matlag

@matlag@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s still possible. Corps should be banned from buying housing units. People who buy @ore than one should be taxed with an increasing rate for each additional unit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, YMMV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now, the folks keeping an empty unit for speculation can afford to keep it empty.

  When the less wealthy investors who need to pay a mortgage for their micro-estate empire of 3 units realize the demand is fading, they’ll be forced into lowering rental cost and maybe even selling.

  China has seen a ginormous housing value appreciation over decades. The population is shrinking and the correction is happening. It is brutal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is “we”? People listened to a bench of folks telling them how great it is that their home value will appreciate.

  Most of them owning 1, that didn’t benefit them at all: you sell to buy another one that appreciated just the same, but they were happy to be told about their wealth magically increasing exponentially, punching way above their weight.

  A few owned more than 1 and think of themselves genius and wise investors as they made quite some money.

  The people who told these stories owned legions of them, or built more thanks to large capital availability, their wealth considerably increased, and they laughed at the commoners who were --once again-- fooled.

  The younger generation now pay the price of this deception as they’ve been driven out of the market, and the same people who told stories yesterday suck them dry through ridiculous renting prices now. A lot of the young have 0 chance to ever own a home in these conditions, they’re giving up on home, on having children (multiple factors here), and with that, they also give the middle finger to hard work (when they can…) as they know too well they’ll never be rewarded for it. But no worry: inflation going faster than wages will force them into hard work just to barely survive, and eventually they’ll be enslaved by their debt.

  And the same people who were fooled about the benefit of house value insane appreciation now scold them about “how hard they were working at their age”.

  And the same people who told all of the stories look at them fighting among generations and laugh even more while drinking Champagne: their financial future looks brighter than ever!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great step you’re making towards the realization that you’ve been lied to for decades about how great the US (and a bench of other western countries) are really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨greeting a CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are not a racial, religious or cultural minority. They can absolutely change their “group” anytime they wish.
  They are people who continuously decide to harm others for their own benefit, and at their stage, the only benefit they can imagine is hoarding more and more wealth and use it to get more and more power.

  And power they have, and they use against the rest of people.

  No one became fascist by dehumanizing the fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨greeting a CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People shoulosd never come down to such threats, say the guys who totally ignore non-violent opposition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to move a sofa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it not what anarchy is really about? Low-level self organization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great! Now AI is going to hallucinate products and if you don’t pay attention, you’ll be overcharged. Since it’s “self-checkout”, I bet they’ll claim it’s totally your responsibility to make sure you’re not ripped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the US. The race for the biggest profit has hit its limits on the best value front. Now it’s pretty much all on deception and enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… I’ve read the opposite about margins: grocery store chains centralize purchasing so that they have a huge leverage on manufacturers.

  For NY in particular, they shouldn’t be able to raise their price easily as the city will have its city-owned stores to compete with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure! Looking forward to finally see one of these good guys!

  Anyone ever saw one??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Babe you hardly touch your anti-hunger protein loaf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, I had to do a search to figure what an “anti-hunger protein loaf” was.

  A mix of white eggs, ground meat and oats??

  Now I’m absolutely convinced such horrors should not be made in this world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you Whatsapp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he’s friend with the agents. And based on what he said the demand is higher than the offer, so if he says “swap tool or lose me!”, the answer is “Bye and good luck!”.

  “Drop WhatsApp like I did” is the new “It works on my machine” that we could read almost systematically on PC technical forums a few decades ago to whatever problem anyone was reporting: we’re all glad it works for you. It doesn’t help OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you Whatsapp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You never got abused by “people like me”. I was on the side anti-Meta and others.

  So no, I don’t owe you shit, and sorry to say that, but you taking on the OP makes you just what kind of person? You didn’t care about how he got in this situation. You don’t care if I was or not one who “abused you”. You just decided to lash out at people randomly.

  I wish you to get better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can't keep tying healthcare to employment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not both? Let’s put the mamoth on diet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you Whatsapp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep! That’s why net neutrality is so important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you Whatsapp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, let me make sure I got that right: you tried to convince people WhatsApp was bad. You obviously failed.

  Will you take responsibility for your failure?

  No?

  So why should the OP do?? Do you have any clue about him promoting WA? For what we know, he could also have been one advocating for alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can't keep tying healthcare to employment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately not. When you’re over-rich, you stop getting income. Not kidding: check these folks, they have no or very low incomes.

  They have wealth. An unfathomable wealth.

  None of their expensive assets are under their names. They’re under shell companies names. When you claim to pe working all the time, any time of your yacht is working, right?

  Then there are the expenses they can’t put on corporate accounts.

  For that, they borrow money, at ridiculously low rates because they put a portion of their wealth as a caution.
  When they need more money, their wealth has increased so much just because of economic growth that they can borrow more money just putting the wealth increase as a caution, and that’s enough!
  Banks are happy with these arrangements because their immense wealth management make them money.

  Full payment back of these loan will be done upon their death.

  Taxing their income is pointless. You need to tax their wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There was pretty much nowhere else he would have been safe from being extradited to the US, if not immediately, then as a political bargain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re both correct. There was a lot of changes after him thanks to him. But majority of people still don’t give a shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they reach the ocean where they account for 0.2% (-ish?) of the plastic out there, 50% of the plastic in the ocean is fishing equipment (nets, etc.) for which we did… absolutely nothing.

  And no, I’m not advocating in favor of plastic straws. I wish the rules worldwide would have been to make cups and straws mandatory complementary fees. Everyone would bring their own re-usable cups. Then onto disposable cutlery, etc. We managed to ban plastic bags at supermarkets, sure we could get a habit of carrying cups.

  Because at the end, the better solution is not to recycle wastes, it’s to stop producing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope they'll make it more contagious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only wonder how long she had to practice to say it so naturally!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve seen that trend for decades already. Neo-liberalism was all about trickling up wealth created by work.

  But you see that in all advanced economies: commoners budget are tighter and tighter as cost of life increase faster than wages. That’s the expected outcome of neo-liberalism.

  Now politicians pretend the housing crisis is an anomaly and car makers wonder why sales are slowing down. AI is bad, but it only accelerates and amplifies what was already happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Of course it can’t happen to me! It only happens to my idiot users, and I am not an idiot!” [expense blows out of control] “We’re going to have to let go more people for budget reasons. You see people use tokens, and tokens are expensive! We’ll have less people who will use more AI to replace them, I was told the last version improves further productivity!”

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like the Epstein billionaires class saw 1984 and thought it was a model for governance, they saw Matrix and thought it was an awesome way to run people’s lives. Of course, they take the role of the central computer while chips in our brains make us happy to obediently serve them.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And don’t forget all the suppliers of the other parts that don’t have any business with datacenters: motherboards makers (not sure they got anything), case makers, power supply makers, peripherals makers, etc.

  All of the ecosystem could go down if the bubble lasts long enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US? You mean other than keeping the shittiest health care system in the world just to be sure no money would go to someone who can’t pay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re wrong and I am going to harass you until you change your mind to prove it!!

  Oh, wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonder why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I lived in China for 6 years. I experienced smogs dense enough you couldn’t see a building 10m away.

  I’ve been travelling to Shanghai on several occasions and went there again last year.

  The improvement now vs 10years ago is dramatic! I’m not saying it’s all fine, but I will say this: now I live in Canada (Québec) and forest fires make the air here worse than what it is in Shanghai on a regular basis.