Dual income, no kids

Because I don’t want to buy it off Uplay

Oops I thought it was a Ubi title because everyone was discussing it under the AC article the other day

Ready to save money

Yeah right, I doubt that person was going to buy the game anyway lol

Me, I don’t care about any of this, but with the recent announcements from Ubisoft (Steam release on day 1, no more season pass for new Assassin’s Creed, etc) I’m a bit more optimistic towards their leadership direction and given how much good I’ve heard about the first Ghost game, I might just get this one if it works well with Proton.

Oh that’s definitely true, but that could be said for literally every conspiracy theory, ever.

My comment was working on the assumption that you already believe in conspiracy theories, and was meant to explain how one could then rationalize this particular one

Okay, just to go full conspiracy theorist on you for a second:

The USSR could’ve covered USA’s ass on this because their own achievements were fake too, and they didn’t want it to come out

I don’t have any evidence for this, nor do I believe it myself, but just playing devil’s advocate here

Ah, reminds me of the ol’ “How quickly can you get banned from /r/sino?” challenge

Took me one comment and it was a very reasonable one that didn’t bash China even. It was something about decentralizing manufacturing being good because it’s not great that all the world depends on one country to make everything.

It should really be 7 digits, if not 8.

That’s true. I suppose nobody starts their own company right away, gotta get experience and capital first.

I believe the trades are actually pretty profitable as long as you run your own shop? I could be wrong of course.

Waze isn’t technically difficult to replace, but it is going to be difficult to replace because the replacement needs critical mass to become useful. There’s no point using it over some other navigation app if people don’t report stuff.

Maybe. That’s like the default past the age of 20 though.

Well they said own.

What a creative and meaningful way to dismiss someone’s arguments.

The words “your own place” imply ownership. Mostly everyone rents when they leave their parents place. To have your own place, you need to actually buy one, otherwise you’re still living in someone else’s place

That’s not your own place. You could get kicked out at any time with just a month or 2 of notice. I’ve been renting apartments since I left the uni dorm, never considered an apartment to be my own place, even though I usually lived alone.

has his own place

That pretty much rules out anyone under 35 and single with current property prices.

Nearly all my friends who have bought property, did it as DINK couples, not on their lonesome. Hard to get the down payment together otherwise.

Never been ghosted, but I was on Tinder for 4 years (no, I didn’t swipe every day) before finally finding someone. Went on like a date a year because most conversations just fizzled out before even meeting IRL and I’m not the most attractive physically, which kinda plays a role in the total amount of matches. I might have had about one a week on average.

3 months in and so far this is the most amazing woman I’ve ever dated and I hope this is not a temporary feeling, because rn I feel like she’s an absolute keeper and my friends seem to agree too.

Point being: keep your options open, have accounts on popular dating apps just in case you accidentally swipe right on your soulmate. But don’t hope for anything because you’ll be disappointed. It’s all random chance and your chances are low so things take time.

That’s the problem with the system. It comprises of PEOPLE, which is why everything that people arguing for capitalism say about capitalism regulating itself, is bullshit. Not only do masses of people not care about intangible effects of their consumption, capitalism makes it profitable to advertise to people to make them consume more, and a lack of carbon tax makes it more profitable for companies to pollute a lot of the time. The will of the people (aka car company propaganda) is the reason Americans pollute so much. It was advertised to them that driving is the only true freedom, in the 1950s. And now 70 years later there are nearly no walkable cities left, because Americans demanded wider roads.

It doesn’t bother them either if the goods they’re buying were made by starving children. But hey, blame the system.

The system is what makes it profitable to abuse straving children. Also, thanks to the system, it is ridiculously hard to save up for things like, idk, housing, because it’s all being bought up as a speculative asset. So if your average person buys a 5$ t-shirt made in Bangladesh instead of a 50$ sustainably sourced one because they can’t afford the latter on their budget, can you really blame them, or has the system failed them?

Milk is way cheaper than oat drink and if I go to a gas station, they charge me more for the burger to have a meat substitute, which doesn’t feel much like meat.

Most people will never get past the “okay, this might be bad, but everyone else does it too, and if I don’t, I’ll be at a financial disadvantage” mentality about buying cheaper products, because capitalism is a competition for resources, and we can’t afford to give up the advantage of buying cheaper foods, cheaper (ICE) cars (where public transit isn’t an option), etc.

Bottom line is, you can get your friends and family to forsake themselves for an intangible goal, maybe you can convince some strangers, but there’s no way to get 8+ billion to stop doing what’s convenient for them with just propaganda. You need regulations. And that’s why any system that depends on the will of the people to achieve intangible goals DOES NOT WORK. It’s super easy to get the majority of 8 billion people to start consuming more with just advertising and propaganda. It’s impossible to get them all consuming less. I said it before too. Oil companies realize this and that’s why they invented the carbon footprint, to keep the people who do care fighting those who don’t - that way nobody has energy left to lobby for real, regulationary change.

So sure, maybe capitalism isn’t at fault. Maybe the fact that humans exist is. But the goal should be to design a system fit for humans, not to kill all humans or whatever it is that is required to fix capitalism.

No, it’s definitely capitalist, even if not by name. And it produces a bunch of goods for a bunch of other capitalist countries, for profit.

Ah, you’re doing the bidding of the oil companies I see. Shame the consumers, and nothing will happen. But you will feel good about your changes, at least.

If you want to stop climate change, it needs to be not 2%, not 5% of people, but more like 90% reducing their consumption to near-zero. But without government intervention, you can’t get much. Matter of fact, shaming consumers alienates a lot of people. There’s a pretty large “Fuck Greta” movement in many countries, because people are idiots.