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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • If you want services and products to compete with private offerings you need talented and competent people who could otherwise work in a for profit business and get a typical salary for that position.

    Unfortunately 340k is basically upper middle class household in coastal cities. Mozilla HQ is in Mountain View, the heart of Silicon Valley.

    Try buying even a fixer upper is the South Bay and raising two kids on less 300k in Silicon Valley. I’m making close to 200k in the Bay Area and feel like I have no money for extras like home improvements, no kids, 20 year old car, travel on a tight budget once a year for a week or so, and still behind on my retirement goals.

    Rent is like 5k for a studio. Mortgage is like 8-9k for after taxes and interest for a fixer upper. Feels like having a semi nice house and a couple kids in decent school is for people making 600k+ per household.





  • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlQuack makes a Swift escape
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    5 months ago

    When she’s on tour, the jet when she’s touring on serves the entertainment of lots of people, not just her. In the same way a venue does. When divided among lots of people it’s meaningless fraction of the transportation of the audience.

    I also think worrying about a few people is a way to discredit climate change concerns.

    Regulations and investing in better energy sources are what matters. I don’t give a fuck about a few rich fucks with yachts and airplanes. I care about policy and how society distributes resources and energy.

    All aviation accounts for less than 2% of emissions. Private jets are a tiny fraction of that. But now we’re talking about that instead of the actual issue. This serves climate change deniers. This serves the Republican agenda, and the pertrol agenda. You’re doing that right now.








  • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.workstoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon plays GTA V
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    6 months ago

    The thing that makes gta and many sandbox games less enjoyable for me is that there is almost no unprompted interaction with the map. GTA makes you start a (side)mission or whatever for everything.

    Zelda was the exact opposite and that’s why it was such an exceptional open world game. I wish rockstar would take note.



  • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlOh No, anyway
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    7 months ago

    “Climate change exists”

    “Religion shouldn’t allow governments to prevent basic healthcare needs”

    “January 6 was a failed insurrection”

    These are the things that the right calls indoctrination.

    And the hard left calls not important enough to bother voting.