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crispix posted:i've seen people get into financial holes because instead of getting a car they can afford they got something on hire purchase to be seen in The way car industry is evolving is a bunch of factors that's having the end result of pricing newer cars out of the reach or ordinary people, or without taking on crippling amounts of debt. If I focus on a single example, take modern led lamps, studies show they cost on average around 1500€ to replace and last on average 15 years, that is 150€ per year if it lasts that long. I pointed this out and someone countered with that most people would be new owners so it doesn't matter (yeah gently caress 2nd or 3rd hand owners) and if it broke they would have insurance replace it so increased costs on lamp replacement doesn't really matter. But you think the insurance companies will just take that lying down? They will get that money back by increasing rates. Which affects even you with a very old car using halogen bulbs you can replace at home for a few euros / pounds. This is to me just one of many, many ways that rich(er) people stuff poor people just by living their lives as normal people (for their income bracket). Society seems designed to increase the gap between the rich and poor in every single aspect.
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Mar 5, 2024 11:48
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Personally the more modern a car gets the less it interests me. I actively dislike new cars now. Their development path is to me the perfect example of capitalism acting to make the product worse. See the LED example for a narrow slice of what I dislike. Not that I think LED technology is bad, but like most other technologies it gets implemented in a way as to gently caress people over. It's technically possible to standardize LED lamps to make them user serviceable, if you wanted to. But why? You make less money that way and it would restrict how crazy rear end looking you could make them too.
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Mar 5, 2024 12:09
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Hard to summon sympathy though, where I hang out I get exposed to a lot of the swedish suburban middle class person and I deeply loathe them and their well off (and wasteful) lives.
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Mar 5, 2024 14:12
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xtothez posted:"Vimes' LED headlights" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, sadly Also, I meant 100€ not 150€, but still a new H4 halogen is 3 euros.
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Mar 5, 2024 15:02
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forkboy84 posted:Are you sure it isn't the Swedish you hate & not the middle class? Yeah I'm pretty sure, I also hate the finnish middle class, basically anyone more well off than me.
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Mar 5, 2024 15:56
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You don't a loving SUV if you have kids. I have kids and I don't have a loving SUV and I am far more car dependant than most people aside from americans in this thread. My newest car is from 2007. It loving works. And the safety poo poo bugs me too, we run the cars we can afford even if we have kids. Ban SUVs instead and make large cars too expensive for most to own, that'd be safer for all the people not affording new SUVs and who don't want to participate in this loving arms race of cars. loving new cars. Your SUV makes my family less safe. You should go. Not I. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 16:37
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I listened to the Mark & Carrie podcast last night. For those who don't know, Mark Blyth is the guy who wrote some pretty breaking stuff on austerity and the greek crisis and other stuff, as economists goes he's pretty left-ish. Anyway he does mention here how Labour winning with Starmer is set to be the largest wasted opportunity ever, since it looks like a labour majority and they're just gonna go welp we can't do nuthin, no magic money tree. But apparently there are ways to get lots more money and they're just giving money to the banks right now, around 23:30 britain talk starts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZTdVReQEFI
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Mar 6, 2024 07:02
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Tesseraction posted:not-quite-empty vodka bottles aren't the same thing m8 Next to my parents house, is, the dilapidated farm of a local character who people still talk about today (he died in the 60s) and in that outhouse was a bunch of porn mags stashed in a loft, there was also a huge old yank car.
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Mar 8, 2024 08:43
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Oxford baby
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Mar 8, 2024 11:40
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OwlFancier posted:Acoustic modems are hilarious. As a last ditch attempt to see if it was worth keeping our FAX number at work I tried getting some life into a 90s era US robotics modem with the idea of using that to receive faxes, but it just didn't want to work properly. So we got rid of the fax entirely and honestly never needed it in over a decade. I used to have an office room full of 90s and even late 80s stuff and old computers and poo poo. Until a few years ago when 99% of things got cleaned out. Too bad I really liked the old computers for components. Built a powersupply from one of the PSUs. I did save a t on of stuff like Corel Draw boxes, Win 95 UPGRADE box, Netware 3.x something boxes, a Nokia 1610 phone with charger and extra battery. Keep them on the shelves as display pieces.
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Mar 9, 2024 11:45
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So basically this is Weekend at Bernie's, royal UK edition?
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Mar 11, 2024 09:58
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Bobstar posted:
I prefer a radiative heating system. It's quiet, requires little to no maintenance. What I like most is that you can use insulated water tanks as energy storage and generate heat when power is cheap and store it for later. You can even combine different energy sources to the same system, such as a heat pump, wood boiler, even solar added into the same system. The advantage air based heating has is that it's quicker to heat and can also cool.
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Mar 16, 2024 16:45
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Window awnings are pretty effective at keeping heat from the windows. They also give a house a pretty neat look. At the least they make it easier for an AC to work.
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Mar 16, 2024 20:55
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Marmaduke! posted:Too many people caught up in living in a big city, if you just broadened your horizens you could live somewhere beautiful and affordable like... Here's the cheapest house in my municipality, ignore the moon language https://www.etuovi.com/kohde/21189257?haku=M2088794447 Also most expensive: https://www.etuovi.com/kohde/s99632?haku=M2088794447
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Mar 21, 2024 13:44
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I have a hp optical mouse that came with another computer, it's probably 10 years old.
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Mar 21, 2024 13:48
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OwlFancier posted:This is why I don't see how you can build your way out of it, they're not going to race to bring the cost down because that is cutting their profits, they want them as cheap and poo poo as possible and to sell them for as much as possible. I feel this is big problem with the developer culture where big companies smack up entire neighborhoods and wait for buyers.
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Mar 21, 2024 14:06
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It's something that bothers me honestly, that you sometimes (or often?) don't get health care unless you make a nuisance of yourself. It seems to be such a common occurrence too. I guess people are too meek just get to die or suffer needless complications? I got enough personal experiences of it both ways. I would've been sent home with Myocarditis and some paracetamol when I was younger if my mom hadn't been an utter PITA to the personnel and refused to leave before I got an EKG, after which they whisked me away in an ambulance and I was hospitalized for a week. Likewise I got diabetes because after years of complaining about stomach pain and only getting stronger painkillers (despite them seeing I had gall stones) it ended up damaging my pancreas. I didn't even know that was possible! But that's how I now need insulin, glucose sensors and meds. I will cost the health care system 1000x more than I would have otherwise done. I finally got the gall bladder removed at least. So I should've been more of an rear end in a top hat is my takeaway.
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Mar 24, 2024 09:21
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So what you're saying is British houses are the most valuable. Another win for us. Your victory wine, sir
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Mar 25, 2024 11:55
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Oh dear me posted:No it doesn't. As well as excluding foreign-owned property, that stat does not include occasionally rented out property, which I'd expect to include a lot of second homes. The stat that should show need for housebuilding is surely houses per capita, where we're mid-range for the OECD. Housebuilding might be nice but it is not going to solve our landlordism problem. That's an engineering problem
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Mar 25, 2024 13:20
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Guavanaut posted:Sliding into Nadine Dorries That's where I stopped reading and turned off my monitor e: lol talk about page snipe
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Mar 28, 2024 13:51
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FiftySeven posted:There are basically 3 things you should never cheap out on in life. Your Bed, Your Shoes, and your Desk Chair. When you think about the amount of time you spend using these things, why wouldnt you want to spend a bit more and get something that wont destroy your body? More reasons not to buy these things online then.
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Apr 2, 2024 14:14
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I re-learned cursive using 100 year old textbooks, also to write it right handed (I am left handed, now ambidextrous). I think cursive is kinda cool and I see why it was in use, so quick to write with. I now have a quasi-cursive handwriting with my right hand, texting with my left. e: lol what a snipe, I would give you a cat, but you get my current project instead: 
His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 12:59
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Basically, electrolysis rust removal. The water gets real disgusting.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:08
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Nah car parts (brake calipers) needing rescuing, I'll be damned throw them away after only 33 years.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:32
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Estonia is often the example brought up here as the gold standard for a computer system.
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Apr 8, 2024 15:09
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Dog turds belong in the rivers, not the streets.
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Apr 9, 2024 09:08
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frankenbeans posted:Briefly back to the NHS. I've been in NHS IT for nearly 25 years now. There are very few things about NHS IT that won't make you scream. Can't we just get Estonia to make everyone's health care IT systems?
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Apr 9, 2024 13:52
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This produces the image of your wife crouching in front of you while you're making GBS threads, staring into each other's eyes.
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Apr 10, 2024 08:31
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keep punching joe posted:I don't think there has been any distinct fasion, music, or culture since about 2005 to be honest. Its just an endless mishmash of the 80s/90s being remixed. I think we're on like the 10th iteration of vaporwave now. I've had this feeling for a long time, feels like society stopped advancing. I figured it was simply due to neoliberalism / late stage capitalism. Or maybe just me getting old.
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Apr 15, 2024 19:40
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Guavanaut posted:Citizen Sniff 
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Apr 24, 2024 16:28
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There's always gonna be dissenters though, finland probably had dissenters when the soviet union invaded in 1939.
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Apr 26, 2024 18:00
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Miftan posted:I was conscripted and it destroyed my physical and mental health. 0/10 would not recommend. Guess it affects people differently. I was conscripted and it basically rescued my physical and mental health. It probably helps we're purely defensive and not engaged in a war of conquest. In Finland you can select civil service instead of military service though. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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Apr 27, 2024 07:30
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serious gaylord posted:There was a pretty good study released in either Feb or March I think which shows that almost uniformly everyone says the decade when they were in their 20's to 30's is the 'best' decade. Not for me, I actually prefer the 80s which were the first 9 years of my life and also the best. I have so many good memories from then. It took a turn downwards in the 90s with the big economic crisis we had in Finland followed by an austerity wave that's still hurting people today in 2024. I was too young to catch the details but I could feel the vibe, I could also see how stores started closing down while people and services moved away and so on the downwards spiral has continued.
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Apr 28, 2024 13:18
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