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- Comment on for future fireflies 39 minutes ago:
Ok? Yea dude, bugs exist. You’re gunna be ok. We survived just fine without windows or doors for how long but a single house centipede or spider shows and we’re like “not in MY house” like, brother chill.
- Comment on for future fireflies 40 minutes ago:
It still helps. And they might not travel far but they do travel so it’s good to have a destination.
The best part is that even if it doesn’t work the entire point is that you aren’t doing extra work. Literally just do nothing and at worst nothing will happen but at best you’ll start seeing more and more improvement, if slowly at first.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 44 minutes ago:
In Montréal all our major parks have washroom facilities and if they for some reason don’t there’s still gunna be a port-o-potty nearby. There should definitely be two near the beach but the point still stands that you can definitely have nice things, or at least something stopping the majority of public urination. And hell, I’m sure that we have issues with them here, too, but it’s a small price to pay to have a civilized city so whatever.
Longer term the city just needs to adopt any of the myriad studied ways homeless and poverty has been reduced in other places which will also reduce the danger to these things getting broken.
- Comment on Fight me 1 day ago:
I get that(enough, anyway, I just need to watch some videos on them to be honest) but it’s still super wild to say out loud.
- Comment on Fight me 1 day ago:
It’s always wild to me that 100% heating efficiency is actually kinda not great. Also the fact that we can use the heat from air that is colder than what we want in order to generate more heat I mean that’s just witchcraft.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 days ago:
Renting is important to have available but it absolutely does not need to be at the level its at. The amount of people paying for someone else’s investment while wishing they could own something of their own is crazy and it’s insane that we’ve normalized that. And all the while they’re just hoping nothing goes wrong because it seems like even the “good” landlords are hit-or-miss when it comes to getting them to do literally anything. Mine’s usually pretty good but right now there’s a fucking hole in the foundation and getting them to properly address it is a hurdle I shouldn’t have to go through. In order for these buildings to be profitable the tenants need to not only pay for those issues you mentioned but now they’re also paying for someone else’s salary AND in the end that person gets to sell the building and keep all that money, too.
The reason the housing market is fucked in the US and Canada is becauss there are very few rent controls and a lot of the power sides with the landlords. In Montréal you have to be worried about going taking them to court because future landlords can just look up if you’ve ever done anything and deny you a place to live even if the problem was your current landlord is dogshit. Oh, and there’s a new law that’s around landlords being able to use necessary renovations as excuses to raise your rent! They have all the power and it doesn’t matter if they’re big or small, it’s a “business” that attracts the kind of people who don’t mind making easy money off of making you pay for their stuff.
Your landlord(probably) isn’t going to let you hit it because you’re glazing them on Lemmy. Stand up for yourself and others, even if you got lucky with a landlord who is considered good because they don’t throw a hissy fit when you ask them to do their fucking job.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 week ago:
I don’t love pineapple on pizza, personally, but you’re ao right that this is just a pineapple hater thibking that the people who do love it would actually give a fuck like they do.
“I hate you and so you must hate me! Let’s hate this new thing together!”
“Umm…no I just think you’re weird and ignore you.”
- Comment on beans 🫘 3 weeks ago:
I’d die for a bean yaknowwhatI’msaying
Pythagoras what a weird dude.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 3 weeks ago:
Wait wait, they’re not even using cartons?! What the fuck?!
I switched to oat millk a long time ago for the vast majority of my consumption(cereal, mostly) because it keeps way longer than regular milk and, as a bonus, the packaging is at least trying to be better for the environment.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 3 weeks ago:
Being responsible off the chop would be nice. I just recently stopped buying a very popular brand of cookies because, for some fucking reason, they switched from cardboard to plastic packaging.
We’re constantly reacting to problems that we create(corporations, in this case) and it’s just getting so tiresome. We can just not do these things in the first place and we wouldn’t have nearly the same numeous, shitty problems we have right now.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
LA is a bottleneck if you assume every single line and dot is perfectly equal. If we’re already imaging a well built system then that green line would have a higher frequency of train to accommodate what you’re talking about and it’s station(s) would be large enough to handle the fact that it would absolutely be a major hub.
Efficiency is not always about perfection for every single trip. Cars(in a car-centric hellhole, at least) will take you from your driveway to your destination parking lot but they are vastly inferior to the overall efficiency of a metro that you walk five minutes to and is then five minutes from your destination. This is highspeed rail, there’s not much extra time being taken if you don’t go direct direct, it’ll be fine.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
I know readong is difficult, but I literally just said that it wouldn’t be any fun if we allowed for that level of globalization. Every single slice has a sushi restaurant somewhere, they all have burgers and mexican food somewhere.
I live in Montreal, my guy, I am well aware of what is available if we decided to complete ignore the entire premise of the post.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
You need to hit major centres to be efficient. You’re talking about the most efficient per station but most efficient per passenger is going to look different. This image doesn’t see too bad and can still have branching lines.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
It’s D and it’s not even a little close. I’d be sad to lose burritos and jerk chicken, and not be able to try more African food, but yea D 10000%, no regrets.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
The only way this map is any fun at all is culturally. I’m in Canada, and it’s great, but tortiere and poutine and simpler stuff(we’ll exclude a good portion of stuff that’s just modified foreign foods like North American style chinese food) just wouldn’t cut it. And hea there are foods from the indigineous population but sorry if pemican doesn’t get me going like Southeast Asian food.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 4 weeks ago:
“Oh my god having a lawn isn’t murder you’re being dramatic!” - some small-minded buffoon who doesn’t understand analogies.
They probably couldn’t even explain why they like it, and about the only truly valid reason that isn’t just social conditioning is “I like do yardwork” but then wouldn’t a big nice garden be 1000x bettee for that? Oh, right, you can’t just sit on a big lawnmower and pretend like you’re doing real work.
- Comment on Shh 4 weeks ago:
Ah, but you must see that recycling costs money! It’s cheaper to pretend you’re recycling and just throw it in the oceans and rivers and landscapes!
I hate it here. We even throw out online returns nearly 100% of the time for all it’s worth, it’s fucking crazy.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 4 weeks ago:
I hear ya. I imagine you’re in the States and I’m in Canada myself so we’re better but still feeling it up here.
Curious how living alone would reduce expenses, though.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 4 weeks ago:
Like what do I still need help for or what am I doing to build up my community?
For the first one there’s still plenty I can’t do yet. Like sewing for example, but it’s ok because I have a friend who can help me. We save money by me helping her with house things and she saved my expensive exercise pants from a hole in the knee and my work jeans from a couple holes and tears. Which transitions us into what I do for the community because I don’t always trade, either, and sometimes it’s just helping for the love of the game like woth moving. By myself, my ability to organize people and load up stuff in a moving truck is enough yo save people hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on movers. If people need tools or skills or whatever I’m there. I have a car, which is less common where I am, and my trans friend needed help moving food for the local march last year so I offered to help them with that.
We can’t be experts at everything and we certainly don’t have the time to do it all ourselves. I always try as much as I can but it’s ok to ask others for help and we need to foster that sense of community support. Your ideas are good but they really work best when we can all trust each other and use that trust to organize against the owner class that’s keeping us down in the first place. Money is a good way to handle a lot of transactions of varying scales like this, especially when we have a global world, but the way capitalism uses money is twisted and corrupt, and it removes our ability to care for and support each other. Local businesses thrive when people can pay them and places like Walmart thrive when they’ve choked out competition and driven wages so low that no one can be expected to spend money on local goods, thereby making the town/city/region/country weaker.
Build skills, share skills.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 5 weeks ago:
No man is an island. There’s only so much one can do on their own. I can do an awful lot on my own, but even much of that is because I’m learning from so many others. I’m fairly clever, curious, and confident enough to execute what I’m trying to do but I still need others.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 5 weeks ago:
We’re the same age. Maybe not in the same situation and I can appreciate that, but as far as time as concerned you’ve got a lot more life to live. I started learning mandolin a year and half ago and can play pretty competently at jams and stuff now. If it’s music you’re looking at, I’d encourage sitting at the piano with a song you like and playing along with it. It doesn’t need to be an expert rendition or any, and honestly a lot of people actually forget that messing around is still practice. You got a lot of time, our lives have barely even started my dude, it just can feel weird since of our nearly thirty years we were kinda just going through the motions of going to school and stuff, not having a lot of personal control, etc… In reality we’ve barely have probably 8-10 years to do much about anything and we should have many decades ahead of us, each also able to build off the last in ways that the “first” decade could only dream of.
And yea, as far as this “mission” goes those are great values and ones I stand up loudly for regularly. Not sure what they have to do with this thread or your original comment or anything but yea. Self-sufficient is also a fine idea, but I would aim to also make communities self-sufficient. The owner class doesn’t really have skills, just money, but we all have knowledge and tools and ability. I spend a lot of time helping my friends fix their homes and cars and stuff(and teaching them that they can do it, too) and if someone needs to be moved I’m the guy to call. Building resilient, connect communities will go a super long way to reach the goals you’re after.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 5 weeks ago:
How old are you? You can learn an instrument at any age, my dad learned how to make pastries in his late forties, and there are so many other fun skills and hobbies you can develop pretty easily. You may have missed stuff but you’re still alive and that means you are the one in control of what you are actively doing or not doing right now. Drowning yourself in self-pity isn’t going to do anyone any favours. You can look back at what you missed for the next 30-40 years or you can forward to what you can get done in that time.
I’d also love to know what this “mission” is and I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with being mad at women and has more to do with shit like worker protections and wealth equality such that people can live their lives to the fullest.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but even people who don’t go online much, even people I actually do care about in my own life, still fall into that category. The people I care about tend to be much nicer and wouldn’t call someone a hag but they do lack a certain level of maturity. Green-text makes it near certain but it’s a “not all rectangles are squares” situation.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 5 weeks ago:
Nothing but your missed life? You can live a lot of life without a romantic partner, as much I very much understand it can still feel lonely at times.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 5 weeks ago:
A friend of friend I’ve met a couple times is into me. They’re 23 and I’m 30 and I still don’t have an interest. They’re perfectly nice, but…
I think after 28-30 it starts to really not matter that much but before that even smallish gaps can be pretty questionable. And any dude that would consider someone their age to be a “hag” probably largely dates younger because mature, experienced women can tell they’re really just garbage man-children.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 5 weeks ago:
They care because people that haven’t bought it should know that these issues don’t seem to be getting better. They should know that their money would be going to that asshole’s pockets. This shit matters and you wanting to plug your ears to discomfort doesn’t change that.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 5 weeks ago:
A big reason why that’s important, as long as it’s done with care, is because conservatives rely on the rhetoric that purely white, conservative communities would be without crime. This kid grew up in a prime setting to show how amazing their way of life is without any “evil leftist” influences and yet here we are. The US has been given every opportunity to show how great theocratic conservative capitalism is and yet it keeps failing because the reality is that it fucking sucks rocks.
- Comment on Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI 5 weeks ago:
The wage problems are that people aren’t paid enough. AI aims to solve the “my billions still aren’t enough” problem that these lunatics have.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
As I understand it, BL3 didn’t use the same writers as BL2. The DLC for BL3 did, though, which is why it’s of a very high quality. BL1-2 are some of my favourite games and as someone who doesn’t replay/reread/rewatch I’ve replayed those games a lot, but Pitchford was a huge douche about BL4 and its pricing so I decided hey, I’ll solve that problem by just not buying it.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
If you take only that part of my comment, sure. Try reading the rest of it.