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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Farms use more water than Al data centers" OK, I'll go without Al and you can go without food and we'll see who lasts longer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We can shut down 90% of datacenters today, suffer a slight inconvinience to our lives and keep living.

  We have a farm failure…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations. Through you, we found the exception to the rule. Thank you.

  Meanwhile, in my own country, what I replied is completely true and do I wish it wasn’t.

  I had my grandmother in an elderly care facility, unfortunately, and I can tell you with no unease the floor workers are paid the minimum wage; if they work the night shift, they get a small increment, usually around 10%, to the base salary. While the board of directors, most of which have no true in the day to day working of the institution, earn at least double that pay, with the director of the institution earning above €3500, for a six hours day of work.

  Meanwhile, on the childcare front, I have three separate institutions preying on the local public daycare, which is completely free, charging a rate based on the income of the couples or parents putting their children there, ranging from €60 to more than €200, not including transportation, which alone can be anywhere from €40 to more than €100. A couple earning both parents minimum wage can end up paying more than €300 per month. And the institution gets a stipend for each children from the state.

  Although most of these institutions are non profits on paper, workers are paid minimal wage, by default, while directors get lavish pays and service vehicles, replaced yearly, while the other vehicles are run until the wheels fall off.

  So, again, thank you. You showed the exception to the rule. And I am glad it exists. But it should be the rule, not the exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And that is why child and elderly care should never leave the public domain.

  These are essential services nowadays; the wide family support that once existed is crumbling.

  Private companies do not care. The company exists to make money and generate profit, at any cost.

  If the accounting of one single entity was made public, it would be horrendous to read. The profit margins are huge, the salary gap between floor personel and executives gargantuan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an introvert⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can feel this to an uncomfortable level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That might be correct in some places but not where I live.

  Recurring taxes on property are calculated with the age of houses taken into consideration. This means the property value for taxation actually decreases over time, unless a given area undergoes through a serious development effort that forces property value up. This can reach such extreme cases that it is possible to get away with remodelling a house - as in a single standing building - completely, fully modernize it, and still keep its property value untouched, unless swimming pools and other value increasing additions are put in.

  Property value and commercial value are separate and independent concepts. A property appraised for taxation in 100€ can sell for 100 times that value. There will be sale fees taxes applied to the transactions itself, for the buyer, and the seller may have to pay income taxes on the sale, but there are way to skirt most of these.

  And then there are rents.

  I pay more taxes on my work than a person for the rent they receive by renting property. It used to be a flat rate of 28%, equal to deposit interest and other values, but then someone said if the taxation on rents was to go down, the rents would go down and more home would come into the market. Except it did not happen and instead rent shot up and opaque companies started buying homes to rent from people that could not be bothered to manage what they have and pay their taxes on a yearly basis.

  Everyone loses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, has age verification really become the new normal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used Aurora for a while and noticed several applications were unavailble, returned download error or if installed would invoke a google account login to run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, has age verification really become the new normal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Age restriction still applies and NewPipe can no longer circumvent it. Restricted videos get flagged as such and will not play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That does not sound bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really want to see if the requirements for new games will go down or continue rising.