is very much enough information given to reach that conclusion.
- Comment on Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer 3 weeks ago:
Genuinely, disposing of nuclear waste is not the slightest issue. Just dump it in one spot.
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 3 weeks ago:
My company shorted everyone who worked daylight savings day an hour. We didn’t even work past 2am 😭🙏
Though we’re unionized so everyone who came to me got penalty pay 🙏
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
That’s crazy that you need to be 13, or 18 to get citizenship in france. That’s some gated communities type shit. Personally, I’m not a fan of nymbys.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Because it assures that people raised there aren’t separated from the country of origin. It blocks issues. It’s better. Why do you think they shouldn’t?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yup. 3, all different accounts and instances