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AskewLord

@ AskewLord @piefed.social

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  • What have you completely stopped buying because the price has gotten ridiculus?

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  • nothing.

    i have cut back on eating out by 50% , and starting buy less/cheaper cuts of meat. so i'm spending the same pretty much.

    other than food i have not really seen much inflation in my expenses.

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    What thing would be nice to have but can't have it because we can't trust people?

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  • like convince weirdos on the internet they are superior beings because they think 'capitalism bad' when they don't understand how anything works in the real world? because it's complex and difficult and that hurts their feelings?

    anyway, keep daydreaming if that what gets your rocks off.

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  • systematic problems exist because of individual choices.

    you are society. you are traffic, etc.

    it's pathetic, lazy, and shitty to be like 'someone else should solve this problem, but i can't do anything about it'.

    when you absolutely can. you can absolutely volunteer or donate to a food pantry.

    instead of wringing your hands on the internet about this 'ideal world that should be' while you do nothing to contribute to it. because it's easy to sit on your ass and day dream. it's a lot harder to go do the boring unrewarding work of actually making the world a better place, because when you do that you quickly realized how insignificant you are and how the 'need' never ends.

    further, if you want to talk about systematic issues of hunger, then you shoudl do that properly and in detail instead fo this high concept moralizing shit. you should actually get into the gritty of how food is produced, shipped, and the numbers involved, but oh no, that's WORK, that's difficult and scary. we can't do that.

    The irony is half the idiots who think there should be no world hunger, also don't understand the implications for what that would require, like a massive expansion of resources, of monoculture, and factory farming. all of which have huge negative externalities.

    but again, it's EASY to sit here and bitch and downvote and idealize and distort a complex reality into a feel good tag line. and it feels good.

    understanding how our food supply worlds and the tradeoffs in how it's structured and the incentives for what things it produced an dhow they are distributed doesn't feel good. and further, hunger has little to do with any of that and a lot more to do with power and corruption. but hey, why understand any of that when you can just blame grocery stores and farms as selfish evil greedy devils or something, when most of our food supply is a product of government policy.

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  • the point is that people go into public service these days to get rich because of lobbying.

    after winning the lottery, winning an election, esp a federal one, is one of the fastest ways to go from normal person to 8 figures in wealth.

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  • we could make lobbying illegal, but then what would be the point of becoming a public servant?

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  • and the flip side of what that book doesn't talk about is those social connections were fostered by homogeneous communities where everyone was christian and white and had the same cultural and media consumption backgrounds.

    we don't live in that world anymore and haven't for 30 years. and hardy anyone other than boomers wants to go back to that.

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  • cool, then why don't you work for free then? since the market and money are just all made up concepts that don't exist.

    and clearly material reality has no limits or restrictions.

    by the way, nobody is stopping you from giving away ever penny of your own to feed hungry people... but you aren't doing that... i wonder why...

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    What did you think you would never see and are disappointed every time you see it?

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  • nothing? people are allowed to hate on whomever they want to hate on.

    you certainly feel justified in hating on them, no? how are you any different than them?

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  • dude, what are you talking about. i told you ti takes seconds to cancel and sign up for each service.

    the fact you think a few seconds of time is inconvenient is insane. do you also think shopping online is inconvenient because you have to type in your credit card info?

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    What should be bannable offenses online?

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  • Only time I've ever really felt bans were justified is threats of violence and spamming.

    otherwise, let users figure shit out themselves.

    I don't believe in social policing on the internet, or even in real life. the irony of it is the people who go around rigidly trying to do it to others, usually are the ones who are deathly afraid it will be done to them.

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    What should be bannable offenses online?

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  • The issue is OP thinks engagement online is a thing that should be 'decent' as in, happen entirely according to their own wishes and rules.

    So yeah, anyone who doesn't behave the way they think they should, should be banned. because me me me me i know what is best for everyone!

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  • the problem with social trust is it's racist and classist, inherently.

    people overwhelmingly trust people who look/talk/speak like themselves, but distrust those who are different.

    hence homogeneous societies have very high trust levels, and those that are heterogeneous do not. as societies diversify, their social trust levels drop.

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  • bowling is boring

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  • it's not that simple.

    food has lots of costs of transport, storage, etc, those all get saved when you toss unsellable product.

    also if you give stuff away for free, the market price would collapse. people would just wait to get it for free and then never buy the fresh product.

    the issue with what you are talking about, is that while a single business might do this, it doesn't scale.

    unless you make food production and distribution a controlled market and that has a boatload of new problems.

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  • don't most campuses and other public health places have free condoms?

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  • my city has bike repair stations that are like this.

    after a few months, all the tools are stolen or destroyed. now there are a ton of shitty bike repair stations around the city that are all broken.

  • Is the myth about the ability of getting awake by washing your face with cold water having to do with our fish ancesters true?

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  • it's not a myth. rapid temperature changes shock your nervous system.

    myth is stupid crap like Germans thinking you will die of sickness from having wet hair.

    baffles me people use the internet and come to the conclusion facts are myths and myths are facts.

  • Do you know the muffin man?

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  • dunkin donuts used to make pastries fresh in each store at 4am or something.

    that is how i knew the muffin man.

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  • what are you talking about? it takes like 5 seconds to cancel a service and 5 seconds to sign up for another one. especially if you already had an account because all your info is already saved.

    do you even use any of these streaming services or are you just making up excuses about how terrible they are?

    i swap streaming services every 3-4 months. it's ridiculously easy and fast.