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BBC News - The evidence that shows today’s 20-somethings really do have it worse - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8mnvk4r48o

A decade of falling incomes? JRF’s pre-budget assessment of living standards https://www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-living/a-decade-of-falling-incomes-jrfs-pre-budget-assessment-of-living-standards

The 1950s-1980s are a unique time in human history where things generally got insanely better for many people, particularly in the west, and basically created the modern concept of the middle class.

At the end of the 80s Thatcher and Reagan had set the time bomb, public wealth was burned to give the illusion of even more prosperity, except now the prosperity was going, year on year, predominantly to the elite again, as it was in the Victorian era.

Now we’re here, the bomb is going off, things are getting worse for everyone except the ultra wealthy, denying it just makes it easier for them to ensure you can’t resist when the penny drops.

They want us back in our places, with Victorian era inequality

Authentik is great, super versatile, if not a bit of effort to get it set up initially

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities

The CVE list always cracks me up, there’s like tens daily

Oh let me help you out

It’s like how the USA is not the same as America or North America

Great Britain is the big island in the British isles (all of the land including the whole of Ireland, channel isles, etc). Think how gran canaria is the big island of the Canary isles.

The United Kingdom is the name of the country run by the British government (England, Scotland, Wales & NI)

Oh yeah, 100% it’s an expensive habit whatever the unit price is.

I was just taken aback a bit as someone who had quit several years prior, that they could buy cigs in 2024 for half the price I was paying as a teenager two decades ago

I definitely saw 500 yen packs on sale when I was there a couple of years ago, which would be about £2.30/$3.10

Given I think a 20 deck of cigs in the UK is about £12 now, it’s still crazy cheap to smoke out there comparatively, so I can only imagine it was even cheaper then

Ingeniously? It certainly looks like balatro with dominoes

For a good while, Plex was the only game in town that did the job well, and they put the transcoding feature behind the paywall.

Given it wasn’t that expensive for a lifetime pass a number of years ago (I remember it was cheaper than a game anyway) and they still seemed relatively user-centric at the time, many people like me felt like they were supporting developers building something that was useful to us.

I still run my Plex server since it’s not really costing me not to, but I’ve been running Jellyfin too for a little while and it more or less can do the same job these days