[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 37 points 4 months ago

Set up automatic bank transfers to chop your income into % parts: 5% play money, 20% savings, bills etc. do what works for you. Get rid of unnecessary subscriptions.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 70 points 5 months ago

Welcome to the new era of enshittification where you'll eventually have to subscribe to access or make posts, and none of it will be searchable on any search engines.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 32 points 5 months ago

Subscriptions.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago

I think it's more:

  • We rule you and take your money
  • We preach to you and take your money
  • We fight you and take your money/resources
  • We take your resources that you've grown

Or it could be the rulling class takes the biggest cut, clergy the next biggest etc. with workers at the bottom supporting the entire system but receiving the least.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago

It depends on whether the game was designed with shareholders in mind or the player. Most AAA games are designed with profit in mind rather than what's fun. For example, buying skins and doing the same thing on repeat is not fun. Roleplaying as Starship troopers with your friends is fun.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

As an outsider, it's really depressing to hear you only get two parties to choose from.

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submitted 8 months ago by Peddlephile@lemm.ee to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

I made this mini game as a way to process my absolute frustration of my local government favouring car transport and on street car parking, as well as almost getting run over by impatient drivers and cars parked in the cycling lane. I thought everyone here might enjoy it. It should run in your browser.

Cycling is a valid form of transport. It's not just a hobby.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

From where you're standing, everyone is left.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Probably doesn't like WFH because people can clock off when their task is done and he can't ask them to work unpaid overtime.

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And we had a community feedback session on active transport accessibility last year which highlighted some key roads that could adopt bike lane infrastructure. One of these roads is scheduled for an upgrade but no allowance for bike lanes was considered.

The road was considered a danger to vehicles because of pot holes, not because there's barely any room to drive in a two way street. Forget cycling; there is no room to even squeeze between parked vehicles and moving cars, and a lot of them have a murderous attitude to cyclists.

We have 3 counsellors for a bike lane, and 3 against (citing exceeding budget, safety and accessibility concerns regarding loss of on street parking). There was a swinging counsellor who initially voted for the bike lane in one meeting, but then ultimately voted against in the next meeting because the bike lane went against the council code of conduct (going against majority of the resident's wishes to keep on street parking).

I'm just frustrated... My area is so anti everything except for cars, and it's so close to public transport and the city (less than 6kms). It's actually ripe for some decent active transport infrastructure but unfortunately cycling, for some reason, is seen as a 'rich' person's activity even though their super utes cost waaaaaaay more than what most people can afford.

At the last council meeting, there was so much hostility from the car owners, saying that getting rid of on street parking for cycling infrastructure was a waste of money, would stop deliveries and maintenance vehicles, and creates an unsafe environment where you'd have to walk 500m in the dark to your car. Any time cycling was mentioned, they'd yawn loudly or shout their opinions.

My local council has also declared 'a climate emergency' but actively working against cycling treating it like a hobby, rather than a legitimate form of transport. Stop the world, I want to get off.

Rant over.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They also provide apartments to live in permanently for those displaced in the development.

Meanwhile, the US has not built high speed rail and has tent cities.

In the case of national infrastructure, China wins hands down.

Although it's kind of ridiculous to compare California with an entire country...

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

The Mitchells vs the machines did it best. It was a great and entertaining story and I loved all the characters. Perhaps Disney should just make a story that's worth telling?

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 99 points 1 year ago

Private health insurance.

Banks.

[-] Peddlephile@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Welcome to crony capitalism

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