freebee @ freebee @sh.itjust.works

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The lowest earners making the company work aren't mentioned here. It's probably an external company cleaning the toilets, for hourly rates you probably don't want to know.

That was very informative, thanks!

I'm just replying so I'll find your comments back easily in a few days

The wind generated energy is super cheap, but maintaining balance on the network becomes more expensive. You pay for energy and network.

For processed foods it is a scam I think. Combined with subsidies and lower scale production. A veggie burger is objectively a lot cheaper to produce than a meat burger, but the meat is often cheaper still for the consumer...

The data is all available in GitHub, one can relatively easily dig in to see where they got which numbers.

And they offer a bunch of visualisations too! Pretty cool study

https://citiesmoving.com/visualizations/

The steam deck seems very repairable, I would be surprised if this machine won't be. They know their core customers and how to please them.

It's simple for you and people you know to build a pc and install an operating system. I think that kind of people % of total population is way smaller than you think it is.

And prebuilt PCs 95+ % of the time come with windows and all crap it brings along pre-installed. Really, installing Linux seems child play for you and me but for the vast majority of the population it's still a big big scary thing to try. On top, I expect for the hardware you get it will be very well priced, just like steamdeck was, because the real revenue is customer bonding and steam purchases.

It's likely the steam machine will be repairable, what makes you think otherwise?

Not everyone loves to build a computer, look for compatible parts, compare 100 prices, choose a distro, spend 2 or 3 days troubleshooting unexpected things anyhow... The appeal of this box for people who want a "decent" hardware with steam/Linux on an open machine (free to install whatever you want afterwards) plug and play ready out of the box looks pretty damn big too me, if the price will be low enough. Not everyone is a tinkerer to the same degree or has enough time for it. This will for sure open Linux to a broader audience, that are interested but scared or short on skill/knowledge/time. Plus you get support, the real kind, not only random people on forums. Maybe it's not for you, but to me the appeal is enormous. If it's priced sharp enough I'll probably get one and make it my "smart" TV device.

It might be healthier for you to break contact with your family or at least make contact the bare minimum (Christmas, birthdays). That's some fucked up parenting. You leave your teenager alone in their room when the door is locked. You can try to talk about stuff with teenagers, voice opinions about sexuality and all that, but sneakily opening that locked door is some seriously wrong shit.

Jesus Christ you can't make this shit up

People I know with most real estate are 2 kinds.

1. inherited everything.
2. stayed in hotel Mama for free for years while not studying, but working as plumber/contractors/mechanic etc starting age 18-19. By the time they moved out age 26-30 they were already loaded, renting out multiple apartments.

Both required parents, either they had to be wealthy and die early or decided to gift capital early; or to be super supportive, fun (tolerable) enough to keep living with after 18 and not asking you to pay rent.

Yes. But trump isn't sending thousands of soldiers every week to die in the meat grinder... yet.

So your reply to this article was very out of place. Things are not white or black, but your opinion was not at all about the article the OP posted and has little place here. Living on Jersey without your own garage is perfectly possible, the only issue they have is man-made (too much car infrastructure, too little alternatives) and obligating people to build expensive garages only makes it worse. Building decent cycle infrastructure and providing better public transportation are very viable options on Jersey. Your living place and your grievances about your living place don't influence that.

The linked article is about Jersey.

104.000 inhabitants on a rock in the ocean the size of 10km x 10 km, population density 859/km2.

That population density is not very different from many lower density neighbourhoods in big cities. On top, distances on this rock are never of that kind that a car would be absolutely necessary. They are, geographically and demographically, in an excellent position to organise very good public transportation with little more than a few well served, comfortable buslines. Vast majority of the population is clearly concentrated on one side of the island: the south, where population density is clearly higher (St Helier, 3,380/km2, really not different from average city density neighbourhoods in big cities.)

I don't know where you live, but I don't think "rural" and "long distances" are the right arguments for rooting in favor of more space for cars (and thus... more cars) on Jersey. The longest drive I could draw on a map is from "La Rocque" to "Grosnez castle". And that's really stretching it, with a staggering 22km in 30 minutes. Makes you wonder why they'ld have cars at all on this island... Maybe for construction, transporting the sick to the hospital etc etc. But your old regular commute from home to market or home to work... It could be a bicycle paradise an island like this... You can cycle the entire longest stretch in less than 1,5 hours, by foot it would be a staggering 5 hours. They are ruining their paradise island by roads and cars everywhere and encouraging it even further (obligating it, even) is just a god damn shame. One could perfectly live there without owning their own car in their own garage.

Main reason it can flourish as assistant in the first place is that Google search engine became shit

Yes

Build it in mar a Lago and pay some rent

Wait you got to 2 before this? How?

And just like that you turn even more area around a school into child-unsafe asphalt wasteland, facilitate the private car pick-up further and thus encourage even more people to do the less good way of how to get kids to school. Sometimes fixing a "problem" only creates more, bigger problems. This is one of those times.

We had in elementary school this thing called "the line". End of school day kids would gather at different recognizable points on the playground ("the basketball hoop" or such). Every point had a teacher and/or parent waiting. Then they made all kids hold hands two by two and started walking... Every line went to different corners in the neighbourhood, dropping kids off at home and even seeing they get in / someone is home... I'm pretty sure over 85% of all kids got home every day with this incredibly innovative technology... of volunteer parents. Kids that couldn't get dropped of at home for some reason (no one home or so) continued back to school where they could play for 1 or 2 more hours until they got picked up... Didn't realise I lived in a fairy tale land until internet times.

Especially kindergarten/elementary school should just be in the neighbourhood itself unless it's a really really really tiny town (in which case the innovation would be called: BUS).

There is a really nice charm to pearl hunting the bargain bins and finding treasures or even better: discover treasures you never knew existed. Brand new records often disappoint for me when they are represses of old albums, you have to research well which represses are well done and which aren't before spending hard earned money on them.