A frozen chicken patty covered in cheese and sauce is not exactly what I'd call nutritious.
StereoTrespasser
joined 1 year ago
I love Obsidian on the desktop but I find the mobile version really hard to use. It just never responds the way I want it to and I can't be bothered to set up all my plugins again.
This is spot on. The article misses the mark by blaming it on a generational shift, but it really is enshitification and the pursuit of profit over people.
It used to be common to attend weddings where the couple met online. We have several friends and relatives that met on Match years ago and who are still happily married.
Now I hear from friends that dating apps are god-awful if you're looking for a meaningful relationship with someone. These apps exist only to appease their shareholders by squeezing money out of people.
“People say it’s three hours, but come on, you can sit in front of the TV and watch something for five hours,”
Uh, no Marty, not all of us. I watch movies in 20-minute chunks, just long enough for me to wolf down lunch. Your deep, epic artistic expression is my bite-sized chunk of trivial entertainment split across 10 days.
This will turn into a car versus bikers thread unfortunately. But from my experience, commuting by bicycle has been one of the best decisions I've made.
I started out in the suburbs, commuting by car 50 minutes each way. Over the years I kept moving closer and closer to the city and my job...which is pretty much the opposite of what Americans tend to do. Eventually I ditched the car commute for public transit, and finally ditched public transit for a bike.
Being in a car sucks. You are isolated, stuck in a behemoth monster of a machine in a sea of other machines. Your isolation makes you feel anonymous, and anonymity gives you the freedom to seethe and yell at other drivers who dare to go slower than you, faster than you, or God forbid, try to get in front of you.
On a bike you are out in the open, feeling the weather and the wind and the change of seasons and daylight. You interact with people way more, and on much friendlier terms...after all, you're no longer protected behind your locked metal box. You actually have to act like a normal, decent human.
Now yes, there are the Lycra ads-on-butts boys that pretend they're in a race, but jerks abound everywhere in every activity.
I can guarantee you they are not monitoring 30-message Lemmy posts on something that happened weeks ago for damage control. I'm sorry to say that your personal opinion is not that important.
Yes, the zipper method is much more efficient than a single line of cars 2 miles long before a lane closure.
LPT: don't take it personally when someone needs to merge.
I like how everyone is just ignoring this part:
However, Ctesias's credibility is questionable due to his reputation for fanciful and exaggerated narratives.
Also chiming in for the same reason...adopt a rescue, or better yet, adopt siblings from a rescued litter.
Dude probably has 537 closets nailed to the side of his house so he can justify owning his mall crawler.
Repeat after me: it's okay to rent. Equity is not everything.
The downvotes are really depressing. My point is that we've been conditioned in America to focus solely on homeownership. The banks, title companies, realtors, and home contractors tout it as the American dream. No matter the personal cost--the down payment, the interest, the insurance, the maintenance--and no matter what negative externalities--sprawl, inefficient heating and cooling, increased infrastructure, car pollution, divorce and obesity from commuting--you must buy a house.
I get it. If your overriding concern in life is to maximize investment, then by all means pour your cash into a house.