[-] twack@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

30% is widely considered to be the most you should pay for a living space in order to live a sustainable lifestyle and retire comfortably. It even says in the article that they consider anyone that has to pay more than that to be "cost burdened".

It usually breaks down somewhere around 30% on housing, 20% on necessary bills, 30% on wants / unnecessary bills, and 20% on retirement investments / savings.

The fact that nearly half of renters cannot do that is the problem that they are trying to highlight, but it doesn't offer much of a solution. These people will not be able to retire without public assistance (if they can at all), and will likely run into serious struggles long before then.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Uhm... Yes. Like a lot.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago

Plus Biden attempted to block any more aid for Israel and the Republicans rammed it through anyway.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 69 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They want you to use the search instead of a functional interface. That's why they keep making the interface worse.

It lets them spy on you through bing, allows them to fill the results with ads, and lets them hide system applications unless you know exactly how to find them.

It's also them gearing up towards funneling the entire UX through copilot for largely the same reasons.

The entire goal is to flip the operating system from the slave of the user to the master of the content.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

I mean... Yes? I hate this idea and Roku will lose me as a customer over this, but yes they are specifically targeting screensavers. Idle time is ad time to these people.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And religion + racism + fear of the unknown + social echo chambers can all be exploited. Remember that MTG floated a few years ago that space lasers caused California forest fires. Never mind the power requirements and ridiculousness that would require.

I think the woman is dangerous as hell, but I don't think she's stupid. I think she uses dumb ideas to mobilize an ignorant base.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

Nah, get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

Ignoring the fact that hardly any plastic is actually recyclable in the first place, your argument is that conscious consumers should accept additional responsibilities on the off chance that it MIGHT actually get recycled?

We figured out how to print on basically any surface a long time ago. How about we hold companies to a standard of responsible packaging, instead of yet again passing the buck to the end user.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Because Tesla was fixing significant safety issues without reporting it to the NHTSA in a way that they could track the problems and source of the issue. The two of them got into a pissing match, and the result is that now all OTA's are recalls. After this, the media realized that "recall" generates more views than "OTA", and here we are.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is the biggest problem right here. We have set up what was a false dichotomy into one that has now forced itself to be real. I don't want Biden or Trump in office, but to vote for anyone other than Biden waters down the vote and gives Trump the ability to compete.

My only choice is to vote "not Trump". Biden gets my vote, but its not "for Biden".

[-] twack@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Kagi can go fuck right off with whatever guerilla marketing program keeps constantly putting it in my face.

It's clearly not organic growth, and I will never try it because now I don't trust it.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Donald trump was never elected by the people in the first place, and he abused a ridiculous system created to fluff up the power of states with comparatively few people living in them. When that didn't work the second time around, he started a misinformation campaign and flat out attempted to undermine the democracy our nation is built upon in multiple ways.

Including him in your comment destroys your otherwise excellent point, because the Donald is exactly the type of person that would abuse this system to censor information he didn't like.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

This case is bullshit, as you already stated. The problem is that the purpose of it is to lay the groundwork for medical professionals to deny service to "ungodly" people.

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