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pixxelkick ,

Uh... Sumarian texts talk about giants a few times, and they are depicted often in their glyphs and whatnot.

The Anunnaki are pretty much always depicted as much larger than humans and godlike. Their texts describe them in detail.

It's literally been translated down all the way to the king James Bible (these ancient texts are the baseline for Abrahamic religions, IE dead sea scrolls):

Genesis 6:1[4]

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

This is pretty well known that abrahamic religions truly believed giants used to roam the earth. It's not weird for old glyphs on walls of the very stories of those same religions to depict giants considering their religion talks about em a few times lol.

Literally just Google up on the Anunnaki, there's lots of info on it.

pixxelkick , (edited )

Unfortunately this is false. They've tested this and monkeys establish captilasm extremely fast when they come to understand currency as a concept.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/503550

They would exchange the currency, steal it, gamble with it, purchase with it, and even do some prostitution for it.

Edit: To people responding that this isnt capitalism, it actually is, in this case the privatized controller of wealth were the researchers distributing "payment" to the monkeys at a fixed rate, as well as having experiments where the monkeys had to pull levers before they would receive rewards either to themselves or later, altruistically to other monkeys.

You would know that if you took the time to read up on the study before responding...

'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch ( animehunch.com )

The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse....

pixxelkick ,

Also, often the art itself suddenly changes before your eyes when you review it with a new eye for who the artist has revealed themself to be.

Like the fact the only asian person in the entire set of books is a girl to serve as plot fodder named "Cho"

Or the fact that there's like 2 times that a girl gets specifically assaulted by a masculine representing figure in a girls bathroom while alone. (Troll attacking Hermione in book 1, and Myrtle by Riddle+Snake in book 2), its one of those "If I had a nickel everytime that happened, Id have 2 nickels, which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice" sort of dealios.

The list goes on and on, theres a lot to pick apart in the books if you go back and re-read them. There's a lot of stuff that makes you pause and go "hmm, what?"

Like perhaps the "goblins" with pointy ears, sharp teeth, glasses, short statures, who strictly only show up working at the one big bank, and are commented on about hoarding money and acting greedy...

(Basically a play by play classic set of caricatures of jewish people the nazi party used constantly to dehumanize them... >_>;)

pixxelkick ,

It's a musical, the songs are catchy.

However I disliked how fast paced the writing was, and how even though it's called "Hazbin Hotel" and the pilot framed it as a sort of slice of life "bunch weirdos" hanging out and getting redemption, instead that weirdly became the B plot?

Somehow they took the whole story and shifted it over to the B plot and pulled this other big high stakes thing out as the A plot.

That's not really what I was wanting to watch, and it feels a bit like they hit swapped out the story on me, so I kinda got a bit turned off by that.

I don't give a shit about some high stakes angels vs demons war end game shit.

I wanted to see interpersonal relationships of weirdos learning to co-exist.

Tl;dr: I was expecting something closer to The Good Place, but instead that got side lined by some huge MCU style plot no one asked for.

pixxelkick ,

The fact that they prioritized Helluva Boss (which does follow that type of storyline), on their own YouTube (which they have control over), whereas Hazbin was put onto Amazon Prime with only 8 episodes honestly is what I think caused it.

My gut instinct was to assume they had to agree to certain conditions to get onto Amazon Prime and the money from that is what got us Helluva Boss (which if you haven't watched that, it's so fuckin good)

pixxelkick ,

Yeah in fact you’re giving the llm additional data to train on what poisoned data looks like so it can avoid it better, as they can clear see the before vs after

pixxelkick ,

Who tabled this bill, and who is supporting it?

pixxelkick ,


 no? I was asking a serious question.

pixxelkick ,

Bruh did you read the article at all? Nothing you talked about has anything to do with what this AI is for.

pixxelkick ,

This seems like it has pretty powerful potential for space flight.

Being able to aggressively min max packaging materials to secure materials could be critical for reducing payload sizes on shuttles, where every single individual gram counts.

Each kg of packaging is thousands of dollars to get into orbit, so that’s really appealing.

I’d be curious to see if Amazon is also working on box packing algorithms for maximizing fitting n parcels across x delivery trucks.

IE if you have 10,00 boxes to move, what’s the fewest delivery trucks you can fit those boxes into as fast as possible too, which introduces multiple complex concepts. Both packing to maximize space usage and the order you pack it in to minimize armature travel time


I’d put money down amazon is perfecting this algorithm right now, and has been for awhile.

To failures in (basically) the exact same location eh? Correlation? I (hope) not! ( lemmy.world )

The printer is a Voron 2.4, the extruder is a StealthBurner, and the hot end itself is a Rapido MK1. I’m printing Polymaker ASA on a spool that hasn’t given me any grief thus far (I last printed with it a few days ago) and am slicing with Orca Slicer....

pixxelkick ,

Sometimes its a physical issue in your setup.

Double check your cable, double check the carriage, and double check the rails, look for potential obstructions.

I had one print that kept failing in the exact same place each time, couldn’t figure it out, then I watched it live and the dang ribbon itself was physically catching on a specific part of the geometry mid print and then the print would twist a bit, lol.

Something to consider, I’d recommend visually watching that specific layer when it’s coming up to see if you see something happen.

pixxelkick ,

I use neorg for neovim, specifically I use:Neorg journal today to open up a daily .Norge file that I maintain notes, todo, etc on.

If I need to leave a note for myself for the future, I create a note for that day ahead of time.

pixxelkick ,

From my experience the only big changes I’d say I made overtime are:

  1. Font size bumped up
  2. Switched to neovim from visual studio, which took like a year to relearn my entire workflow (100% worth it though)
  3. Switched from multiscreen setup to one single big screen (largely due to #2 above no longer needing a second screen, tmux+harpoon+telescope+fzf goes brrrr)
  4. Switched to a standing desk with a treadmill, because I became able to afford a larger living space where I can fit such a setup.

If I were to do this meme though it’d mostly be #1, there just came a day when I had to pop open my settings and ++ the font size a couple times, that’s how I knew I was getting old.

pixxelkick ,

I try and start using it for basic tasks, like note taking, to get used to its interface and basic commands like :w and :q, as well as switching between insert and cmd mode.

Once you are familiar with switching between modes, copying, pasting, etc, then you probably will wanna Starr learning it’s lua api and how to load in some QoL plugins. Basic stuff like treesitter, telescope, and nvim-tree are good places to start.

Once you feel comfortable with swapping between files with telescope and configuring plugins, I’d deep dive into getting an LSP up and running for your language of choice so you can actually code.

In the interim I’d recommend getting comfy with using tmux in your terminal, try and open new tmux tabs to do units of work instead of constantly cding around.

I like to keep 4 tmux tabs open for a project:

  • nvim
  • lazygit
  • secrets file open in nvim (usually my secrets file is in another dir so it doesn’t check into git)
  • a general terminal tab for running commands
pixxelkick ,

I have heard of jupyter but am not familiar with its nuances.

But doing python dev with neovim is very doable, it uses the same LSP I think.

I personally have a dedicated dev machine running debian that has everything on it, including nvim configured.

I SSH into my dev box from other machines to do work, because neovim is a TUI it “just works” over SSH inside the terminal itself, which is what I like about it.

It feels good to just

  1. SSH into my box
  2. tmuxinator my-project-name

And boom, 4 tmux tabs pop open ready to go in the terminal:

  • nvim (pointing at the project dir)
  • lazygit already open
  • nvim (pointing at my secrets.json file elsewhere)
  • an extra general console window opened to project root

And I can just deep dive into working asap in just those 2 steps, it feels very smooth.

I often can even just do tmux a (short for attach) to just straight re-open whatever session I last had open in tmux, instantly jumping right back into where I left off.

pixxelkick ,

Yup, I usually have it set to the slowest setting when typing.

I find I work much better and can think clearer while walking, as it keeps the blood flowing and makes me feel more awake and engaged.

If I have a tough problem I’m trying to work through I turn the speed up to a faster pace and sorta just work through it in my head while speed walking, often this helps a lot!

During meetings when I’m bored I also turn the speed up a bit.

I often get around 10k to 12k steps in a day now.

Note I don’t stay on the treadmill all day long, I usually clock a good 4 hours on it though.

Then I take a break and chill on the couch with my work laptop, usually I leave my more “chill” tasks like writing my tests for this part, and throw on some Netflix while I churn all my tests out.

Highly recommend it, I’ve lost a good 15ish lbs now in the past year since I started doing it, and I just generally feel a lot better, less depressed, less anxious :)

pixxelkick ,

Often people are surprised that I can walk and type but honestly I haven’t found it impacts my wpm at all.

pixxelkick ,

Harpoon is pretty much just tabs, but, without the actual visual ui of tabs, from my experience.

You pin a specific buffer, and can jump back to it, but unlike normal markers it persists between sessions and has a couple other nuances to it.

It pretty much works like tabs do though.

We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children

Edit: To those downvoting, could please comment the reason as to why you are downvoting? The comments that are there right now do not explain the reason for the downvotes. I am genuinely curious as to what the thinking behind disliking the post is....

pixxelkick ,

This is already to some degree an existing dilemma. There are already individuals out there who, due to genetic lottery, happen to have an adult body that through some efforts of clothing, makeup, hairstyle, etc, can very much present themselves as substantially younger looking than their actual age.

Lord knows certain popular niches in the porn industry make this apparant
 >_>;

And from what I have heard on social media, sometimes these individuals couple up with another person who
 doesnt look substantially younger.

And often, these couples face quite a bit of controversy and social stigma, despite everything they are doing and into being 100% legal and, from am objective standpoint, ethically fine (they are two consenting adults after all)

But I agree that future tech with things like gene editing and whatnot this dilemma will certainly become substantially more pronounced and I think it will likely be yet another group being attacked for daring to live their lives.

pixxelkick ,

I find it weird how much people give a shit about what consenting adults do for pleasure in the comfort of their own homes, and to their own bodies.

If they are an adult, it’s their body and their choice.

And if their choice is to cosplay as a child and bang an older person because that’s what gets their rocks off, I really don’t care.

It’s honestly not even the most outlandish of fetishes I’ve seen. We got people out there that orgasm from popping balloons, eating shit, and getting kicked in the crotch.

pixxelkick ,

Lasse is the original maintainer of XZ, they have been placed back in their position as sole maintainer.

“Jia Tan” was the person who slipped the backdoor into XZ and is now banned.

Lasse has already fixed abd removed the backdoor.

XZ itself is critical software everyone uses (its one of the main compression/decompression programs used on linux)

pixxelkick ,

Or: this was the goal all along, as it sets some interesting legal precedents

pixxelkick ,

I mean, if you clown around in front of the judge you are trying to get on your side, losing the verdict is a pretty ShockedPikachu.jpeg moment.

Like what’d they think was gonna happen? The judge was gonna be super duper impressed by their antics and weigh on their favor?

I can see how the ruling makes sense tbh, an art gallery isn’t really a space of societal advantage for viewers.

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Most companies I’ve worked at where employees had a Microsoft work computers. They were under heavy control, even with admin privileges. I was wondering, for a corporate environment, how employees’Linux desktops could be kept under control in a similar way. What would be an open source or Linux based alternative to the...

pixxelkick ,

but the best way to avoid getting them is still to just avoiding stupid shit.

This is fine and dandy on a personal pc, but in a work environment you are now being actively targeted by malicious actors if your company is a good target.

Constantly.

So once you are in that zone you do need some fast acting reactive tools that keep watch for viruses.

pixxelkick ,

Others have covered the fact it’s because of air pressure but haven’t fully answered why that is the way it is.

It’s simple really.

The force of gravity is also at play. As you go higher up, gravity gets weaker as you get farther from the earth’s centre.

And it is that gravitational force that increases the air’s density, same reason why if you keep going down in the water, the water gets denser.

For the heat to move around you need to be in a sort of goldilocks zone of density.

It needs to be dense enough that the fluid molecules can move around and spread the convection energy around
 but not so dense they can’t move much either.

Furthermore there’s actually a couple different layers of our atmosphere.

First at our level is the troposphere, where heat is absorbed into the ground itself and radiated back out, as well as the perpetual heat from the earth’s core, and reflected off the ground too (visible light).

The troposphere is warm and gets colder as you get farther away from the earth’s surface, naturally. That heat is absorbed by the air itself so, as you get farther away it gets colder as it has more air to travel through.

Up higher is the Stratosphere, where it’s ice cold and the air thins out.

However we get a sudden uptick in temp as we go even higher into what is called the Stratopause, back to briefly warm temperatures between the Stratosphere and the Mesosohere. Why? How?

Simple, this is the little sweet spot Ozone molecules hang out, forming a protective convenient bubble around the earth. Ozone absorbs Ultraviolet light from the sun and turns out that stuff is HOT, so there’s a band of a hot zone right above and below the Ozone layer. Think of it as a toasty little bubble around us.

Above is the mesosphere which cools off again and gets back to being really frosty quickly, for the same reason the Stratosphere did, distance.

Then we hit the mesosphere, which is effectively the point when the atmosphere is so thin it stops protecting and is the “outside” of our protective blanket.

You can imagine this like earth being wrapped in a blanket, and the mesosphere is everything outside the blanket. Without any protection you are subject to the unbridled radiation of the sun which means you go back to being really toasty, as you get a bit higher you are effectively in space now and will soon enough hit temps that just cook you alive in a minute or two. Really bad sunburn zone.

So to answer the question overall:

Hot air rises
 but only when there is air to rise.

Top of the mountains just don’t have enough air anymore for it to really rise much more. It still does but the hot air rising effect just gets weaker and weaker as the air gets thinner due to less gravity.

pixxelkick ,

See as a C# dev, all the time I think to myself l, “Proffessionally, you should pick up and really learn C++ mate”

Then I see blog posts like this where the author writes for pages and pages about how to get something as simple as await to work manually and I immediately am reminding why even after 11 years I still haven’t picked up C++ outside of little things for SBCs and whatnot.

I can see the fun in building such things by hand, but at a certain point I want to be able to actually start a project and jump straight into writing the application itself, and not need a tonne of boilerplate just to get modern functionality.

I will note for this statement:

This is less of a problem if your coroutines are long-lived.

Is typically true. Usually your coroutines (should) all spin up at the very start and all stay running for the entire app lifetime.

Usually, in my opinion, constantly spinning up and spinning down coroutines is a code smell, and us remedied with some form of pub/sub model where your “background” coroutines should always be running, and they just idle waiting at some kind of subscribed pipe for events to respond to and process.

That way you allocate everything you need at the start, then it all just sits and runs for the entire app lifespan.

pixxelkick , (edited )

Nowadays it’s less of an issue with docker and whatnot.

Just set the image to refresh every night at midnight and if they tried to make manual changes it’ll just revert back to its original state at midnight.

Customers don’t really get direct access to deployed code now, it’s buried under like 4 layers of abstraction on most CDNs now.

Simply deploying to azure already smears multiple layers of access control and RBAC overtop that it’s hard enough for me, the dev, to answer the question if “what is actually deployed atm?”, let alone for the customer to get in their and meddle.

pixxelkick ,

If a website has literally no login system, there’s nothing to phish.

There is honestly no reason to use SSL on a static website that has no login system and just displays some content.

IE a static blog or etc, where the only content on the website is just “look at this stuff, okay thank you!”

pixxelkick ,

I primarily use a couple locally hosted LLMs for searching for info now.

Larger LLMs are trained on so much info that they get the answer right surprisingly often.

Only thing they of course struggle with are recent events.

pixxelkick ,

There aren’t standardized screens for smartphones, as the inside of the screens typically has a bespoke aluminum chassis they are adhered to as part of their construction.

And since every single phone model has different insides, every screen is bespoke to its model.

You have to look on ebay for your phones screen model.

If you look for ones with a couple dead pixels they are pretty affordable though.

pixxelkick ,

Also people are glossing over the capability for it to improve sexual drive.

The “my wife read a slightly spicy book today and now she wants to get it on” trope is well known on social media, AI’s ability to just generate whatever you want likely will boost that.

However, at this time AI is unable to really handle pacing well.

It’s pretty well known that most attempts with current uncensored LLMs tends to produce saucy encounters are
 poorly paced.

Good spicy novels have a lot of build up and slow pace, which requires remembering facts from many chapters ago.

Even the top end of massive LLMs lack the memory capacity to last more than a handful of pages before they completely lose the thread.

But hopefully this gets remedied eventually.

pixxelkick ,

For casual users I typically recommend using Cinnamon Desktop, it’s the most Windows-esque UI and will be the easiest for them to pick up and use.

I roll with Cinnamon on Ubuntu and it’s been extremely painless, very simple to get stuff do and shit just works.

pixxelkick ,

I know how heavy those units tended to be.

There’s no way in hell that hardware is up to the task of holding that thicc boi up @-;

pixxelkick ,

I’ve been calling this for awhile now.

I’ve been calling it the Ouroboros effect.

There’s even bigger parts at play the paper didn’t even dig into, and that’s selective bias dye to human intervention.

See at first let’s say an AI has 100 unique outputs for a given prompt.

However, humans will favor let’s say half of em. Humans will naturally regenerate a couple times and pick their preferred “cream of the crop” result.

This will then ouroboros for an iteration.

Now the next iteration only has say 50 unique responses, as half of them have been ouroboros’d away by humans picking the one they like more.

Repeat, each time “half-lifing” the originality.

Over time, everything will get more abd more sameish. Models will degrade on originality as everything muddles into corporate speak.

You know how every corporate website uses the same useless “doesn’t mean anything” jargon string of words, to say a lot without actually saying anything?

That’s how AI is going to local minima to, as it keeps getting selectively “bred” to speak in an appealing and nonspecific way for the majority of online content.

pixxelkick ,

Note that ChatGPT indeed implemented a state parameter, but their state was not a random value, and therefore could be guessed by the attacker.

Bruh wut, rookie mistake.

State is supposed to be mathematically random and should expire fairly quickly.

I always have used a random guid that expires after 10-15 minutes for state, if they try and complete the oauth with an expired state value I reject ad ask them to try again.

Also yeah the redirect uri trick is common, that’s why oath apis must always have a “whitelist urls” functionality. And not just domain, the whole url.

That’s why when you make a Google api token you gotta specify what urls it’s valid for explicitly. That way any other different redirect uri gets rejected, to prevent an injection attack from a third party providing their own different redirect uri to a victim.

Oath is pretty explicit about all these things in its spec. It really sucks people treat it as optional “not important” factors.

It’s important. Do it. Always.

pixxelkick ,

Not related to the article at all mate.

This article is about how many plugins have Bern discovered to have implemented oath in a very insecure way and simply using them can expose your sensitive info you have linked to your chatgpt account.

IE:

  1. You connect your github account to your chatgpt account (so you can ask chatgpt questions about your private codebase)
  2. You install and use one of many other compromisable weakly implemented plugins
  3. Attacker uses the weak plugin to compromise your whole account and can now access anything you attached to your account, IE they can now access your private git repos you hooked up in step 1


Most of the attack vectors involve a basic (hard to notice) phish attack on weak oath urls.

The tricky part is the urls truly are and look legit. It isn’t a fake url, it actually links to the legit page, but they added some query params (the part after the ? In the url) that compromise the way it behaves

pixxelkick ,

I feel like this is more “how we feel we get perceived by others” moreso.

I try and perceive all the members of my team as, well, my team. I heavily appreciate everyone busting their assess off and contributions.

However, there are folks on each layer that do actually treat others like this and I think we can all agree those people suuuuck.

pixxelkick ,

“Small” breasts typically are still large compared to a man’s chest.

There are other factors than size anyways, for any feature. For breasts as an example, symmetry, skin clarity, and firmness will also signal a healthy prospective mate.

“Small” breasts usually actually means “not sagging due to age”, as naturally speaking breasts, cheeks, and the neck of humans are common areas where sagging due to collagen levels can be witnessed in older age, so these are common cited areas of sexyal attraction.

So “small” breasts really just means “not old”, which is fairly normal to signal the health of a potentional sexual partner.

pixxelkick ,

Mature women is straightforward, older = more knowledge and capable.

Pretty much everything else you listed is about trust, so I’d say that trust is a very big thing you value in a partner, and due to humans very long time they spend dependant on parents and our community survival strategy, trust is very much a trait that is selected for.

People that are untrustworthy are unattractive, a lot of kinks primarily build on top of publicly shameful acts in private, which is effectively the ultimate trust fall exercise.

Feeling like you can trust a partner with such acts is very very positively reinforced genetically, so it becomes sexually attractive.

In short: because humans live together and make complex communities, trust is important, which means getting kinky is very sexy as it signals deep rooted trust.

pixxelkick ,

This one is really interesting. Primarily speaking ants a good example of where this type of genetic expression is taken to its logical extreme.

It’s basically the “aunt” and “uncle” survival trait that shows up in communal creatures. Homosexuality shows up in creatures that both need to raise their young and stay together in herds. So humans of course very much satisfy this condition.

So how’s this relate to ants (and bees and termites too)?

In a colony, technically speaking everyone is the queens offspring, so everyone are siblings.

The queens aletes (prince and princess ants if you will) are only the queens offspring, all the drones dont sexually reproduce.

Yet, the drones all care for the offspring as if they are their own, that’s kinda weird from a survival standpoint right?

Well it’s simple, the drones are clones of the queen, so they also heavily share genetics with the offspring. From a genetic standpoint there’s no difference.

So if the drones take care of the offspring like their own, and the offspring go on to mate, then the drones genetics also propagate. They have a evolutionary pressure to raise the babies despite not having any of their own.

The same occurs for homosexuality. Human babies are a lot of work to take care of, and if you have a sibling you share a lot of genetics, then you have an evolutionary pressure to take care of your nephews and neices. It’s the “next best” option to propagating your own children. The genetic difference isn’t much worse.

So what ends up happening is you have an evolutionary benefit if a percent of your population is born homosexual, as they will help with raising their nieces and nephews, and it turns out this combo has a net higher survival rate than just everyone being hetero.

So over thousands of years we get this gradual pressure to settle on a sweet spot of some % of us being gay.

This is also a solid explanation for the “fifth brother” thing, where every son a mother has is exponentially more likely to be gay. We haven’t fully isolated what causes it (its prolly hormones) but it’s a well known occurring phenomina that the more older brothers you have, the more likely you are to be gay.

Based on the above supposition, it’d 100% make sense from an evolution standpoint for mothers to produce homosexual offspring if they have multiple healthy children, as after a certain point it makes sense strategy wise to have a couple gay uncles/aunts that naturally help their older siblings with childcare.

It’s just way way better for survival in nature if not everyone is pumping out babies, and a handful just aren’t into that but still take care of their family.

Basically it’s quality over quantity!

pixxelkick ,

a country known for its bad treatment of women

Making assumptions about someone/something based off its country of origin sounds pretty xenophobic to me.

The robot didn’t “grope” a woman, it moved its hand as an animitronic, and she was clearly standing right next to it during its animations.

The fact that was blatantly blown into “groping” abd the fact the article felt the need to repeat that it happened in Saudi repeatedly, over and over, should trip the xenophobia alarm.

Consider if it was an article about how an animitronic robot that moved and knocked a man’s wallet out of his hand because he walked to close past it. I.agine if articles turned that into “Jewish made robot tries to steal man’s wallet!” Unironically.

You’d probably look at that and go “yeah okay, that’s pretty fucked up, whyd the do that?” Right?

pixxelkick ,

“Even their robots mistreat women!”

Who is “they”?

What if you found out women in Saudi contributed to the creation of this robot?

What if the robot wasn’t even made by people from Saudi?

The fact you wrote “their”, summarizing an entire nation of people as being the same, is where the Xenophobia/racism kicks in.

“It’s just a joke bruh” is basically your defence.

I don’t get it, it’s not funny.

pixxelkick ,

I’m very well aware. It’s still fuckin racist and xenophobic to conflate a person standing too close to an animitronic with women being sexually assaulted.

The article is gross, and a lot of people “just joking” in the comments here are gross.

pixxelkick ,

Oh I love humor.

I just don’t find very thinly veiled racism funny.

pixxelkick ,

This lemmy in particular had been pretty rife with propaganda and factually falsified so I think I’m prolly just gonna block it soon.

People modding news related lemmies tend to have very specific biases one way or the other, and it’s common to ban people that don’t repeat the echo chamber.

I consider myself fairly liberal, but I also can do the math and tell when I’m being fed bullshit.

The constant deluge of “no one can afford anything” news is, imo, propaganda to disperse discontent.

The reality is that very specific clusters of areas don’t have enough housing built and it’s fucking prices up, combined with a lack of government intervention on a small handful of greedy individuals.

I mostly just assume people that claim “there’s nothing in my city affordable” are racist/picky and discarding tonnes of viable homes because they don’t wanna live in those communities, so those houses don’t count.

pixxelkick ,

Nice anecdata and all but

proceeds to provide their single anecdote

That sounds 100% like your property fits roughly into one of the groups I outlineded above then.

pixxelkick ,

if your rent is $2k a month and you net $25k a year you aren’t going to be able to save your way out of that hole.

Better just keep working the same job and renting the same place then, as we know those are absolutes that can’t possibly be changed to fix the problem.

Renting somewhere you can’t afford counts as bad budgeting.

Lower COL areas usually also have lower salaries

If only there was some way to live in one place, and work in another
 perhaps even several ways to do that
 oh well.

Seriously do people just never move, and stay in shitty jobs and settle with a shit hand?

I moved several times abd changed jobs several times in my 20s as I clawed my way out of poverty. You have to get cool with not staying tied down if you want to do well.

If a place fuckin sucks, sell your shit and move.

If your job sucks, get a better one.

If rent is insane, get roommates.

And if you struggle with getting a job, you either aren’t looking in the right places, you’ve set your standards too high, or you have some deeper rooted issue that’s red flagging your application.

Or you are struggling with systemic racism/sexism/classism/ableism in the domain which of course fuckin sucks, and that one doesn’t have as easy of a solution.

pixxelkick ,

I wonder if you’ll sing a different tune after the next rounds of tech layoffs.

I am completely unaffected by this, as I am not clinging to the hulls of sinking ships.

A perfect example of this is actually people who stayed in the same exurban area and work similar jobs to the generation before them. I have relatives that are teachers, and former neighbors who are teachers. Wanna guess which generation is barely making ends meet in a shitty little house and which is living fat and rich next to engineering and management neighbors?

Local internet denizen struggles to grasp that wealth is accrued over time, more news at 11.

If you keep comparing apples to oranges, you’ll never be happy.

Also, to flip it around, if you ask both if those households what budgeting tools they use, do you think you’ll get similar answers?

I’d strongly bet the the folks struggling will go “what do you mean”? And those doing well will go “We use x”

I’d also bet if you open the two households fridges and cupboards you’ll get extremely different results that help shed some light on the situation.

I have so many, so many friends my age that complain about money, then I visit their home abd see their fridge and I instantly think “oh, well, now I see why they are having issues
”

It’s become very difficult to not just assume it’s either budget issues, or a total lack of willing to change location/job. It’s pretty much always one of those two.

The times I’ve seen people complain about it, and then their car has a bunch of fast food wrappers in it is endless. It’s a plague.

And I don’t necessarily blame them. I blame the lack of support networks, schooling, etc, that didn’t teach them how to manage their lives. The wests’ school systems churn kids out like a factory.

It’s not impossible to claw your way out, but a lot if wealthy people 100% want you to think it is so you don’t even try.

Instilling apathy is such a powerful form of control and oppression. Why bother? You can’t do it. Give up. You’ll never afford things. Just keep buying random pick me ups off Amazon instead.

Reminder that the same wealthy individuals that control nearly every source of news and info you consume also are heavily invested in city infrastructure.

The news outlets you consume from have a vested interest in keeping you thinking clawing your way up and out is impossible

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