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FinjaminPoach

@ FinjaminPoach @lemmy.world

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I like city building games and puzzles. I like other things as well, but that's not important right now.

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  • Not American and not old enough but I hear it was drugs, drugs and disco, skinny jeans imperialism and then idk how to describe the 2000s. Skinny jeans imperial decline.

  • If you could have any superpower from any fictional universe, what would it be?

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  • Even though it's not the most powerful thing in the world, I've always really vibed with Daredevil's powers. I like the idea of being hyper aware of my surroundings and being able to sense movement, even from far away, without seeing it. Also, great for tracking people.

  • If you had to track someone, what tech would you use?

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  • The easiest option is phone tracking apps, something my friends back at middle school tended to have, but i think you can get fitbits that will share your location, which would be a nice thing for your mom to get you if she insists on tracking you - it will be useful in the fiture and might be helpful for tracking progress in horseriding. They support a surprising range of activities now.

    In saying "fitbit" i might be doing the thing where i name one brand in trying to use a name for the general product, but you know what I mean. A smartwatch for exercise.

  • You have to invent a new type of candy or dessert, but if it's physically impossible or another commenter can prove it already exists, you lose. What are you making?

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  • Call it the BoxOfFeet

  • What misconception are you tired of being spread?

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  • Definitely doesn't stack because i feel like if i overclean i get dirtier quicker. What's so unfair about this is that the dirty debuff stacks.

    So yeah, there's a percent clean and when you get over 100% you're in raw skin territory. Microbiome extinction.

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  • Might start doing this technique to be fair

    That's more than 12 hours of clean in my book though, if i may say

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  • your brain doesn't do maths to figure out how to move yourself or how to throw things, it just learned/knows which neurons to fire to move different parts of your body and has an impression of how much force must be applied to do different types of physical work. (e.g move through fluid)

  • How often do people typically get paid where you are? How is the overtime? (Specify location)

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  • It's pretty unrealistic to expect cost of living to come down in a lot of areas - house prices can come down, sure (they'll fight their hardest not to reduce them though) but we already pay less for food than we really should do because farms are supported by the government and supermarkets bully farmers into lower prices.

    In the future we're not going to have petrol cars (or if we do, it will only get more expensive) and this country is going to be more and more dependent on green energy until the nuclear plants are finished, which must be about 20-23 years away still.

    Gas will go up or stay relatively the same since the people of Britain block new fracking projects (fair enough?)

    We've also been getting discounts on anything imported, historically, because of the EU and other trade deals which are fizzling out.

    So yeah overall I don't think cost of living is ever going to come down. Even if there was a reorganisation of the county to a more effective form of communism, we'd still have very expensive energy and be very reliant on imports.

    There's no bias in this, it's cause and effect.

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  • I mean I'm always hearing that they're relatively low compared to all economies of similar scale. Vietnam isn't that fair of a comparison

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    When your parents are on the phone, how often did you just start staying stuff for attention (or because you're bored)?

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  • I leave them alone when they're looking at their phone, unless it's context specific like my dad browsing it while we're sat down for a meal together - this means he's open to conversation.

    My mum however is insane about phones and puts on a big act of ignoring everything around her and then when she snaps out of phone time she fucking goes over to whoever last spoke to her snd interrupts what THEY are doing to ask "what did you say to me earlier". Ridiculous.

    I think people of our age are more capable of talking while phone-using or pausing what we're doing to chat.

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  • I am intrigued! Bring it to shark tank/dragons den

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  • I very much appreciate the candy periodic table

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  • In the UK, wages and salaries are notoriously low, to the point where getting a uni degree is a waste of time for most people because outside of specific professions you earn literally the same amount as minimum wage. Im a lot of cases the salary allows employers to pay less because it's considered different to a wage.

    Min. Wage rose recently from like £10.56 per hour to £12.71 an hour [$14.27 and $17.18 respectively]

    So a short while ago, average wage was around £11/hr and average salary would be maybe £22,000-25,000 a year ($29,739.82-$33,788).

    Now it would be maybe 13£, not sure what average salary is but probably the same.

    The reason our salaries are this low is not just because of funding the NHS, but because we have a huge portion of our population unemployed and thus needing welfare support, which comes straight out of the money businesses have to pay people with. And some other reasons - for instance the government spends a huge amount on processing asylum and immigration claims (of which there's an extraordinary amount given the size of the country). It's not anti immigration to to say this - it's just very very poorly thought out how much money is dedicated to the legal fees and bureaucratic fees of holding immigrants and refugees in one place and not letting them further into the country.

    There is 1 case of an entire town (Dudley, west midlands) taken over by organised crime. Entire high streets of some places are just money laundering fronts, which does sap some money out of the economy, with almost nothing spent there eventually ending up in tax revenue. But also those shops would be empty otherwise.

    Britain has the most expensive electricity in the world, with governments continuously investing huge amounts of money intk closing down existing power stations (coal, gas et cet) to open up wind power and solar power. I don't really have a problem with this but they did go heavy on it and nuclear would have been better; it's undeniabke that this had massive effects on the overhead costs for everyone.

    The government also expends a huge amount of money to protect/dignify the lives of criminals. Whereas america woild execute someone who raped and killed 5 childen, the uk would instead give them a new identity and a free house after 5 years in prison, and thsn every time someone finds out that they live next door to this infamous criminal, the uk buys them a new house and a new identity and moves them to another part of the country.

    Because of the extent of organised crime in this country, they also, naturally, have to do this for the copious number of adult and child victims, moving families of people to different parts of the country. To save costs they have decided to use one specific town to dump them all in (won't name it here) which also costs huge amounts of money. Because like criminals, they need new identities, new homes, new jobs and relocation costs

    Because of t r a d i t i o n we do stupid stuff like pay for our politicians to get drunk at work - yes, taxpayers pay for unlimited free drinks for members of parliament, naintaining three aeperate very snazzy bars inside the building. This isn't much compared to the other things i listed, but it probably draws the wrong crowd to political power, wouldn't you say?

    Ths UK economy is so ridicukously micromanaged thst you're basically not getting mkney unless the government has decided thst yes, you personally, deserve a job or deserve benefits. If they wanted to blacklist you from work it woild be very easy to do so and they have genuinely done this to people.

    Labour is fixing the economy though, and may be the only party that actually understands how to untangle the web that the tory party wove. They're not even my favourite party so just know this isn't political bias.

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  • Are we reverse engineering vapes

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  • You completely understand the premise, i hope i worded it okay

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  • That's a good point 🤔 I don't think it counts as a new type of dessert, sorry

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  • Some liquorice definitely counts as bitter to me

    something so bad nobody would ever make it.

    If it's bad, doesn't it stop being candy? Candy has a half-life, decaying into just "food" by the time nobody regards it as a treat - something invented to be unenjoyable can be considered to decay completely in less than a second, from the moment it gets off production line.