At first they promised us it would keep the prices down, I already knew that's not how businesses operate but hey...I got no influence over this so let's see how it works out.
A few years after grocery prices triple with all kinds of excuses, yes excuses...claims about how what when where and why it happened which all turned out to in reality be nothing more then a temporary nuisance, but prices never went down because duhh it's a business.
So here we are, paying the wages for jobs we do ourselves and a 200% tip to boot.
I really think we should keep track of the amount of time spent at the self checkout and make a bill for the store manager under the title: "freelance register operator" at a polite $40 bucks an hour.
I got one of those crazy looking ones from gravastar, after owning one of those super expensive razer mice's that came with a big ass acrylic show cases like you bought the queen's crown. After that I owned one similar from Corsair and before those I owned a mad catz rat 9.
I actually really like the gravastar one, but I don't game competitively.
We have one area in my city, which is now already pretty old, that took a very modern approach but now outdated to what they are currently doing.
Before it seemed like the answer of the future, but now it seems like a way to get people to agree with something worse and less sensible.
I'll explain the situation: they built these really awesome modern decent sized appartment buildings on a big area that were placed seemingly in a random layout (visually appealing unlike the old timey squared everything, the layout that is). These were really cool buildings that had that modern feel to it with lovely colours and some visually interesting shapes.
All parking was moved underground so not a car is in sight, it's damn near in the city center so everything is a short walk away but you still had the ability to own a car. It has 3 entrances for cars to get to the parking that is underneath the building you're living in, so still close to home.
Ever since they haven't built anything like this, heck they built casual old fashioned style apartments that are tiny and crazy expensive, combined with row homes that used to be affordable but now cost over half a million even tho the surface area is still considered small especially compared to American standards.
They recently started teasing "modern buildings" but those are nowhere near these absolutely gorgeous perfect solution to society without taking too much away from the people.
These new ones have no parking space, at all. They cost an arm and a leg to rent and to make matters worse you share the laundry room with 60 people and every 5 studios share a kitchen and toilet. Yeah that's right...studio appartements, a single fucking room for your whole ass life to be squeezed into. You need 2 adult minimum wages for the right to get these single person living spaces which you share with God knows who.
"you owe me for giving birth to you and putting a roof over your head" is pretty far out, if you're raised like this I can assure you it would suit these parents a lot better to skip having kids.
You owe it to the kid you decided to have to care for it as best you can, Not the other way around.
My family is Italian, I'd love to return there and enjoy my hard earned money. Instead of living the life of a part time worker that's on food stamps while I work 50h a week, can't afford a car and commute on a bicycle for 50km per day.
Where'd you go? I'm looking to leave, I recently researched a place in Italy where 350k could buy me a 520m2 villa while here in the Netherlands I can't even afford the smallest apartments that are now crossing the 400k mark.
I think them having all this info about you, is a way to get advertisers to pay them more for the targeted ads.
It's not to help you or the advertisers, but themselves.
And I assume not a single advertiser has gone up to them with a well grounded: "bruh, dafuq are you doing showing fridge ads to the guy that just bought a fridge from us... that's not what we are paying you for."
I'd rather have the bad strategy then to put a child into this world that is going downhill fast.
Because the bad strategy means my kid doesn't have to suffer through it, I already consider 90% of my days a suffering and it hasn't gotten better in the past 40 years. No amount of hard work, studying, gaining knowledge, doing the right thing has improved it.
Well he's not wrong, it's definitely hateful. We don't say it because we think it's fair they get billions and we have to scrape by while doing the actual work.
It depends per case, my friend kept studying while I dropped out (due to private circumstances).
My friend ended up at the same employer for the same pay only years later, he wasn't a good fit for his field.
A few years later I jumped ship to try and develop myself into a better paid job, I am now an actual crane operator with a beefy wage. My friend is still there making the same low wage.
But he got lucky on a different matter, due to him living at home until 33 he did manage to buy a house with massive savings. I haven't yet.
This is life, there aren't any given certainties. Only people who claim their experience will be the same for you.
Must have been Gran Turismo 3, during those days I was switching from pocket money to spending my own income so it's not sure if GT3 was still a gift and GT4 was actually my first self bought game.
I do remember i owned the platinum edition of GT3 and GT4 was bought at release.
It was definitely worth it, Up until today I still dream about owning a race sim setup to do some serious racing and developing my skill. But I never got past a used Logitech G29 mounted to a desk and a chair that kept rolling away from the pedals type of setup.
I had a fairly long term of being unemployed during Covid which ended up in me buying that G29 as I spent a lot of time playing GT sport and finally for the first time ever got all gold on the licenses, so I knew I was making some good progress from all the time spent.
I even dared to try online racing and as I got better slowly managed to hold myself among others, which made me happy.
I miss those showers at home, where you didn't need to care about bills as your parents protected you from those.
My showers easily ended up being 30min long, looking back I wish those bills still took a similar % of your income. I'd happily sink away into my empty brain under a steaming hot shower.
At first they promised us it would keep the prices down, I already knew that's not how businesses operate but hey...I got no influence over this so let's see how it works out.
A few years after grocery prices triple with all kinds of excuses, yes excuses...claims about how what when where and why it happened which all turned out to in reality be nothing more then a temporary nuisance, but prices never went down because duhh it's a business.
So here we are, paying the wages for jobs we do ourselves and a 200% tip to boot.
I really think we should keep track of the amount of time spent at the self checkout and make a bill for the store manager under the title: "freelance register operator" at a polite $40 bucks an hour.
I got one of those crazy looking ones from gravastar, after owning one of those super expensive razer mice's that came with a big ass acrylic show cases like you bought the queen's crown. After that I owned one similar from Corsair and before those I owned a mad catz rat 9.
I actually really like the gravastar one, but I don't game competitively.
We have one area in my city, which is now already pretty old, that took a very modern approach but now outdated to what they are currently doing.
Before it seemed like the answer of the future, but now it seems like a way to get people to agree with something worse and less sensible.
I'll explain the situation: they built these really awesome modern decent sized appartment buildings on a big area that were placed seemingly in a random layout (visually appealing unlike the old timey squared everything, the layout that is). These were really cool buildings that had that modern feel to it with lovely colours and some visually interesting shapes.
All parking was moved underground so not a car is in sight, it's damn near in the city center so everything is a short walk away but you still had the ability to own a car. It has 3 entrances for cars to get to the parking that is underneath the building you're living in, so still close to home.
Ever since they haven't built anything like this, heck they built casual old fashioned style apartments that are tiny and crazy expensive, combined with row homes that used to be affordable but now cost over half a million even tho the surface area is still considered small especially compared to American standards.
They recently started teasing "modern buildings" but those are nowhere near these absolutely gorgeous perfect solution to society without taking too much away from the people.
These new ones have no parking space, at all. They cost an arm and a leg to rent and to make matters worse you share the laundry room with 60 people and every 5 studios share a kitchen and toilet. Yeah that's right...studio appartements, a single fucking room for your whole ass life to be squeezed into. You need 2 adult minimum wages for the right to get these single person living spaces which you share with God knows who.
I absolutely hate it.
Exactly why I would spend Friday nights doing what I enjoyed until I was ready to sleep somewhere on a Saturday.
This way I felt like I actually got to enjoy my weekend a little.
Use your thumb to "point" (touch) a section of your index finger, middle finger, ring finger, pinky...now move up a section of the finger.
Tada you learned it.
The other hand goes 1 when you maxed out your finger sections, then 2 when you do it again where one equals 12 and 2 equals 24 etc.
There's really nothing to it, no research needed...just attempt to mimic what the comment describes and you're there.
"you owe me for giving birth to you and putting a roof over your head" is pretty far out, if you're raised like this I can assure you it would suit these parents a lot better to skip having kids.
You owe it to the kid you decided to have to care for it as best you can, Not the other way around.
YouTube just hit me with my first PiP ad, it's a nightmare who the shit came up with this
My family is Italian, I'd love to return there and enjoy my hard earned money. Instead of living the life of a part time worker that's on food stamps while I work 50h a week, can't afford a car and commute on a bicycle for 50km per day.
Where'd you go? I'm looking to leave, I recently researched a place in Italy where 350k could buy me a 520m2 villa while here in the Netherlands I can't even afford the smallest apartments that are now crossing the 400k mark.
I think them having all this info about you, is a way to get advertisers to pay them more for the targeted ads.
It's not to help you or the advertisers, but themselves.
And I assume not a single advertiser has gone up to them with a well grounded: "bruh, dafuq are you doing showing fridge ads to the guy that just bought a fridge from us... that's not what we are paying you for."
I'd rather have the bad strategy then to put a child into this world that is going downhill fast.
Because the bad strategy means my kid doesn't have to suffer through it, I already consider 90% of my days a suffering and it hasn't gotten better in the past 40 years. No amount of hard work, studying, gaining knowledge, doing the right thing has improved it.
I love a cool lifted truck, has nothing to do with my penis size. Also can't afford one so I'll never own one anyway.
Well he's not wrong, it's definitely hateful. We don't say it because we think it's fair they get billions and we have to scrape by while doing the actual work.
Damn and y'all tip the driver too? We pay like 3 bucks for delivery unless we order enough crap then it's free at most places.
Delivery driver gets a regular wage no matter what.
So is the "nice job Matt" a sarcastic reply to the "Matt hung himself in MY office" mug? Or were they actually hopeful for him doing something good?
It depends per case, my friend kept studying while I dropped out (due to private circumstances).
My friend ended up at the same employer for the same pay only years later, he wasn't a good fit for his field.
A few years later I jumped ship to try and develop myself into a better paid job, I am now an actual crane operator with a beefy wage. My friend is still there making the same low wage.
But he got lucky on a different matter, due to him living at home until 33 he did manage to buy a house with massive savings. I haven't yet.
This is life, there aren't any given certainties. Only people who claim their experience will be the same for you.
Must have been Gran Turismo 3, during those days I was switching from pocket money to spending my own income so it's not sure if GT3 was still a gift and GT4 was actually my first self bought game.
I do remember i owned the platinum edition of GT3 and GT4 was bought at release.
It was definitely worth it, Up until today I still dream about owning a race sim setup to do some serious racing and developing my skill. But I never got past a used Logitech G29 mounted to a desk and a chair that kept rolling away from the pedals type of setup.
I had a fairly long term of being unemployed during Covid which ended up in me buying that G29 as I spent a lot of time playing GT sport and finally for the first time ever got all gold on the licenses, so I knew I was making some good progress from all the time spent.
I even dared to try online racing and as I got better slowly managed to hold myself among others, which made me happy.
Well...you're not wrong, but it's not like we get a choice at the end of the day.
People lucky enough to not need a kitchen are few and far between.
Me, the way I set up my life...but the economy been fucking around.
So now I find out I still get none of what I worked, prepared and sacrificed for.
I miss those showers at home, where you didn't need to care about bills as your parents protected you from those.
My showers easily ended up being 30min long, looking back I wish those bills still took a similar % of your income. I'd happily sink away into my empty brain under a steaming hot shower.