untorquer @ untorquer @lemmy.world

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Nationalized services do not need a profit motive.

I wish we could slap it through our heads that socialized systems are OK to be lossy. They are paid for through taxation. They do not need to profit off the consumer. Privatization reverses this. It defunds them and moves the cost to the consumper, implementing a profit motive.

There are few simpler concepts.

Maybe an analysis on why these "wolutions" aren't already occuring and an idea on moving towards them would be more helpful. 4 of 5 are top-down ideas with zero political motivation for those with authority.

Yeah, you would imagine that an author could recognize that advertisers are on X because of its popularity. So #4 would require this.

Wow, I'm honored. I sincerely wish you the best in finding the right fit as well as getting to where you want to be with it!

Don't take my experience as a generality. It was not meant as such. As far as anxiety and stress: financial stability, moving to a new country, and therapy did it. I'm extremely priveleged to be able to have done those things.

But if i could have realized back when that i really needed therapy i could have faired a lot better. Societal concepts around masculinity and "manhood" played a big role too. You can't deal with your emotions if you can't interact with them. Which is what drove me to drink. I wouldn't need to deal with emotions if they had an off switch. I needed to remove a lot of the sources of pain before i could handle leaving the switch on even for a little bit.

It took two years since changing my situation before i was able to get a hold on my drinking.

For lots of people including myself bilogy plays a big role in alcoholism. I think for me, combating that is hard enough but manageable and easier the linger you maintain good habits. But for others that might not be the case and abstinence might make more sense. No shame in that.

In any case, try to find a therapist if you can afford it, and don't settle. Find someone who challenges you but you click well with. For lack of that find some volunteer or community org and dive in 100%. Any non-drinking social activity that gets you out of the house. (D&D, hiking trail work, food not bombs, etc...)

I used to drink heavily daily. Turns out it had more to do with anxiety/stress/depression than biology. I used to be afraid to be sober in a night. Now it's not even on my mind and my tolerance has dropped to nil. Two light beers on friday hits me like a sixer of 8% used to, and i can enjoy it instead of it just being an escape.

That's a potential solution to one problem. Sounds like a japanese hotel lmao!

Honestly i could keep nitpicking but this post shows that you can at least see a concept for caring about someone's humanity beyond economics. If only we could get those imbecilic billionaires to do the same.

Interesting chat, cheers!

Wouldn't that stimulate more construction?

New construction isn't always an option in dense urban areas. It's also possible that new development is simply purchased by investors and put on the rental market (with or without tenants) and you're back at square 1.

OK, where I live people usually don't own houses, they own apartments, and maintenance minimally involves ensuring that your apartment is not a cockroach breeding ground and your piping doesn't make your neighbors below feel too wet.

As much as I loathe HOA's, and I've heard of bad condo association drama, multi-unit housing can be run under alternative, collective schemas. If you are renting there's a lot of value in considering a renter's union in such scenario. Tenants have banded together to buy out their own building collectively before. But also I'm talking outside my experience here and shouldn't prescribe a solution for ultra-dense housing when I've only lived in a 30 unit building in a medium sized city and not new york or whatever.

That'd be fine. Maybe if you own 5+ apartments, or by living space, because otherwise you'd, say, hurt people who have one apartment they are slowly restoring to livable condition to maybe rent out later and one they themselves live in.

Look, no one is saying do this overnight. There is shitloads of nuance to it which needs to be addressed but it is east to get voiced down in. But people shouldn't be on the street when they can't afford rent. That's the quickest way to losing your job, your belongings, a permanent address, and even your personal documentation. Without those you can't get a job, or housing, or any public benefits. We have to stop putting people out for the mere act of attempting to survive and making one mistake or missing one bus.

Sitting in the "shelter is not a right" space:

They withold houses from the market, thereby driving cost up. In turn that drives mortgage down payments up. The credit system and bank hurdles to securing a mortgage are also a big part of that issue but another conversation.

The generalization that the individual landlord does the maintenance and tasks that the tenants don't want to is hard bs. Considering that rent is based on a profit, and any landlord I've had has hired out labor, the tenants functionally already pay for all of that maintenance and upkeep. Many would love to DIY but others could afford to hire the labor and save money with a mortgage vs rent. That's not to mention it's basically 50/50 on whether the landlord actually maintains a property or sits in the area of, "tenants aren't going to report me cause i have all the power and they need shelter".

Now owning a home i can easily say, you don't really have much to do for maintenance. I guess i mow the lawn every few weeks and otherwise do basic cleaning? Even my old car only takes a few hours of labor every few months and it has moving parts. I guess i also cleaned the gutters back in spring. Took an hour and a buddy to hold the ladder. Oh i also have savings put away for larger infrequent maintenance which i can just hire out(if i wanted) at a tiny fraction of what i used to pay in rent.

Anyways, to the part where i can agree in some sense is short term housing. That's a real need. That's where rent really makes sense. Still, rent control based on simple percent profit and tax. Limits on unused properties. So on. Housing capacity should grow but housing cost should not drive cost of living nor exceed inflation.

Yeah, you don't need to have a billion to exclude people from shelter and exceed complicity in their suffering or death. Anyways, yeah short of abolishing property and landlords a significant tax, property hoarding deterrance, and rent control would make so much sense. It would take an severe naivete or true sociopathy not to support it.

Norway has an actual tax schema for corporations centered around VAT. So companies actually do pay taxes. Salaries/wages are also generally high. They are investing massively into tech to diversify from fossil fuels.

Coincidentally they also discovered massive phosphate deposits

Still, things are changing and there's plenty of silicon valley types and Elon fanboys. The rightward shift of the last 20yr has also hit to some degree. But there is still a strong left which is helping to weather that.

All in all a significantly better condition than in the US even though their prosperity is directly tied to US oil industry.

They all have a story like this. They are all terrible.

I think Gareth Reynolds said it or was it Jordan from knowledge fight? But once you reach a billion you should get a medal saying you won capitalism then be 100% taxed the rest of your life.

Conversation has been going for over 20 years.

I loathe the "responder" term in "Controller/Responder" but whatever. If learning to use two different words increases accessibility it's fine. I'm pretty good at learning words and what they mean. Been doing it my whole life.

Does IEEE have a term for switch or am i about to get intimate with five ethernet cables?

Having experienced both systems the Nordic ones are well thought out, streamlined and feel extremely secure.

The US system feels so absurdly predatory and intentionally insecure. It's often slower, non-standardized, and glitchy(e.g. student loan stuff).

In general, fraud is much easier in the US which is is by design as stated elsewhere in the thread.

XP is a fine OS

It gives a nice visual pop but in terms of playing, there's no edge to it over standard.

Also it does exist but implementation is defined by the program which usually is only set up for the windows implementation. So you can wine the windows version of the program if you want it. I'm sure proton will figure something out soon.

Some games support it on windows but not Linux. The list is small. That said, windows HDR support is garbage ime. I don't feel like there's a good option that's set and forget in any case.

Plasma/wayland integration is coming along but it's not there yet for HDR in gaming.

I just said screw it and live without it. Forgot i cared after 20min.

That's the septic tank to store the waste from enshitification.

Who even plays games that don't run well on Linux/proton these days?

You don't need to be a nerd. Just need to watch a vid or follow ubiquitous guide on how to partition a disk or install second disk. Installing and running Linux is easier than windows these days with most common distros.

The learning curve is easier than the one for each windows update too. At least for plasma, i would assume gnome too.

Still, some enterprise class software only running on windows is a reasonable excuse(for the user). Also not everyone has the drive space or can afford extra hardware. Obligatory privilege check ig.