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*lose, not loose

That’s a C- see me after class. Otherwise nice troll.

My life is pretty good. I enjoy myself more often than I don’t, have plenty of hobbies and love learning about the world. I love myself, truly.

I also believe in agency and doing the best you can to reach for what you want.

However - you are wrong.

You cannot just “quit a job”. If you are fortunate enough to not have your entire life tied to your employment via a visa sponsorship in effective slave labour, that still means a job search in an ever-shrinking job market where increasingly peasants don’t matter as employees not even as consumers as demand and thus supply - shifts towards the ultra rich.

Un(der)mployment is in reality - sky high and most people can’t afford necessities as is, nevermind savings, and if they can, it sure as shit doesn’t make sense to spend a rainy day fund on months of job searching for no reason other than you don’t like your current role in the ever-more-remote hope that you’ll find something better

It’s not impossible of course, but it ain’t an easy decision to make by any means, the hesitation is understandable.

Similarly moving out of the slums is not possible for most due to a housing market that prices out residents and carers towards buy-to-let investors (landleeches) and private equity portfolio builders - there are now more private equity companies in the US than there are McDonald’s, it doesn’t take being an Einstein to see what kind of dark future we’re headed for.

I understand your frustration though and I feel similarly sometimes when people seemingly refuse to make choices that I do - e.g. quitting corpo social media, quitting algorithmic feeds, quitting using corpo products, consooming less corpo junk media, etc. etc.

Like it’s almost existential to me in terms of crisis how anyone could fall for misinformation about a topic you even remotely think about ever when you have the world’s information at your fingertips democratised for you right there, easily indexable and searchable for free, all you need is intellectual honesty and you can learn something at least in the ballpark of accurate truth about literally anything in under an hour at most, yet people don’t.

As a Marxist, I can at least somewhat understand like someone being a homeless fentanyl addict who stabs people in the alley due to economic circumstances out of their control that led them down a terrible path of crime and misery, even terrible as the things they do are - they’re worthy of compassion, and they deserve better, we all do.

But I cannot understand how one could ever be misinformed on anything they even remotely choose to hold an opinion on. Information is literally free as in free beer in most cases.

It’s very easy to say then, “I am super smart, others are not, that’s why I do the right things”, but I’m not satisfied with that explanation, it’s too self-serving and I just don’t buy that I’m anything like that.

There is another explanation - more or less, people are the same, they vary in priorities, but largely are some degree of rational, if chaotic actors that navigate the same systems you do from different starting positions.

Even when the actions seem absurd to you - there are reasons people do the things they do, the gambler and the porch parcel thief aren’t a different species of being from you, they navigate the same systems you do, but from different positions.

Assume they are the same as you, put yourself in their shoes, and think about what could make you do what they do, and it starts to add up, you can simulate the path of another by navigating through the systems of our society from their perspective and starting point.

This sort of systematic analysis is not easy, but it can get at things we can actually affect, the system is necessary, but not natural. The world was built this way, and just the same it can be built differently.

So, perhaps instead of virtue signaling yourself and your own assumed superiority by pointing out how you made good choices and other people make bad choices like some sort of slave mentality moral Christian who divides everyone into those who go to Heaven and those who go to Hell - you can ask, you can research, and think hard, because there are definitely reasons one can’t always follow your suggested actions, even if those reasons are also not an excuse to sit still and do nothing, either.

Anyway you are also an obvious troll and “magical hitachi wand” sounds like an alt of yours.

But I’m leaving this up just in case someone thinks this unironically.

Almost every home I’ve been to in the UK from the Southeast, Southwest, London and the Midlands needs serious repairs/rebuild and has problems with the plumbing, with mold, damp, ventilation, noise and heat insulation and many more.

For a sec I thought the pic was of a landleech shithole I rented in Surrey for a few years, a 1-bed at £975pcm in 2022, cheapest money could get at only slightly over half my monthly income, still jacked to £1100 by 2023, black mold everywhere, collapsing bathroom, failed boiler etc. Place was cold as fuck and you could talk to the neighbours through the wall/floor, drove me nuts, that Victorian mcmansion. It needs to be demolished and a nice high rise flat tower block should be built.

Now I live in such a block, a much nicer place built in 2019 in the Midlands. Rent is the same, but way more space, keeps in heat better, minimal noise pollution and the surrounding area is much nicer. Had to pony up for the furniture, but I had enough saved up that I could afford expensive shit like IKEA that lasts more than the usual Amazon special desk/chair/bed.

Grateful it happened 2-5PM so I could fuck off of work. God bless. Hopefully we also get a juicy post-mortem from this nothingburger explaining the BGP fuckery on display.

That’s fair enough. No idea why you linked the other sources though, that’s not really relevant to the topic at hand, though obviously horrible.

What jobs? Britain doesn’t make anything.

All our working age people are rotting at home, on the streets or mooching off the ever-shrinking welfare, and all our job listings are fake.

Our government exists to sell the country off to palantir.

Least we could do is have less fucking gasoline in the air without funding that twitter apartheid guy, but no, nevermind all that, not even shitty paternalistic cuntservative countries can sell us stuff, we don’t want more things or better things, we can’t build a hole in the ground and fill it with water, we can’t build a road nevermind repair one or lay down some rail tracks, we can’t buy cars, no no no - we’re British, thank you, we want to have it the worst possible, no less will do.

Let’s rot and instead give billions more to the elderly, like France where they’re now making more monthly than workers who pay taxes to fund pensions and care for the elderly they’ll never themselves see, in exchange for the privilege of paying old people’s mortgages, so the elderly can use their infinite wealth and free time to champion for noble causes like racism, transphobia, corruption and voting for the worst option possible in every election without fail.

Idk, I don’t agree. I think in many ways actually online is a lot less brainrot.

Online I can block ads. IRL I cannot.

Online I can block morons. IRL I cannot.

Online I can choose pretty freely what to do and when and with whom and why.

IRL depends a lot more on what’s available locally and transport options.

Online I can connect with people across the globe, massively increasing the likelihood of finding friends due to higher overall population meaning more people who are into the same stuff I am.

IRL I’m limited to the smallest fraction of a fraction of people who are coincidentally local and also happen to have things I have in common with, and id also need to meet them somehow, which is about negligible odds.

Online my options for research are practically unlimited, I can see and evaluate multiple perspectives and check the sources easily.

IRL not so, and for news I’m largely limited to propaganda from MSM billionaire outlets.

Online I am safe from physical violence and threats, I’m free to speak my mind and voice my beliefs, IRL - not so much.

I think the internet is good, actually, and if it hasn’t had a good impact on you, I’m sorry, but that’s a skill issue.

Stop using anything with algorithmic feeds for a start. So no Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, etc etc.

For YouTube - turn off watch history in your account settings. It turns off the home page. Bookmark the subscriptions page and use that and only that so you’re only watching channels you’re subscribed to. I also use ublock to turn off the comments and the suggested bar on the side. I’ve never used the app and I don’t watch videos on my phone.

You can also set an app timer for your Lemmy client, I’ve done it for Jerboa in the past and while it didn’t really work for me, it’s something that may work for you.

With local media that’s a really good idea you got going.

You do need to replace the stuff rather than leave a vacuum, so this would be a good time to pick up a new hobby or get back to an old one, something nice, chill and fairly passive so you don’t feel you’re too exhausted to do it after work, in the same way you’d scroll sm passively.

I may not agree on the whole divorcing from screens thing as IRL really is just a different type of brainrot IMO and an even more biased self selecting echochamber, but I do think divorcing from big tech is a good thing because fuck corpos and regardless I wish you luck!

It means hypothetically, in the abstract - if you got your lifetime earnings as a lump sum in one day it still wouldn’t be enough to get rich which shows how little wage labour pays compared to ways the rich make money e.g. assets

Can’t build on dirt, can’t demolish old Victorian mcmansions, can’t build high because of the skyline boomers, can’t build infrastructure because budgets are drained by endless consultancies to funnel money to the private sector etc etc.

Nation of nothing.

In the 60s the UK built the entire city of Milton Keynes with all its endless cycle highways and incredibly walkable design for less than 1/4th the cost of the HS2 thus far and we have literally not built any of it yet even.

As long as he isn’t also sporting the Death in June merch

Thank you so much! This valuable info needs to be signal boosted for sure

How? Yes they are being nationalized.

I knew about him vaguely just from staying in the loop with politics casually since 2016 or so. But I haven’t heard of him in a long time.

If you listen to them speak for more than a minute I wouldn’t be surprised if one in three or them aren’t even a doctor either

In the west - yeah? Obviously third worlders also believe in various miracle healers and televangelist preachers and such, but those countries too have scientific minds and communities and bodies that practice evidence-based, aka “western” modern medicine.

Yes. Absolutely. I would happily pay more tax for this. 1% is a very tiny amount.

The trains in this country are shockingly abysmal and they cost an arm and a leg, despite being the absolute basic requirement for a functional modern economy.

As someone only on basic rate of tax and fairly low income struggling to make ends meet, I would still happily pay taxes for this, both in addition and especially instead of the BBC for it to spew far right hatred or endless consultantocracies and other assorted privatized money funnels like what’s become of the NHS (especially GPs), alongside council, DWP and TV loicence enforcement goons with their endless investigations, cutting triple lock, cutting winter fuel allowance and other ways boomers drain the economy.

I think there are better ways though - like taxing the top 1%, much higher carbon/road/infrastructure taxes on car people (only fair because of their increased personal pollution, infrastructure use, space occupation and damage to the environment and people).

Even this 1% tax doesn’t need to be flat, it can be scaled with income brackets, with each step being another extra 1%, as long as the math checks out.

Even moreso - Land value tax, and shifting council tax to property owners instead of tenants/residents and second home tax and property for investment tax, ramping it up to as high as it’ll go to fund property buybacks for councils, then charging rents without profit margins baked in to make trains more affordable.

But if it’s what it takes to get anything done in the current political climate dominated by the far-right, tributes to some random pro-gun grifter influencer being shot in another country flooded with guns and Sir seat warmer as PM cowtowing to the demands of pub-dwelling gammon flagshaggers, sell-your-govt-to-palantir-as-an-ideology party of ReformUK, Farage and his oligarch sponsors from the Kremlin to the White House and other various dodgy American govcorp and MIC-adjacent glowing lobby groups then that would have to be it.

G7 Economy everyone.

Yeah, but with Farage as PM I do wonder how much longer the current devolution arrangement will even last for.