Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)M

MyBrainHurts

@ MyBrainHurts @piefed.ca

Posts
31
Comments
309
Joined
12 mo. ago

  • The world is more equal than you think

    Jump

  • It ignores that we had a generation or three at one time where an entire large family could be supported with one income working 40 hours a week and owning their own home that had electricity and running water with no great success.

    Yes, the boomers were among the wealthiest generation that has ever lived. (Though, let's not forget that at the times you're talking about, this really only applied to straight white men, for women, minorities etc, well, they have a very different perspective on those golden years you're talking about.) Globally though, first world boomers were among the very richest in the entire world. As the charts in the article show, the richest in the world, then as now, things are (relative to the global poor) going down for them.

    Things can both be getting worse for us, as we are among the wealthiest on the planet (are you making the clothes or wearing them? How many of your friends have a phone vs how many of them have lost limbs mining the cobalt that they need?) while getting better for the vast majority of people.

    Trump stopped so many programs and many countries are following suite and can’t make up for the loss even if they could.

    USAID etc are not the engines of economic development among the world's poorest. They generally exist to mitigate horrific problems (think war based starvation, HIV etc) which tangentially affect poverty but really, the big stars are places like India and China which have risen literally billions out of poverty with focused development etc.

    Yes, our pampered lives are probably not going to be as easy as our parents. But compared to almost everyone else on the planet, my God we have a sweet deal.

  • The world is more equal than you think

    Jump

  • On the plus side, I think you at least you read the article...

    and of course looks globally so that its not showing whats happening to the poor and middle class in the developed world

    Yes, it's an article about the world, it's probably going to look globally. It'd be very weird if it didn't.

    Can’t decide if its looking at the richest 10% or 1%

    It's using multiple data points to make their point. In this case, that which is true for the top 10% are also generally true for the 1%, or in other words, this isn't a phenomenon driven by only one or the other of those groups.

    On top of it comparing 2015 to 2025

    It compares 2000 to 2025 as well.

    and then uses spending

    Yes. People who were too poor to afford things can now afford things. But, the same progress is true over a huge variety of metrics. Years ago, women (yes, poor societies tend to be patriarchal) would spend ungodly amounts of their lives lugging water kilometers for their families to use. Housing has gotten better. Malnutrition and deaths of hunger have significantly decreased. Poor parents send more of their kids to school and are burying fewer of them. Huge swathes of the world now have electricity! I cannot recommend Factfulness enough, it's astounding how incorrect so many of our assumptions are.

    whats happening to the poor and middle class in the developed world

    I think this is your real point. And sure, for the poor and middle class, who are among the wealthiest people who have ever lived and who generally live a life that would be unimaginable to all but the richest handful over history (hell, a warm shower, now taken for granted, would have been a wild luxury not too long ago) yeah, their standards haven't risen that much. But consider, even the poorest in the developed world are still wearing clothes made by children who burn to death, and depressingly, those kids are generally (roughly) in the middle income bracket of global incomes.

    The developed world has been so far ahead of second and third world countries that yeah, while things might be stagnating for us, for the world as a whole, things are still drastically improving.

    Though, if you read to the end, you'll notice they do talk about rising inequality within countries, which is what you're talking about.

  • The world is more equal than you think

    Jump

  • That tracks. Hans Rosling's book Factfulness made much the same case about how much life has improved for the world's poorest.

    In our supremely pampered ignorance, most of us have no real idea of how bad world poverty was just within living memory.

    Things aren't great and they could be much better but holy damn, things are much better today than they were.

  • Based on a scientific study i conducted today

    Jump

  • Fair, I probably should've mirror flipped the pic.

  • Based on a scientific study i conducted today

    Jump

  • I remember reading a great thing on the economics of gyms... Iirc, they basically depend on those NY resolution folks to pay and not show up.

  • Based on a scientific study i conducted today

    Jump

  • I went to the pool in the first week and wanted to cry, felt like we were damn near nose to toes.

    Also, great username.

  • What are your cheap, but not miserable, recipes?

    Jump

  • As much hate as we have for LLMs, I've had a lot of luck using them to figure out meals for whatever weird food is on special. It's led to all sorts of interesting meals for fairly cheap.

    Generally, I'll go grab whatever cheap protein is out there from a large market, then hit up my local grocers, see what's on special and ask an LLM to come out with 4 suggestions based on the foods I give it, choose one, ask for 3 - 4 variations in ascending difficulty, then select one and I'm good to go. Not all have been 10/10 but a lot have been great!

  • Same is true of the bathroom door.

    Jump

  • 6am me disagrees but you're right.

  • Same is true of the bathroom door.

    Jump

  • UNDER the door? I'm not even mad, just impressed.

  • Same is true of the bathroom door.

    Jump

  • Nicely done!

  • Same is true of the bathroom door.

    Jump

  • Ahaha, amazing choice of gif. 10/10, well played.

  • Same is true of the bathroom door.

    Jump

  • I give up, pat the bed beside me where she jumps up, demands some pets then eventually curls up on her own special blanket and goes back to sleep for a couple hours.

  • Wrestling "moves" for a toddler?

    Jump

  • Never heard of that, I'll check it out. Thanks!

  • Wrestling "moves" for a toddler?

    Jump

  • Never heard of these, I'll take a look! Thanks!

  • Best rock/punk/similar music from your country? (preferably non-English)

    Jump

  • From Canada, in fact from my city, The Dreadnoughts! Their first three albums are punk gold. (Later stuff, they started having fun and doing polka etc. But whenever I see them in concert, they mostly rock from the first 3.)

    If you're only going to listen to one, Polka's Not Dead would be my recommendation.

    (Full credit to the Real McKenzies for paving the way, Chip would be their most famous song.)

  • Should I switch to Qobuz or Tidal for music streaming?

    Jump

  • I've bounced around. Liked Tidal but can't support an American company these days. I'm currently on Qobuz and enjoy it. The UI isn't amazing but it's not bad. I really enjoy the playlists/essential listening features, I've fallen down a lot of interesting wormholes that way. They're also curated by people not algorithms, so your personal recommendations might not be as on point as you're used to but the general playlists have a wide enough selection that I've had a great time.

    There's a service called Soundiiz that helps you move favourites/playlists etc from one service to another relatively painfree, so honestly, maybe give each one of them a couple months and see what works best for you?

  • Wrestling "moves" for a toddler?

    Jump

  • Oooh, good points especially as 95% of her wrestling is on her parents' bed...

  • Wrestling "moves" for a toddler?

    Jump

  • Ooooooooh, great list! I can definitely adapt some of these! "Watch out for the CLAW!"

  • Wrestling "moves" for a toddler?

    Jump

  • Oh yeah, she loves being picked up and thrown! About half of her wrestling moves end with "oh no, she's getting picked up by the feet! What is that maniac going to do to her? He's not going to throw her by the feet is he? No! Someone has to stop this OH NO THERE SHE GOOOOOOES!"