Bazzatron

I think I have this exact image on an external hard drive somewhere. I need to fish that out for delicious Lemmy karma haha

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Holding on to my account until Reddit completes my GDPR "right to erasure" request, I check back in periodically just to get my mail and make sure the mods I've left behind don't need anything from me before I fizzle out of existence.

If it's always $350 a month, just let the debt ride.

Over 6 years, $350 in year 1 is worth more than $350 in year 6 thanks to inflation (350$ in 2017 would be able to buy you $435 worth of goods or services today). If you have $12.5k sitting around - Invest that into something stable, collect the interest and just keep paying off the loan slowly because that's the cheapest way to do it (unless we end up with negative inflation in the next 3 years - which seems unlikely, but who knows??)

Cars tend to be financial liabilities, depreciation on a new car is just tremendous - next time just get a beater with working AC for as little as possible, do your maintenance and run it into the ground.

Honestly - I can't see any way but this.

If those jobs no longer pay enough to survive, nobody will take them on, and the capitalist will have to adapt or die.

This is something the government should be protecting workers against, but people are so scared to even unionise, it's tragic.

Ahh, more reasons for people to leave teaching.

Honestly, I think the only teachers I know that are still teachers today is because they're under the thumb of this system - specialised training that isn't much use elsewhere, so they have to stay and continue to work in increasingly impoverished conditions.

Any teachers reading this - I'm sorry for what you have to go through, and even as a childless individual, I am greatful for the sacrifices you're making to ensure the future of our society.

Agreed, at least in principle - but your statement is so reductive it really could be said about anything.

It's so hard to motivate people to vote, people are exhausted and finding ten minutes in the day to feel good about oneself, much less performing a (seemingly futile, thanks to those poisonous ideas you've mentioned) civic duty is bordering on impossible. When 1 in 15 people in the UK need drugs just to keep their desire to live one more day in check - and a good chunk of the remaining population from that statistic are barely holding on - fighting the futility for someone else is an insurmountable goal.

I don't know if we can afford to wait for climate to get worse for people to take action. People are dying preventable deaths, if it weren't for the very evident effects of man made climate change being politicised or obfuscated, maybe it'd be just a warm Summer in Europe right now.

How long can we wait for a peaceful solution to form?

If we don't wait - how many heads would we need on pikes next to Mortimer Buckley or Larry Fink before we start seeing positive change? When would be the tipping point for the guillotine to become the most ethical solution?

Sorry, I'm rambling. I just feel so hopeless sometimes, and putting a X in a box 2 or 3 times a decade doesn't do anything to make me feel like we're making progress...!

Sweet ride, looks like the radwagon - dare I ask what it set you back?

Separated only by expressing it.

Companies with an advertising budget larger than all the currency that will come through me in a lifetime, especially as they're all owned by more or less the same parent corporations totally eliminating competition or variance, don't need my voice.

Gender Abolitionism/Accelerationism ✊😤

The team that invented blue LEDs won a nobel prize.

Now every fucking item in my room has a beacon that would put the eye of fucking Sauron to shame.

100% agree with you, and have started destroying LEDs where possible.

Same, but the one sub is my profile to delete whatever decides to show up on that day...! Sucks not being able to control your own data easily - but I understand why they'd engineer it this way.