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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • The way speeds are decided are rather ridiculous too. If I recall in some places (ahem: suburbia), it’s some kind of consensus of local landowners.

    So they’ll set the speed limit to 35 mph along a ridiculously long and straight road with nothing on either side but suburb entrances and sidewalks.

    The limits in my city are such that going 10 over is usually no big deal. It’s weird.

    Because also if you stuck exactly to that limit, everyone drives dangerously around you because they’d go faster driving a horse and buggy lol.













  • What really pisses me off is having lived in Las Vegas, where they shut the whole Strip and a bunch of surrounding areas down for this race. Not sure if they do it every time but they also shut down the famous Bellagio fountains and covered the view with ugly scaffolding!

    For the race itself, not only can you only watch it via a subscription stream, they also block off any local infrastructure with a view, such as the pedestrian bridges, so that the only eyes able to actually see the thing happen in our own city on our own streets paid ~$2000 for the privilege.

    The classism on display is insane. The city is all about entertaining the obscenely wealthy globalist class, and the people that make it all run are serfs.





  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.worldTime for work
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    I really wish it could just be something that somehow paid the bills, but didn’t demand your heart and soul, have wacky or unstable hours, and take up the ever-loving entirety of all but two days each week.

    I think that’s where this “If I could just earn a little money without hating it I could actually do something I enjoy.” Push comes from.

    If someone could comfortably exist on part-time, heck yeah, get that bread and do hobbies on the off hours! Balance! But where the heck does that come from with these full time jobs? Especially if you’ve got family or whatever. Especially when limiting to only 40 hours is even rare sometimes.

    And where do the groceries and house cleaning and doctor’s appointments come in?

    I’m personally worried that we’ll just be split into the “Gets to do fun fulfilling things for an audience” class, and the “Gets to be the audience” class.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of streamers started simply so they could justify enjoying videogames… And I find that kinda sad…

    Sorry don’t mean to vent existential crisis on main LOL. I just genuinely don’t know how people do it…

    I’m part time, I’d LOVE to be learning and making games just for fun, but the System™ is designed so the water keeps rising if you’re not constantly hustling. You can’t just… Do what you do and be fine…and it’s so damn exhausting…