Ziggurat @ Ziggurat @sh.itjust.works

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A part of the solution is "government owned housing" rented at fair price. Most countries have such housing for "poor people" but not enough for everyone. Let alone the whole "cut-down in welfare budget" means that these building are badly maintained and that even if you're poor enough but not homeless (e.g. full time minimal wage) you still need years for your application to be accepted. I believe that Denmark and Austria are the few countries where this model is common even for middle class. It may-be a model to follow, at least for lower middle class

A couple of a house as an investment is already a lot, and way more than the average person can afford. If you go from a leftist perspective, the fact that they make money without workings sucks. These people who own a couple of house for investment are also the one complaining about "public retirement system is too expensive, so we should cut-down retirement benefit for everyone"

More seriously, I understand that you want to play by the rule in today's capitalist world. The problem is that in many places the rule are skewed. In some countries income from rent are less taxed than income from work, and the power-balance between tenant and landlord is favouring the landlord (and people see implementing stuff like rent-control and shorter notice for tenant as leftists policies). While it's fun to say eat the rich including the landlord, you need to build a reasonable political program if you want to stand a chance.

Another big issue, is the lack of affordable rental properties managed by the government/municipality. It's basically massively promoting either homelessness or bad housing

A couple of variants

Same prompt, I like how the girl look at normie, but the others don't look enough like metalhead (Well may-be some forest metal)

With a variant of the prompt where kids play ball

Nobody talks with normies

In an alternate world where Heavy-metal music is the norm, a group of children play Hopscotch. These kids have long-hair, sleeve tattoos, black leather jacket with patches and look like metal heads. The scene happen in the school courtyard during recess. on the foreground, a blonde catholic girl wearing a blue dress sits alone on a bench as no other kid want to talk with her. It's nice fall day, the tree already have their full autumn colours Using Flux Dev

In modern countries where worker right have more than minimal standard, by getting fired, you get a Severance pay (it's not what it used to be, but may let you survive a few month) and unemployement benefit (which would give you a fraction of your salary until you find a job)

Quiting means you'll loose these rights

I know someone who was doing that when I was a student. The guy got a scholarship from the unemployment system (basically was allowed to keep his unemployment benefit while attending university) got his master and became a teacher. So it was possible in the 00's.

If you're unemployed talk with your employment advisor.

Big talk if you've never crossed a six lane stroad on foot. The American transit system is often downright hostile to anyone not in a car. It can be goddamn terrifying.

Unfortunately you're right, I remember needing to take the car between the hotel and the Starbucks 500m away because there was a flicking big road on the way(which is insane for a European) .

I don't get how American Karen don't get mad at their mayor for the lack of way to cross the street

Restaurant, bars and cafe can be a huge spending. You can also do a romantic dinner at home.

Check all your subscribed services you may find a cheaper competitor.

Before buying anything ask yourself about whether you really need it, and whether there is a used alternative available

If you do have money, set an auto transfert of 100-200€ to a saving account at the start of the month, you'll main account would feel empty faster.

Life pro tip,

Get a reccurent planning, eg every second Wednesday from 19 to 23or first Saturday from 14 to dawn ., and play with missing players. Solve most of the planning issues

So long and thanks for all the fish

In a far future, dolphins left earth, and are now chilling inside a large pool, located inside a giant space-ship orbiting earth. Through a windows, the remain of a post-apocalyptic scorched earth are visible

Using Flux Schnell

It's legal in some countries, so I don't see much risks. They rotty sure you can look up for data from Switzerland, Belgium and Netherlands

In functional democracies, there is law protecting individual against the government. Meaning that you'll require a court-order to request the localization of a phone (to the phone provider or applications collecting GPS data). This is (in democratic countries) allowed in criminal matters but not for administrative status matters like immigration.

I ve seen a popular one saying burn fat not oil but while on one hand it looks cool/edgy, on the other hand you pass for one of the douchy bumper stickers guy.

Just get an extra high visibility sticker and one backup light on your helmet

Is that a prompt or a novel? Is that Flux to accept so well long natural language prompts?

Nice result though

What's the model/workflow looks weird and cute

Pretty sure that if you're Russian expressing your hate to Putin would at best put you in trouble, and at worst lead to a slow and painful death in a labour camp.

Don't under-estimate how privileged we are in the West to express our hate for Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Von der Leyen and who ever is the British PM it's changes so fast that I stopped to follow. Without any legal repercussion

Guess who is going to have fun now that the humans are gone ?

An awesome cat wearing a bomber's jacket and a baseball cap and an earring, plays pinball, in a bar, while smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer, 1980's vibe, photorealistic

Using bing image generator,

Yes I know, I am cheating a bit with the theme

what we know that's on the table

Who is we, and what's on the table currently ?

But let's make a few prediction for end of 2028

• First wave of climatic refugee to hit the west. We start to see place with more intense flooding or deadly heat-wave, but not yet at the point people massively seek asylum far-away, but this is getting close
• The mess in middle-east won't get better
• The conservative wave isn't stuck to Murica, I see a couple of European countries more having either far-right at the goverment or with blocking-minority
• Some progress in cancer research, it's easy it's moving every-day
• IA industry crash, nowadays, there is tons of cool stuff, but beside AI generated catgirls, and instagram bots, there is no big application, and I don't expect the tech to be mature enough in the coming 5 years, leading to some bankrupcy. It'll be enough to turn mainstream social media in Bot-infested hell
• Still on the technology side, I don't expect all these cool start-up about fusion to go somewhere, some would announce major delay (ITER won't start by then, but we know-it) or pivot
• China keep rising in power

Actually, they are, look at how they voted.

You can say that it'll just make the thing worse, but someone promised them to kick off the "immigrant stealing their job" and cutting the "green policies banning them from driving their gigantic SUV "and they believe it will solve all their problem. Is that a lie ? sure, but at a point people believe plenty of lies

May-be a couple of time as a joke when turning to 2012 with the Maya end of the world coming, and when the coffee machine breaks at work it's always an end-times level of traged"